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A reversal of fortune
Ex-militia leader Cox, attorney in dispute over competency
As U.S. military cuts budget, Fairbanks area catches headwind By Sam Friedman
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“I’m Alaska Grown. Do I get a sticker?”
This time last year, the Fairbanks area faced the likelihood of school closures, increased unemployment and falling property values as a result of military budget cuts. Things turned out differently. In 2013, the military instead announced growth in the Interior, even as downsizing continues across the Department of Defense in general. Why was the Interior spared much of the pain? A trend that’s fueled the military expansion throughout the Interior this year was the “Pacific pivot,” a military-wide effort to focus more of America’s fire power closer to China and other emerging Asian powers.
New projects and canceled downsizing The Interior has been through boom and bust cycles related to military buildups and cutbacks before. Alaska in general saw a more than 25 percent growth in active duty troops in the past decade associated with the wars in
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side, the future of 4,000-soldier-strong 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, was in jeopardy in 2013 as the Army made plans to shrink its force and consolidate its units.
Schaeffer Cox’s appellate case has consisted largely of a public argument with his attorney about whether he is delusional. Cox, a former Fairbanks political candidate and militia leader, is in his third-year of a 26-year sentence for a conviction of conspiring to kill federal employees. He’s asking U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reassign him his old lawyer and to consider evidence not presented at his trial that he says will exonerate him. C o x ’s c o u r t - a p p o i n t ed attorney, Seattle-based Suzanne Elliott, said Cox’s court filings aren’t helping his appeal. She’s asking a judge to schedule a competency hearing before the judge responds to any motions filed by Cox. She said she’s “mystified” that Cox’s mental state didn’t get brought up earlier in the case.
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Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development study. This year, cutbacks were forecast as the 13-year war in Afghanistan came to a close and Congress ordered the military to help reduce the
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national deficit. In the Interior, the planned cutbacks included an Air Force proposal to transfer 21 F-16 fighter planes and about 1,500 military and civilian jobs to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. On the Army
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