Peaceful Gila Skies
Stop Expansion of Military Pilot Training Above the Gila Wilderness
Air Force Proposes to Create Low-Level Supersonic Airspace Across Southeast Arizona/Southwest New Mexico
Tell the Air Force that expanding military combat training over rural communities and tribal and public lands is not acceptable.
The Air Force should restrict its lower elevation and supersonic flights, and other combat training, such as dropping chaff and flares, to the Barry M Goldwater Range where it’s already happening.
The Air Force must not shift the burden of risk to rural and tribal communities in southern AZ and southwest NM.
The U.S. Air Force wants to modify 10 existing Military Operations Areas (MOAs) that stretch across southern Arizona into southwest New Mexico as part of a plan for expansion of Special Use Airspace in the southwest region of the country. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) plan will authorize low-level fighter jet maneuvers and supersonic flights that cause sonic booms above rural and tribal communities, some of the Southwest’s most fragile sky-island ecosystems, and beloved wilderness areas and national monuments.
