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"I'm not sure it's appropriate to have all these additional overflights in a big city. It seems like it would be more appropriate for a remote location," said Patterson, who is also a co-chairman of...a citizens group concerned about the environmental impact of the air base.
He said the air-show training heaps one more aggravation onto residents already negatively affected by things like extra helicopter flights and on-again, off-again night training at D-M."

OK, Mr P.
In the sixties DM WAS pretty much remote, at least on the very edge of civilization.
DM is huge so it must have been difficult for you and all those others looking for cheap land to get close enough (at least on two sides) to be bothered.
DM has, in part for those reasons, always been a training hub, always been busy; and during Vietnam was THE busiest airfield/airport in America.
In this case 'the cost of freedom' supports a very large segment of your community - the feds won't be mailing you a check in the event they move away.
I'd recommend that you hold your fire until we see if Boeing moves out of Long Beach so you can see what loss of a 'dangerous nuisance' means to the local economy.

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Once upon a time when the idjits would complain about the base hurting the local economy, the base would pay everyone in $2 bills.

The merchants would very quickly learn where all that money came from!

[Publius6961]

You addressed this to the wrong person. I lived for many years 2 miles from an Air Force base.

I love the "sound of freedom"!