Comments on: Air Force Aborts Scoping Meetings

By: Tammy ikonen

Tammy ikonen — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:15:31 +0000

KBOI did a pretty good job covering it that’s why I knew about it and know about it having said that there was no further comment or reporting it seems from any other news media station or paper. I did write a letter to the editor of the Idaho Sportsman Oops I meant Statesman… And the editor approve my letter regarding this issue however I never saw it printed naturally.

By: Skye Master

Skye Master — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:56:17 +0000

It’s a little known event, but back in the 90’s, just before the War in Iraq, on a beautiful summer night/morning while most of the population was asleep, the City of Boise was destroyed by several waves of B52’s and B1’s dropping SIMULATED bombs.
I known this because I was the sole Air Traffic Controller on Duty at the Boise Airport that morning about 3am.
I found out later that Boise is very similar to Bagdad.
FYI: Boise is the most isolated City in the USA. Further from any other City in the US.

EDITOR NOTE–That would put us “in the middle of NOWHERE.”

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:28:11 +0000

KBOI reports the meetings are back on.

http://idahonews.com/news/local/air-force-announces-new-meeting-dates-regarding-training-over-cities

By: LOL

LOL — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 04:36:51 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palmdale

By: Take the money away!

Take the money away! — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:54:56 +0000

Exactly, the only thing to do is to reduce funds going to DoD. And besides, there was supposed to be a civilian at the helm of DoD, not a recently retired 40-year career general. Congress gave Mattis a waiver to serve, and then confirmed him, too. So Congress is to blame. The congressman are financed by the weapons manufacturers and will never reduce funding to DoD. The training ranges have to expand, because the trainings have to expand, because the DoD budget has to expand.

By: Take the money away

Take the money away — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:25:54 +0000

The only way to stop it is to take the money away and change to be mostly a defensive force.

This will not happen soon of course because 70% of the population is more concerned about a new Doritos flavor, and the most important topic in media is sports. Long term it will auto-defund when the debt-bomb finally overwhelms.

By: katie fite

katie fite — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:04:24 +0000

The Air force has been running into considerable public resistance to Range expansion plans these days. In Catron County/Silver City New Mexico, it sounds like they tried the same thing they did later in Boise – proposing a significant new Range/Airspace expansion without informing more than a tiny hand full of people. They are also proposing to cut 300,000 acres out of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada for a huge expansion of Nellis. 30,000 people commented on that.

Then, they screwed up in Boise in their initially secretive Scoping, then after they were caught, scheduled scoping meetings as public concern mounted. Then they chickened out the day of the Boise meetings. I wonder if we were the straw that broke the camel’s back/”grounded” their public outreach?

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 01:45:55 +0000

This might be why they canceled the meetings. It’s an interesting news article.

Air Force carpet bombs public affairs
https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/03/air-force-carpet-bombs-public-affairs/

By: Mr. Logic

Mr. Logic — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 03:02:59 +0000

Easterner, thanks for your analysis. The meetings were supposed to offer a chance for the communities to communicate with their air defense troops. It was not a social media follower contest. You no doubt have Kim Kardashian’s numbers as well.

By: Easterner

Easterner — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 02:12:30 +0000

Oh. If that is the case for the comment, let’s try to have some perspective.

Grand View has a population of about 441 people.
ONE of 441 people is a HIGHER percentage than the percentage of people in Boise who would have turned out for the same meeting- that would have to be more than 500 people from Boise to get a similar “turnout”. Doubtful for a Monday afternoon meaningless meeting– at THE LIBRARY which it seems half of the Guardian readers claim never to use.

Citizens for a Livable Boise has ONLY 338 people followers on Facebook…
338 people in all of Boise’s FB presence? ???
CLB has 23 followers on Twitter… 23 people on a prime social media platform for a city of 200,000+. Whooopee!

“In the age of social media”?
23! LOL.

Yeah right, the Air Force is used to only those “uninformed” ‘rural areas’.
“Struggling” against 23 “informed” Boiseans— LOL.
That is about par for the “anti-jet crowd”.

For comparison, Mayor Bieter has 3,078 followers on FB and 2,646 on Twitter.

Gowen Strong has 7,158 on FB and 92 Twit followers.

Thumbs down for dumb meetings.