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Jones Hooks: Jekyll Island — an Enterprising Model for State Property Operations
Jones Hooks, Executive Director, Jekyll Island Authority
Topic: Jekyll Island -- an Enterprising Model for State Property Operations
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C. Jones Hooks has more than 30 years of experience in managing multifaceted organizations. His background includes working extensively in the public and private sectors, on local, state, national and international levels.
Since June 2008, Hooks has served as Executive Director of the Jekyll Island Authority (JIA). The Authority is responsible for the stewardship of Jekyll Island, a barrier island off Georgia's coast. The JIA is also responsible for providing services, programs and amenities that maximize benefits to island visitors and residents.
US supplied helicopters operating in Georgia
1. US UH-1H (Huey) helicopter in the air
2. Helicopter landing
3. Pilot getting out of helicopter
4. American technician checks helicopter
5. SOUNDBITE (English) James E. Manley, American pilot:
(Our flight) was just here to the North and East, quite a way away for the Pankisi Gorge and we stayed away from Chechen boarder. Our key is to do training and maintain everything very safely. As you can see the aircraft has no armament or anything on it. So, it is all training.
6. ws US helicopters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gela Ezhuashvili, Frist Deputy Defence Minister:
Well, the main reason for developing so called helicopter programme with the US is to increase our operationally capabilities or select units to be able to exercise our legitimate needs, defence needs to protect our boarders and to increase security in our country.
8. Helicopter
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gela Ezhuashvili, Frist Deputy Defence Minister:
There are no exercises taking place near by the Pankisi Gorge by the Ministry of Defence and our arm forces, not at all. We do not deal directly with the issue of Pankisi being the Ministry of Defence that is why I would not support any implication from the media this morning, concerning this issue.
10. Various of US contractors at Tbilisi airport
11. Wide helicopters on landing pads
STORYLINE:
U.S. military helicopters were Friday training at the Tbilisi airport.
Eight US supplied helicopters were brought over last year from Germany and Turkey to participate in programme aimed at training Georgian military in border patrol and search and rescue operations.
Six of them are intended for flying and four for spare parts. A U.S. service member and six contractors have been there since November to give training in how to operate the aircraft, he said.
James E. Manley, one of the training participants, said that today's training is not connected to the Pankisi Gorge and it is conducted to train Georgian military to increase its capability.
Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia, Gela Ezhuashvili, who was present at the training denied Russian media reports that a joint anti terrorist operation in the Pankisi Gorge allegedly involving American and German military.
The Pankisi Gorge is viewed by Russia as a hideout for Chechen militants; and it has long applied pressure on the Georgian government to allow it to conduct joint operations in the area.
The US believes some of the chechen militants may be affiliated to the al-Qaida network. The area was reconnoitered last year by a US military team and there is speculation that up to 200 American troops could soon be sent to the area, although their role would be likely confined to training and logistical support rather than front line combat. Russia would be likely to feel uneasy about US troops being invited to operate in an area to which it is itself denied access.
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Sea Island, Georgia
Sea Island is an unincorporated area of Glynn County, Georgia, and is part of the Golden Isles of Georgia, including Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, and Little St. Simons Island. The seaside island is located along the Atlantic Coast near Historic Brunswick, and is a well-visited resort island. Sea Island Acquisitions, LLC owns the island, operating two resorts, limiting most public access. The island sits about 60 miles north of Jacksonville, FL and about 60 miles south of Savannah, GA. The surrounding marshland, through which visitors are able to drive, was immortalized in 'The Marshes of Glynn' by Sidney Lanier in 1878.
Sea Island houses three well-visited resorts, the Sea Island Beach Club, The Cloister, and The Lodge each operated by Sea Island Acquisitions. The Beach Club and the Cloister are located across the street from one another, connected by a roundabout in the middle of Sea Island Dr., Sea Island's main connecting road. The Beach Club lies by the ocean-side, providing visitors who sit on the beach with accommodations and access to pool areas. The resort contains restaurants, a game room, an ice cream shop, a bar, and two pools. The Cloister sits south-west on the island along the Black Banks River and functions as the main hotel of the resort island, containing restaurants, several hotel rooms, a spa, tennis and squash courts, an exercise facility, and is home to the only Forbes Five Star restaurant in the state of Georgia, The Georgian Room. Sea Island Acquisitions also owns property on St. Simon's Island, including a shooting school, and three other golf courses.The Lodge, commonly referred to as The Golfer's Paradise is located on St. Simons Island and is the home of two of three golf courses the company owns, Plantation and Seaside. The third golf course is located at the residential community Sea Island owns known as Retreat. The Lodge has been host to the newly formed golf tournament The McGladery Classic, for the past five years.
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