But base commander Graham House said its current role as a centre for training was secure for 25 years.
The base commander said it would give the people who served there and the local community security and stability.
BBC: Downham Market residents salute RAF Marham Tornado crews
McNair Base Commander, for her service and for helping make this day possible.
Base commander Group Captain David Cooper said he was delighted with the turn-out of local people and that the base was saved from closure.
BBC: Downham Market residents salute RAF Marham Tornado crews
Soon after, the base commander picked up the captain in a car, but most of the crew had to walk 2km (1.2 miles) back to their barracks under their own steam.
David Maxwell, the base commander, told reporters Friday morning.
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He talked with Lieutenant -- I'm having a hard time today -- Lieutenant General Cone, the base commander at Fort Hood, and obviously has offered whatever resources any of those -- any of those individuals might need.
"We are not sure where they are, " said Royal Dutch Air Force Colonel Jakobus Bouma, the base's deputy commander.
Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia.
He was a flight leader and training officer with experience in Europe and the Pacific and at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, where he was the mission commander for Red Flag exercises.
Max A. Galeai, 42, of American Samoa, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and one of the highest-ranking American officers to die in Iraq this year.
Michael Lehnert, the commander of the detention facility set up at Guantanamo Bay, and were quickly ushered from the naval base airport to a waiting ferry.
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