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PANAMA CANAL TREATY
TRANSITION.... 1979-1999
Summary of Treaty
Transition Milestones
Military Property
Transfers to Panama
Treaty Impact on Military
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PANAMA CANAL
TREATY
TRANSITION -- MILITARY
SUMMARY OF
MILITARY PROPERTY TRANSFERS AND MILITARY FORCES DRAWDOWN
 | Total of 95,293 acres (with 5,237
buildings and other facilities mostly on 12 major active military
bases) transferred to the Government of Panama over the 20-year
transition period Oct 1979 - Dec 1999 |
| All together worth over $4 billion
dollars (conservative estimate) |
| Transferred to Panama at no cost as
stipulated by the Panama Canal Treaty |
RATE OF
MILITARY PROPERTY TRANSFERS TO PANAMA
(October 1979 -
December 1999)
|
YEAR |
STRUCTURES |
ACRES-LAND |
|
1979-1994 |
614 |
17,019 |
|
1995 |
693 |
5,000 |
|
1996 |
283 |
5,897 |
|
1997 |
549 |
1,691 |
|
1998 |
108 |
49 #
|
|
1999 |
2,990 |
65,637 |
|
TOTAL |
5,237 |
95,293 |
|
#
Only Quarry
Heights
[Source:
Southern Command Treaty Implementation Directorate
pamphlet]
|
|
TYPES
OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER FACILITIES TRANSFERRED
TO PANAMA |
| |
|
|
| Airports
(3) (Howard Air Force Base, Albrook Air Force Station/Albrook
Field, and France Field) |
Gymnasiums
(9) |
Schools
(total 12) -- High Schools (2)
-- Middle Schools (2) |
| Baseball
and softball fields (3) |
Hospitals
(2) |
--
Elementary Schools (7) |
| Bowling
Alleys (4) |
Hotels
(35) --Visiting officers/enlisted quarters |
--
Junior College (1) |
| Clubs
and restaurants (31) |
Housing
(family) (3,815 units) -- 2, 3, and 4-bedroom units |
Soccer
Fields (12) |
| Community
centers (18) |
Office
buildings |
Swimming
pools (10) |
| Gas
stations (10) |
Post
offices (8) |
Theatres
(all stages and movie capable) (5) |
| Golf
courses (4) |
|
Warehouse |
| [Source:
Southern Command Treaty Implementation Directorate
pamphlet] |
SUMMARY
LIST OF MILITARY PROPERTY TRANSFERS (Alphabetical)
(1979
- 1999)
(
* Keyed to Summary Descriptions of individual transfers in next section
linked to pages shown below)
|
Base
/ Facility
(acreage)
|
Transfer
Date (value) |
Summary
Descriptions of Bases |
History
Detailed |
Summary
What Transferred |
New
Uses by Panama |
| ALBROOK
AIR FORCE STATION
|
1997/Sep
30
|
p07
|
Go
To
|
Go
To |
Go
To |
| ALBROOK
ARMY AIRFIELD
|
1979/Oct
1
|
p01
|
|
|
Go
To |
| Amador,
FORT - Army sector (part)
|
1979/Oct
1
|
p01
|
|
|
|
| AMADOR,
FORT -Army sector (remainder)
|
1996/Oct
1
|
p06
|
|
|
|
| AMADOR
- Navy sector
|
1996/Oct
1
|
p06
|
|
|
|
|
Amador -
Navy sector - Bryan Hall complex
|
1998/Jan
16
|
p09
|
|
|
|
| Ancon
Hill communications tower
|
1998/Jan
16
|
p11
|
|
|
|
|
Arraijan
Tank Farm
|
1997/Jan
15
|
p06
|
|
|
|
|
Balboa
Elementary School
|
1997/Aug
29 |
p07
|
|
|
|
| Balboa
High School
|
1999/Aug
1 |
p15 |
|
|
|
| Balboa
West
Firing
Range |
1999/Jun
1 |
p12
|
|
|
|
| Camp
Chagres
area
|
1991/July |
p03
|
|
|
|
| Cerro
Gordo
communications site
|
1999/Aug
31
|
p16 |
|
|
|
| Chiva
Chiva Antenna Farm - FBIS |
1998/Jan
6
|
p09
|
|
|
|
| Chiva
Chiva training area
|
1993
|
p03
|
|
|
|
| Clayton,
Fort - part (area with
Friendship Highway
and Curundu Road
) |
1979/Oct
1
|
p01 |
|
|
|
| CLAYTON,
FORT
|
1999/Nov
30
|
p19
|
|
|
|
| Coco
Solo Health Clinic Complex
|
1993/May
31
|
p04 |
|
|
|
| Coco
Solo North and South
|
1990 |
p03
|
|
|
|
|
Cocoli
Housing Area
|
1999/Jul
30 |
p14
|
|
|
|
| Corozal
Cemetery
|
1999/Aug
13
|
p16
|
|
|
|
| Corozal
Commissary
|
1999/Jul
30
|
p14
|
|
|
|
| Corozal
Veterinary Clinic
|
1999/Sep
30
|
p17 |
|
|
|
| Corozal-East
com
plex |
