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Navy SEALs to stop using Washington state parks after residents voice fears of seeing ‘armed men’
NY Post ^ | January 27, 2022 | y Michael Lee

Posted on 01/27/2022 2:11:08 PM PST by BenLurkin

“It is difficult to find peace in the woods when armed frogmen might be lurking behind every tree,” lawyers for the Whidbey Environmental Action Network, the group behind the lawsuit against the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, argued in a legal brief filed last month.

The Navy has used Washington state coastal parks for over 30 years for SEAL cold water training and other special operations exercises, with leaders saying the area offers the perfect environment to simulate what the elite forces may encounter on difficult operations overseas.

“I do not care to catch a glimpse of apparently armed men skulking around and I DEFINITELY do not want to risk having my young grandchildren see such a sight,” a resident wrote...

“In these days of great division in our civil society, we don’t need stealthy men in camo uniforms toting toy guns around our State and County Parks,” another commenter said. “People frequent parks to escape tension, not to encounter more. Keep the Navy commando training out of our parks!”

“The Navy’s plan is to use larger, gasoline-powered UAV’s as well as smaller, electric-powered types. This offers significant potential for direct and indirect injury to birds as well as auditory disruption to the experience of park visitors.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: bryantelegin; garypiazzon; hoplophobes; marianneedain; navy; parks; seals; steveerickson; washingtonstate; wean; whidbey
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1 posted on 01/27/2022 2:11:08 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

FWIW, someone from circle who is close to this and one of us, says “fake news” they’re still training there and will continue to do so.


2 posted on 01/27/2022 2:12:49 PM PST by Levy78
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To: BenLurkin

National Defense and training is so overrated


3 posted on 01/27/2022 2:13:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: BenLurkin

NIMBY wussies!


4 posted on 01/27/2022 2:13:37 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Levy78

Guess these liberal idiots don’t grasp the concept that these Seals and their training are in a great part what keeps their right to be stupid alive and well.


5 posted on 01/27/2022 2:15:48 PM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: BenLurkin
EEK!


6 posted on 01/27/2022 2:18:21 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: BenLurkin

Besides, with the Navy composed mostly of transmen and transwomen, they have better things to do than train.


7 posted on 01/27/2022 2:18:27 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting who's brains are for dinner.)
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To: BenLurkin

They need to hear the Jack Nicholson wall space from a few good men.


8 posted on 01/27/2022 2:18:54 PM PST by GMThrust
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To: BenLurkin

“” “I do not care to catch a glimpse of apparently armed men skulking around and I DEFINITELY do not want to risk having my young grandchildren see such a sight,” a resident wrote. “”

Never you mind, little snowflake granny. If a Navy SEAL is coming after you, you will see him for only the twinkling of an eye.


9 posted on 01/27/2022 2:19:23 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh good grief - tell the snowflakes to stfu.


10 posted on 01/27/2022 2:19:23 PM PST by Skywise
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To: BenLurkin

These would be the same leftist dweebs that would go running out of a sandwich shop if they saw police in uniform sitting and eating their lunch.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 2:20:29 PM PST by ManardG
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To: BenLurkin

So, they have a fetish for bilateral amputees?


12 posted on 01/27/2022 2:21:38 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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13 posted on 01/27/2022 2:21:50 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin

These nimbies in Washington should vacation in Switzerland. There you get to hear fully automatic fire being practiced every weekend, echoing off the mountains towering above the valleys below. It really is something to hear.


14 posted on 01/27/2022 2:22:46 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Seruzawa

Target rich environment?


15 posted on 01/27/2022 2:23:42 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Oscar in Batangas

The grandkids will think it’s cool. “I want to be one of those Grannie!”.

“Thump” (as the snowflake Grannie keels over from a heart attack).


16 posted on 01/27/2022 2:24:01 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: packagingguy

Hell...just go to Chicago.


17 posted on 01/27/2022 2:24:50 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“skulking”? Somebody’s gotta pick up their skill set if they’ve been skulking. Maybe we could write up a drill called “trolling for dunderheads” or some such?


18 posted on 01/27/2022 2:27:12 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: Levy78

Thank God.


19 posted on 01/27/2022 2:28:05 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: falcon99

Dear Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley, Chester Nimitz, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Halsey, and all Americans who gave up their lives in World War Two,

I apologize to you for your bravery and sacrifice to this once great nation. Your efforts are not recognized by its current inhabitants and certainly not deserved by them either.

The blood, sweat, and tears you shed for our freedom was squandered by a generation of undeserving people who line up at the teat of government and whose only concern is what’s the government going to give them, not what has to be done to preserve the republic.

Your sacrifice will be honored by some, but the many know little of what you and your forebears did to attempt to keep this precious country free.

I apologize to you for our selfishness.


20 posted on 01/27/2022 2:28:12 PM PST by offduty (Joe Biden, Commander in Thief)
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