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Posted: 9:11 AM Jul 21, 2008
NC Official Promoting Opposition To New OLF Sites
A North Carolina county manager is urging citizens to increase the opposition to a proposed Navy landing field.
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A North Carolina county manager is urging citizens to increase the opposition to a proposed Navy landing field.
The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City reported Monday that Camden
County Manager Randell Woodruff suggested that local residents go
door-to-door to explain why they feel the proposed landing field is a bad idea for the county.
The Navy is studying two sites in North Carolina and three in Virginia for a proposed field where carrier jets can practice landings.
Woodruff says the county already has a good start in opposing the project because it has hired a law firm and a public relations
representative.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Posted by: Obama Snake Oil Co
Location: Washington
on Jul 23, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Sorry Generation Kill, I look up and see jets everyday in Washington. I have sees Osprey from the Marine base, Harriers, A-10s, C-130s, C-17s, Marine Helicopters. Try looking up once and awhile. I was never in the military but would have been honared to serve. So I guess with the housing mess, my house will be worth less? If you already live in Camden you already see and hear jets and planes everyday. Have a nice day.
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Posted by: washington co.
on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:50 PM
I just have a few comments about this. What you people do not relise is that we live in eastern North carolina near the coast. there are alot of chemicals used on the farm lands around the area. Terrorist love these chemicals lets not forget 9-11 it happend once. It will happen again you all need to relise that this would be a good idea becouse it would bring jobs to your community. People there are jets flying over your areas right now and have been for some time. With out haveing control of the skies over eastern North Carolina we are opening up a new avenue of approach for these terrorist groups. This is real and a threat to us and our home land. My father retired from Fort Bragg and there wild life there is not effected by planes they protect the wild life and take care of it. i have seen alot of wild life here alot of deer have cancer in there stomach lyning from eating material from crops in the fields. That is from the chemicals used to grow the crops. Lets be real.
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Posted by: Vernon
Location: Morehead
on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:32 PM
Bob: The aircraft carrier idea sounds reasonable on the surface. The problem is that it is cost prohibitive. Keeping an aircraft carrier in ready condition and operational will cost much much more than the cost of buying a piece of property and simulating the landing conditions of a real aircraft carrier. An aircraft carrier would have to be fully operational and crewed to do this. Also, we need a place for the "new pilots" to practice a carrier landing before they actually do it. We would possibly lose many billion dollar aircraft and young pilots if they had to make their first landings on an actual carrier deck and made a mistake. (Plane and Pilot go over the side). I do not have a dollar figure for maintaining a fully operational carrier off the coast for pilots to practice on, but I am quite sure it would completely eclipse the cost of a piece of property and all that would entail.
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