James Lankford: “The administration had come out and said, hey, let's retire…”

“We, we worked on a lot of the projects for Lawton, Fort Sill, so our National Guard. So there's a lot that goes into it. The E7's probably got the most attention because The administration had come out and said, hey, let's retire the E3. Let's just get rid of it. We'll move everything to space except that E3 that's out there. Everyone sees it flying around Oklahoma because we have so many base, so many that are based here at Tinker.” (01:28–01:32)

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