1999/Dec
6 |
p19
|
|
|
|
| Corozal-West
complex
|
1999/Dec
6
|
p19
|
|
|
|
| Cristobal
Junior-Senior
High School
(55 acres) |
1995/Sept
1 ($5.7 million) |
p04 |
|
|
|
| Curundu
Antenna Farm
- USAF |
1982/Oct
1 |
p02 |
|
|
|
| Curundu
Flats Family Housing Area |
1997/Jul
31 |
p07 |
|
|
|
| Curundu
Heights
Family Housing (8 units)
|
1979/Oct
1
|
p01
|
|
|
|
| Curundu
Heights
family housing (remainder)
|
1982/Oct
1 |
p02 |
|
|
|
| Curundu
Heights Bachelor Officers Quarters (88 units)
|
1992/Nov-Dec |
p03
|
|
|
|
| Curundu
Laundry Facility
|
1999/Nov
15 |
p18
|
|
|
|
| Curundu
Middle School
|
1999/Sep
15 |
p16
|
|
|
|
| Curundu
Warehouse 6
|
1996/Mar
18 |
p05
|
|
|
|
| DAVIS,
FORT WILLIAM D. |
1995/Sep
15 |
p05
|
|
|
|
| Davis
, Fort - communications site
|
1999/Jun
30
|
p13
|
|
|
|
| Diablo
Elementary School
|
1996/Dec
5 |
p06
|
|
|
|
| Empire
Range
(part)
|
1996/Aug
6 |
p05
|
|
|
|
| Empire
Range
(remainder)
|
1999/Aug
31 |
p16
|
|
|
|
| Farfan
Naval Radio Station & Housing
|
1999/Jun
15 |
p12
|
|
|
|
| France
Field
|
1979/Oct
1
|
p02
|
|
|
|
| France
Field (67 family housing units)
|
1984/Oct
1 |
p03 |
|
|
|
| Galeta
Island
Communications Facility
|
1999/Sep
17
|
p17
|
|
|
|
| Gamboa
Elementary School
|
1995/Sep
29 |
p05
|
|
|
|
| Gatun
Tank Farm
(288 acres) |
1991/Oct
1
|
p05 |
|
|
|
| Gorgas
Army
Community
Hospital
|
1997/Nov
14 |
p08
|
|
|
|
| Grant,
Fort - islands near Amador
- NAOS
Island
|
1979/Oct
1 |
p0
1 |
|
|
|
| Grant,
Fort - islands near Amador - CULEBRA
/Scout
Island
|
1979/O
ct 1 |
p01
|
|
|
|
| Grant,
Fort - islands near Amador
- PERICO
Island
|
1979/Oct
1
|
p01
|
|
|
|
| Grant,
Fort - islands near Amador
- PERICO
Island
|
1979/Oct
1 |
p01
|
|
|
|
| Grant,
Fort - islands near Amador -
FLAMENCO
Island |
1979/Oct
1 |
p01
|
|
|
|
| Gulick,
Fort - Part (School
of
Americas
, 3-7th Special Forces Battalion, 549th MP Company)
|
1984/Oct
1 |
p03 |
|
|
|
| GULICK,
FORT - remainder
|
1995/Sept
1 |
p04 |
|
|
|
| Herrick
Heights
Housing Area
|
1998/Jan
16 |
p11 |
|
|
|
| HOROKO
- part of golf course and facilities (transferred with Marine
Barracks)
|
1999/Feb15
|
p11 |
|
|
|
| HOROKO
(remainder of golf course)
|
1999/Jul
30
|
p14
|
|
|
|
| HOWARD
AIR FORCE BASE
|
1999/Nov
1
|
p17 |
|
|
|
| KOBBE,
FORT
|
1999/Nov
1
|
p18 |
|
|
|
| Los
Rios
Elementary School
|
1996/Jul
17
|
p05 |
|
|
|
| MARINE
BARRACKS (including part of HOROKO golf course with club
facilities)
|
1999/Feb15
|
p11
|
|
|
|
| Margarita
Child
Development
Center
(142
acres) |
1995/Jun
30 |
p04
|
|
|
|
| Mindi
Veterinary Clinic
|
1995/Sep
15
|
p05
|
|
|
|
| Morgan
Avenue Housing Area (part of Quarry
Heights
)
|
1998/Jan
8
|
p10
|
|
|
|
| Mortuary
(near Gorgas Hospital)
|
1999/Aug
13
|
P16
|
|
|
|
| PAD
(former Panama Air Depot) Area buildings
|
1979-1982 |
p02 |
|
|
|
| Panama
Canal
College
|
1999/Jul15
|
p14
|
|
|
|
| Piña
Range
– part
|
1999/Jun
30
|
p13 |
|
|
|
| Piña
Range
– remainder
|
1999/Jul
1
|
p13
|
|
|
|
| Quarry
Heights
(part of Ancon Hill and Morgan Avenue Housing)
|
1979/Oct
1 |
p01
|
|
|
|
| QUARRY
HEIGHTS
(remainder)
|
1998Jan
8
|
p10
|
Go
To |
Go
To
|
Go
To
|
|
Rodman
Ammunition Supply Point
|
1999/Aug
3
|
p16
|
|
|
|
| RODMAN
NAVAL STATION
|
1999/Apr
30 |
p12 |
|
|
|
| Rousseau,
Camp
|
1999/Jun
18
|
p13
|
Go
To
|
Go
To
|
|
| Semaphore
Hill Long-Range Radar and Communications Link site-near Gamboa
|
1996/Dec
13
|
p06 |
|
|
|
| SHERMAN
, FORT |
1999/Jun
30 |
p13 |
|
|
|
| Summit
- Building 6005
|
1991/Oct
|
p03 |
|
|
|
PANAMA
CANAL AREA TREATY MAP
|
PANAMA
CANAL
AREA TREATY MAP --This
map (similar to the one among the Attachments to Annex A to the
Agreement in Implementation of Articles III and IV of the Panama
