If this is so secret how did you get in?? Are you feeding us a line of bull hockey? On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:08 PM, John Robinson 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
