"BRAC Friday," a pun on Black Friday). After an extensive series of public hearings, analysis of DoD-supplied supporting data, and solicitation of comments from the public, the list of recommendations was revised by the 9-member Defense Base Closure and Realignments Commission in two days of public markups and votes on individual recommendations (the proceedings were broadcast by C-SPAN and are available for review on the network's website). The Commission submitted its revised list to the President on September 8, 2005. The President approved the list and signalled his approval to Congress on September 15. The House of Representatives took up a joint resolution to disapprove the recommendations on October 26, but the resolution failed to pass. The recommendations were thereby enacted. The Secretary of Defense must implement the recommendations no later than September 15, 2011. Major facilities slated for closure included: Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, renamed Brooks City-Base after San Antonio assumed control Defense Finance and Accounting Service, New York (removed from list 2005) Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota (removed from list August 26, 2005) Fort Gillem, Georgia Fort McPherson, Georgia Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Fort Monroe, Virginia Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine Naval Air Station Willow Grove Joint Reserve Base, Pennsylvania Naval Station Ingleside, Texas Naval Station Pascagoula, Mississippi Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut (removed from list August 24, 2005) Navy Supply Corps School Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts (removed from list August 26, 2005) Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine (removed from list August 26, 2005) Major facilities slated for realignment include: Army Human Resource Command (HRC), Missouri, moving to the Fort Knox Military Installation in Kentucky Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska Fort Belvoir, Virginia Fort Meade, Maryland Fort Rucker, Alabama, Aviation Technical Test Center moving to the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and combining with the Redstone Technical Test Center to form Redstone Test Center Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia (extent contingent on reopening the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field in Florida) Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina (Transferred to U.S. Army as Pope Army Airfield and merged with Fort Bragg) Rome Laboratory, New York Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 26 bases were re-aligned into 12 joint bases, with each joint base's installation support being led by the Army, the