Senator Buttrey: Keep F-15′s in Great Falls

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Senator Ed Buttrey

Senator Ed Buttrey

Senator Ed Buttrey (R-Great Falls)  is working to keep jobs in Montana. He introduced Senate Resolution 28, which urges the federal government to keep F-15 fighter jets at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls.

The Department of Defense has been considering relocating the F-15 mission from Great Falls, MT to California.

Senator Buttrey’s resolution points out that the Montana Air National Guard has more than a thousand drill-status airmen and 340 full time employees. Relocating the F-15 mission to California would jeopardize that.

Senator Buttrey said that he is working in conjunction with the Speaker of the House, Mike Milburn, “to retain the F-15 mission in Montana.”

Speaker Milburn is carrying a similar resolution in the House, called HR 2.

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