Shaffer
05-06-03, 07:39 AM
Less than a week after the Navy vacated its bombing range in Puerto Rico, it will train some of its guns on a landing area aboard Camp Lejeune. Offshore naval gunfire at Camp Lejeune is scheduled to start this morning, touching off a new rotation of firing in the area that once was done on the island of Vieques.
The Navy left the site in Puerto Rico on Thursday after years of criticism about noise and other issues.
Only part of the training done at Vieques is coming to Camp Lejeune. Today, the USS Cole, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer that was victim of a terrorist attack in Yemen 2 ??ars ago, is scheduled to use its 5-inch guns to fire into the G-10 impact range near Hubert. Artillery forward observers from the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division will direct the firing.
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The Navy left the site in Puerto Rico on Thursday after years of criticism about noise and other issues.
Only part of the training done at Vieques is coming to Camp Lejeune. Today, the USS Cole, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer that was victim of a terrorist attack in Yemen 2 ??ars ago, is scheduled to use its 5-inch guns to fire into the G-10 impact range near Hubert. Artillery forward observers from the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division will direct the firing.
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