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To: wm25burke

MCAS is a blimp facility. We don't use blimps in the military anymore. I think they used Tustin for helicopters, too.

Nearby El Toro MCAS had jets, until closed recently.

They can expect to find solvents in the soils. I expect they will mitigate, by replacing and/or somehow treating the soil.

Near Sacremento there was a military site where space travel jet engines were tested. Rancho Cordoba, I seem to recall.

They washed down the engines with harmful solvents, which leached down and got into the aquifer, making the water unsuitable for use.

I worked for an engineering company which worked on mitigating that problem.

Orange County (Tustin and El Tore) has extensive ground water sources, and similar damage is at least a potential. No doubt, these two sites have been studied and tested extensively.

The risks should be well known.

Since WWII until present, Orange County has grown from under 200,000 to over 3,000,000. Not the best place anymore, for military bases.


11 posted on 03/22/2007 11:25:29 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker

In the mid-1960s, Tustin was a nesting place for Marine UH-34s. And a laid back duty station where brass was mostly non-existent other than in your M-14 or M-60.

Pix of UH-34s at work -

http://www.aviationartbydubose.com/uh34.html


15 posted on 03/23/2007 5:58:46 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Ice-cubes melting in the sun is an act of God. Get over it, Gore.)
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To: truth_seeker
Near Sacremento there was a military site where space travel jet engines were tested. Rancho Cordoba, I seem to recall.

You may be referring to the old Aerojet site, near Rancho Cordova in Sacramento. That clean-up went on for quite a while. (I admire the rugged individualism of your spelling.) That picture looked like a blimp hangar; I grew up near Akron, where the Goodyear blimp lived, and as a child, went on school tours of the blimp hangar. Rumor was, it was so tall, it would rain inside when the condensation got too high.

20 posted on 03/23/2007 7:16:34 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: truth_seeker

Oh MCAS LTA (Lighter Than Air)


23 posted on 03/23/2007 7:21:28 AM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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To: truth_seeker
The Corps never operated Tustin as a blimp facility. The Navy did, designated LTA, until it was closed in June of 1949. It was redesignated Marine Corps Air Facility Santa Ana when the Corps reactivated it in May of 1951, Marine Corps Air Station (Helicopter) Santa Ana in September of 1969 and finally Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in June of 1985.

We don't use blimps in the military anymore.

That is about to change.

Military Blimps Report for Duty

39 posted on 03/23/2007 10:06:34 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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