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Old 11-07-11, 12:17 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by soopaman2 View Post
Being in a populous area where open space is a potential strip mall or Wal-Mart. I always wondered are sites like this guarded? Or just buried in a mine with a big padlock on the doors? Are they marked as dangerous, or just a non descript "federal property, no tresspassing sign" like they have here at Naval Weapon Station Earl (they used to let people fish off the pier pre 9-11, the signs are burned in my head)
80% of Utah's population live withing 50 miles of each other. Tooele Army Depot is in the desert, miles from nowhere and fenced, guarded and patrolled. Not a lot of manpower, but humvees with guns on a regular basis. Anybody who took a backhoe into the range would be spotted soon enough, and if the .50 cal on the humvee wasn't enough an airstrike could be there from Hill AFB in a matter of minutes.
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