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Why is the military moving back into base deep under the Rocky Mountains?
Daily Mail ^ | 4/8/15 | James Nye

Posted on 04/08/2015 2:49:04 PM PDT by Teflonic

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To: refermech
Well, there was a news report the other day about Russian missile launching platforms that have been made to look like sea cans...

If true, it wouldn't take much to position a cargo ship off of the coast and shoot a large nuke high into our atmosphere before we would even have any idea what was happening or why...

I just wanted to add another layer of tin foil to your hat :-)

21 posted on 04/08/2015 3:03:54 PM PDT by bayliving
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Obama's having the place spruced up for the arrival of the Iranian and Russian treaty monitors.

22 posted on 04/08/2015 3:04:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Teflonic
"The Cheyenne mountain bunker is a half-acre cavern carved into a mountain in the 1960s that was designed to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. From inside the massive complex . . ."

They've got this muddled - a half-acre cavern isn't a "massive complex." The half-acre probably only refers to one small area of the complex.
23 posted on 04/08/2015 3:05:14 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Teflonic

Cold War version 2.0.


24 posted on 04/08/2015 3:05:44 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: bayliving
"Well, there was a news report the other day about Russian missile launching platforms that have been made to look like sea cans..."

It's entirely possible that the two stories are related.
25 posted on 04/08/2015 3:06:33 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Teflonic

Maybe a sequel to “War Games”?


26 posted on 04/08/2015 3:06:33 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

I thought the same thing....100’ x 200’ doesn’t seem all that large of a space to me either. Hard to put a “whole town” in that space.


27 posted on 04/08/2015 3:06:59 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Publius

Want to play tic-tac-toe, again ?

Paging Matthew Broderick ?


28 posted on 04/08/2015 3:08:15 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Teflonic

Maybe this is because there are funds to remodel a facility but none to build a new building and the other facilities at Peterson, Buckley, and Schriever are full? They really could downsize the space programs. Few Air Force do much of anything other than babysit contractors with the contractors doing all the work.


29 posted on 04/08/2015 3:09:24 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

I worked inside it in 1970-71. It is much larger. Writer is clearly sitting far removed from there.


30 posted on 04/08/2015 3:09:34 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: George from New England
"The only way to win is not to play the game."

A brilliant movie where almost every scene was set up to be an anti-Reagan polemic.

31 posted on 04/08/2015 3:09:53 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: bayliving

Thanks, I think I’ll retreat to my bunker about now...


32 posted on 04/08/2015 3:10:40 PM PDT by refermech
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To: molson209
Why is the military moving back into base deep under the Rocky Mountains?

Because they have been listening to what Obama has been saying, and maybe that means it's time to clean out that old fallout shelter?


33 posted on 04/08/2015 3:12:21 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Teflonic
Too bad they shut down the "Space Fence"

On August 6, 2013, news broke that the commander of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), General William Shelton, had ordered the shutdown of the Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS) by the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1. This article aims to shed some light on the technical, budgetary, and political considerations behind the decision to shut down the AFSSS. The loss of the AFSSS is not likely to have a significant impact on the accuracy of objects in the existing satellite catalog or the ability of the US military to track medium to large size objects in orbit.

The real impact will be the loss of the AFSSS’s ability to do uncued detection of breakups and maneuvers across a huge area of Earth orbit and act as a “trip wire” to warn about events in space.

Thus, the shutdown of the AFSSS is more likely to negatively impact broad area surveillance aspect of space situational awareness (SSA) than the tracking accuracy aspect of space surveillance.

34 posted on 04/08/2015 3:14:33 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Teflonic

Psssst! Don’t tell Obama.....


36 posted on 04/08/2015 3:17:04 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Teflonic

StarGate soon to be real?


37 posted on 04/08/2015 3:17:19 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

Half Acre 148 feet x 148 feet


38 posted on 04/08/2015 3:18:50 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Teflonic

Its a hell of a lot bigger than a half acre !


39 posted on 04/08/2015 3:19:36 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Eee eee eee Oooh ooh ooh .....{ Curious George } to the man in the yellow hat !)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

Half Acre 148 feet x 148 feet seems small for what they are doing


40 posted on 04/08/2015 3:21:35 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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