Defense secretary on board with keeping JBER unit

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Now even the Secretary of Defense says he’d reverse the plan to cut several thousand troops from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, nearly ensuring the Anchorage base will retain 4-25 Infantry Brigade Combat team, the only airborne unit of its kind in Pacific, at least for another year.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told Sen. Dan Sullivan today Alaska hosts “forces that are so critical to so many scenarios.”
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