Bases square off over Global Hawk
Published: Mon Jun 5th, 2006Source: www.airforcetimes.com
A fight is brewing between North Dakota and South Dakota over a futuristic military mission that could help save the states' Air Force bases.Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., and Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., were barely spared in last year’s round of base closings. And now both Cold War-era bases are aiming to avoid the next round by competing for the same mission — unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, called Global Hawk.
Members of North Dakota’s congressional delegation say they have been told by the Air Force the mission would be theirs. Grand Forks was kept open last year with the understanding that several UAVs, including the Global Hawk, would be coming to the base over the next decade.
Not so fast, say South Dakotans.
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