Defense Contractors Crash In Adirondacks

Authorities say two U.S. defense department contractors aboard a small plane that crashed yesterday morning in a remote Adirondacks lake were rescued – uninjured – by helicopters involved in the military exercise they were helping coordinate.
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Cuts Affect Vermont Air National Guard

Cuts to the Air Force are trickling down to the Vermont Air National Guard. The Vermont Air Guard will lose 57 full-time positions at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. At the same time, 52 full-time active duty Air Force personnel will be assigned to the Air Guard base in South Burlington.

Vt Air Guard Base Finalist To Host New Fighter

Vermont’s congressional delegation says the state’s Air National Guard base is a finalist to become one of the first operational bases for the next generation fighter plane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.