[CPEO-MEF] Residents say Navy jets would disrupt area

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Residents say Navy jets would disrupt area 

The Associated Press 

WAYNESBORO -- About 500 people attended a town meeting to express their 
displeasure with a Navy plan to convert a rural Burke County site into a 
training airfield.

Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Augusta, and Navy officials held the meeting 
Friday in Waynesboro, about 20 miles west of the proposed landing strip 
near Girard.

"We have a voice, and we're here to say, very loudly, no!" said Susan 
Bargeron, who lives a half-mile from an area being evaluated for a 
practice airfield for the Navy's new F/A-18 Super Hornets.

She was among dozens who spoke against the airfield over issues 
including excessive noise, disruptive night flights, loss of family 
farms and tax base, and disintegration of a rural way of life.

She joined others in asking Norwood to make sure the Navy builds its 
airfield elsewhere.

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