Morning Read: $228 million for Fort Drum

The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that the Fort Drum Army base received a big show of fiscal confidence from Washington this week, with Congress bankrolling a laundry list of new projects.

The Army projects at Fort Drum covered by the approved defense bill are $61 million for a battalion complex; $55 million for a transient training barracks; $55 million for the first phase of a new brigade complex; $18.5 million for a training aids center; $16.5 million for an aircraft maintenance hangar, $14.6 for an aircraft fuel storage facility and $8.2 million for an infantry squad battle course.

Congress also included Air Force requests for $20.4 million for a 20th Air Support Operations Squadron complex and $2.5 million for the Air National Guard’s Total Force Integration-Reaper Infrastructure Support at Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield.

New York lawmakers say they’ll keep pushing for funding for the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization.  Read the full article here.

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