An extra $220 million dollars has been added to the National Defense Authorization Act by the House Armed Services Committee, enough money for two additional C-130J planes.
Northern Missouri Congressman Sam Graves sponsored the amendment, hoping those new, modern cargo planes go to the Air National Guard’s 139th Airlift Wing based as Rosecrans Memorial Airport.
“In the base text of the bill, there was no new money for C-130Js. And so, I did offer an amendment to pull two in,” Graves tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “Hopefully, those are going to end up in St. Joe. I’m doing everything I can to see those end in St. Joe and our folks out at the 139th Airlift Wing are doing everything that they can.”
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