Re: Navy Plans to Take Over Oregon Coast for Military Operations

On Feb 4, 9:37 pm, Zombywoof <Zomby-W...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:07:29 -0800 (PST), Jack Linthicum



<jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 3, 9:17 pm, Otis Willie PIO The American War Library

Two fun groups of people who don't like to share, the U.S. Navy and
Oregon.

Salem-News.com (Feb-02-2009 16:55)
Navy Plans to Take Over Oregon Coast Airspace for Military Operations
Letter to the Salem-News.com Editor by Marie Gargano

The Navy needs to rethink and abandon large parts of this entire
proposal. The potential effects of new and increased military activity
off the coast of Oregon could result in a general degradation of the
environment, be fatal to wildlife and detrimental to the human quality
of life.

Some say Oregon's coastal airspace is already spoken for
Salem-News.com photo by Bonnie King

(DEPOE BAY, Ore.) - I went to the US Navy’s hearing last Friday night
in Newport. What an "eye opener"!!!

I was told by one of the Navy’s representatives that the Navy wants to
take over the two training areas currently used by the Oregon Air
National Guard. This includes the entire coastal air space and coastal
waters of Oregon.

The hearing was part of their “public outreach”; strangely only one
hearing in the entire state of Oregon. I was told the Navy published a
small notification of the hearing in a Lincoln County newspaper and no
other newspaper in Oregon.

As evidenced from their public comments, most people learned of the
hearing at most 2-3 days in advance. As a result, only about 40 people
attended. Six people made public comments for the official record.
There was no question and answer period. Few knew about the Navy’s
Draft Environmental Impact Statement website: nwtrangecomplexeis.com/
EIS.aspx.

PLEASE go to the National Resources Defense Council website to read
about the mid-frequency sonar effect on whales and other marine
mammals; it causes their eardrums to rupture and they die. The NRDC
sued the Navy over this in California and got a partial victory. Of
course, the Navy talked about all they will do to protect marine life;
the NRDC partial court victory is making them do it!!! Not optional.

OSU Professor Bruce Mate told me at the hearing there isn’t a 12-mile
offshore limit to the Navy’s proposal. In fact, one of the Navy
personnel said that if they need to do shallow water training, their
proposal allows them to do it.

Here’s the deal..... The Navy wants to take over the Oregon Air
National Guard areas off the entire coast of Oregon in order to expand
the Navy's training activities, including mine fields (YES, I said
mine fields!!), predator drones, artillery shelling practice,
submarine exercises including munitions and their associated debris.
These are what I picked up from other speakers. Who knows what else is
in the DEIS????

Included in the Navy's handout for their preferred proposal:

EA-18G Growler aircraft.... which flies at Mach 1.6, exceeding the
"sound barrier". Will the coast be subjected to sonic booms if the
Navy gets what they want?

Guided missile submarines

P-8 Multimission Maritime aircraft

Unmanned Aerial systems

Air and sea surface targets

Portable undersea tracking range for anti-submarine training

Use of mid-level and high frequency active sonar (nrdc.org/wildlife/
marine/sonar.asp nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/sonar.asp), known to cause
marine mammal deaths.

Please go to this website and read some of the documents in the Navy’s
DEIS.... NWTRangeComplexEIS.com They are quite alarming.

I was so alarmed about the Navy’s proposals that I spoke at the
hearing, saying I am calling Gov. Kulongoski’s, Sen. Ron Wyden’s and
Sen. Jeff Merkley’s offices on Monday to ask their intervention with
the Secretary of the Navy. I encourage others to do likewise. And
encourage their friends and neighbors, too. All the contact
information for our federal and state elected officials is at this
website: nrdconline.org/nrdc/leg-lookup/search.tcl

The Navy needs to rethink and abandon large parts of this entire
proposal. The potential effects of new and increased military activity
off the coast of Oregon could result in a general degradation of the
environment, be fatal to wildlife and detrimental to the human quality
of life. And contrary to the best interests of the tourism industry
and coastal property values. We need to ensure our concerns are heard
loud and clear before the Navy’s proposals become foregone conclusions..

Exactly what do you think the general degradation to human life will
be if the U.S. Military has no place to perform exercises or train.
Sure maybe after we are all dead the wildlife will have a Whale of a
time (pun intended), but this NIMBY mindset consistently blows my
mind.

We shutdown the training areas in Puerto Rico because of endless
complaints & sit-ins, yet they pissed & moaned about the loss of jobs
& expenditures.

The U.S. Military needs to train and not everything can be done in a
simulator.  If you think your quality of life will suck if the Navy
trains, just imagine what it will be like if you become the captured
servant of China or some other growing & expanding country that
doesn't give a rats ass about wildlife let alone your life.
--
"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks."

Let us start by imagining the Chinese or Russians are able to create a
fleet that we would need to defend against.
.

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