A four-Star General made a stop at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Monroe County on Tuesday.
He was there to thank employees for their hard work, but he also touched on the future of the depot.
It's an exciting time at the Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Tobyhanna, Monroe county.
"It's great for the employees really to see the senior leadership to come back down, to talk to them," said Col. Gerhard Schroter, commander of Tobyhanna Army Depot. "Also recognize some innovation and some fantastic work by employees."
Four-Star general Dennis Via toured the depot and then talked about the important work being done in Monroe County.
"We call Tobyhanna one of our crown jewels in the organic industrial base," said Via, commanding general with U.S. Army Material command. "The Army's organic industrial base."
The question that looms for employees, is the crown jewel losing its luster in the eyes of Uncle Sam?
Many were furloughed during the government sequester in 2013 and a budget for the Armed services still hasn't been finalized .
"Sequestration needs to be repealed," said Via. "We need to have a budget so we can plan in places like Tobyhanna, which do incredible work to support our men and women who are deployed in harms way."
Employees say they are reassured that everything is being done to save jobs at the depot.
They have to keep up the hard work to prove all jobs are worth keeping.
"We're not sitting around saying woe is me with budget cuts and things like that," said Frank Zardecki, deputy commander of Tobyhanna Army Depot. "We're very aggressive and marketing new work load and we have a lot of potential work load in the future."
"I don't think we'll see a government shutdown" added Via. "I don't think we'll see the furloughs again, but it still remains it's there, we don't have a budget."
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