Business Journal Daily:
VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Ohio – The decision about placing a missile defense site at Camp Ravenna should be coming “pretty soon,” U.S. Sen. Rob Portman told members of the Eastern Ohio Military Affairs Commission at the group’s annual meeting Friday.
“I think we are the best site, I really do. There’s a lot of reasons,” he said. “One is the community support … that the leaders that keep the public engaged so they know what this would mean.”
But first, the Missile Defense Agency must decide whether the East Coast Missile Defense System is necessary, noted Vito Abruzzino, executive director of the military affairs commission. If the report, which Abruzzino said has been on the desk of Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ desk “a few times,” declares that such a site is needed, the Missile Defense Agency will have 90 days to make a site recommendation.
