Interesting
Maybe Bolling would make a good detainment area to process rioters
Out of the city, over the river controlled access
Still has hangars?
I think that the runway and all the hangers are now gone, replaced by housing. It was a good place to park the troops, the 3d Bde, 82d Abn Div and the 10th Marine Regiment. Fights broke out between the paratroopers and the Marines, so we were moved to the Pentagon where we bedded down in the hallways.
Bolling AFB’s runway was closed in the early 1970’s to reduce flight path conflicts with Reagan/Washington National Airport. The fighter squadron based there was moved to Andrews AFB. The Defense Intelligence Agency building, built in the early 1980s was built on the runway where it crossed the boundary between Bolling AFB and Anacostia Naval Air Station. I drove past what is now called Joint Base Anacostia/Bolling for the last 20 years I was in DC and worked on Ft. McNair. Bolling’s three 1930’s era hangars are filled with various base facilities and one is the home the the USAF Band. I believe the only remaining hangar on the Anacostia side is used as a warehouse. There is no real area there to set up prisoner detainment facilities, as the remaining bulk of the base is family housing. Also, Bolling/Anacostia are within the city limits of Washington DC.