longstanding concerns of vieques residents
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- Tragic Accident at Navy Range on Vieques (April 1999)
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- Issues related to safety, health, economy, and the environment that had been raised by the residents of Vieques over decades concerning Navy training.
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- Decades of training
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- Safety, health, economy, environment
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- Tragic Accident on Vieques (April 2000)
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- cover issues such assafety and health
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- The residents' concerns include the risks to their well-being and physical security.
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- from safety and health
- cover issues such aseconomy and the environment
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- The residents' concerns extend to the economic impact and ecological effects of the training operations.
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- to the economy and the environment
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- The underlying cause of the residents' concerns is a deep-seated lack of trust that has developed over time.
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- They reflect a distrust that, unfortunately, has been building for decades
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- referenced_byTragic Accident on Vieques (April 2000)
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- That terrible accident focused attention on the longstanding concerns of the island about training operations there. For many residents, it re-opened old wounds about the effect that training was having on quality of life
- referenced_byPanel for Vieques Recommendations
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- Page 11file
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- That panel found that we have not always been good neighbors on Vieques and recommended that we work toward replacing the island as a training site
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- 2026-03-04T03:16:56.740Z
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