The Navy speaks again
Submitted by parmea on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 1:25am
I will keep this post to a minimum. The Navy provided some feed back to a VA resident who is just as outspoken as I am on this OLF. Tidewater News From this link, the Navy felt obligated to respond with this.
The Tidewater News enables bloggers to write almost as freely as this site does, and many comments about the OLF can be found at this web site. Most of the people are going to this paper to receive and post comments.
I was able to write a rebuttal against almost every statement the Navy threw out there.
It has some interesting stuff and twists from the last fight....one interesting quote is this....
Maintaining higher readiness requires conducting more training. This is the “surge” requirement the Navy has referred to in its EIS documents, and this is one of the drivers of the lack of capacity that has turned an additional OLF from a “nice to have” into a “need to have” facility.
The speaker changed the definition of "surge" and admitted that the OLF was a want. I guess he felt safe saying that because so many of the original site folks have rightfully moved on.
Just as an FYI, the Navy is still changing their story, manupulating capabilities and carefully responding to questions and statements when the opponent uses a word unknown to them out of context. The Navy should know it was out of context, clarify that problem, then answer the question. It wont. That is evident with Adm. Anderson's comments.
Yet I know they are still watching! Keep at em, and thank you
You are a man with a mission
and I'm so glad you are staying on top of this. Thank you, parmea.
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It may not have come across correctly
but the Navy validated the hard work and fight so many who come to this site helped with.
The Navy validated that we were right to oppose this because it was not a need, rather a want.
There were many reasons for people to oppose this OLF in Washington County. From environmental, need, birds, people, the list of supporters, over 100 national, state and local organizations where right in coming together to oppose this move at Washington County. The Navy did not need to be looking in NC in the first place, much less threatening, and following through with their threats to condemn property.
I just wish to keep all those groups of folks informed. The Navy finally stated this was a nice to have project.