Vote Pleases C-130 Supporters: ; Base Panel Decides to Consider Closing Base Where Planes Were Proposed to Relocate

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Supporters of the West Virginia Air National Guard base at Yeager Airport got good news when the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted 7-2 to consider closing North Carolina's Pope Air Force Base, which could allow West Virginia to keep its planes.

Eight C-130 cargo planes at the Charleston-based 130th Airlift Wing were slated to move to Pope. If Pope closes, those planes would remain in West Virginia.

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Vote Pleases C-130 Supporters: ; Base Panel Decides to Consider Closing Base Where Planes Were Proposed to Relocate

That vote and others Tuesday showed the independent commission's willingness to diverge from a Defense Department plan submitted in May that proposed closin...

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