Gorgec afb near me is loaded with vacant houses. None built to code so they won't use them.
My Coast Guard boot camp was at Tracen Alameda which is now a Coast Guard base for some of their larger ships. The TRACEN was consolidated with Tracen Cape May NJ. Looking at a map the NW end of the island has two
White buildings. Those were the barracks where about 700-800 recruits stayed.
During our boot camp we had one week at the Naval Base Treasure Island. The Navy had a firefighting/damage control school there as well as other stuff. We learned shipboard firefighting and actually trained with real fires in a concrete tower that had steel grates for floors much like a ships engine room. The trainers would light off a few hundred gallons of diesel with some gasoline to really get it started the closed the doors. When things were hot enough they would open the doors and we went in as trained trying to put the fire out with water. We were masked up and had breathing apparatus of course. It was all carefully monitored and scripted.
That place must have had a lot of pollution over the years.
I was thinking to myself, most military bases are in place that are either too hot or too cold, too wet or to dry, and generally inhospitable to humans... so the few choice places might be nice, but the rest of them will eventually return to nature.. Slab City anyone.
StumpsNonsense, 29 Palms, california is the best place to visit
Chanute AFB was turned over to a city (Rantoul) that didn't have the infrastructure of financial means to sustain it. I lived in Gifford when it happened and the city barely could maintain itself. Was back there a couple years ago and it's a ghost town and in shambles. Rantoul grew and was sustained by the base and it's retirees.Chanute AFB is another abandoned base.
$200 million in cleanup so far, and they are not done.
Dover AFB is still active, and sitting on a vast underground lake of jet fuel…
Millions on gallons…
Stumps
We have an Air Guard field near Madison where they have done many firefighting exercises over the years. Now some of the city's municipal wells are showing contamination with firefighting chemicals.My Coast Guard boot camp was at Tracen Alameda which is now a Coast Guard base for some of their larger ships. The TRACEN was consolidated with Tracen Cape May NJ. Looking at a map the NW end of the island has two
White buildings. Those were the barracks where about 700-800 recruits stayed.
During our boot camp we had one week at the Naval Base Treasure Island. The Navy had a firefighting/damage control school there as well as other stuff. We learned shipboard firefighting and actually trained with real fires in a concrete tower that had steel grates for floors much like a ships engine room. The trainers would light off a few hundred gallons of diesel with some gasoline to really get it started the closed the doors. When things were hot enough they would open the doors and we went in as trained trying to put the fire out with water. We were masked up and had breathing apparatus of course. It was all carefully monitored and scripted.
That place must have had a lot of pollution over the years.