From: krackula@i.am   
      
   On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:50:49 GMT, "bob wood"  wrote:   
      
   >This base was/is  a testing facility and storage area during the war   
   >according to Recent documents it still serves this function. For some   
   >bizarre reason the Navy tests allot of Army ballistic weapons. This was   
   >always the case during ww2 and apparently in some cases still is though it   
   >is  a "joint facility"   
   >   
   >The site I post has allot of carefully worded mumbo jumbo but seems that in   
   >SKIMMING the site its stating that while this was part of base closures of   
   >the past the Military still actively uses the cite and it never really did   
   >close. Many old bases and facilities in the West and Southwest of the US   
   >fall under this category.    The grid lines you see in the picture are for   
   >artillery testing. That bunker with the missiles are dummy's or   
   >decommissioned equipment now used for target practice.   
   >   
   >   
   >http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/hawthorne.htm   
   >   
      
      
      
   thanks for the info bob .  makes sense about that huge grid of lines   
   too      hha ha ah ha aha ha .   
      
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