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To: TheThirdRuffian; CedarDave

Freeper Cedar Dave at reply #177 provided info. It’s Fort Wingate.

That is interesting about the old Minutemen silos. I wish I had known what to look for to see them .


186 posted on 05/04/2020 9:56:18 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase; CedarDave

I defer to Ceder Dave on Wingate.

There ARE active Minutemen (or other nuke; I may be showing my age) silos in NM. They shuttle the missiles down the highways periodically.

Also, I’m in the oil field, mostly SE New Mexico (so the other side of the state at a diagonal), which is primarily federal or state leases. Got in a world of trouble sending a work over rig down an unmarked, but really nice, concrete road that parallel our location. The poor drilling hands went too far and didn’t turn off when they were supposed to and got detained by not-so-friendly Air Force guys with machine guns.

Apparently, there was a DO-NOT-ENTER sign stuck in a sand dune somewhere that had fallen over. No fence, nothing, until you were right on it.

It was almost as fun as the time I had a triplex pump (a giant water pump) seized because when it was serviced in Mexico, someone had stuffed the pistons full of cocaine (or some other drug) and (for whatever reason) failed to retrieve their goods.

Ah, New Mexico. Just like Breaking Bad, but without the good chicken place.


188 posted on 05/04/2020 10:47:38 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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