Nearly 15,000 Department of Defense workers are leaving the region under Base Closure and Realignment Commission orders, a fact that has prompted Fort Belvoir to rethink how it is planning for the federally directed job shift, according to the base’s spokesman.

While 22,000 jobs are arriving at the base by 2011, a net 14,478 are moving out of the National Capital Region as a result of the nationwide shift of military facilities, according to Belvoir spokesman Don Carr. Though some of the 22,000 jobs may mean people moving to Fairfax, some of the 14,478 jobs may result in military and DOD personnel moving out of the Fairfax area.