The people of Puerto Rico protested, and we left there. It is hard to find out the extent of the damage done there. I am sensing Floridians will just shrug and accept this. I fear much harm to just the physical nature of the peninsula which is already nearly sea level. Add the use of live ammunition, and noise factor, and the loss to the economy and it spells real problems for Central Florida.
I have posted on this before, and very few seem that concerned.
There is a hearing on this next week, but it just seems pre-ordained. It is going on in the panhandle as well, but this will be a larger scale.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050227/NEWS/502270377/1004".....the planes would be dropping 13,731 practice bombs and as many as 1,545 high-explosive bombs. Military aircraft also would fire as many as 27 Hellfire missiles at targets on the ground.
Helicopter flights would increase from 1,098 to 1,418.
In addition to the bombs and missiles, military training exercises would involve firing thousands of mortar shells and other ordnance between 25 mm and 105 mm and strafing ground targets with 30,000 20 mm shells...."
Avon Park is in Highlands County, just below Polk County in Central Florida.