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.
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.