F-35B Lightning IIs, with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211, the Wake Island Avengers and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fly over Wake Island during a regularly scheduled deployment of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group and the 13th MEU, Aug. 1, 2018. (Francisco J. Diaz Jr./U.S. Marine Corps)
Military.com/Stars and Stripes: Air Force Wants to Know if Key Pacific Airfield Could Disappear Under Rising Sea
The Air Force is spending $1.75 million to gauge the effects of future sea-level rise at Wake Island Airfield, located on a remote Pacific atoll that is a key asset in America's missile defense system.
The "inundation study" was contracted out by the Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center in September and is slated for completion in March 2022, Pacific Air Forces said in a statement provided Wednesday to Stars and Stripes.
"The purpose of contracting this study is to gather data and better prepare for future military construction projects," the statement said.
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WNU Editor: This study on the impact of rising sea levels on air bases like the one on Wake Island will be completed in 2022.
6 comments:
This study is a joke, shouldn't be hard to see from photos if sea levels are rising. Climate change and sea level rising is not the issue, the issue is more extreme weather anomalies. But who can resist the growing trend of spending money on climate change this, climate change that.
Time to ask China for help on island building...
Yip, don't we know it...
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Its called EROSION, the sea is not rising that is more green nuts running their mouths to scam more money.
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