[steve86]

Is the big RADAR DISH still there?

I actually don't know about that. Could have seen it in the past and forgotten. The firing range was/is restricted air space so I never did survey it from the air. There is a large NSA listening station near Omak, WA, about 100 miles north of the Firing Range. Come to think of it, maybe you can see a large dish at the Firing Range from I-82 north of Yakima.

[tmp02]

I can't get to www.yahoo.com. Anyone else having problems?

[ExSoldier]

"Come to think of it, maybe you can see a large dish at the Firing Range from I-82 north of Yakima."

That's the one! Don't know if it's still used in it's former operational capacity or not. But that's it.

Yakima had it's own spy satellite dedicated to watch the HTLD (High Tech Light Division) operate and test new systems. My outfit tested the FIRST HumVees and the FIRST FAVs (Fast Attack Vehicles--the Dune Buggies used by SEALs and Delta today).

I once suggested taking a battalion of privates and painting a bunch of large rocks all white and then using the entire top of a ridgeline (all of which looks as barren as the surface of the moon) to write out something filthy in Russian. I think they actually considered my suggestion at a staff meeting but nixed the idea as a provocation or something.