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Strac Trooper
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Federal Judge Limits Navy Use of Sonar
By DAVID KRAVETS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Citing concerns for marine mammals, a federal judge on Tuesday limited the Navy's use of a new sonar system designed to detect enemy submarines.
The decision scuttles the Navy's plans to experiment with the low-frequency sonar throughout the majority of the world's oceans, confining it instead to areas with few marine mammals and endangered species.
The case stems from a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental organizations that claimed the powerful sonar system harasses and can even kill marine mammals.
The judge ordered NRDC and the Navy to determine where testing the sonar would have a minimal impact on marine life and set a hearing for Oct. 7 to review the matter.
The order does not preclude the Navy from using the submarine-detection system during wartime, and acknowledges that the Navy must be allowed to train with it beforehand in various oceanic conditions.
Environmentalists, who say sonar is dangerous, point to a different system the Navy used in March 2000. Hours after it was deployed, at least 16 whales and two dolphins beached themselves on islands in the Bahamas. Eight whales died and scientists found hemorrhaging around their brains and ear bones - injuries consistent with exposure to loud noise.
Navy spokesman Whit DeLoach offered no comment, saying the decision was still being reviewed. The Navy can appeal the decision.
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Another sad commentary on the world we live in, or rather, the nutrolls that those wearing the unifrom must go through. At most Army posts you cannot even dig a fighting position except in certain specified areas because of "environmental concerns."
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In Camp Lejeune, there are places where you can't move at night from the holes. Its like 10,000,000 demented and drunken NVA worked for a century digging holes and covering them with straw. You can seriously hurt yourself.
I know you should fill every hole you dig, but there are undisciplined units and stresses out times everywhere. You have seen the holes everywhere too.
Go with God, but make Him walk the point.
If you load a mudfoot down with a lot of gadgets he has to watch somebody a lot more simply equipped - say with a stone axe - will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a Vernier. - Robert Heinlein
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