[CPEO-IRF] Viriginia Beach residents question jets' presence

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CCAJN stirs up Hornet's Va. nest

By BILL SANDIFER
Washington Daily News (NC)
April 22, 2005

The atmosphere in and around Virginia Beach has grown even noisier these 
days. But some of the loudest sounds are coming not from increasing 
numbers of Super Hornet fighter jets arriving at their new home base but 
from residents calling on the Navy to send the entire fleet elsewhere.

The organization Citizens Concerned About Jet Noise had floated the idea 
earlier, but it finally has sent the suggestion to the top. A letter to 
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went out last week, and a similar 
letter was sent Thursday to the Base Realignment and Closure commission.

"There's been a tremendous amount of discussion about it," CCAJN 
spokesman Hal Levenson told the Daily News Thursday. "We have drawn an 
enormous amount of interest in this community. Our idea in advancing the 
proposal was just to do that, was to stimulate public discussion."

Levenson, however, indicated he hopes discussions will produce results.

"Now, what we really want is for the Pentagon and the BRAC to make a 
serious study of the situation," he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2005/04/22/news/news02.txt


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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