[CPEO-MEF] Site C Outlying Landing Field, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy says Site C not absolute

Defense budget 'unfortunate at best'

By NIKIE MAYO
Washington Daily Mews (NC)
February 27, 2007

CHERRY POINT MARINE CORPS AIR STATION - The budget line item that names 
Site C as the next outlying landing field is "unfortunate at best" Rear 
Admiral David Anderson said Monday.

The line item "NOLF Washington County" appears in the U.S. Department of 
Defense's budgetary request that went to Congress earlier this month. 
The Defense Department requested just over $10 million to go toward a 
proposed OLF to be situated on the border of Washington and Beaufort 
counties.

"Basically, ... that was verbiage that was put there in error. ... It's 
unfortunate at best," Anderson told reporters gathered for a Navy-called 
press conference at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in Havelock. 
Anderson said he wanted "to reiterate that a decision has not been made" 
about the site of the proposed OLF.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2007/02/27/news/news01.txt
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