Air Force adding 329 positions, aircraft at Nellis

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1. By Future

   6/26/09 at 5:57 p.m.

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   Local jobs or shut them down to build solar panel plants and Wind machines.

   Hard choice for the LV Sun and Harry Reid

2. By Nick

   6/26/09 at 7:55 p.m.

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   Great more uneducated knuckle draggers to the valley. Just what we don't need.

3. By bdover

   6/26/09 at 9:32 p.m.

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   Agree with Nick. Just more brainwashed military dumbbells into the Valley. Nothing for us locally. No big news...

4. By afveteran

   6/26/09 at 10:46 p.m.

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   A pilot with a 20 million dollar flying education, in addition to a 4 year bachelor's degree, supported by techies with technical educations, is beyond the knuckledragger description. They're all educated, patriotic knuckledraggers we citizens can all be proud of.

5. By DS

   6/26/09 at 10:54 p.m.

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   HAHA, what a couple ungrateful retards Nick and bdover have shown themselves to be. I would like to see either of your education credentials compared to any of these fighter pilots and technical support workers. These people are the cream of the crop and are taking a pay cut to serve us! Get a clue and show some respect.

6. By GunslingerA10

   6/27/09 at 3:28 p.m.

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   Fantastic, the valley will be better for it. For the people who don't understand the impact, sorry for you short-sightedness. I hope the infusion of stimulus helps the communities in the valley regardless of the fact that some peoples fail to appreciate the origin of it.

   Here's a blind thought for you nay Sayers to ponder, the number 3 which is how much money (estimate) will be used to fund this program monthly. If 30% is dispersed into the local economy, that number is roughly 1 monthly. For the year that means 12 + 1 to be turned --over in the retail market. Now some of you will say that's not a lot compared to blah, blah, blah, and I would tend to agree, but in these trying times every bit helps.

   Rentals will be filled, storekeepers will make sales, services will be needed, and all in all that number will translate into 7 because of the turn-over of revenue.

   By the way all the numbers are in millions for you nay Sayers. So if any of you local residents happen to come across one of those knuckle-draggers, maybe just maybe think for a moment about all the money that they are bring to our community.

7. By bdover

   6/27/09 at 7:45 p.m.

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   The military goofs are just as bad as those Mormons on bicycles with a white shirt and a tie. Totally, utterly brainwashed. For life...

8. By SSG_Jeremy

   6/28/09 at 1:50 a.m.

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   As a former Vegas valley resident and an 8 year Active Duty Soldier, I find the comments made by bdover and Nick very unsettling. I myself am halfway to my degree, and many soldiers I serve with have degrees completed, or in process. You calling us "uneducated knuckle draggers" is a slam against the very people defending your right to say that. Perhaps you need to bring your educated self to Iraq and fight in our place since we are so incompetent. This is my second tour in three years (15 months the first time), Id be happy to give you my slot.

   Also, I challenge your comment about the supposed brainwashing you claim has happened to us. Is being patriotic and wanting to protect the way of life we all hold dear mean I am brainwashed? Does the fact that I love what I do, the people I serve with, and the comraderie that I experience mean Im brainwashed? I think not sir. I dont look at what I do as something I deserve to recieve praise for, but perhaps you could show some gratitude to the brave young men and women I serve with day in and day out either here in the combat zone where I currently sit, or in the states. It takes a special person to leave everything behind to include our loved ones to come over here and do what we do. Thank you.

9. By bdover

   6/28/09 at 3:30 p.m.

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   Yep, Iraq is so important, Jeremy.

   No, it's a total waste of time, money and lives. No WMD's, no threat to anyone. I have friends over there, serving time mainly because our economy is so bad. We peed away their future by going there, ruining their chances for decent work opportunities. But you're brainwashed, thinking that sweating in the 120 degree heat is somehow helping our country. Sorry, you're wasting your time and our money....

10. By afveteran

    6/28/09 at 7:04 p.m.

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    You're always going to have the lunatic-fringe-area anti-military types around any military installation, mouthing off trying to get attention. Sort of goes with their pathetic, humdrum lives. Meanwhile, the truly aggressive warrior types keep protecting us from enemies, both foreign and domestic.

11. By SSG_Jeremy

    6/29/09 at 3:45 a.m.

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    IM sorry, but anyone who doesnt think that the 5 years of warnings we gave them didnt give them enough time to move that stuff out is foolhardy at best. I believed those existed when I was a 7 year old kid watching the Gulf War from my Green Valley home. Because you dont believe its not important doesnt change the fact that we have brought a sense of stability to this region. Im not brainwashed, just proud of what I do, and I see what we are accomplishing over here, you dont.

12. By IT-Tech

    6/29/09 at 11:35 p.m.

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    Jeremy - You can't change the mind of a complete idiot, such as bdover. I would bet that bdover has never had to worry his stability, since his small world has never been violated. As he turns back into himself once again, he could be told to keep his uninformed opinions to himself, except for that fact that he does not have to, since he does not live in a country that will deny him the opportunity for free speech, something that has been preserved for all of us by people like the brainwashed people he curses at.

13. By SSG_Jeremy

    6/30/09 at 1:45 a.m.

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    I just want to state that the items in my second post were of my own opinion, and do not represent any intellegence reports, or in anyway the US Military, like them or not. However I do stand by my comments as a member of this military that you so decidedly bash because you believe us to be uneducated and brainwashed. I do not wish to enter into any debate nor do I wish for this to turn into a bashing party. All I ask is if you have negative comments about my brothers in uniform, you educate yourself before stating ignorance.

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