Michigan Base Gets Gate Complex:

March 14, 2006

Selfridge ANGB, Mich.—home of the 127th Wing of the Michigan ANG—is scheduled to get a new main gate complex, with construction planned to begin on April 1. The planned complex will house a recruiting office, a base visitor’s center, a day pass office, and a center for military identification, reports the Detroit Free Press.

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