We study the Milky Way region ( \mid Z \mid < 3.0 kpc ) , where the thick disk and inner halo overlap , by using the kinematics of local blue horizontal branch ( BHB ) stars ( within 1 kpc ) and new samples of BHB stars and A-type stars from the Century Survey .
We derive Galactic U,V \&W velocities for these BHB and A-type star samples using proper motions from the NOMAD catalog .
The mean velocities and the velocity dispersions of the BHB samples ( \mid Z \mid < 3 kpc ) are characteristic of the halo , while those of the Century Survey A-type stars are characteristic of the thick disk .
There is no evidence from our samples that the BHB stars rotate with the thick disk in the region \mid Z \mid < 3 kpc .
Nearly a third of the nearby local RR Lyrae stars have disk kinematics and are more metal-rich than [ Fe/H ] \sim - 1 .
Only a few percent of the Century Survey BHB stars have these properties .
Only one nearby BHB star ( HD 130201 ) is likely to be such a disk star but selection based on high proper motions will have tended to exclude such stars from the local sample .
The scale height derived from a sample of local RR Lyrae stars agrees with that of the Century Survey BHB stars .
The local samples of BHB stars and metal-weak red giants are too incomplete for a similar comparison .