{"id":41612,"date":"2022-10-03T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=41612"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:27:29","slug":"georgia-republicans-and-democrats-agree-dobbins-needs-a-new-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=41612","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Republicans and Democrats agree: Dobbins needs a new mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Democrats and Republicans don\u2019t agree about much in election season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Georgia\u2019s congressional delegation joined forces Friday to push for a new mission for Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Cobb County<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All 16 Georgians in the U.S. House and Senate \u2013 eight Republicans and six Democrats – signed a letter urging Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to make Dobbins the future site of upgraded C-130J aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dobbins currently houses one of the Air Force\u2019s four C-130H Reserve units. The older C-130H aircraft are slated to be replaced by more modern C-130Js to fly global logistical support missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter cites Dobbins\u2019 long history as a regional landmark and jobs center as well as its proximity to the Georgia Tech Research Institute, which conducts more than $700 million of research annually for government and private industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The base also is adjacent to Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of a variety of military aircraft including the B-47 Stratojet, C-141 Starlifter, C-5 Galaxy, F-22, F-35, and the C-130 Hercules, a four-engine military transport plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no place else in America with closer ties, both operational and industrial, to the historic and indispensable C-130 and all its variants than the Marietta and North Atlanta<\/a> community,\u201d the Georgia lawmakers argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air National Guard received the first of eight C-130Js last November to modernize its transport capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The C-130H models have been operational since 1992. The last aircraft was retired in September of last year.

This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats and Republicans don\u2019t agree about much in election season. But Georgia\u2019s congressional delegation joined forces Friday to push for a new mission for Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Cobb County. All 16 Georgians in the U.S. House and Senate \u2013 eight Republicans and six Democrats – signed a letter urging Air Force Secretary Frank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8486],"class_list":["post-41612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cobb-county","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}