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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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To: dljordan

Because they are batshit crazy. Dangerously so.


41 posted on 01/27/2022 3:04:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: AndyJackson

Right after we have a nuclear war with Putin to show him who runs things in the world.


Yeah! The ashes of hundreds of millions of Americans and mountain and prairie wastelands will show him what’s what! Go ahead. I’m too old worry about such nonsense.


42 posted on 01/27/2022 3:10:10 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

How did Washington become a state of such total wussies? Wasn’t always that way.


43 posted on 01/27/2022 3:10:54 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: BenLurkin

“We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us” - George Orwell

Orwell cited Kipling’s phrase “making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep” (Kipling, Tommy), and further noted that Kipling’s “grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.” (1942)”


I absolutely CANNOT stand people who not only haven’t got a clue about why their lives are mostly peaceful, but that have contempt for those who provide that great benefit for them at great risk to themselves...and I’m not even a veteran.


45 posted on 01/27/2022 3:17:06 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: BenLurkin

Well then, they can wait and see the Chinese frogmen when they invade the west coast. It will be the last thing they see before they take 3 bullets to the chest.


46 posted on 01/27/2022 3:19:46 PM PST by castowell (War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will - Von Clausewitz)
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To: Fedora

That guy has a face that is just BEGGING to be punched, repeatedly. Preferably by a Navy SEAL.


47 posted on 01/27/2022 3:19:59 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Taxman

“NIMBY wussies!”

They are all PANTYWAISTS.


48 posted on 01/27/2022 3:22:04 PM PST by 2harddrive (FREE 3D-printable Firearm blueprints available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/)
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To: BenLurkin

How will they feel if it were Chinese soldiers? Protest?


49 posted on 01/27/2022 3:24:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: castowell

“It’s the Big One, ‘Lizbeth! Red Dawn!”


50 posted on 01/27/2022 3:25:56 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: BenLurkin

REEeee ReeEEeEeEEEEEEEeeeee!!!! FThatGuy...


51 posted on 01/27/2022 3:28:38 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Yes, indeed— in fact, their last “twinkling” in mid-twinkle!

Really stupid comments in the article, including “toy guns”.... boo hoo! Surprise, they aren’t toy.


52 posted on 01/27/2022 3:36:38 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Ancesthntr

Correct his overbite. He looks like the character from the Simpson’s (dude that owns the nuke power plant), beak and overbite showing teeth without smiling.


53 posted on 01/27/2022 3:43:31 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: packagingguy

Good to know. Our only son has decided to marry a Dutch lady. They are happy but I am not spending any nights in Eurostan. I was thinking Poland.. that’s if Biden doesn’t gin up another euro pipeline war like Obama’s Syrian war.


54 posted on 01/27/2022 3:59:27 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: Seruzawa
The grandkids will think it’s cool. “I want to be one of those Grannie!”.

UDT Seals taught Aquaman all he knows.

55 posted on 01/27/2022 4:01:37 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: BenLurkin

Then I propose changing the name from “park” to “military base” and restricting access so the SEALS can train without the Karens.


56 posted on 01/27/2022 4:02:34 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: higgmeister

I saw them train when I was a the NavAmphib Base at Coronado in 1968. Just the UDT portion of the course is murder. I was never tempted. They are all better men than I am and my hat is off to them.


57 posted on 01/27/2022 4:06:00 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Fedora

Put him on the list too.


58 posted on 01/27/2022 4:06:17 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Seruzawa

Yes, in late July-August 67 Navy UDT types who were at Little Creek, VA were in my airborne course at Fort Benning. Darn those men could run. At the end of tower week, we had a 2 mile plus or so run. I lost out to a Navy officer. The truth is all Special Ops types have a purpose. At the start of the Special Forces Course for both officers and enlisted we had a navigation test. That test was mostly in a swamp plus other difficult terrain to navigate. I took about 4 hours to finish. Some were still trying after 8 hours. If no pass-No SF. These training areas serve a purpose.


59 posted on 01/27/2022 4:31:56 PM PST by Lumper20 (R)
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To: Rinnwald

A couple of circuits of the training facility, you’re familiarized. You learn more by training in unfamiliar territory.


60 posted on 01/27/2022 4:52:32 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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