Eglin AFB : Does it love the live-fire training that Vieques denounced?

[madfloridian]

Somehow I wonder if this is a sort of propaganda. Are people in that area really that happy at the noise and the disturbance? Puerto Rico was not happy, and they eventually had to stop the live fire assaults there. Is this area there in the panhandle really that patriotic about the noise? Or is it just that they know it is inevitable.

Red Carpet rolled out for Marine live fire training assaults in Panhandle
SNIP..."The red carpet was rolled out -literally and figuratively -- for Marines who landed Friday on beaches at this Florida Panhandle base in contrast to protests at a former training site on Vieques Island in Puerto Rico.

William Lightburn, 76, a Korean War Army veteran, and his wife, Wanda, 68, lined their yard at Wynnhaven Beach with small U.S. flags and invited about a dozen disabled veterans to watch from their pier on Santa Rosa Sound about 100 feet from one of three landing sites.

Marines then put out red carpet -- although upside down, exposing its silvery back -- to protect U.S. 98 from sand and possible damage while amphibious assault vehicles and tanks crossed the busy highway to reach the interior of this 724square-mile base....."

SNIP..."About 50 local people stood along an entrance road and waved at the Marines, who are training for a deployment to the Mediterranean and possibly Iraq, as their vehicles crossed the highway...."

[screembloodymurder]

1. I was just there

these people are so brainwashed they stand for polution and against peace. I don't doubt they like noise, too.

[ClintonTyree]

2. I live.....................

about 15 miles from the Avon Park Range. They haven't been dropping live bombs YET. They do a lot of night time high altitude dummy bombing here, for now. If they stop dropping the real stuff, I'm selling the house (if I can) and getting the hell out of here.
You're right though, the Panhandlers are a different breed altogether. I try very hard to avoid stops there on my way to New Orleans and back.

[deminflorida]

3. I live right in the Panhandle....

Yep it's Freeperville alright, but you'd be surprised at the number of people that are turning against Bush right now.

Also note, as I was driving to the mall this morning I saw a Howard Dean for America banner posted on the side of someone's house. Right on Highway 98 for everyone to see.

[madfloridian]

4. I was doing some research on that bombing range.

There is a whole lot of stuff left over from the action through the years, I understand.