Canal Treaty of 1977). Popularly called "the Treaty map,"
it denotes the major U.S. military installations and facilities
(brown for Defense Sites and green for Military Areas of
Coordination) and the principal Panama Canal Commission facilities
(red for Panama Canal Commission housing areas and pink for
Panama Canal Operating Area), as defined by Treaty. One can
appreciate what remained under
United States
control after
October 1, 1979
, when the former
Canal Zone
(shown in white) was abolished
with the implementation of the Panama Canal Treaty. [Source:
U.S.
Southern Command Directorate of Treaty Implementation]
|
MILITARY
FORCES PHASED DRAWDOWN
| The
withdrawal of U.S. military forces in Panama under the Panama
Canal Treaty Implementation Plan was conducted through unit
reductions, relocations, and inactivations (official termination
or demobilization). The phased drawdown from about 10,400 to zero
in a five-year period began in late 1994 with the inactivation of
some of the units under U.S. Army South's 193d Infantry Brigade
(Light) following a farewell ceremony for those units June 3 at
Fort Clayton. Highlights of the drawdown of military personnel by
year were (with figures being approximate): |
|
Civilian employees with the
military in Panama were drawn down proportionately to the military
drawdown levels. The total number of civilian employees (both appropriated
fund and non-appropriate fund categories) at the end of 1993 was about
8,600 (3,400 American).
The following major units
were relocated out of Panama:
| Headquarters,
U.S. Southern Command moved from Quarry Heights to Miami (Westpointe
Business Park in Doral area near the Miami International
Airport) September 27, 1997.
| Special
Operations Command-South, SouthCom's sub-unified command,
moved from Corozal to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto
Rico, May 31, 1999.
| U.S. Army South,
SouthCom's Army component, moved from Fort Clayton to Fort
Buchanan, Puerto Rico, June 30, 1999. Later moved to
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. |
| |
Detailed
information on major drawdown actions chronologically are in separate section
entitled U.S.
Military Forces Drawdown and Departure from Panama
(1994-1999).
INDIVIDUAL
MILITARY PROPERTY TRANSFERS
The next section
contains a summary of all the U.S. military properties in Panama transferred to the government of
Panama under the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 from Treaty Day (October 1,
1979) to the last day of the 20-year transition (noon on December 31,
1999). In addition to some history, what transferred and the last uses by
the U.S. military, that section also notes how the transferred properties are being
used by Panama. Such information (drawn from Panamanian and U.S.
government sources and local news media reporting over time) is not yet
complete since full conversion of many of the bases or facilities
transferred is still on-going.
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| This
page last updated: July
4, 2008 |
 |
| Site
developed, owned and maintained by |
| William
H. Ormsbee, Jr. 1999-2001 / 2005-2008 |
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(Including
WHO's IN
RETROSPECT website
1999-2001) |
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MILITARY
PROPERTIES TRANSFERRED TO PANAMA (1979-1999)
(Part of Panama Canal
Treaty Implementation)
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
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 Corozal and West Corozal
(last facilities transferred)
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