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Air Force Spending ERI Funding On Improving Eastern European Airfields

Pat Host

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

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Air Force Spending ERI Funding On Improving Eastern European Airfields

An Air Force F-22 Raptor. Photo: Air Force.

The Air Force will spend some of its big boost in European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) funding on improving European airfields, particularly eastern ones, to help generate air combat power.Air Force Gen. Frank Gorenc; commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Africa and Allied Air Command; said Tuesday improving airfields with better runways, ramps and fuel and weapons storage would create a better airfield environment to generate sorties. Gorenc said airfields in the Baltics, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria are in particular…

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