[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Navy suspends work on Outlying Landing Field in North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Reaction to OLF decision varies

By Sue Book
ENC Today (NC)
January 30, 2011

Reactions from relief to concern are rippling through the region after 
the Navy announced last week that it had stopped all work related to an 
East Coast Outlying Landing Field until at least 2014.

Eastern North Carolina residents, business people, politicians and the 
military have spent nine years either fighting or supporting a Navy 
attempt to find a large, remote site in reasonable proximity to Cherry 
Point and Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., where pilots 
can practice aircraft carrier landings.

The Navy suspended OLF work on Thursday, citing the need for basing and 
training requirements of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to be better defined.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.enctoday.com/news/navy-8015-havelock-olf-work.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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