With a MASSIVE give-a-way. Check it out. It's open to EVERYONE.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=977850

The more letters you write, the better the odds.

This letters will be printed out and HAND DELIVERED to the Marines! :smokin:

We are shooting for numbers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE e-mail blast out these links.

Help Save Johnson Valley!

YouTube - Save Johnson Valley from USMC expansion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4G2YN4m_1c)

http://pirate4x4.com/letters/action.php

Awesome!

Just FB'd it!

I'd like to help.. anyone have a City / Zip code. It wont allow our igloo locations.

I'd like to help.. anyone have a City / Zip code. It wont allow our igloo locations.

Go ahead & use mine. Encino, California 91316

You can use mine as well. Maryville, TN, 37803

I have written over 20 letters so far myself, the more the merrier!

Iv been trying to do one of the offical forms evory day but I was runnig out of shit to write. This makes it so easy, but I just want to bash shit when I think about it.

If you wanna use a so cal location you can use mine,

Escondido, CA 92026

Or
Cardiff, CA, 92007
Vista, CA 92081
Carlsbad, CA 92008

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

We are kicking ass.

over 5,000 comments sent in so far with just this generator.

So the stack is THIS BIG:

Thanks Kurt

I'm just about done writing on all 30 bullet points

hey lets do it all again with 30 more new bullet points - theres a ton of additional stuff that needs to be brought up too.

hey lets do it all again with 30 more new bullet points - theres a ton of additional stuff that needs to be brought up too.

It took me awhile to come up with those..

If someone wants to help me come up with new ones for a round two...I am all for it! :smokin:

If someone wants to help me come up with new ones for a round two...I am all for it! :smokin:

Have you talked to Amy Granat who put on the recent comments workshops?

Call Clayton Miller, CORVA South Region Director 909-815-3780
commentsworkshop@gmail.com

John Stewart could help come up with new ones too.

Some previous postings here have mentioned such things as vibration, earthquakes, lifestyle impacts, quality of life, historic values, need for mitigation, need to study new additional alternatives, need for longer comment period, liability, restrictions on events, access, fire afects, need for monitoring plan, need for reclamation plan, displacement impacts, water supply, sound, public services, infrastructure, FAA input, affect on air traffic/airports, poor job done marking boundaries, laws, bogus assumptions, cumulative loss of OHV areas, impacts of new scientific research, loss of outdoor experience, traffic, environment justice, carbon footprint, global warming, renewable energy opportunities lost, road damage, economy, traditions, impacts on state-local jurisdictions, not aligned with local plans, need public hearings, BLM role, landsale program, buy more land for OHV, open new areas to wheeling, repeal wilderness, FAA role, impact reality, private land compensation, relocation program, training corridors through wilderness, cost for private land purchase, cost of mine purchase, training integration with the Army, etcetcetc

Have you talked to Amy Granat who put on the recent comments workshops?



Yeah.

I have known both Amy and John for a few years, and I ask for their help constantly. (They know a LOT more about this land-use stuff than I ever will)

Actually some of the current topics on the Generator are from John, some are from BRC, and some I pulled out of my ass. :laughing:

Maybe we need a thread with more topic sentences on those issues to give people more stuff to write...

Maybe we need a thread with more topic sentences on those issues to give people more stuff to write...

Kurt,

Your doing great! I just worried that only 14 days left unless they agree to extend comment period. No guarantee on that so we need one big push from wheelers and troopers everywhere. Excellent letter generator. :trooper:

Thanks needs to go to Helen Baker for giving me some ammo to write this one. :smokin:

Read it. It's not bullshit.


First I must begin by thanking the Marine Corps for their service to our country.

The executive summary of the DEIS on the Expansion of 29 Palms states that the Marine Corps has a requirement to provide sustained, combined-arms, live-fire, and maneuver training for a Marine Expeditionary Brigade sized Air Ground Task Force, and the existing facilities are inadequate.

However, I have found many current documents from the Marine Corps stating that the role of the Marine Corps is changing. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is even quoted saying, “The nation does not need a second land army, but rather forces that can deploy quickly and sustain themselves for a short period of time.”

In the fall of 2010, the Marine Corps conducted a Force Structure Review (FSR) to evaluate and refine the organization, posture and capabilities required of America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness in a post Operation Enduring Freedom security environment.

In a document dated March 14th, 2010, entitled “Reshaping America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness, Report of the 2010 Marine Corps Force Structure Review Group” it clearly states that the 21st century Marine Corps force structure “must provide a strategically mobile, middleweight force optimized for rapid crisis response and forward presence. “

The document further states that the Marine Corps will “Accept a degree of risk by reducing our active component capacity for conducting multiple, major sustained operations ashore.”

The report states that the Marine Corps will be reshaped by reducing the end strength of the active component of the Marine Corps from 202,000 to approximately 186,800 following the completion of Marine Corps operations in Afghanistan.

This works out to:

A 13% reduction in ground combat forces
An 11% reduction in Infantry
A 20% reduction in cannon artillery
A 20% reduction in Armor
A 16% reduction in fixed wing tactical aviation squadrons
A 9% reduction in logistics
A 7% reduction in Marines assigned to non-operational billets
And a 13% reduction in the civilian workforce.

Page four of the DEIS clearly states that the training requirement put forward as the reasoning to expand 29 Palms comes from a Marine strategy put forward in the year 2000.

With this new strategy and re-vamping of the Marine Corps from the 2010 Marine Corps Force Structure Review group, the entire document must be discarded as it is based on outdated decisions and information.

In summary: in light of the changes in today’s Marine Corps, the expansion of 29 Palms in not necessary.

Thanks Helen and Kurt!

I paraphrased your letter like a mofo!
Simultaneous training of 3 MEB's is a 1990's-era model.

In the DEIS on page 4, it states that Marine strategy circa year 2000 details this training requirement as the reason to expand 29 Palms.

In the fall of 2010, the USMC conducted a Force Structure Review (FSR) to evaluate the structure and mission of America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness in a post Operation Enduring Freedom security environment.

In a document entitled “Reshaping America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness, Report of the 2010 Marine Corps Force Structure Review Group”, dated March 14, 2010 it clearly states that the 21st century Marine Corps force structure “must provide a strategically mobile, middleweight force optimized for rapid crisis response and forward presence”. This conflicts with the stated goal of simultaneously training 3 MEB's.

The report also states that the USMC (must) “Accept a degree of risk by reducing our active component capacity for conducting multiple, major sustained operations ashore.” Again, reducing this active component capacity for sustained operations will negate the need for expanded training at 29 Palms.

The proposed expansion is predicated on 1990's era model, and a 2000 strategy which do not meet the 2010 findings of the FSR group. Please discard this DEIS and cancel the proposed expansion of 29 Palms.

I'm having issuses getting the generator to work? When I select an topic it shows an error message in red across the top! What an I doing wrong?

I'm having issuses getting the generator to work? When I select an topic it shows an error message in red across the top! What an I doing wrong?

1. Make sure you have the direct link to the generator:

http://dev.aldosgroup.com/LetterGenerator/

2. Wait a second for the topic to load before you start entering information.

3. Try a different browser if you have another one on your computer.

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