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On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:44 PM, John Robinson wrote:
> Harry,
>
> I guess you don't know who I am?
>
> No Harry, if you follow Lee's link it takes you right to the place and he has
> been there. If you follow Luann's link it takes you to their website.
>
> We got in because the man that did the wardrobe (who also did the Wardrobe
> for Pirates Of The Caribbean, several other very famous movies and lots of TV
> shows) happens to know the Colonel in charge of the place so he made one
> phone call and got the go. Now, they did have to read the script for they
> have standards the movie has to pass, in fact the one director coming in two
> weeks to look the place over will be rejected. He doesn't know it yet but
> unless he changes the premises that will be his fate.
>
> So, I guess you still don't know who I am!
>
> John
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
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