[CPEO-MEF] NC Outlying Landing Field document

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy top gun calls the shots

By BILL SANDIFER
Washington Daily News (NC)
November 29, 2004

As the Navy skated on the thinning ice surrounding its justification for
a Washington County outlying landing field, a former Tiger Team member,
Navy Cmdr. John Robusto, penned a document titled, "OLF justification
verbiage." That paper was circulated among Tiger Team members who had
been polishing the language to pass muster with high-level Navy officials.

That account is gleaned from a court brief summarizing more than 200,000
Navy documents turned over to OLF opponents' attorneys under court
order. Those documents form the backbone of the latest brief filed by
the law firm of Kennedy Covington and the Southern Environmental Law
Center's legal team, suing to halt permanently Navy outlying landing
field plans for its preferred Washington County site. The account also
picks up the thread from two previous Daily News reports on the brief.

That document and many revisions to follow resulted from a May 2003
meeting Robusto attended with Navy Atlantic Fleet Commander Adm. Robert
Natter and the Navy's top-ranking civilian leaders -- including acting
Navy Secretary Hansford T. Johnson. Johnson and other top civilian
leaders had turned thumbs down on the latest Tiger Team wording, wording
that had passed muster with Natter, relates the legal brief. The Tiger
Team comprised the frontline civilian and military advisers charged with
making the OLF happen.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2004/11/29/news/news01.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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