[AT] Portland Info

[charlie hill]

Yep it's pretty much the same at the military bases here Farmer.  10 years 
ago if you drove a pickup truck that looked like it  belonged to a 
contractor, 8 times out of 10 the gate guard would wave you through.  Now, 
post 9-11 you don't get onto the base without ALL of the proper 
documentation.  Once you get on  there are places that used to be about as 
secure as the Wal-Mart parking lot that now are fensed off with armed guards 
on the gates doing a 100% ID check.  Even the area where they sell surplus 
property is that way.

Many years ago I was working at Cherry Point the day before the Blue Angles 
were to perform at an air show there.  They go through a full practice of 
their routine the day before the show.  I drove my personal pickup truck 
with no company logos or anything on it out onto the flightline apron beside 
a jet hanger, sat on the tail gate and watched the show.  You'd have a hard 
time getting to that flight line today with an A1 Abrams tank.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Portland Info


> charlie hill wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm off subject.  I know that has little to do with ash borers but 
>> believe
>> me ever since 9-11 the security has ramped up 1000%.  In the days right
>> after 9-11 the Coast Guard patroled the water along side the port day and
>> night with 50 cal machine guns on their decks.  After a while cooler 
>> heads
>> prevailed but they put up a lot of fencing and greatly improved security.
>> I've been going in and out of that port for 25 years or more and a lot of
>> the guards know me so they would just wave me through.  Well it's not 
>> like
>> that now.  Everyone has a badge or pass of some sort and everyone is 
>> checked
>> coming in and going out.
>>
>> Charlie
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> Back years ago the local Army National Guard Air Facility (herd of
> choppers) was on one of my mail routes. They often got packages and if
> so I was to be sure someone accepted them. No signatures just give them
> to an actual person. It was a pretty good sized building (several now)
> and I would roll in the parking lot and sometimes even roll on in the
> chopper bay and make a U turn to hand the stuff to somebody. If no one
> was around I would climb out and wander around among the offices and
> shop rooms until I found somebody. Sometimes I couldn't find anybody...
> The whole place would be wide open and nobody home.   :-)
> Advance some years to shortly after 9-11...
> Concrete barriers all around the whole place all topped with concertina
> wire, new tall chain link with barbed wire. High security gates. Now
> even they don't park their own cars in the parking lot much, they park
> on the other side of the road in the grass.
> It is still more secure but not quite as tight as it was for a couple
> of years.
> They have several really cool looking oblong hangers there now and I
> would about kill to have one to put my tractors in. They are about big
> enough to hold "ALL" of my stuff...
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> -- 
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> "farmer"
>
>
> I wouldn't mind being absent minded so bad if forgetfulness
> could just be a little more selective. Just last week I
> was saying so to "whats-her-name..."
>
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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