1.   -- A maintenance depot with better buildings which are more economical to maintain.

2.   Both McClellan and Kelly are Air Force maintenance depots.

3.   A federal study has predicted that the next major targets would probably be maintenance depots, especially in Texas and California.

4.   Air Force officials had instead proposed cutting back work at all five existing Air Force maintenance depots, and said closing two would be expensive and risky.

5.   Commission documents showed that Kelly had higher labor costs than the other maintenance depots and the worst rate for on-time repairs.

6.   Deputy Defense Secretary John White told a Senate panel last week that the three maintenance depots still are under-utilized.

7.   Deputy Defense Secretary John White told a Senate panel last week that those three Air Force maintenance depots continue to be under-utilized.

8.   However, it criticized Congress and the military for keeping open costly aircraft maintenance depots, which are located on bases.

9.   It is a painstaking process requiring thousands of people scattered across the globe, forming a web of refueling stations, cargo dumps and maintenance depots.

10.   Kelly, a major maintenance depot for the Air Force, was on the list to close.