Bill your link doesn't help. 

I don't know who John really is, nor do I understand the game he is playing.



On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:44 PM, Bill Micou wrote:

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> http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-escalated-quickly
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> On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:44 PM, John Robinson wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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