We want to make sure that we are focusing on next generation broadband communications but that we are not leaving behind basic local services.

About 57 percent of all students in Arkansas are economically disadvantaged, and more than 1,700 students in my State take advantage of supplemental services.

I would suggest the Pine Bluff arsenal may be a good place that a lot of that could be done.

There is going to be an economic impact of about $100 million annually to Pine Bluff and that area.

I think it may be time to look at that.

My sense is, in talking to people in Pine Bluff and that area--they have kind of a regional chamber of commerce--is that they are not real happy with the efforts that OEA has made.

It is important to pretty much every Senator in the Senate because we all have some rural areas and some challenges out in those rural areas.

I would just encourage you to continue on that track and even put more resources there if that is what you need to do.

As that thing closes down and that goes away and we lose all of that, it is going to have about a $100 million impact to the community annually.

the Guard and the reserve component is really the key to our readiness today.

I would like to ask, if I can, maybe General Boozer and also Mr. Hansen a little bit about the Pine Bluff arsenal.