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Article: 70 members of 139th Airlift Wing will be deactivated, commander says
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- St. Joseph News-Press
- Article date:
- February 12, 2004
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About 70 members of the local Missouri Air National Guard unit
will be deactivated in a month.
It's part of a move to prevent undo hardships on personnel and
meet continually fluctuating military requirements.
"Every unit has people activated to serve who, as civilians,
worked for really small businesses and who really need to get back to
those civilian jobs," said Col. Stephen Cotter, commander of the
139th Airlift Wing stationed at Rosecrans Memorial Airport. "The
intent of this deactivation is to get people back to their jobs."
The Wing commanders of Air National Guard units that fly the
Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft have been given the authority from
the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility ...