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Michigan A Winner in Base Restructuring

WARREN, MI-Michigan is gaining 125 jobs in the Defense Department's realignment of military bases. The Detroit area's two major facilities to remain open, while the Army Garrison at Selfridge will close.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on May 16, 2005

WARREN, MI- Michigan, and specifically the Detroit area, was a big winner in the list of recommendations made Friday to a committee that will review and close 33 major military installations around the country. Scores of smaller facilities are also to be closed or realigned.

While Michigan will see a small Air National Guard base close in Battle Creek, an influx of jobs at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren will give the state a net gain in total jobs. In all, if the recommendations are adopted, Michigan will gain a total of 125 jobs.

At the Arsenal, which was part of what prompted World War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt to dub Detroit the “Arsenal of Democracy,” the Army is moving in 647 additional positions to join the 4,140 who already work there. The employment will be down somewhat at Selfridge Air National Guard Base because that facility will stay intact as is, though several units will be shuffling in and out. The 300-employee Army Garrison at Selfridge will close. The 927th Air Refueling Wing will be relocated to a base in Florida, but the 110th Fighter Wing, which is now at the W.K. Kellogg Airport Air Guard Station in Battle Creek, will be moving in to Selfridge. The total net job change at the base will be a loss of 216 jobs.

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