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2:36 pm
Tue March 6, 2012

Pentagon plan targets jobs at Niagara Falls air base

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A Pentagon plan calls for the elimination of 845 jobs at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station by the year 2017.

The cost-cutting initiative eliminates jobs associated with the Air National Guard's 107th Airlift Wing, one of two units stationed at the base.  The number of C-130 cargo planes at the base would be reduced from 11 to eight. 

It's all part of a Defense Department effort to cut 25,000 total military positions over the next five years and save $484 billion over the next decade.  The other unit at the base, the 914th Air Support Group, would not be affected. 

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4:25 pm
Tue January 31, 2012

Effort underway to keep Niagara air base off closure list

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Credit photo by Michael Mroziak
Congresswoman Kathy Hochul addresses reporters at the Niagara Falls Air Base following a meeting with military officials. Hochul says while there's no imminent threat of shutdown, local leaders are already lobbying to spare the base from budget cuts.
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A side view of one of the C-130 aircraft stationed at Niagara Falls. These cargo planes frequently participate in military missions overseas as well as support domestic emergency responses.
Credit photo by Michael Mroziak
Inside the cargo hold of a C-130 aircraft stationed at Niagara Falls.
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The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Base serves a critical role in military missions abroad, in domestic emergencies such as natural disasters, and provides work to an estimated 3,300 military and civilian employees.  So says Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, who was on the local base Tuesday morning to announce that leaders were united and already campaigning on behalf of the base in anticipation of a new Base Realignment and Closing commission, or BRAC, to be formed as part of the Pentagon's recently released 2013 budget.

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