How the F-35 Comes in the Back Door of Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson
Davis-Monthan’s Operation Snowbird “Customers” Lemoore NAS, Miramar MCAS , and Yuma MCAS are All Getting Ready for the F-35
[Read more →]Is Davis-Monthan’s Economic Impact Analysis Overblown?
Letter from TUCSON FORWARD to City of Tucson Mayor Walkup. Link to the Davis-Monthan Economic Impact Analysis and a community critque follows.
Dear Mayor Walkup,
You were recently briefed on subject Economic Impact Analysis for DM.
Tucson Forward is very concerned about the inaccuracies in the report as outlined below. Over-selling has been a terrible problem with our City Government over the last few years and has fostered an atmosphere of widespread community distrust.
It would be very helpful as you (and we) wrestle with difficult problems that our City Government point out the pros and cons as factually as possible along with your recommended solutions. Posting a biased analysis to the City website sharpens divisiveness and distrust on a very difficult issue. This is not to say that DM doesn’t contribute significantly, both economically and humanly, to the Tucson Community. Perhaps the UA can provide a more factual analysis.
Respectfully yours,
TUCSON FORWARD
[Read more →]Puzzling Communiqué About the Upcoming Operation Snowbird EA
(Recall that as much of the present aircraft brought in by the ANG Operation Snowbird program ages, they will be replaced by the F-35.)
TF Note: For those of you who are not members of the Military-Community Relations Committee (MCRC) we thought we would pass…
[Read more →]Another Crash of An F-18
TF Note: F-18s from Lemoore NAS have been participants in Operation Snowbird (OSB) training at D-M. An F-18 from Lemoore crashed on Wednesday killing two. It was an F-18 from Miramar MCAS, another OSB participant, that crashed into a house in San Diego in December of 2008 killing four on the ground. Many Tucson residents contend that the aircraft brought in under the OSB program are louder and less safe that the mission A-10s and C-130s. No Environmental Impact Analysis was done of the much changed Operation Snowbird program which leads some to believe that the OSB program is operating in violation of NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act).
[Read more →]Tucson Forward to Temporarily Change Focus
TF Note: Over the next couple of months, Tucson Forward will be changing their focus. As the date for the scoping meetings for the Environmental Assessment (EA) for Operation Snowbird (OSB) approaches, we will be changing our focus from the F-35 Environmental Inpact Statement (EIS)…
[Read more →]Government Waste or is $218,371 Just Small Potatoes?
By a Tucson Forward Member
After years of letter-writing to Washington and thousands of citizen signatures asking for an independent study of the ANG Operation Snowbird program at Davis-Monthan, on May 7, 2009 the Air Force Washington office of Legislative Liaison wrote a letter…
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