FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eielson Strategic Pause Applies to Environmental Assessment: Senator Meets with PACAF Commander, Finds Alaska Core Member of New “Strategic Triangle” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski sat down with U.S. Air Force General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle –…
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Murkowski: Eielson Strategic Pause Applies to Environmental Assessment
Begich has Productive Meeting with Air Force General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Begich discusses bringing new missions to Eielson with General Carlisle, Importance of JPARC U.S. Senator Mark Begich had a productive meeting today with General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, Commander of the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), to discuss Alaska’s…
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PACAF to Murkowski: Demolition Halted on Three Eielson Buildings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski received a response to her September 5th letter to the incoming Commander of the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) – Air Force General Herbert J. Carlisle – informing Murkowski that he is taking her suggestion…
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House bill protects Eielson AFB
FAIRBANKS — Language that would keep the Air Force from moving F-16 fighter planes out of the Interior made it into the House of Representative’s stop-gap bill to fund the federal government for the next six months and avoid a…
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Murkowski Locks in Strategic Pause for Eielson AFB Moves
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski and the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee approved the 2013 defense appropriations bill today – including key language mandating a “strategic pause” for the proposed move of F-16 Aggressors and over 600 airmen from Eielson Air Force…
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Alaska Sen. Begich: Transfer of Eielson F-16s on hold
FAIRBANKS – The U.S. Air Force won’t transfer the F-16 squadron from Eielson Air Force Base to Anchorage until at least the fall of 2013, Sen. Mark Begich announced today. Begich, D-Alaska, said he met Tuesday with Air Force Chief…
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Begich’s Petition to Keep F-16’s at Eielson Delivered to Air Force
Dear Friends, This week I forwarded the petition to keep the F-16 squadron at Eielson to Brigadier General Mark McLeod, who oversaw the Eielson Site Activation Task Force report. Here is an excerpt from my letter to him: “Over 1600…
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Murkowski Suggests Pentagon “Abandon” Eielson F-16 Plan
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Commits To Get Personally Involved WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski seized the opportunity of having the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to…
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Begich Pushes Panetta to Stop Eielson F-16 Move
Senator Mark Begich sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta today urging the Secretary to issue a one-year delay in moving the F-16s from Eielson so a comprehensive analysis of costs and other impacts can be completed.…
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Report: More than 1,000 students may leave district if F-16s are moved from Eielson
FAIRBANKS — If students are going to leave Eielson Air Force Base in the next year, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District hopes they stay as long as possible. In a task force report on Eielson and the Joint…
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