Proposed MacDill Air Force Base Cut Threatens Hurricane Missions

Forty Percent Proposed Federal Spending Cut of MacDill Air Force Base Threatens Hurricane Storm Science Missions Despite Their Continued Improvement.

Federal House Appropriations Committee proposes to decrease funding from $29 million to $17 million at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida which includes the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron.

Current director of the National Hurricane Center in West Miami-Dade, Bill Read says, "We don’t have any other way to go about doing this," when discussing the critical importance of research and data collection by the Tampa based team.

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Source: miamiherald.com