La página cancelada- La Marina convirtió una página de Internet en pieza de coleccionista
Por Marta Villaizán
Montalvo
A Ismael
Guadalupe y familia,
con mucho respeto...
martavi@coqui.net
19 de mayo de 2001
En agosto de 1999 escuché en un programa de radio al Senador Kenneth
McClintock decir que vió una página en Internet que mencionaba
a Vieques como un lugar de pruebas de armamentos. Por supuesto, el Senador
no dió al aire la dirección de la página y mucho
menos explicó el contenido. En aquel entonces, lo reconozco, apenas
tenía algunos conocimientos sobre el asunto de Vieques. Claro,
estaba comprometida con la lucha, pero de "saber", no sabía
gran cosa. Tardé dos días en encontrar la página
a base de la poca información que proveyó Kenneth y ciertamente
me sentí felíz con mi hallazgo. La imprimí para enseñársela
a mi familia y cuando al otro día intenté enviársela
a mis amigos, la página estaba cancelada. Fue entonces que entendí
que tenía en la mano una "pieza de coleccionista".
Ahora bien, el valor de este impreso no es económico. Su importancia
radica en la información y quiero compartirla con ustedes. Tan
sólo puedo transcribirla y los retratos originales tuve que sustituirlos
con imágenes recientes, pero que en nada afectan el contenido.
Espero la compartan con sus familiares y amigos. Ahora más que
nunca, ¡PAZ PARA VIEQUES!
Marta Villaizán
martavi@coqui.net
Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility
The Facilities
Navy Lodge - Roosevelt Roads
http://www.navy-nex.com/lodge/overseas/puerto_rico/roosevelt_roads.html
AFWTF is a shore activity at Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico.
It serves as the Navy's premier training range for ensuring combat readiness
of Atlantic Fleet Forces. AFWTF's ranges allow the simultaneous conduct
of gunnery, missile firings, air-to ground ordnance delivery, electronic
warfare, and underwater operations, all coordinated with scoring and recording.
AFWTF facilities are located at numerous sites throughout the Caribbean
on the islands of St.Croix, St. Thomas, Vieques, and Puerto Rico. The
moderate tropical climate is ideal for training exercises. Cancellations
due to inclement weather are very rare.
AFWTF encompasses all facilities necesary for target development,
repair, and utilization. These facilities are located on Naval Station
Roosevelt Roads and Pico del Este in Puerto Rico, Crown Mountain in St.Thomas,
Sprat Hall and St.George Hill in St.Croix, and Mount Pirata and Cerro
Matias in Vieques.
The Aerial Target Shop Assembles all the drone targets used at AFWTF.
AFWTF uses subsonic BQM-34S, BQM-74E, and supersonic AQM-37C aerial targets.
The Drone Launch Facility is located at Cabras Island on the Naval Station.
Once the target is launched, The Naval Warfare Assessment Center, Corona
(NWACC) field office provides missile telemetry collection and analysis
services to evaluate the missile's performance.
The Torpedo
and MK-30 Shops support the Underwater Tracking Range by providing torpedoes
and MK-30 mobile ASW targets for scheduled exercises. The Torpedo Shop
has the capability to assemble MK-46 REXTORPS, and prepare MK-48 torpedoes
for shipment. The MK-30 Shop assembles and programs al MK-30 targets used
on the range.
Marine Ocean Engineering (MOE) supports all the ranges with five vessels
equipped to handle a variety of missions. MOE also operates and maintains
a variety of surface targets for gunnery exercises.
Outer Range
The Outer Range encompasses two ocean operating areas,
the North and South Ranges, which are used for various types of live
ordnance exercises and other events requiring large areas of air/sea
space. A vast array of integrated instrumentation is employed on the
range to allow for tactically realistic target presentations and real
time display of range evolutions.
Typical exercises include surface-to-air, air-to-air, air-to-surface,
and surface-to-surface missile firings as well as various gunnery exercises.
Various range data products are available for accurate post-exercise
reconstruction and analysis. This rare combination of large areas of
air/sea space coupled with sophisticated range instrumentation allows
for the unique ability to train U.S. and foreing militaries in realistic
multi-warfare environments.
