Email to Vermont Guard Commanders requests release of the 1,400 F-35 noise complaints

Even if the Guard refuses to release the content of the 1,400 complaints, that number itself confirms that F-35 training flights in a city are causing suffering on a mass scale

April 28, 2021

Dear Mikel Arcovitch, General Knight, and Col. Shevchik:

The following is a request for further information beyond the numbers that the Vermont National Guard already disclosed to a VTDigger reporter in "Pandemic isolation and increased flights spike F-35 noise complaints," By Grace Elletson, April 27, 2021.

If an informal request is ineffective, please consider this a request under Vermont's Public Records Act 1 VSA 315 to 320.

Please post online or provide me with a transcript of the F-35 noise complaints or the voice recordings of those complaints that the Vermont National Guard complaint phone line received between April 1, 2020 and April 28, 2021 so they are available to the public and news reporters.

Please also post online or provide me with a copy of any paper or emailed F-35 noise complaints that the Vermont National Guard received between April 1, 2020 and April 28, 2021 so they are available to the public and news reporters.

In view of the huge number of complaints the Vermont National Guard reported receiving in that time-frame, some 1,400 complaints, the content of those complaints is of vital interest to the public and civilian elected officials. I will distribute the information on the widely read website https://cancelf35.substack.com/ and share it with all other reporters, locally and nationally. In view of the public interest, I request a fee waiver.

If the law does not allow disclosure of complainant identity, redact the identities of the callers from the transcript or from the voice recordings, papers, and emails.

If the law does not allow disclosure of the content of individual complaints, provide the number of people who report in each of the following categories (Note: a single complaint call or email could include several of these categories): (a) inconvenience or annoyance, (b) severe annoyance, (c) interrupted speech, (d) interrupted or impaired learning, (e) pain, (f) hearing damage, (g) ringing ear, (h) vibration in the body, (i)intense vibration in the body, (j) distress, (k) trauma, (l) suffering, (m) child crying, (n) fright, (o) child pain, (p) child injury, (q) concern about hearing damage, (r) concern about child hearing damage, (s) shaking walls or shaking windows, (t) property damage, (u) reduced property value, (v) lost business revenue, (w) loss of the enjoyment of home or yard, (x) constrained indoors for a period of time.

If the law does not allow disclosure of either the content or the categorization of the 1,400 complaints, please simply acknowledge that they mean that the F-35 training flights in a city location are unnecessarily causing suffering on a mass scale. 

If you have any question please do not hesitate to call me: 802 864-1575.
Thank you.
Best regards,
James Marc Leas