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The Base Closure and Realignment Commission said Friday that Utah will actually gain jobs, even though shutting Defense Depot Ogden will eliminate 1,100 jobs. New missions to Hill Air Force Base means the state overall could gain 4,929 jobs directly, and 7,477 indirectly by contractors - meaning the state would gain 12,406 jobs, or 1.3 percent of all jobs in the state. That is the biggest expected job gain by percentage of any state in the nation.