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Posted on 07/17/2005 9:21:44 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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 Click on the picture to for Super Size The Pentagon About The Pentagon The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, is one of the world's largest office buildings. It is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York. The National Capitol could fit into any one of the five wedge-shaped sections. There are very few people throughout the United States who do not have some knowledge of the Pentagon. Many have followed news stories emanating from the defense establishment housed in this building. However, relatively few people have had the opportunity to visit with us. The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees, both military and civilian, contribute to the planning and execution of the defense of our country. These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and its suburbs over approximately 30 miles of access highways, including express bus lanes and one of the newest subway systems in our country. They ride past 200 acres of lawn to park approximately 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots; climb 131 stairways or ride 19 escalators to reach offices that occupy 3,705,793 square feet. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200 clocks, drink from 691 water fountains, utilize 284 rest rooms, consume 4,500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or served by a restaurant staff of 230 persons and dispensed in 1 dining room, 2 cafeterias, 6 snack bars, and an outdoor snack bar. The restaurant service is a privately run civilian operation under contract to the Pentagon. Over 200,000 telephone calls are made daily through phones connected by 100,000 miles of telephone cable. The Defense Post Office handles about 1,200,000 pieces of mail monthly. Various libraries support our personnel in research and completion of their work. The Army Library alone provides 300,000 publications and 1,700 periodicals in various languages. Stripped of its occupants, furniture and various decorations, the building alone is an extraordinary structure. Built during the early years of World War II, it is still thought of as one of the most efficient office buildings in the world. Despite 17.5 miles of corridors it takes only seven minutes to walk between any two points in the building. The original site was nothing more than wasteland, swamps and dumps. 5.5 million cubic yards of earth, and 41,492 concrete piles contributed to the foundation of the building. Additionally, 680,000 tons of sand and gravel, dredged from the nearby Potomac River, were processed into 435,000 cubic yards of concrete and molded into the Pentagon form. The building was constructed in the remarkably short time of 16 months and completed on January 15, 1943 at an approximate cost of $83 million. It consolidated 17 buildings of the War Department and returned its investment within seven years. We hope this information will serve to eliminate some of the myths surrounding the Pentagon and give an appreciation of the size of the building. updated: 16-Jan-2001      |
Loved my five years there...
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.
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Snippy's morning checklist(revised):
1. Starbucks
2. Compose thread
3. Starbucks
4. Run spilling/Grahmr chequer
5. Starbucks
6. Post thread
ROTFLOL. So true!
Thank you for your continued service. :-)
Good morning EGC. All better yet?
And it's a little hot and humid here in our neck of the woods today.
I liked it better when it was called the "War Department" ;-)
It sounded less "defensive'
The highlight of my AF career ....1985 to 1992 in the OSD, SDIO and later BMDO which is now NMD (a'la the MSM : Star Wars!)
Oh, and a few months starting up SDIO in the Pentomic Bldg around 18 & H. (The building still had elevator operators then!)
I see the Pentagon is two weeks older than me...May she have many operational years ahead!
Sounds like you had an interesting AF career. Thank you for your service.
Busy as two Bees Bump for a non lazy Sunday here at work
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Three days to design, construction began a month after award of full contract, and took a year and a half--for the world's largest office building. Massively impressive.
William Cohen is called "The Poet" by Oliver North--in Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Regnery, 2003, Cohen counsels against retaliation for the Cole bombing as "disproportional" and joins in the refusal to take the shot when the Predator has a Hellfire for Osama in Afghanistan on several occasions in September and October of 2000--the year of the production of the extant virtual tour: Cohen was Secretary of Flinching.
I vastly prefer Donald Rumsfeld.
I have taken advantage of the Public Inquiry line 703-428-0711 to express support for the military during various scandals engineered by the likes of Turban Durbin.
Now we have the bizarre specter of She Who Must Be Oyveyyed ranting that we need to increase military force levels--when it was her own reckless copresidency which reduced those force levels by 40%.
The Pentagon is a symbol of our military strength, its proud tradition, and with the rapid reconstruction after the September 11, 2001 attack, its resilience and tenacious pursuit of victory.
Today we face in Iraq enemies armed and trained in Syria and Iran--again, on to Damascus and Tehran.
BTTT!!!!!!!!
Snippy,
Thanks! And thank you for your hard work on FR with the Foxhole. Much appreciated!
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