 McNamara, however, denied that politics played any part in the decision to close several Air Force bases including Brookley.The reserve 908th TAG was moved to Maxwell AFB, Alabama in April.The incoming Nixon Administration in 1969 confirmed the closure of Brookley as a way to save money because of the Vietnam War, and when it finally closed in June 1969, Brookley AFB represented the largest base closure in U.S. history up to that time, eliminating 10% of local jobs for the Mobile workforce, which provided an annual payroll of $95 million to the local economy.