By: Megan Stewart Date: Nov 9, 2023 The Burlington City Council approved a 25-year lease extension with the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG) at the Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport on October 23. This decision was contentious and divided the council 8-4 along party lines. The extension allows VTANG to operate on 281 acres at […]
By: Patrick Crowley Date: October 24, 2023 The Burlington City Council has given the green light to a 25-year airport lease extension for the Vermont Air National Guard, allowing them to be headquartered at the city-owned Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport until 2073. This decision was made after a long and heated meeting, largely centered […]
By: Diane Michalski Turner Date: September 19, 2023 Retired Col. Roseanne Greco raises health and environmental concerns about the F-35 fighter jets stationed at Truax Field, based on a 2012 Air Force Environmental Impact Study. The study indicates that F-35 noise vibrations can cumulatively damage internal organs, particularly impacting children’s cognitive abilities. Defense analyst Pierre […]
BY DAN GRAZIER JUNE 08, 2023 The Air Force’s top civilian leader says the F-35 program taught everyone how not to buy a fighter jet and vows not to repeat the mistakes that turned history’s most expensive weapon program into an absolute boondoggle. While it is refreshing to hear an official acknowledge some of the […]
Retired Air Force Colonel Rosanne Greco helped negotiate the first START treaty which reduced the number of strategic nuclear weapons by thousands. She is much more worried now than ever about the threat of nuclear war, particularly with officials seeing some of the newer nuclear weapons as “usable”. in this 20 minute podcast, Col Greco […]
A long-awaited decision that began in 2019 has been made by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington today, August 2, 2022. It is the consequential ruling the community had hoped for validating community complaints and Navy inactions in following the law. A press release from Citizen’s of Ebey’s Reserve (COER), member […]
By Andrew Cockburn April 8, 2022 It is now generally acknowledged that the F-35 fighter stands tall in the pantheon of U.S. weapons-buying disasters, a mélange of waste, deceit, and mindless incompetence. According to the latest report from the Pentagon’s Director of Test and Evaluation, itself a muted document, the plane has at least […]
By Nina Berman December 17 2021 THE SOUND of the U.S. military’s latest generation of warplanes is quite literally deafening. The vibration shakes your insides. Conversation stops. Stress floods your body. And just when you think it’s over, another jet, and another and another, roars above rooftops, until it feels as though the sky is […]
By MARK JOHNSON August 25, 2021 When the National Guard Bureau released the damning results of its investigation into the Vermont Natural Guard two weeks ago, news coverage focused on how poorly the Vermont unit had handled allegations of sexual assault and harassment, and how a “good old boy” network allowed those problems to flourish. […]
By Angela Evancie July 22, 2021 Brave Little State takes on a question about the complex, controversial decision to base the F-35 fighter jet in Vermont’s most populous county. Bobby Arnell lives in Winooski with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. Recently, he recorded some audio on his smartphone while an F-35 fighter jet flew over […]