Some Air Force military personnel will be arriving in Fort Smith later this year and there's already some construction going on at Ebbing Air National Guard Base.
The city of Fort Smith will receive $208 million for the mission's future pilot training sites and pilot training center thanks to the FY24 Defense Appropriations bill that was signed into law on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON The Senate inched closer to passage of a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills late Friday after reaching agreement on a series of proposed amendment votes, though a final vote on passage was set to occur after a midnight funding deadline.