On April 12, 1991, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney announced a proposed list to close 43 military bases. The list included Moody Air Force Base. Thirty years later, with military planes in the sky and men and women in uniform in the community, Moody AFB obviously did not close.
VALDOSTA — With the government preparing to close a series of U.S. military bases in 1991, observers could have assumed Moody Air Force Base would be safe.