I suppose this will follow up on a previous post/question I had here about a week or so ago. Thought I would share it with y'all..
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Navy concludes Vieques exercises
The Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (August 24, 2000 11:43 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The U.S. Navy is set to finish its latest round of training Friday on Vieques island, the site of recurrent protest over military exercises.
The USS Harry S. Truman Battle Group moved out to sea for two days as Hurricane Debby passed through. The storm did not hit Puerto Rico. The Navy was to end exercises on Thursday but decided to continue Friday to make up for lost time, said Lt. Jeff Gordon.
No protesters were detained Thursday, Gordon said. In the first week of exercises, which began Aug. 3, the Navy detained 43 people who broke into the training ground.
On Thursday, jets bombed the island range using inert ordnance, Gordon said.
The Navy owns two-thirds of the 5-by-20-mile island and has used it for exercises and weapons storage since the 1940s. Resentment over the Navy's presence flared in April 1999, when a jet dropped two bombs off target and killed a civilian guard on the bombing range.
Protesters, who charge the exercises have hampered development and hurt people's health, camped out on the bombing range and thwarted exercises until federal marshals removed them in May.
President Clinton has promised the Navy will leave by May 2003 if the island's 9,400 residents vote to expel it in a referendum expected next year. He ordered the Navy to stop using live bombs.
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The story can be found HERE.
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
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Navy concludes Vieques exercises
The Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (August 24, 2000 11:43 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The U.S. Navy is set to finish its latest round of training Friday on Vieques island, the site of recurrent protest over military exercises.
The USS Harry S. Truman Battle Group moved out to sea for two days as Hurricane Debby passed through. The storm did not hit Puerto Rico. The Navy was to end exercises on Thursday but decided to continue Friday to make up for lost time, said Lt. Jeff Gordon.
No protesters were detained Thursday, Gordon said. In the first week of exercises, which began Aug. 3, the Navy detained 43 people who broke into the training ground.
On Thursday, jets bombed the island range using inert ordnance, Gordon said.
The Navy owns two-thirds of the 5-by-20-mile island and has used it for exercises and weapons storage since the 1940s. Resentment over the Navy's presence flared in April 1999, when a jet dropped two bombs off target and killed a civilian guard on the bombing range.
Protesters, who charge the exercises have hampered development and hurt people's health, camped out on the bombing range and thwarted exercises until federal marshals removed them in May.
President Clinton has promised the Navy will leave by May 2003 if the island's 9,400 residents vote to expel it in a referendum expected next year. He ordered the Navy to stop using live bombs.
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The story can be found HERE.
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
..even if I almost signed into the Air Force to be an Officer.. But thats a different story in itself.