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The Inner Range is a multi-purpose target complex located
on the eastern portion of Vieques Island encompassing 10,800 acres and
the surrounding airspace and waters. It consists of the eastern
training area, amphibious beaches, small arms ranges, a live impact area,
and practice minefields.
The complex
can support air-to-ground, mine delivery, naval gunfire, artillery exercise,
and subsurface
assaults. Real time critique data is available for all exercises and a
visual scoring system is capable of measuring bomb drops within 1 foot.
The complex allows a full amphibious assault to be conducted in the most
realistic training environment in the world.
Underwater Tracking Range
The
Underwater Tracking Range Facility, located on the west coast of St.Croix,
provides the capability to conduct a variety of anti-submarine warfare
exercises along with research/development and independent ship qualifications.
Services available include torpedo firing exercises, Surface Ship Radiated
Noise Measurement trials, submarine Training Readiness Evaluations,
and any operation for which precise, in-water spatial data is required.
AFWTF provides exercise torpedoes, MK-30 targets, tracking instrumentation,
and rapid post-analysis data products which can be custom made for the
individual unit. Four hundred square nautical miles of instrumented
acoustic tracking range allow multi-ship and submarine battle group
training.
Electronic Warfare Range
The
Electronic Warfare Range is the fourth and most recent range added
to AFWTF. Radar threat platform simulators are located on Vieques,
St.Croix, and Pico del Este. These sites can provide services to portions
of the north and south warning areas and the Inner Range. The range
can provide multi-axis, real world scenarios designed to simulate
the electronic order of battle for specific geographical regions requested
by the unit. A scenario is developed to emulate the possible threat
signals which might be encountered according to intelligence reports.
The signals range from navigational radars to missile associated radars.
Mission (Electronic Warfare Range)
TO PROVIDE FULL SPECTRUM ELECTRONIC WARFARE TRAINING FOR
SURFACE/SUBSURFACE COMBAT SYSTEMS TEAMS (CST), AND FLEET AIR CREWS
Unique Assets
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Large open-ocean operational areas
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Single ship to battle group scenarios
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Ideal moderate tropical climate permits year round OPS with practically no cancellations
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Simultaneous conduct of gunnery, missile firing, ATG ordnance delivery, EW, and underwater operations utilizing four different ranges
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Multi-axis, real world scenarios designed to simulate the electronic order of battle for specific geographical regions as requested
Capability Highlights
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SUITABLE COAST LINE FOR OVER-THE-BEACH AND AERIAL TROOP MOVEMENT. TACTICAL TRAINING
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FOR THE LITTORAL WARFARE SCENARIO HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN SUPPORTED TO SOME EXTENT BY AMPHIBIOUS TRAINING EXERCISES
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CAPABILITY OF DATA RECORDING FOR EXERCISE RECONSTRUCTION AND DATA PRODUCTS
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IDEAL MODERATE TROPICAL CLIMATE PERMITS YEAR ROUND OPERATIONS WITH PRACTICALLY NO CANCELLATIONS
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INSTRUMENTED SITES IN ADJACENT ISLANDS FOR INCREASE COVERAGE
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LOCATED WITHIN A FULLY EQUIPPED NAVAL STATION WITH A 12,000 FT. ACTIVE RUNWAY AND FULL SUPPORT PORT
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LIVE-FIRE CAPABILITY FOR MOST NON-CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS INVENTORY
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CAPABILITY OF SINGLE SHIP TO BATTLE GROUP SCENARIOS
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SIMILTANEOUS CONDUCT OF GUNNERY, MISSILE FIRINGS, ATG ORDNANCE DELIVERY, EW,
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AMPHIBIOUS, SMALL ARMS, MINING. AND UNDERWATER OPERATIONS UTILIZING FOUR DIFFERENT RANGES
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MULTI-AXIS, REAL WORLD SCENARIOS DESIGNED TO SIMULATE THE ELECTRONIC ORDER OF BATTLE
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EXTENSIVE, UNCONSTRAINED, ENCROACHMENT FREE, CONTROLLED AIR AND SEA SPACE
"ONE STOP SHOPPING"
YIELDS HIGH RETURN ON INVESTMENT
Transcripción: Marta Villaizán
19/mayo/2001