Lawmakers are again working to stave off a closure of the Moon Township air reserve station.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has endorsed efforts to prevent the Moon-based 911th Airlift Wing from closing down. Rep. Buck McKeon, R-CA, today urged Air Force officials to halt efforts to close the air wing as a cost-cutting measure. According to a statement from McKeon: Installations like the Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station have been vital to supporting our men and women deployed in harms way. New concepts in warfare have made our soldiers on the ground more dependent than ever on airlift assets like Pittsburgh's C-130s. The Air Force didn't take those missions into account when they offered their plans to cut inventory earlier this year. Congress has directed them to correct that error and fully appreciate the …
Pennsylvania senators disapprove of the most recent efforts to shut down the 911th Airlift Wing, according to a joint letter addressed to Armed Services Committee leadership.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
In a letter to Senate leadership, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Zionsville, expressed their disapproval of recent efforts to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon Township. Casey and Toomey submitted a joint letter to Sen. Carl Levin, R-MI, chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and ranking member Sen. John McCain, R-AZ. The correspondence was provided Monday during a meeting of the Military Affairs Coalition of Western Pennsylvania. Read the letter in full, dated Nov. 26, below: Dear Chairman Levin and Ranking Member McCain: We are writing to express our opposition to any fiscal year 2013 Air Force restructuring proposal which would close the Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, home of the …
Supporters of the Moon-based 911th Airlift Wing appear at the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Supporters for the Moon-based 911th Airlift Wing appeared Saturday at Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day parade. The Military Affairs Coalition of Western Pennsylvania organized supporters of the airlift wing to protest its planned closure, hoping to grab the attention of Vice President Joe Biden during his appearance at the parade on behalf of the Obama 2012 re-election campaign. The U.S. Air Force in February announced plans to close the airlift wing, retire its eight C-130 aircraft and eliminate more than 280 civilian and 1,100 military personnel positions at the base. Biden told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review Saturday that he has spoken with Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, about the base's closure, calling it a "positive" conversation. Click…
