Pentagon Officials to Reveal List of Military Bases They Recommend Be Closed

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Event Date(s): 05/12/2005 | Event Location(s): Arlington, Virginia;Kittery, Maine; | Description: Officials at the Pentagon will reveal the list of military bases they recommend be closed. NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski reports on camera at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. 07:03:29 (ej=1:14) EXT DAY KITTERY, MAINE WS: A police car, with its light bar flashing, leads protestors in the street at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. MS: Men, holding a banner "Save Our Shipyard", march in the street. WS: Rear shot of protestors march towards a bridge. MS: A protestor holds a sign "Save Our Shipyard". MS: In an interview shipyard worker Joe Freda says "The shipyard means everything to me. My family's first but the shipyard is second." WS: Cranes seen in the distance at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. MS: Low-angle shot of cranes and pulleys. EXT DAY MS: Rear shot of a soldier standing on a platform in front of soldiers standing in formation. CU: A soldier's face with camouflage paint. EXT DAY WS: Two crewmembers walk past an Air Force cargo plane on the tarmac. EXT DAY IRAQ MS: Three soldiers sit on the ground with their weapons. WS: A soldier walks along terrain as black smoke rises in the distance. MS: A soldier, carrying an automatic weapon, runs. INT MS: In an interview military expert Loren Thompson says "It's not common to close bases in the middle of a war, and because we are in a war fewer bases will be closed than expected." EXT DAY HIGH WS: Docked battleships. MS: Soldiers march in formation. WS: A vehicle drives past a military cargo plane on the tarmac. INT THE PENTAGON MS: At a news conference Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers says, "You may shut down bases, but airplanes don't go way. They go somewhere else." EXT DAY MS: Sailors march in formation. WS: Sailors standing on a ship's deck. INT MS: Republican Maine Senator Olympia Snowe looks at a document as she stands next to her desk. EXT DAY PORTSMOUTH NAVAL STATION, MAINE MS: A sailor stands next to the railing. INT MS: In an interview Snowe says "In our state for example, we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars that's at stake, and you know, thousands of jobs." Miklaszewski reports and closes on camera.