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Eileen Andreoli
Member since Mar 24, 2017
Recent Comments
Re: “F-35 Opponents Arrested During Sit-In at Leahy's Burlington Office”
Nice try, Patrick but again you are seeking to kill the messenger and avoiding the message - the inappropriate F35 basing in our residential neighborhoods.
Posted by
Eileen Andreoli
on 09/11/2019 at 3:49 PM
Re: “F-35 Opponents Arrested During Sit-In at Leahy's Burlington Office”
To all the trolls who are belaboring the issue of the uniform, you are obviously trying to deflect and obfuscate the reason for this civil disobedience: the inappropriate, unnecessary, corrupted and environmentally harmful decision to base the immature, dysfunctional, engine-fire-prone F35s in Vermonts most densely populated residential neighborhoods.
If you want to discuss disgraceful actions and disrespect to the uniform, perhaps we can talk about the in-depth investigation last year that uncovered horrible abuses of power and misuse of federal funds by the Vermont National Guard? These allegations include sexual assault, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, problems with alcohol, treatment of civilians, and misuse of government property and taxpayer dollars.
Along with these documented allegations are the facts that the Guard is guilty of withholding information about the F16 noise impact on residential neighborhoods from the FAA, PFOA contamination of South Burlington groundwater, and providing false/manipulated/distorted information to the USAF in order to secure a corrupted F35 basing decision.
All these allegations and charges qualify as ACTUAL, serious disrespect and dishonor to the uniform and the office! There is frankly no honor whatsoever to be found in this dangerous F35 basing decision that will harm over 6,500 Vermonters, impact children's cognitive learning abilities, harm senior's cardiovascular health, bomb property values, and risk the safety of people in the flightpath. Shameful!
Posted by
Eileen Andreoli
on 09/11/2019 at 11:30 AM
Re: “F-35 Opponents Arrested During Sit-In at Leahy's Burlington Office”
Spare me the dismissive language. Were you at the October 28, 2013 Burlington City Council meeting? If not, then you are ignorant of the event and can't speak to the behavior of the Guard at that meeting. You have no idea what happened and your knee jerk defense nonetheless says a lot about you. The fact that you ignore the interference of the military in a democratically held vote is also very telling.
Posted by
Eileen Andreoli
on 09/10/2019 at 11:22 PM
Re: “F-35 Opponents Arrested During Sit-In at Leahy's Burlington Office”
Patrick Cashman: Interesting question from someone who supposedly believes that "open, equitable, and accountable government comes before most anything else".
Posted by
Eileen Andreoli
on 09/10/2019 at 10:31 PM
Re: “F-35 Opponents Arrested During Sit-In at Leahy's Burlington Office”
To all those who are objecting to a retired officer wearing her uniform for a political event: I wonder what your thoughts were when active duty Guard members regularly attended political meetings in uniform over the last seven years? Such as when Adj. Gen. Steven Cray, Col Joel Clark and other top Guard officials wore their full uniforms to City Council meetings and brought dozens of on-duty troops to line the council chamber walls at full attention for the length of a 4 hour meeting about the F35 basing? Nothing inappropriate there, right? Or when top Guard officials live-streamed meetings from the base to decry the Burlington ballot vote that asked residents whether or not they supported the F35 basing? Is blatant interference by the local military in a legal and democratic vote something you might also object to? JW.
Posted by
Eileen Andreoli
on 09/10/2019 at 9:42 PM
Re: “F-35 Opponents Arrested During Sit-In at Leahy's Burlington Office”
To all those who are objecting to a retired officer wearing her uniform for a political event: I wonder what your thoughts were when active duty Guard members attended political meetings in uniform over the last seven years? Such as when Adj. Gen. Steven Cray, Col Joel Clark and other top Guard officials wore their full uniforms to City Council meetings and brought dozens of on-duty troops to line the council chamber walls at full attention for the length of a 4 hour meeting about the F35 basing? Nothing inappropriate there, right? Or when top Guard officials live-streamed meetings from the base to decry the Burlington ballot vote that asked residents whether or not they supported the F35 basing? Is blatant interference by the local military in a legal and democratic vote something you might also object to? JW.
Posted by
Eileen Andreoli
on 09/10/2019 at 9:41 PM
Re: “Pandemic Grounds Some Commercial Flights but F-35s Continue to Prowl Skies”
On March 31, Eglin AFB in Florida adopted a posture that allowed only "mission-essential" personnel on the base. Which meant that the 100 Vermont Air Guard members that had been training there since January were kicked out and sent back home to VT.
Edwards AFB in California has also shut down normal operations. These AFB actions were taken to combat the coronavirus pandemic and to help slow the spread of the disease
But the Vermont Air Guard? Nope. It ignores the examples of the Air Force Bases and decides that its F35 training is more important that its mission to protect Vermonters and its own service members.
The Vermont Guard's membership is 4,000, yet sent a mere "50 soldiers on active duty to help the governor respond to the coronavirus emergency, and will continue its training flights and other drills..."
WTF is wrong with this group and the Governor that they force our citizens to endure these unnecessary and dangerous flights routines, when even the front-line AFBs with full F35 squadrons have suspended their training operations? When such a minuscule amount of trained and able personnel are assigned to fight the ACTUAL emergency in our state, instead of the imaginary one for which people have been sold a shoddy F35 bill of goods?