2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 10 Aug 2006 17:47:40 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] North Carolina flyover
 
Carteret commissioners get an earful

Jannette Pippin
New Bern Sun Journal (NC)
August 9, 2006

Military officials hold flight demonstrations to show how loud jets can be over development

BOGUE - Members of the Carteret County Board of Commissioners could hear the approaching EA-6B Prowler aircraft before they could see it. As it passed Tuesday evening 400 feet above the 12-acre Mariner's Bay subdivision it drowned out any hope of conversation.

Soon after, an AV-8B Harrier pilot followed suit as he prepared for his first ship-board qualifications.

As county leaders peered through the treetops, they heard the military's viewpoint on a proposed residential development that would put homes close to training operations at the Marine Corps' landing field off the N.C. 24 corridor in Bogue.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newbernsj.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=29257&Section=Local

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