Inadequately Trained Troops !!Roger Hedgecock speaks out on the Sierra Club

January 30, 2003 | Myself

[fight_truth_decay]

During the EIB third hour, Roger Hedgecock, sitting in for Rush, spoke with Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Chariman of the Armed Services Committee, about environmental regulations that hinder training of marine forces at Camp Pendleton in California. Marines practicing amphibious assaults land on the beach, then pile onto a bus for the next phase of exercises so they don't harm the endangered California gnatcatcher, a small songbird.

Roger quoted Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo., chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness, who plans to begin hearings next month on how endangered species issues have impaired military training."We want to train people the way they're going to fight," Hefley said. "You don't land there and get on a bus and drive to where you're going to shoot.

Roger went on to say environmentalist groups are endangering the lives of our Marines, as their final training takes place off Camp Pendleton before leaving for Iraq. This training is the most important a Marine can receive when preparing for combat when moving from sea to land in preparation for combat. This is the time most casualties occur!

Groups like the Sierra Club are giving more importance to the life of the gnatcatcher considered an endangered bird then our own Marines. Millions of these endangered birds are found in Mexico, with Camp Pendleton being a northern-most home for their habitat.

A Sierra Club card toting ex-military call-in suggested other areas off California to conduct these "life saving" maneuvers. All are areas protecting seals or even more protected birds, Roger replied.

The Air Force electronically tags gulf sturgeon to make sure they are not around when live ordnance is detonated over the Gulf of Mexico. The Marine Corps dispersed nests away from training operations to increase the population of red-cockaded woodpeckers in eastern North Carolina.

On the Pentagon's wish list are several provisions to lessen the burden of having to protect endangered species' "critical habitat" for survival, and broader exemptions from having to meet Clean Air Act standards during wartime and other national emergencies.

"They don't need the exemptions which they seek," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., who has been a frequent critic of military attempts to bypass federal environmental laws. "They are not only irresponsible but they seek to evade normal, proper environmental supervision."

More conservative leadership of House and Senate environmental panels has raised expectations at the Defense Department that Congress will grant the military more exemptions from environmental laws.

"We are more hopeful. We hope it works in our favor but we're not going to take anything for granted," Pentagon spokesman Glenn Flood said Tuesday. "Our expectations are high. That's not to say our work is going to be easy." (Or is it already too late!)

Note:Roger Hedgecock was once a card carrying Sierra Club member. He is no longer a member.

[Grampa Dave]

It has to do with the threat that these Islamofacists represent to America with their money that you have a total blind side for some reason!

[Carry_Okie]

It has to do with the threat that these Islamofacists represent to America with their money that you have a total blind side for some reason!

Nonsense, Dave.

You need to do a little more reading in history, particularly the history of religious politics though the last several centuries.

[fight_truth_decay]

Books : Mitch Albom

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Tuesdays With Morrie - the phenomenal New York Times bestseller that first appeared on that list in October 1997 and hasn't left the top five since.

Fab Five - the celebrated tale of the most famous college basketball team ever.

Bo - the autobiography of Bo Schembechler, the legendary college football coach.

Live Albom I - a collection of the best of Mitch's work for the Detroit Free Press from 1985-1987.

Live Albom II - more "best of" from the nation's #1 Sports Columnist from the years 1988-1990.

Live Albom III - just can't get enough? Here's more "best of" from the years 1990-1992.

Live Albom IV - yes, more "best of" from the years 1992-1995.

Newspapers

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Detroit Free Press - Mitch began his career as a newspaper writer and is a nationally acclaimed columnist. For thirteen years, Mitch has been named the #1 Sports Columnist in the Nation by the sports editors of America (APSE), the highest honor in the field. Mitch has won more than 200 awards for his non-sport columns which deal with American life and values.

Other Publications

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- Mitch's work has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including Sports Illustrated, GQ, Sport, The New York Times, TV Guide, USA Today, and Germany's popular GEO Magazine as well as on the Internet with MSNBC.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Aside from the man from the Washington Times who often fills in for Rush (McCaslin??) Rodger is my next favorite."

