— from Thomas Mills, Public Affairs Specialist, Whidbey Naval Air Station —
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, along with Commander Navy Region Northwest and other Navy bases in the Puget Sound and Seattle area will participate in an annual security readiness exercise, Solid Curtain – Citadel Shield (SC-CS18), from January 29 through February. 9, 2018.
During the SC-CS18 exercise, installation personnel and the surrounding local area community may see increased travel times traveling to and from installations. Installation personnel, contractors, visitors and retirees should be flexible with their scheduling of meetings and appointments during the exercise. Local area residents may also see increased military activity and possible traffic and pedestrian congestion, associated with the exercise, near military facilities.
The Navy routinely conducts this type of security exercise to ensure readiness and verify response procedures.
Exercise SC-CS18 is a Force Protection and Anti-Terrorism exercise being conducted by Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF) and Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) on all Navy installations in the continental United States. The annual exercise uses realistic scenarios to ensure U.S. Navy Security Forces maintain a high level of readiness to respond to changing and dynamic threats.
For more information, please contact NAS Whidbey Island at 360-257-2286.
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How challenging to our local communities to have the continued growth and impact of the military.
Whidbey Island, and the bioregion are bearing an incredible cost
And those men and women that fight our countries wars bear a more incredible cost!
Our local communities benefit greatly from a free country.
Tom, please, when will we stop parroting this nonsense. America’s wars have nothing to do with freedom, they are about securing and maintaining a global hegemony. A permanent state of War is simply America’s most lucrative export.
War is over, if you want it.
War is over now.
— John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Well said, Tom Owens. Bravo.
Luther,
I am not parroting anything other than my personal beliefs. Those of us that have fought for our country are not the ones that decide to go to war. But it is us, the poor grunts, sailors, marines and airmen that pay the price. I think we owe it to them to give them the best possible training and equipment we can.
The noise of the jets hit my place every day they fly. Not as bad as some places, but worse than others. I am willing to put up with it as NAS Whidbey does its job.
So if you, just like I, would like to have war over, why can’t the world get political leaders that can achieve a permanent peace? This is a great place for us all to put our efforts.
Increasing militarization will not put an end to the endless U.S. wars waged here and around the globe, or keep our enlisted men and women safe from harm.
PTSD is rampant in soldiers and the atrocities they must commit on civilians.
Increased surveillance of American people who disagree with militarism will not end it. I am against these wars, war games, war posturing and threats to other countries that will not do our bidding. Political leaders are pawns of the war machine; only we the people can say ENOUGH.
I think what we owe our service men and women is honesty… if we were giving them the best possible training it would have include the objectivity to recognize that War should be ovoided at all cost; an absolute last response. Their lives (or the lives of innocents) should not be a casual plaything for the ruling class. As long as we perpetuate these “fighting for freedom” memes we just incourage more kids to jump into the meat grinder.
“I was just following orders” was not a viable defense at Nuremberg, and won’t be if and when we are held accountable for the atrocities of the past 17 years.
Training service men and women that war is to avoided is a good thing to do. However, anyone that has been in combat, knows this full well. Giving more kids (and citizens that have not been there) the real graphic bloody story should do the trick.
The “ruling class” in every country is where the problem lies. Until we can get the whole bunch of them to pay a high personal price for war, we are not going to solve the problem. The reasoning becomes, the other guy has a bigger gun so I need one too.