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Topic: Navy Seeks Alternative to Vieques - Camp Lejeune, N.C. look out | Topic page views:
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Moonstar
Senior Member
61 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 07-18-2001 04:49 PM
  
The Flagship of July 12, 2001 reported that the Navy is seeking an alternative to it's bombing area on Vieques Island. A site on the soutern coast of Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville was suggested but the alternative has drawn fire from environmentalists. Navy amphibious vehicles would of been coming ashore from the Gulf of Mexico to travel across the Padre Island National Seashore. On July 2, the county commissioners of Kenedy County where most of the bombing would take place, voted unaminously to oppose the plan. Several other options are being explored. A study commissioned by the Navy in August concluded that a complex including ranges at Camp Lejuene, Cherry Point, Dare County and Fort Bragg, N.C. "is a promising alternative to Vieques".
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penumbra
quarky
North Carolina
668 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 07-19-2001 08:20 AM
I read that too. Camp Lejune and Fort Bragg both have a lot of land, but Cherry Point does not, and Dare County is the Outer Banks. North Carolinians are used to the military, and we are largely a patriotic bunch, but this is a really bad idea. Our state has become so populated over the last 10 or so years...and our Coast depends on tourism. Bad idea.
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