Prior to the BRAC release, SecDef had directed the USAF to transfer the C-130 FTU to the ARC at a ratio of 75%ARC to 25% active BRAC recommendation reflected this intent with 14 C-130Hs and 4 C-130Js to the 189" AW The "J" model buy was cut from 120 to 60 several month ago, but was reinstated in the budget two days before the BRAC recommendation release Prior to reinstating the "J" buy, only four aircraft were needed in the C-130J FTU, hence it is clear the intent of BRAC was to place the C-I 305 FTU in the 189" AW.

AF48 Community Meeting - Fort Smith Air National Guard Station - 188th Fighter Wing - Arkansas Delegation Meeting with Chairman Principi, May 17, 2005

Alaskan Norad Region ANR/Do Col Gene O'Nale

Disregard Restriction of Header and Footer: Army Installations and State Action Papers - Arkansas

AMC's only T56 Engine Regional Repair Center- Briefing Book

Base Input - Little Rock Air Force Base, AR briefing.

Base Input - Presentation Little Rock AFB Installation

Base Input - Visit to Little Rock AFB, AR Briefing Files on CD -

Contains notes and research (Fort Smith, AR) by Bradley McRee of the Joint Issues Team.

Contains notes and research (Little Rock AFB, Arkansas) By Mike Flinn of the AIR FORCE Team.

Community Input - Briefing - American Eagle Communities : Bring Home the Dream

Contains info on location, size, history, missions, major units/tenants, and population.

Memorandum of Meeting regarding recommended realignments of C-130 installations.

Memorandum of meeting with congressional and community representatives regarding BRAC's Military Value Assessment of Fort Smith, AR.

Memorandum of meeting with congressional and community representatives regarding support for the BRAC Gainer Recommendation with respect to Little Rock AFB, AR.

Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Interview with John Andrews, a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps from Kentwood, Louisiana. The transcript includes a list of questions regarding Andrews's training and service in World War II as a B-29 command pilot and flight instructor throughout the United States.

Interview with Larry Aldrich, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served in England during the Iraqi war. Aldrich describes his experiences when he enlisted including his training and work as a guard at a nuclear weapons storage facility and later, overseas at RAF Lakenheath.

Interview with Robert Bean, a veteran who was wounded in action during World War II from Kirbyville, Texas. The transcript includes a list of questions, which focus on Bean's service with the 12th Armored Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in France and Germany, including his injuries and experience liberating two concentration camps.