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Rickenbacker Officials To Continue Seeking Basing Missions

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 28, 2013 at 6:54 AM EDT

Officials at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base say the facility will not lose its standing as a staging area for refueling aircraft. U.S. Air Force officials say the base will continue to fly the KC-135 tankers, despite being passed over as a base for the new KC-46A fleet. Ohio National Guard officials say they'll keep competing for other Air Force basing missions in the future.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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