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  • U.S. ARMY IMAGE
    This image of a rocket on a launch pad is from the cover of the U.S. Army's Environmental Assessment prepared prior to the launch Thursday of the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon glide vehicle from Barking Sands on Kauai.

One hundred thirty of the 1,000 civilian employees at Kauai’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kekaha will have 11 additional days off without pay between July 8 and Sept. 13, because of the Pentagon’s sequestration requirements, the Garden Island news paper reported today.

Only civilian workers, such as base security, will not be affected by the furlough, a Navy spokesman told the newspaper.

The furlough days are three in July; four in August; and four in September.

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