PIERRE, (KCCR) — District 24 Representative Will Mortenson of Fort Pierre been selected to serve on the new Select Committee on Legislative Relationships with Ellsworth Air Force Base. Representative Hugh Bartels of Watertown, the Speaker of the House says the Committee is bi-partisan and a cross section of South Dakota…
Senate Majority Leader Casey Crabtree of Madison says South Dakota has to be ready for the expected 14-thousand members of the Air Force coming to the state to serve the B-21 Raider program…
Crabtree says if the federal government is investing in the base, so should South Dakota…
The U-S Government is investing nearly two-billion dollars to expand Ellsworth Air Force Base to handle the requirements of the B-21 Raider bomber program.
