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Man shot dead outside remote Space Force station in New Hampshire approached the gate while armed with a gun and a knife, investigation finds
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offtopic a little
But my grandfather and grandmother worked there since the start
My grandmother was a secretary/translator and I do not know what my grandfather did
When I was real young she would print cartoon photos off one of the printers when normal people did not have quality color printers (photo quality) and "sneak" them home to us
SFC13557
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You are correct! Pretty much same mission.
SFC13557
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Why? I wasn't aware Base was transferred to Space Force but it makes sense. The Mission of the Base supports Space Force Mission from what I can see. It's a tracking station.
KMM696
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Tracking station??? Can they track these for us?
oooOOOO oooOOO
I think they'll lead to doobie...
SFC13557
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I worked for the Lab for 34 yrs and was TDY to Haystack a few times in my career. Most folks in Westford/Groton have no idea it's there and no idea what it's for.
Nice. I was there for 5 years. Started as a co-op in 106, then Div 12 supporting 39 and some other Missile Defense stuff, then to 101.
Had the pleasure of going up there a couple of times, once for a tour. Cool place. When I worked on campus, it took me to some weird places, like MIT's Bates Linear Accelerator, countless rooftops on campus, steam tunnels, nuclear reactor, irradiators, animal labs... I guess I've seen some shit and I'm not even 40...
NHKevin
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I'm pretty sure there is a minimum list of resources that a base has to have to be called a base. Lacking enough of the list gets the station designator.
SFC13557
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I worked for GRP.72, Lincoln Lab was created after WWII and opened in 1951 because MIT was to open and unsecure.
MaverickNH
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As you hike the nearby trails at Joe English Reservation, you’ll see these signs warning you off the NBAFB property. Hunters straying onto the property are often picked up by field teams and escorted out.
I was hiking alone one Fall day and paused at one such sign to gaze out onto the dry swamp. Something looked just a bit odd and I stood there slowly sweeping in and out for minutes. I finally said “you’re spotted, stand up” and two armed men in ghillies stood up and walked over. They wanted to know what gave them away, which was the appearance of grassy hummocks in a dry swamp. It was unusually dry that Summer and they wouldn’t have strayed into that swamp zone otherwise. What worked in the Spring didn’t in the Fall.
The uniformed contractors regularly stop at the Dunkins on NH114 at the Bedford/Goffstown border. Drop-leg holsters and 1-point slung SMGs don’t really attract much attention in my neighborhood.
I was hiking alone one Fall day and paused at one such sign to gaze out onto the dry swamp. Something looked just a bit odd and I stood there slowly sweeping in and out for minutes. I finally said “you’re spotted, stand up” and two armed men in ghillies stood up and walked over. They wanted to know what gave them away, which was the appearance of grassy hummocks in a dry swamp. It was unusually dry that Summer and they wouldn’t have strayed into that swamp zone otherwise. What worked in the Spring didn’t in the Fall.
The uniformed contractors regularly stop at the Dunkins on NH114 at the Bedford/Goffstown border. Drop-leg holsters and 1-point slung SMGs don’t really attract much attention in my neighborhood.
I hike at Joe English Reservation all the time and live three miles away from the New Boston Space Force Station. If I go outside and walk around the streets right now with a drop leg holster, I don't think anybody will care, but there's no way an SMG wouldn't turn some heads.
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MaverickNH
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Well, yeah. Everybody would want to hold it.
It’s all about context. If you wore a Maytag Repairman uniform, nobody would bat an eye.
The sign says report suspicious objects to security!!!
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