Harry I don't know what the problem is, I have explained a very simple 
situation, given you ample reasons why we were able to get into the facility, 
Lee & Luann also supported the site in responses to my email.  It's all there.  
 I still like humor in this life, wish everyone did.


On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:

> 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:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-escalated-quickly
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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