{"id":1505,"date":"2009-10-29T00:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T07:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2009-10-26T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T06:18:48","slug":"communities-vie-for-oppose-hosting-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/communities-vie-for-oppose-hosting-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Vie for, Oppose Hosting F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it was first constructed, Luke Air Force Base was well outside of the small town that would eventually become bustling Phoenix, Arizona.\u00a0 Now Luke suffers from a severe case of encroachment, with occupied houses literally right off the end of the runway.\u00a0 That encroachment,\u00a0reflected at many bases across the country,\u00a0has led to noise complaints and community actions that have impacted the flight operations at major military bases.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Tucson community, just south of Luke, is one among several that is weighing the pros and cons of trying to become host to a major F-35 training base.\u00a0 Tucson hosts Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the current location of A-10 training.\u00a0 The good part of the F-35: Such a training base would likely be a boon to the local economy.\u00a0 The problem: <!--more-->Many believe that the F-35 is far noisier than the aircraft they are used to hearing, especially the <em>relatively<\/em> quite A-10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jet noise&#8221; has routinely been called &#8220;the sound of freedom.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=113735142\">Quipped one Tucson resident<\/a>, near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If they love the sound of freedom so much, I&#8217;ll be happy to sell them my house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The opponents note that they don&#8217;t want to seem unpatriotic for opposing the presence of the new fighters.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately, those who appreciate the sacrifice of the military yet begrudge them the necessary tools and training to effectively accomplish their mission are extraordinarily short-sighted.\u00a0 (Particularly if <em>they<\/em> moved into a house under the airbase&#8217;s flight path.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most interesting was what the communities might prefer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So community leaders in both places suggest they&#8217;d welcome a different mission for their hometown bases \u2014 like, perhaps, a smaller, quieter Predator drone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;d like to see the Thunderbirds switch to\u00a0Predators as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it was first constructed, Luke Air Force Base was well outside of the small town that would eventually become bustling Phoenix, Arizona.\u00a0 Now Luke suffers from a severe case of encroachment, with occupied houses literally right off the end of the runway.\u00a0 That encroachment,\u00a0reflected at many bases across the country,\u00a0has led to noise complaints and community actions that have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2,45,53],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}