[CPEO-MEF] OVERFLIGHTS: "Remote Southwest Communities Resist Dangerous Combat Flight Training Expansion"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Remote Southwest Communities Resist Dangerous Combat Flight Training Expansion
Increased military flight trainings would have dire environmental and public health effects in Arizona and New Mexico.

By Sam Carliner 
TRUTHOUT
September 7, 2024

The area from Cochise County, Arizona, to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, is largely remote and highly biodiverse. This part of the Southwest is home to national monuments like the Chiricahua Mountains, national forests and endangered species. It is also home to ranching communities, small towns built around the natural beauty of the area and tribal communities, including the Tohono O’odham, San Carlos Apache and White Mountain Apache.

This is also the site of growing opposition to a proposal by the U.S. Air Force to expand military flight training. Since early 2022, communities have been organizing against a plan by the Air Force to increase combat flight training which poses numerous environmental and human health risks.

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For the entire article, see
https://truthout.org/articles/remote-southwest-communities-resist-dangerous-combat-flight-training-expansion

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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