By Adam Kealoha Causey / Shreveport Times / April 12, 2010

Veterans touring the nation pitching climate change as a threat to national security realize they may have a tough sell.

But the members of the group, known as Operation Free, said they know better than anyone how the United States’ dependence on oil endangers soldiers lives. And they want federal legislation to push through the use of cleaner fuels for all Americans.

The tour — a partnership of The Truman National Security Project, The National Security Initiative, VoteVets.org and VetPAC — stopped recently in Shreveport. A bus malfunction prevented a major press event, but veterans met with Mayor Cedric Glover and The Times.

Robin Eckstein, of Appleton, Wis., said she drove trucks hauling petroleum-based fuel from safe zones to U.S. Army camps as a specialist during the ongoing Iraq war. The 33-year-old woman said she still can’t talk specifics about the violence she faced. But much if it could have been prevented, she said.

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