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To: JoeProBono

We need a second heavy armor training reservation near the Arizona and Mexico border. This would be a live fire training facility with air and land coordination.


32 posted on 06/08/2010 5:41:43 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: PA Engineer
The Barry Goldwater bombing range on the Arizona border has to stop its activities regularly because often there are hundreds of illegals crossing it, and they don't want to hurt them. In 2005, 45 training events had to be canceled.

"The Barry M. Goldwater Range is operated by the 56th Fighter Wing Range Management Office, Airspace and Range Operations office. The Barry M. Goldwater Range (formerly the Luke Air Force Range) is located in southwest Arizona. It serves the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marine Corps as an armament and high-hazard testing area; a training area for aerial gunnery, rocketry, electronic warfare, and tactical maneuvering and air support; and a place to develop equipment and tactics. It also serves other defense-related purposes....It consists of 2.7 million acres of relatively undisturbed Sonoran Desert. Overhead are 57,000 cubic miles of airspace where fighter pilots practice air-to-air maneuvers and engage simulated battlefield targets on the ground. Its immense size allows for simultaneous training activities on the nine air-to-ground ranges and two air-to-air ranges. More than 50 aircrews and aircraft may be operating simultaneously on the range while performing many independent training operations...."

The only way we are going to stop this is to start shooting them. But we do not have the will to do that.

57 posted on 06/08/2010 6:19:37 PM PDT by La Lydia
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