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Michigan Air National Guard Bases may not be losing jobs

U.S. Air Force personnel from 110th Air Lift Wing boarding a C-130 prior to their departure in support of the Operation Readiness Training, Air National Guard base, Battle Creek, Mich., June 6, 2011.
(courtesy of the Michigan Guard)
U.S. Air Force personnel from 110th Air Lift Wing boarding a C-130 prior to their departure in support of the Operation Readiness Training, Air National Guard base, Battle Creek, Mich., June 6, 2011.

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Sander Levin says he's hopeful that a Pentagon decision to add 24 C-130 air transport planes will offset sharp job cuts planned at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recommended Tuesday that the military budget the Air National Guard planes and the 2,200 personnel needed to support them.

Levin says the announcement "is a positive step in the battle for equitable treatment of the guard." The Royal Oak Democrat says he'll press to see that the C-130s are based at Selfridge, 20 miles northeast of Detroit in Macomb County's Harrison Township.

The Obama administration budget for fiscal year 2013 now calls for cutting a net 450 part-time and 200 full-time jobs at Selfridge with the relocation of two-dozen A-10 Thunderbolt II air-to-ground attack aircraft.

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