From remote radar stations, to top secret forbidden bases, these are 7 STRANGE Abandoned Military Sites in the USA.
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7.Rocky Mountain Arsenal | Colorado 6.White Alice Communications System | Alaska
During the Cold War, the United States Air Force built an 80-station telecommunication network in Alaska called the White Alice Communications System.
It was a much needed upgrade to the existing communications system, which could handle a whopping, 1 phone call at a time between Nome and Fairbanks. Things improved dramatically, but if you lived in Anchorage in the 60s and wanted to place a call to the lower 48, you had to go downtown.
The White Alice Communications System was developed by the Air Force with several support facilities throughout the state to offer dependable communications to remote, isolated, and often rugged locations. The system was dedicated in 1958, after construction began in 1955. A total of 71 systems were built, they were all maintained by civilian contractors. Eventually, the whole system was leased to RCA Alascom in 1976.
RCA Alascom only operated the system for a few years, as the advent of satellite communications made the towers obsolete. Due to vandalism and theft, most of the sites were completely demolished in a few years time. OH yeah , almost forgot, most of the sites are contaminated with PCB, which wreck local flora and fauna.
5.Battery 223 | New Jersey
4.Fort Wetherill | Rhode Island
Fort Wetherill is a decommissioned coast artillery fort in Jamestown, Rhode Island, that sits on the southern portion of Conanicut Island's eastern tip. It rests atop towering granite cliffs overlooking Narragansett Bay's entrance.
During the Endicott period of coastal fortification, the US government purchased additional land and erected Fort Wetherill on the grounds of Fort Dumpling in 1899. It became the largest fort of the Narragansett Bay Coast Defenses. Captain Alexander Macomb Wetherill, a Jamestown native who was killed in combat during the Battle of San Juan Hill, was honored with the name.
After World War II, Wetherill was decommissioned and turned over to the state of Rhode Island, where it is known today as Fort Wetherill State Park, a 51-acre (210,000 m2) reservation managed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
As of 2016, most batteries have been partly buried to the loading platform level for safety in visiting.
3.Fort Tilden | New York
2.George Air Force Base | California
Lets fly over to the West Coast for a moment and take a look at the George Air Force Base located 8 miles northwest of Victorville, California.
The base was established as an Advanced Flying School by the United States Army Air Corps in June 1941 and closed after the end of World War II. With the commencement of the Korean War in 1950, it was reactivated as a training base by the US Air Force. This time, it remained a training base for the Tactical Air Command and later the Air Combat Command throughout the Cold War In the post-Cold War period, the base was used for training USAF, NATO, and other Allied pilots and weapon systems officers in front-line fighter aircraft until its eventual closure in 1993.
Nowadays, the airstrip is part of the Southern California Logistics Airport but all of the intact military housing has been collecting dust. But as all things, nothing stays abandoned for too long. The site has seen extensive use in Media and TV, including mythbusters and Jarhead.
Also, if you are lucky, you might get to enjoy this abandoned location during airsoft events that happen here from time to time.
