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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Tinker Air Force Base's entire fleet of AWACS planes would survive another year under defense bill

E-3G SentryU.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe protected Tinker Air Force Base’s entire fleet of AWACS planes as part of a final deal hashed out Tuesday by leaders of congressional defense committees.

Inhofe, of Tulsa, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, blocked — at least for a year — an Air Force proposal to cut seven of the 27 command-and-control planes and a reserve unit associated with them at Tinker.

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, whose district includes Tinker, already had secured the money to maintain the entire fleet.

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