Thousands of New Jobs for Md., Va.

Overall, Aberdeen, which would add 2,100 jobs, fared "very well," said Wyett Colclasure III, president of a nonprofit organization that advocates for the base. But the news wasn't all good: Its Ordnance Center and School could be relocated.

"It certainly breaks a long history because the Ordnance School has been here a long time and has a very strong connection to the people here," Colclasure said.

Aris Melissaratos, the Maryland secretary of business and economic development, said the state would fight to keep the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in Bethesda from closing.

"We're not going to let that happen," he said. "That belongs around Fort Meade and NSA."

Officials in Southern Maryland, home to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Indian Head, anticipated more severe cuts and were relieved at the outcome. Indian Head, a peninsula on the western tip of Charles County, is slated to lose 95 of its 3,600 employees; Patuxent would gain 34 workers on a base that employs 20,000.

"Maryland seems to be, if not the single biggest winner, certainly one of the biggest winners in the Pentagon's recommendations," Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said in a conference call with reporters.

Virginia officials were concerned over the potential loss of leased office space, most of which will come from Arlington County and Alexandria. Other leased space would be closed in Fairfax County and Falls Church, lawmakers and state officials said.

The shuttering of Fort Monroe, on a slip of land that stretches into the Chesapeake Bay, would be a blow to heavily militarized southeastern Virginia, local officials said. The facility houses the Army's Training and Doctrine Command and employs about 3,500.

State officials responded with a mixture of relief and determination to fight the closures as the Pentagon's list moves to a commission that will make recommendations to the president this fall.

"I'd say we've held our own," Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) said at a morning news conference. "When you think you have 150 installations that could be realigned and or closed, and we're looking at one proposed closure in Virginia, we can breathe a sigh of relief."

But he added that the state is "going to be very aggressive on the issue of Fort Monroe and commercial office space."

Staff writers Ann E. Marimow, Joshua Partlow, Ray Rivera and Annie Gowen contributed to this report.