Presbyterians say no to Vieques training The Presbyterian Layman Volume 34, Number 5 Posted July 6, 2001 The day after President George W. Bush ordered that the Navy cease using a bombing range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, commissioners to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) disapproved an overture supporting continued use of the facility “until a suitable alternative site can be found.” A substitute motion incorporating the main provisions of the overture was offered by a commissioner who had served in the Navy during the Korean War. “Just as we would not send seminarians out to churches without giving them a baptism of fire in local churches, so we should not send our servicemen out without live-fire training,” he argued in vain.

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