Sure Bill, it's about 20 to 25 miles East of Seymour off SR 50. They are very protective of their site BUT due to the horrible relations they had developed with the folks in the area they have opened up the place once a year for the local folks to take a tour. Seems when they installed their cell system (AT&T) for the base they totally wiped out the town's Verizon Cell service and the warm and fuzzy went down the drain so they are working at restoring some working relationships with the locas. Believe me there is nothing there anyone could steal, other than the technology or I suppose implanting some devise to then send info. back to some other agency....or government.
The man that stayed with us the entire time hung around me most of the time as I was doing all the transcoding of the video. The production company bought the new Canon 5d III that is unreal in recording video, in fact all Ron Howard's movies are recorded on this camera and I have seen them being used on remote locations of Oprah (yes once in awhile I want to see some guest she is interviewing) It had just come out in June when they began shooting and they got the last one in Louisville, had to pay top dollar of course but this camera is unbelievable in what it can record, however it compresses the video for storage so when the card (32gig) is handed to me I had to copy it to two external drives and then on a third drive I would begin the transcoding which "expands" the file to it's full size for total resolution. One clip may be 1.5 gb on the card but once it's expanded it becomes closer to 4gb and there were dozens and dozens of them, in fact the 24 hrs I was there the entire time I spend crunching the MacBook Pro trying to keep up with all the work coming my way. This allowed the editors to begin editing right away once the shoot was over instead of spending more than a day getting this process done. It was interesting to learn that the military from other countries work so differently than the USA teams. The Canadians, the Brits, the Aussie's etc, etc. would all be here learning the best techniques on the many situations they will face in the field. The supervisor assigned to us said (I can't remember which country) still uses the only method of clearing a room by one guy kicking in the door while another does a roll in front of the door pelting the room with rounds and not even looking to see who is in the room. The other teams ask them why in the world they were still sticking with this older method and offered other solutions......but old habits are hard to break. John On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:30 AM, William Micou wrote: > John, that's fascinating. Thanks for the description. How far from Seymour is > it? Or are you allow to tell? > Bill > > On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:08 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Before I get to the maps I want to shed a little light on my weekend. >> >> Did you know that in Indiana is a military training facility that is the >> best in the world? Neither did I. Did you know that it's kept a secret and >> there are armed guards to this place that are heavily armed and you aren't >> allowed in without all kinds of documentation? Did you know that this place >> is kept off the GPS register (or however they do this) as I ask the guards >> the first night how in the world can I set a GPS to pick this place up and >> they replied "you can't". >> >> The place is over 100 acres, it had been a mental hospital from the 1930's >> until the early 2000's when it was abandoned. At that time it was going to >> cost Indian 60 million to tear it down, then someone decided to turn it into >> a world class Military, Police, First Responders, Fire training center that >> these branches FROM ALL OVER the world come to train. >> >> The weekend I was there had K-9 dogs from all over the US there for the >> week, two officers in my hotel were from Maryland. This place is big deal, >> and very scary. Very scary. No lights at night, yet the place is covered by >> very high tech cameras that can follow anyone on the property and yet read >> the serial number on a dollar bill you pull out of your pocket. The place is >> the most filthy, debris laden place I have ever seen in my life. There is a >> subway underneath the entire place where training is conducted for a >> disaster that may happen in our subway systems. There is a section that is >> for earthquake training, where the buildings are falling apart and leaning >> from the quake. There is a section that has been hit with a Nuke, total >> unbelievable destruction that the military needs to train. >> >> There is an area where the homes and auto's have been flooded, this was >> added after Katrina. There is an American Embassy where they train to >> protect our Ambassador, there is an Arab radio station (internet radio) that >> is continually sending messages to the Arab world, in the beginning they >> didn't think this would be a good idea but turns out the Arabs will interact >> with a voice on the radio much more readily than face to face. I wish I >> could tell you what it's like, tons of destroyed cars, motor homes, boats, >> police cars, tons and tons of huge boulders of concrete and uprooted trees. >> Chairs, tables, tires chrome pieces,, T.V.'s Coke machines, etc. etc. etc. >> all over the place. >> >> And what we needed was the Arab street that the military uses to train. My >> son and the crew are making a movie, the beginning begins in an Arabian >> country and they are going door to door trying to eradicate the enemy. They >> place has Camels, goats, Arabic writing all over the walls, it's very >> impressive. >> >> So that's the background, now for the maps. The first night, Friday, we were >> there to learn the procedures for the weekend. There was a member of the >> base that was assigned to the movie crew the entire weekend. We worked 24 >> hrs straight from 6:00 a.m. Sat. to 6:00 a.m. Sunday and he stayed with us >> the entire time. But, on Friday night we left under a good bit of rain, and >> total darkness I had to find my way back to the guardhouse to get to the >> highway. Made a bad turn somewhere and I ended up on a road that must have >> been made for a tank, it was very scary for I had NO idea where I was and no >> way of finding my way out. >> >> Finally the iPhone picked up the AT&T tower and I ask it from my current >> location to my hotel in Seymour, and by golly after a few seconds (that >> seemed like an hour) Siri told me to head a certain direction and from then >> on she did her thing beautifully. Turn my turn, through subdivisions, down >> alleys (I am not kidding) on the darkest of nights. Finally I got back to >> the state highway and headed toward Seymour. After several miles I came to >> the intersection I would have come out had I found the guardhouse. Needless >> to say I was thankful, and relived that the "poor" map system on this thing >> had done it's magical work. I was so lost I am convinced they would have had >> to send the choppers and those dogs to find me. >> >> None of us had service on the base, not AT&T, not Verizon, not Sprint. They >> must have the place darn near blacked out but I was far enough away in that >> deep woods that I could get the tower. I fed the phone a cookie when we got >> back to the room and gave it the best charger I had for a job well done. >> >> John >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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