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Perdue touring bases
Submitted by bniolet on 2009-12-14 09:27
Gov. Bev Perdue has been visiting the state's military installations.
Perdue visited Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro Friday, and she is scheduled to visit Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville this morning.
Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson said Perdue has been thinking a lot lately about military families.
"Obviously the governor has been a supporter of the military in North Carolina," Pearson said. "Especially with the holiday season, the families who are sacrificing and the men and women who serve in our armed forces are particularly on her mind."
At Seymour Johnson, Perdue toured the flight line and the base's child development center.
McNamara revealed nuke dropped on NC
Submitted by bniolet on 2009-07-07 09:01
You have to wonder whether, during the 1962 crisis over Cuba's missiles aimed at America, the man in charge of the nation's defense ever thought about the time the year before when his department almost blew up part of eastern North Carolina.
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who died Monday, shocked the state in 1983 when he revealed that a B-52 bomber crash in 1961 near Goldsboro was one switch from detonating a 24-megaton hydrogen bomb.
The bomb was about 1,800 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. It was capable of destroying everything within a 10-mile radius.
McNamara was defense secretary from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. In his later years, he was a proponent of nuclear disarmament. In a 1983 news conference in Washington, he cited the Goldsboro incident as an example of the need for reducing nuclear weapons.
"The bomb's arming mechanism had six or seven steps to go through to detonate, and it went through all but one, we discovered later," he said. (N&O)
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Jones' military earmark: $15m
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2009-04-09 16:21
A military procurement makes up 33 percent of Rep. Walter Jones' earmarks.
As noted previously, the Farmville Republican asked for $43.8 million in special appropriations in next year's federal budget.
That includes $14.6 million for a new control tower at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.
Jones also requested $4 million for cancer research that he says would benefit service members.
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Jones sought $44m in earmarks
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2009-04-07 12:22U.S. Rep. Walter Jones is seeking $43.8 million in earmarks.
The Farmville Republican released his list of 11 requested appropriations for the federal budget on his Web site.
The largest request is for $14.6 million for a new control tower at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. The smallest is for $250,000 to dredge a channel at Beaufort Harbor.
Other notable earmarks:
* Perform maintenance dredging of Morehead City Harbor, $9.5 million.
* Fund cancer vaccine research by the U.S. Navy, $4 million.
* Replace aging timber breakwater at Belhaven, $3.13 million.
* Run a N.C. National Guard anti-drug task force, $1.2 million.
In January, Jones renewed a "No New Earmarks" pledge, so all of his requests are for appropriations that have been funded before, a spokeswoman explained.
What is the Senate Armed Services Committee?
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2009-01-22 12:41A committee of the U.S. Senate that oversees the military and defense policy.
Created in 1946, the Senate Armed Services Committee has legislative oversight on the U.S. departments of Defense, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force; military research and development; military uses of nuclear energy; pay and benefits for members of the military, among other things.
Because North Carolina is home to the Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point Marine stations, Pope and Seymour Johnson Air Force bases and the Fort Bragg Army base, the committee is often sought after by the state's U.S. senators.
Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole sat on the committee.
In 2009, Sen. Kay Hagan was named to the Democratic majority on the committee. Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican, is also a member.
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