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Public hearing on bringing F-35 jets to Hill held

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 9:42pm

OGDEN -- If last night's public hearing was any indication, Weber County residents don't seem too opposed to the F-35 coming to Hill Air Force Base.

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F-35 noise a concern to some at public hearing

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 7:40am

LAYTON — If one statement summed up public officials’ assessment of the environmental impact of basing F-35 fighter jets in Utah, it was one by Utah Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton.

Yes, he said, the F-35 will be noisier than the F-16s flown by wings at Hill, but “I don’t believe the noise level of the F-35 is going to cause any ill effects other than we may stand a little straighter when they fly overhead.”

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F-35 program at risk as Congress zeroes in on costs

W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 3:53pm

The radar-evading F-35 fighter jet, a nearly $400 billion weapons program under development for more than a decade, is facing its worst turbulence since Washington decided to buy it in 2001 — when it was billed as the most affordable, lethal and survivable military aircraft ever built for the U.S. and its allies.

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Hill details how the F-35 will impact the Top of Utah

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 13, 2012 - 10:11pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — With Hill Air Force Base the top candidate for the new F-35 fighter mission, the Air Force has released a document detailing how the jet will likely impact the Top of Utah.

The Air Force released its F-35 Operational Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Friday, which examines impacts the jet will have on noise, land use, air and water quality, and safety.

In July 2010, Hill was chosen as the Air Force’s preferred alternative for the location of the first two operational squadrons of the advanced F-35 stealth fighter.

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Hatch vows to defend Hill Air Force Base from cuts, closure

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:27am

Making sure Hill Air Force Base is not a casualty to budget cuts and upcoming base closures his top priority, says Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

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Why the costly F-35 program won't die

James Rosen, Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 10:55am

WASHINGTON -- For all its high-tech stealth and record price tag, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter embodies the droll military motto, "Hurry up and wait."

Conceived in the heady post-Cold War 1990s, the futuristic fifth-generation jet fighter was to be a technological marvel built in a rush and paid for with "peace dividend" dollars.

But now with the economic crash, the fighter is billions over budget and years behind schedule.

Here's part of the problem: axing the F-35 would eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in 47 states. Few members of Congress are willing to go along.

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Panetta is expected to delay production of perhaps 100 or more of the F-35 Lightning II stealth attack planes that the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are counting on to replace a portion of their aging aircraft fleets. The F-35 is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program.

Air Force cuts will include limit on new F-35 purchases

Donna Cassata The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 1:34pm

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is preparing to tighten its belt, but with an election-year battle looming in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants to stress the positive: Parts of the budget devoted to reshaping the military to fit a new global strategy will actually get fatter, he says.

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Hill gets timetable for F-35s

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 11:45pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- The next step to bring two F-35 squadrons to Hill Air Force Base will happen shortly after the new year.

After last week's bad news for Hill, which included an Air Force restructuring plan that will result in the loss of 261 civilian jobs at the base, the draft environmental impact statement for the F-35 is scheduled to be released in January, base officials say.

Barbara Fisher, chief of environmental public affairs, said in a statement sent to the Standard-Examiner there will be a 45-day period for public comments.

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