U.S. Navy SEALs will not be permitted to train in Washington state parks, pending a lawsuit that arose after residents raised concerns over seeing “armed men.” The decision comes after attorneys for the Whidbey Environmental Action Network, who filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission in March 2021, argued in a legal brief last month that residents may feel on edge if Navy SEALs continue to use parks for training. “It is difficult to find peace in the woods when armed frogmen might be lurking behind every tree,” they wrote, according to Coffee or Die magazine. State parkland for military training had been used by the Navy since 2015 after the approval of a right-of-entry permit. That agreement to use five state parks expired in 2020, and when the Navy attempted to renew the contract, it asked to increase the number of state parks SEALs could …
Navy SEALs No Longer Using Washington State Parks for Training Amid Lawsuit
January 27, 2022
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