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Rifle Garfield County Airport Director Brian Condie thinks the training all starts with the Lockheed Martin KC-130, multi-mission tactical transport aircraft.
Whatever it is, he does know the activity involves an aircraft’s fuel bladder.
“So the KC-130 will come in, and they’ll push out a huge fuel bladder with a couple thousand gallons in it, I’m guessing, and then they fill up the smaller aircraft from that fuel bladder,” he said. “When the bladder is empty, they’re gonna push it back on the plane, and the plane is gonna go away.”
Then, they will bring in the next one, Condie said.
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Budget impacts due to the ongoing downturn in the natural gas industry are driving Garfield County’s policy directives for 2021, with an eye toward diversifying the county’s economic base.
County commissioners recently adopted their “Directives and Action Plan” for the year, giving weight both to the realities of running a county with fewer revenues and looking to some new areas for economic development potential.
The county this year made across-the-board budget cuts of 5%, including eliminating 18 jobs through attrition and cutting programs such as the Sheriff’s Office animal control division and the Youth Conservation Corps outdoor projects summer employment program.