Give JAX Back Its Bombers
Stealing another community's nuclear war machines is not Vermonterly
Even the Air Force didn't want its F-35s training over Winooski, BTV, Williston, and South Burlington:
"The Air Force analysis showed that Jacksonville ranked No. 1 among six competing communities (three bidding for the Air National Guard contract and three to be the F-35sā active-duty base) in facilities, No. 1 in airspace, No. 1 in cost ($400,000 compared with nearly $5 million in Burlington) and tied for No. 1 in favorable weather conditions. It had a score of 91 points. Burlington scored 87.1, but the difference was not as close as it looks numerically. Burlington ranked last in airspace and weather and next to last in facilities."
https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20131019/NEWS/801244648
Ask the Winooski City Councilors and Representatives Colston and Small to listen to our fellow residents and request that the Governor put a halt to Green Mountain Boys preparing for war over our community.
alafayette@winooskivt.gov
hcolston@winooskivt.gov
jduncan@winooskivt.org
klott@winooskivt.gov
mmyers@winooskivt.gov
taylor@taylorsmallvt.com
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The Air Force EIS describes Jacksonville, McEntire, and 3 other choices, all remote from populated areas as superior choices for basing F-35 jets than Burlington. In view of those five alternatives, F-35 training flights in the Chamberlin School neighborhood, a densely populated area of a city, is not a military necessity. In the EIS the Air Force wrote in detail about its expectation of injury to hearing and learning from the extreme noise of F-35 training flights in a populated area. Injury and distress have since been documented by hundreds of people and the absence of military necessity for the training flights to be in a city puts the Vermont political and military leaders in violation of the discipline prescribed by Congress and in violation of US Department of Defense and Air Force directives and instructions. F-35 training flights in a city must be immediately aborted and those responsible prosectuted and incarcerated.