I agree...Hedgecock usedta get on my nerves a bit for not taking the RAT callers to task like I felt they deserved, but I'm beginning to undertand his understated methodolgy fer dealing with the Ignorant DOLTS...basicly, he just let's the callers make their case, then kindly dismantles it in front of the STOOOOPID Dorks. He totally wasted some folks yesterday...LOL!!

"Did you know that the dems had a big meeting after the SOTU speech and have chosen Mitch Album to be their Rush Limbaugh. If any freepers know who this guy is, can you please fill us in!"

Mitch Albon(sp?) is a sportswriter/sports analyst, who displays a Lefty bent in his comments. He's yer typical pencil-necked Lib'ral TWIT who'll make a FOOL of hisself just like that MORON ESPN sportscaster who MSNBC tried to turn into a talkshow host and he immediately BOMBED and nobody would listen to him even about sports after that...LOL!!

Albon will FAIL...MISERABLY!!

FReegards...MUD

[OldFriend]

That fool that MSNBC tired to make into a commentator is now on WABC radio.......bashing the President.....and on occasion filling in for Paul Harvey........gggggrrrrrrrrr

Well if the dems think Albom is the answer, they still haven't figured out the question.

[Travis McGee]

Squantos, I like that Nuke Berkely hat!

[Grampa Dave]

What a great tag line: "UNamericans" put the U.N. before America!)

[Mudboy Slim]

That dude's name is Keith Olberman...and I LOATHE his very being...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"UNamericans" put the U.N. before America!"

Great tagline is Right...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"I like that Nuke Berkely hat!"

Wouldn't it be funner to go into Berkely and whup the Lib'rals arses two or ten at a time?!

Quite Sincerely...MUD

[Poohbah]

My thought on the Sierra Club et al, courtesy of hchutch, is to quote Deep Throat of Watergate fame:

"Follow the money."

Who's paying for the ecofreaks strait-jacketing our military?

[Grampa Dave]

The question of this century, "Who is paying the ecofreaks to strait-jacket our military with a couple of add ons, "to make us more dependent on Opecker Oil" and to weaken our economic engine with assine enviral regulations!"

I have my personal suspicions that the money has flowed from the Opecker Princes and Islamofacist Thugs to Club Sierra and other Watermelon Jihadists since the days of Carter.

[hchutch]

A lot of the stuff seems to be over Navy systems in the Pacific. Now, think: What other country is there that might have an interest in degrading the readiness of our Pacific forces?

[Poohbah]

Uh...lemme think...

Nauru. Gotta watch those tricky SOBs.

[Grampa Dave]

They have been active in Puerto Rico and other areas in our eastern pond.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Mitch Albom is a sports journalist ( a pretty decent one too) who has tried his hand at talk radio and is just plain gawd-awful at it. In my small hometown, he is just one of many also rans put up on Saturday for balancing the real money maker (Rush). That list includes Jim Hightower and Bernie Ward, both of whom are so much better than Albom on the radio that it is not even funny. And neither of those lasted either. Now they have just put a local 'Northwest Life' style show about gardening/landscaping and fishing/hunting. It says something when you cant compete with that...JFK

[RightWhale]

Saddam Hussein, President for Life of Iraq, is prepared and ready to unleash an environmental disaster 100 times worse than what he did in Kuwait. Can the Sierra Club find a way to blame this on someone, or do they not care about endangered species in the Arabian Gulf region?

[OldFriend]

I saw Hightower on a TV show not that long ago and was horrified at his vitriol.

[OldFriend]

He's out there all too often. What could the producers of Paul Harvey be thinking to have him as a substitute. I can see why WABC radio loves the guy.....after all no one is more anti american than the folks at Disney.

[Mudboy Slim]

"What could the producers of Paul Harvey be thinking to have him as a substitute..."

I'm sure Paul Harvey makes his producers boucoups cash, but that don't mean they ain't EffeteEliteLeftists!!

FReegards...MUD