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10                                     July 10, 2015                                                    Desert Lightning News

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                                                                                                            North Korea remains an out-
From BMGR, Page 3                 works with the tribes is through    of hours monitoring sites on       law state that has developed
                                  collaborative field trips.          130,000 public-access acres        atomic weapons and is building
advertent damage to cultural                                          on the range. Activities in-       missiles capable of reaching the
resources. The initiative saves      “The RMO has field trips         clude repeat photography,          United States.
more than $100,000 annually in    with tribes to visit archaeolog-    recording and mapping of
survey and flagging costs.        ical sites, identify traditional    disturbances, updating moni-          China a Question Mark
                                  cultural places, sacred sites,      toring notebooks, cataloging          China is in a different class, but
   While technological advanc-    and natural resources such as       site photos and site forms and     could be a threat to the United
es have helped the team protect   water, rocks, flora and fauna       assisting archaeologists in in-    States, according to the strategy.
these resources, face-to-face     that are important to them,”        tensive site recording.            It is a rising great power and the
collaboration with local tribes   Rankin said. “The Tohono                                               strategy encourages China “to be-
and other stakeholders remains    O’odham recently completed a           Education also plays an im-     come a partner for greater interna-
crucial to the program’s suc-     report on O’odham use of the        portant role, Rankin added.        tional security.”
cess.                             BMGR E: Title: In the Foot-         Quarterly briefings by the            Still, Chinese actions in the
                                  steps of my ancestors.”             O’odham Nation are incorpo-        South China Sea are worrisome.
   “Collaboration means the                                           rated into F-16 pilot training        It is a complex strategic envi-
Air Force engages tribes earlier     In addition to tribal partner-   to enable pilots to understand     ronment and the U.S. military
and encourages tribal input. It   ships, cultural resource managers   how military training over trib-   cannot focus on one threat to the
means base leaders and desig-     also partner with schools, univer-  al lands impacts their people.     exclusion of all others, according
nated cultural liaison officers   sities and local government.                                           to the strategy.
reach out for more than just                                             Enabling the military train-       “[The U.S. military] must pro-
business-related issues,” said       Community partnerships           ing mission is of chief impor-     vide a full range of military op-
James Wilde, the Air Force cul-   also play an important role at      tance to the multi-disciplinary    tions for addressing both revision-
tural resources subject matter    BMGR East, Rankin said.             RMO, and the cultural re-          ist states and [violent extremist
expert at the Air Force Civil                                         source program is integral in      organizations],” the strategy says.
Engineer Center, which over-         The BMGR Site Steward            supporting the busiest prima-      “Failure to do so will result in
sees the Air Force’s compliance   Program is a volunteer site-        ry training range in the DOD,      greater risk to our nation and the
with environmental and histor-    monitoring program that             Rankin said.                       international order.”
ic preservation laws.             comprises more than 100 citi-
                                  zens who volunteer thousands
   One of the ways the RMO
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