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AMERICA'S LEGACY IN PANAMA

PANAMA CANAL TREATY TRANSITION

END OF AN ERA

U.S. MILITARY IN PANAMA

U.S. MILITARY IN REGION-History

LIFE AFTER SOUTHCOM

SOUTHCOM TODAY

PANAMA

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IMPACT OF THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY ON THE U.S. MILITARY - continued

U.S. Military Role in Continued Panama Canal Treaty Implementation (1986-1999) -- continued

 

  END NOTES:

  1. U.S. Army South Transfer Plan--Empire and Piņa Ranges, July 1997. (Part of handout to U.S. and Panamanian participants at the first Range Symposium, August 7, 1997, sponsored by the Department of Defense/U.S. Southern Command and American Embassy Panama)
  2. "USARSO helps Panama with seminar on unexploded ordnance awareness," Tropic Times newspaper, November 13, 1998 .
  3. Tropic Times newspaper, August 9, 1999 .
  4. Evaluation of Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Interrogation Technologies, February 1997, prepared for Panama Canal Treaty Implementation Plan Agency by PRC Environmental Management, Inc., under sponsorship of U.S. Army Environmental Center and Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technical Division
  5. Range Transfer Report, October 29, 1998, by U.S. Army South, U.S. Air Combat Command, U.S. Army Technical Center for Explosives Safety, U.S. Air Force Safety Center, U.S. Southern Command Center for Treaty Implementation, U.S. Army Environmental Center, U.S. Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board.
  6. The Panama Canal Transition: The Final Haul, bulletin published by the Atlantic Council of the United States, April 20, 1999 .

  Sources used:

Agreement in Implementation of Article IV of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977.
Fact sheets on Treaty Implementation Plan prepared by William Ormsbee and updated periodically since 1992 and disseminated to local, U.S., regional, and international news media visiting Panama.
Installation Condition Reports for several of the installations (including for acreage and adjusted book value of installations).
USSOUTHCOM Environmental Strategy, U.S. Army South (Southern Command's executive agent for environmental matters), August 14, 1995 .
U.S.Military's Environmental Stewardship in Panama ...is Building a Legacy of Trust, U.S. Southern Command brochure, prepared by U.S. Army South in coordination with Southern Command.
Ecological Survey of the U.S. Department of Defense Lands in Panama, four-phase studies conducted by The Nature Conservancy and ANCON (Asociacion Nacional para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza, a Panamanian non-profit private conservation organization), 1994-1995.
Policy Guidance for the Transfer of DoD Installations to the Government of Panama, MOTP policy memorandum dated November 1, 1995, issued by the Department of the Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans memorandum dated November 2, 1995, as the Department of Defense Executive Agent for Panama Canal Treaty Implementation.
Unexploded Ordnance Assessment of U.S. Military Ranges in Panama: Empire, Balboa West, and Piņa Ranges, February 1997, Prepared for Panama Canal Treaty Implementation Plan Agency by PRC Environmental Management, Inc., under sponsorship of the U.S. Army Environmental Center (Aberdeen Proving Ground) and Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technical Division (Indian Head, Maryland). (Part of handout to U.S. and Panamanian participants at the first Range Symposium, August 7, 1997, sponsored by the Department of Defense/U.S. Southern Command and American Embassy Panama).
Evaluation of Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Interrogation Technologies, February 1997, prepared for Panama Canal Treaty Implementation Plan Agency by PRC Environmental Management, Inc., under sponsorship of U.S. Army Environmental Center and Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technical Division (Part of handout to U.S. and Panamanian participants at the first Range Symposium, August 7, 1997, sponsored by the Department of Defense/U.S. Southern Command and American Embassy Panama).

 

 

 

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This page last updated:   July 4, 2008
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William H. Ormsbee, Jr.  1999-2001 /  2005-2008

(Including WHO's IN RETROSPECT website 1999-2001)

 

 

PANAMA CANAL TREATY TRANSITION

Treaty Impact on Canal Operations

Treaty Impact on Military

- Military Forces Drawdown

- Military Property Transfers to Panama

Treaty Transition overview

 

Text of the Panama Canal Treaty and the Neutrality Treaty

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MILITARY PROPERTIES TRANSFERRED TO PANAMA (1979-1999)

Total of 95,293 acres (with 5,237 buildings and other facilities mostly on 12 major active military bases)

All together  worth over $4 billion dollars (conservative estimate)

Transferred to Panama at no cost as  stipulated by the Panama Canal Treaty

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MILITARY BASES TRANSFERRED

1979

Part of the Army sector of Fort Amador

Albrook Army Airfield with airstrip at Albrook

1984

Part of Fort Gulick (Army School of Americas buildings, barracks, etc.)

1995

Fort Davis and remainder of Fort Gulick

1996

Fort Amador (Navy sector and remainder of Army sector)

1997

Albrook Air Force Station

1998

Quarry Heights

1999

Marine Barracks

Rodman Naval Station

Fort Sherman

Galeta Island

Fort Kobbe

Fort Clayton

Howard Air Force Base

East and West  Corozal