The Chairman of the BRAC commission, Anthony Principi, said Monday that he does not agree with the Pentagon estimate of savings for closing Ellsworth AFB, S.D. In fact, Principi said in an interview to be aired tonight on C-SPAN that the movement of Ellsworth’s B-1B bombers to Dyess AFB, Tex., “costs you money.”
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…