Tag search result for: U.S. Navy

Roche upset about SEALs case

bniolet — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:02:55 -0500

Frank Roche, a Republican who wants to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. David Price next year, is making an issue out of charges brought against three Navy SEALs stemming from an allegation of prisoner abuse.

Basnight to Navy: Save your money

bkrueger — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:58 -0500

N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight told the state’s congressional delegation today that North Carolina doesn’t need any more study about a Navy outlying landing field.

The Navy, he wrote, can save its money.

“I am pleased to inform you that these studies and their significant costs are not needed. The people of northeastern North Carolina DO NOT wish to have an outlying landing field constructed in their community,” Basnight wrote in a letter to the delegation, reports Barb Barrett.

Sens. want slower Navy on toxic water

bniolet — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:18:02 -0400

U.S. Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr are pushing a measure that would force the Navy to hold off on disposing of claims about water contamination at Camp Lejeune.

The amendment to a defense appropriations bill must still survive a conference with the House.

State sides with OLF opponents

janestancill — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:57:55 -0400

The N.C. Department of Justice says it will be an ally to northeastern North Carolina in its fight against the U.S. Navy's proposed Outlying Landing Field.

A letter from the Attorney General's office to U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, a Farmville Republican, indicates the department would enforce laws by which the state would retain some jurisdiction over lands seized for an OLF in counties that do not already have military bases. That would allow the counties to enforce noise ordinances, for example, on the Navy.

Senators to discuss water at Lejeune

bkrueger — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:46:08 -0400

U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan plan to meet Wednesday with top Navy and Marine Corps officials to talk about the decades-old controversy surrounding contaminated water from Camp Lejeune.

NC can't kill OLF

bniolet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:03:46 -0400

North Carolina's work to squelch a Navy landing strip in the state's rural northeast has hit a snag on Capitol Hill, with the state's two senators unable to push through language to block the development.

U.S. Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr say they will try again this week on the Senate floor after being rebuffed in an earlier Armed Services Committee vote.

Amendment would bar OLF

bniolet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:37:53 -0400

The Navy could be prohibited from building an isolated landing strip for its Oceana Naval Air Station fighter jets at the Hales Lake and Sandbanks sites that are now under consideration by the Navy.

Jones sought $44m in earmarks

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:22:45 -0400

U.S. Rep. Walter Jones is seeking $43.8 million in earmarks.

Jones pushes to rename the Navy

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:01:13 -0500

U.S. Rep. Walter Jones wants to rename the Navy.

The Farmville Republican is once again pushing to rename the Department of the Navy the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, the Washington Post reports.

Fight continues over landing field

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:26:29 -0500

Camden and Currituck counties are also fighting a landing field.

After a successful fight by residents of Washington and Beaufort counties against a proposed landing field, the Navy began considering sites there and in Gaston County, along with three sites in Virginia.