During October 2006, FCFRD, along with six other fire departments, used the Vienna property to conduct live fire training exercises, during which the house was destroyed.
Their realtor told them about the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) Acquired Structures Program, where a property owner allows FCFRD to conduct live fire training exercises on his or her property.
And because Iraqi police are not just facing common criminals, they are getting live-fire training with the AK-47s.
Even as Annan was in Syria, al-Assad's regime reported it had conducted live-fire training exercises that simulated a defense against foreign attacks.
Senior commanders have all declared the live-fire training on Vieques to be essential to the combat effectiveness and safety of our troops.
Admiral Edney also warned about the decision effectively to halt the use of the live-fire training range on the island of Vieques near Puerto Rico.
Had that really been the top priority, we would have resumed live-fire training at Vieques suspended by President Clinton and made clear that the island would remain an active exercise area for the foreseeable future.
Gun shows that require only a brief in-person event with no live-fire training to qualify for a purchase permit, or that allow bulk purchase of weapons disrespect the care and dedication with which most gun owners teach themselves and their children.
In light of the need for U.S. naval and amphibious personnel to secure indispensable live-fire training at Vieques, the Center for Security Policy urges that President Clinton respect the strong opposition of his military advisors to the proposed termination of such operations on the island.
By applying well-honed techniques of propaganda, indoctrination and intimidation - and, importantly, by drawing support and resources from like-minded radicals and leftist-chic types from Puerto Rico and the mainland - the opponents of continued live-fire training on Vieques have largely succeeded in suppressing overt opposition to their cause.
Now, he seems determined to complete his tenure by once again sacrificing national security in the hope of currying favor with another special interest, Hispanic-Americans, to whom he believes the permanent cessation by the U.S. armed forces of live-fire training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is an important priority.
This perception is being skillfully exploited by the island's governor, Pedro Rossello (who also happens to be a co-chairman of Al Gore's fund-raising efforts there), to elicit a commitment from Mr. Clinton to bar the resumption of live-fire training on Vieques and, within at most five years, to end all Navy activity on that island.
President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.
While there is no guarantee how such a referendum will come out, if it is genuinely free and fair, I believe a majority of the people of Vieques will see the right thing for their community and the country to be a resumption of live-fire training on their island by America's armed forces committed to conduct such training in a safe and responsible manner.
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