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Jon Tester: “Given the cost of permanently stationing C-130s overseas, would it not make more sense to bring those C-130s back?”

On the recordMarch 27, 2012
Given the cost of permanently stationing C-130s overseas, would it not make more sense to bring those C-130s back?
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Senator Tester questions the financial sense of stationing C-130s overseas.

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