Residents in northeast Madison are frustrated after being denied funding to offset fighter jet noise from a recent round of federal grants.
The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs was seeking more than $18 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to help residents mitigate noise from F-35 jets at the Truax Field Air National Guard base.
That money would have helped dampen the noise at roughly 160 nearby homes by allowing people to add insulation as well as better windows and HVAC systems, according to a letter sent by U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, to a Department of Defense, or DOD, official earlier this month…