10/20/20

Western South Dakota, Rapid City to endure more military aircraft noise


As suicides in the US military continue to spike Combat Raider exercises over the Powder River Training Complex are suspended because of the poor condition of bombers stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota. Ellsworth is also a Superfund site where airmen rape local women.

The Trump Organization had planned to spend at least half a billion taxpayer dollars on each new B-21 bomber and some $1.4 TRILLION on a proposed Defense Department budget instead of really making America great again. Republicans are whining about the poor condition of the obsolete B-2 and most B-1B Lancers some of which are stationed at the base in occupied South Dakota. Why? Because the Republican government shutdown and the 2013 sequester to embarrass President Barack Obama ripped into military readiness. 

Even if it's ever completely funded the B-21 'Raider' isn't expected to be delivered until maybe 2030. Trump wants to put the B-21 in red states to avoid confrontations with Democratic governors and if the system for weapons of mass destruction survives, the PRTC over parts of four states will continue to threaten habitat and wildlife, not to mention skeptical Republicans in ranch country. Meanwhile, deteriorating B-1B Lancers are eating up the resources needed to fight a virus outbreak in the homeland and the seventy year old B-52 continues to rain death on civilians in war torn countries on stages in the usual theaters of war. Instead of rattling impossibly expensive sabers Trump should be accelerating the cleanup of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminating nearly every military base in the United States and in the other countries subjected to American imperialism.

So, as part of war games scheduled from October 19-27 the 28th Bomb Wing will extend its operating hours and the ear-shattering pandemonium will include early morning sorties over many Black Hills communities.

No comments: