“Wright-Patt is the state’s largest single site employer with just under 30,000 people so it is very important to our region and to the entire state. But it is also important to the entire United States with so many of the missions we have here. From an economic development standpoint its our largest driver,” said Jeff Hoagland, president and chief executive of the Dayton Development Coalition.
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