Portman says Youngstown Air Reserve Station needs upgrades

VIENNA

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman visited the Youngstown Air Reserve Station today touting the importance of its 910th Airlift Wing and the need to upgrade the facility.

Portman, a Republican from the Cincinnati area, said the station’s equipment and C-130H planes need either upgrades or to be replaced.

Portman – along with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Cleveland, and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th – helped obtain $9.4 million in federal funding for a new state-of-the-art indoor firing range.

When asked today about a gunman opening fire at a recruiting center and a nearby federal military base in Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday, killing four Marines, Portman said: “It is clearly a terrorist act. It’s domestic terrorism and we shouldn’t call it anything else.”

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