Peter Marcus
Denver Daily News
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Future Denver military training exercises will be communicated to the public before the exercises begin, city and military officials told the Denver Daily News yesterday.
After city and military officials expressed a “misunderstanding about the reach and scope” of notifications concerning recent military helicopter training flights in downtown Denver, both the city and U.S. Department of Defense said in the future it will notify the public before such exercises begin.
“We could have been more proactive in our community outreach to the citizens of Denver … to notify them that you’ll have Special Operations Command within the city from this time frame to this time frame, that there will be some things you will see flying through the city. We could have issued a statement and we didn’t do that,” said Lt. Steve Ruh, a spokesman for the U.S. Special Operations Command, which led the airborne counter-terrorism exercises. “We didn’t do our job. This was a hard lesson learned for us and we hope the City of Denver welcomes us back.”
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