You travel Oklahoma, I guarantee you, you know, when you're at Tinker, they know Fort Sill is important, but they don't care about, they don't talk about. And everybody in Oklahoma cares about The National Weather Center [in Oklahoma] is important because it's tornado alley and it's also storm prediction for the entire country for hurricanes and things like that. So, you know, again, these facilities are important. And if they don't get funded, we don't get services that we need. And the men and women that we've tasked to do those jobs don't get paid. (27:35–27:46)
CLAIM
Asserts the importance of the National Weather Center for tornado and storm prediction nationwide.
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