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Base Closings Benefit Reserve Units
RALEIGH — The proposed list of base closing and realignments released by the Pentagon on May 13 would dramatically increase the size of two reserve-component aviation units. Both the N.C. Air National Guard at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport and an Air Force Reserve unit at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro stand to gain planes and personnel if the recommendations are approved. The N.C. Air National Guard, also known as the 145th Airlift Wing, flies C-130 transport planes. Though Seymour Johnson is best known as the home of the 4th Fighter Wing and its F-15E fighter-bombers, the Air Force Reserve’s 916th Air Refueling Wing also is based there.