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Good afternoon . Thanks for being out

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here . It's quite chilly . The weather

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has turned on us really quick and

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obviously , as a result , we had a

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tornado touched down here on base early

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this morning . You see behind us ,

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storage hangar was the primary building

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that took the brunt of the damage . We

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had some issues at the gate as well .

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Some power lines down and a couple

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other sustained some minor damage . The

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best takeaway is that no personnel were

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injured . We had no reported injuries

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and everything happened before folks

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made it to work . So that was great

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news . Really proud of our first

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responders , our ce e folks , security

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forces and fire who were out here

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immediately . Well , before anyone

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arrived to get the site safe , we had

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some down power lines , trees in the

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road . We ended up shutting down the

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gate which I'm sure folks saw on the

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highways this morning . So we worked

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really hard to get that taken care of

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and reopen within a few hours . The

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main exhibit part of the museum on the

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opposite side of the base is basically

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undamaged . There was no injury or

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anything . We're actually , we're open

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for business on a normal schedule this

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morning . And we anticipate being open

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for business all through the weekend .

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The buildings behind us . The first

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three buildings here are actually our

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restoration buildings . It's where we

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do repairs and refurbishment of

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aircraft to go on exhibit . And

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obviously the first one of those took

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the brunt of the damage in the category

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of really good news . Although the

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damage to the external structure of the

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building is pretty severe . The

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aircraft inside are relatively

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undamaged . Basically everything inside

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the building survived . The aircraft on

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the tarmac behind me are basically on

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the concrete behind me are all things

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that were slated for disposal . So they

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got bounced around a little bit and it

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looks pretty impressive . The answer is

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these were being scheduled for pick up

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by the Defense Logistics Agency for

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recycling and so forth . So quite

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frankly , we didn't lose anything of

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value . Our colleagues in base civil

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engineers and emergency services were

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over here promptly this morning . And

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as Colonel Pond said , good news is we

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had no personnel injuries . Um We're

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all uh all in good shape . So he is

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making sure that the two buildings we

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have that were generally unaffected are

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ready for continued use and occupancy

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and then the building behind us . Uh We

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do work with the base to do a , a

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fuller assessment on and for the base .

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As I mentioned , you know , we're still

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assessing the totality of the damage

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but I think we were fairly lucky . Um ,

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and just got a kind of a glancing blow .

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This obviously was the most damaged

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facility . A couple of other buildings

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have some broken windows , some power

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lines and things like that . We got to

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clean up but nothing extensive .