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US Navy Admit to Conducting Electromagnetic Warefare Drills In Washington

The US Navy has been secretly conducting electromagnetic warfare drills on public roads in Washington state for the last five years, newly obtained Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents reveal.  The documents reveal emails between the Navy and the US Forest Service that admit mobile electromagnetic warfare emitters have been in use in public areas since 2010 for training purposes. Truth-out.org reports: In one of the 2012 emails, Navy contractor Gerald Sodano explained that the Navy “utilized EW [electronic warfare] ranges outside the local vicinity.” But he went on to say that the aim of establishing an electromagnetic warfare range on the Olympic Peninsula would be to conduct all training locally on the Olympic Peninsula, rather than further afield. This means that rather than using expansive training areas the Navy already has access to in Yakima in eastern Washington State, the Navy aims to use the Olympic National Forest and areas adjacent to Olympic National Park instead. As Truthout previously reported, the Navy itself has produced a medical study showing that exposure to electromagnetic radiation causes a myriad of human health problems, including corneal damage, tubular degeneration of testicles, brain heating, sterility, altered penile function, death, cranial nerve disorders, seizures, [...]