1.   Local farmers will get first option to buy land when the military base closes.

2.   The parachute service was due to be taken over by a civilian operation when the base closes in the Autumn.

3.   And every time a military base closes, they have four or five people there to lower the flag and play taps and officially abandon the property.

4.   After that, the two bases would close.

5.   But the Philippine Senate rejected the pact, and the bases closed.

6.   He later won reinstatement by a federal court, and when the California base closed he was transferred to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington state.

7.   Several California military bases have closed in recent years, and the state is hoping to find civilian uses for them once they are cleaned up.

8.   Several large military bases have already closed and more are scheduled to close or cut back operations over the next few years.

9.   Such sentiment is even stronger in Okinawa, where most people want all American bases closed eventually.

10.   That changed just as the base was closing.