WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) sent a letter this week to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates expressing concern over what he believes is underutilization the Mansfield Air National Guard Base.

A Mansfield native, Brown was a proponent of efforts to bring to Richland County the C-27Js now housed at the base. In October, he led a letter of the Ohio Congressional delegation to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force urging placement of the C-27J formal training unit in Mansfield. The FTU was recommended to be placed elsewhere.

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