"Everything is dying": Virginia Beach marsh turns brown after Navy jet fuel spill

LTJG Richard Bruce Good News, I Just Remember the Lovely Kerosene Smell of JP-5.

LTJG Richard Bruce Remember a JP-5 Line Busting in the Engineers Berthing Aft one of them was in His Rack Right Underneath, Got a JP-5 Bath.

LT Brad McInnis Always been an Interesting Dynamic between the Local Communities and Navy Facilities that are the Central Business, Definitely a Love/Hate Relationship. Everybody Loves Money but at what Cost to the Local Environment. Plenty of this going on at about every Navy Base I've been at and I can't say I don't appreciate the Problem. I was OOD on a Nuclear Cruiser in Port Bremerton and got to watch an Oiler Several Piers Down Pump a Shit Load of DFM into Puget Sound/Sinclair Inlet due to some Mis-Aligned Valves. I Lived in Jackson Park Navy Housing and the Amount of WWII Leftovers Exposed on the Beach Line was Staggering. Kids Found a Bomb in the Middle of the Baseball Diamond. Remember the Bombs washing up on the Beach in Adak, AK when I was there, Remember the Fun of walking thru a Mine Field to see what the Sign Said on the Other Side (Yeah that was Special). Remember getting Impaled by an Anti-Personnel Spike in Adak also.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - No offense buddy, but you may have wanted to stay inside in Adak!!!

I have lived in Virginia Beach my whole career of 24 years in the Navy. There is no love hate relationship with the Navy. This area is throughly behind the Navy. You might have an individual or two who is wacka-doodle, but the majority love and promote the Navy as a whole. My apologies if you have encountered some of those of the former group.