[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 23, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1481]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            CHINESE TOP GUNS

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the Fallon Naval Air Station ``Top Gun'' 
school in Nevada recently had some important visitors.
  No, they were not the U.S. Navy cadets. It was not our colleague the 
gentleman from California (Ace Duke Cunningham). It was not the United 
States Air Force trying to gain an advantage. Mr. Speaker, it was the 
Chinese.
  Even after knowing their latest espionage tactics, our Government 
granted about 20 communist Chinese an open-door visit to the Naval 
Strike and Air Warfare Center at Fallon Naval Air Station. Providing 
the Chinese communists with classified information about our military 
equipment, aircraft, tactics and operations is just sheer lunacy.
  Why were they allowed to visit that facility? Who knows? This 
facility has trained 90 percent of our naval warfare pilots. Fallon 
Naval Air Station is not just a field in Nevada. It is a vital training 
link for our naval aviators worldwide.
  If the American taxpayers could not be afforded the same high-level 
tour, why would this administration grant the communist Chinese a carte 
blanche visit?
  Mr. Speaker, top gun Chinese are not the type of American exports I 
would expect from the United States Navy.

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