Looks like WA State Senator Patty Murray did not get a visit from Santa this year.
Fairchild Air Base is in Eastern, WA State — From American Military News:
Air Force chooses Florida base for new refueling tankers over Fairchild
The Air Force has chosen MacDill Air Force Base in Florida rather than Fairchild Air Force Base to be home base for it next group of modern refueling tankers.
The Dec. 21 announcement by the Air Force said the decision to locate the next two dozen KC-46A Pegasus aircraft was made after taking into account multiple considerations such as mission, community support, infrastructure, environmental affects and cost.
The decision drew immediate blowback from Washington’s congressional delegation, who had been pushing for Fairchild to be the sixth main operating base for the KC-46A.
“As one of the largest air-refueling tanker bases in the country, Fairchild Air Force Base already possesses the needed capacity and ability to accommodate KC-46A aerial refueling tankers — which make the Air Force’s decision not to house the new KC-46A fleet at Fairchild all the more inexplicable,” said U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat.
“I am incredibly disappointed with this decision,” she added. “Let’s not mince words, the Air Force has made the wrong choice.”
Who does she think she is to take a tone of voice like that with our Air Force. She did not get what she wanted. OK. Got that. Time to knuckle down and deliver a better deal next time. This is not about you. This is about what is good for your constituency and by extension, Our Nation.
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