Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:50:17 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neat aerospace desktop background images? Message-ID: <p05100344b7798d9d39d8@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <3B53A457.6F99DAB5@mail.ptd.net> References: <20010716021314.X17597-100000@sublime.efs.org> <p05100315b7787b421b20@[194.78.241.123]> <3B53A457.6F99DAB5@mail.ptd.net>
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At 10:35 PM -0400 7/16/01, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > If by the loading dock you mean the white-roofed thing on the right in > this picture (which would be the south-east side): > > http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Apr1998/DF-ST-87-06962.html > > that is the bus terminal, with the subway station below. I am aware of this. I worked in the building between 1989 & 1995. For the early years, I came in by bus, and later I came in by Metrorail (for which the entrance is right below the bus station). > The actual > loading docks are in the building, on the side of the building facing > the viewer (the south-west). Right. And so-called "South Parking" is the parking lot in front of the building (from the viewers perspective). > If you look toward the right of that side, > you can see the exits of the tunnels that run under the south-east > side. Until the early 80s, DoD busses used those tunnels. They may have been tunnels back then. When I was there, they had an entrance on the side of the building into the interior, where people with special handicapped parking permits could go and park between certain rings, and where the contractors would enter if they needed to go to the center court (a.k.a., "Ground Zero"). Now, if you think a semi loaded with ANFO or C-4 at the South Loading Dock is a scary concept, try a panel van loaded with ANFO or C-4, parked right outside the NMCC, DIA, or other secured facilities within the building. > Directly > above those tunnels, and running along that entire side of the building > is (or at least was; I haven't been there in years) a shopping mall, > which is accessible to the public via the bus and subway stations. At the time I was there, the interior shopping mall was accessible only to people with building passes. However, during the early years the interior drug store used to stock large butane lighter refilling cannisters (primarily for all the high-ranked military and civilian officials that smoked pipes and cigars), easily enough to take out an entire office if you left one sitting on a coffee pot burner after you left. Later, they removed the butane refiller cannisters, but they still didn't bother checking the bags of anyone who entered or left the building with a pass, so you could easily come in with a briefcase of C-4, Semtex, or other plastique (or walk out with a briefcase full of highly classified documents). Indeed, I once saw the Soviet military attaché come in, and was surprised to see that he had his own Pentagon building pass. Those building passes would take a twelve year-old kid about five minutes to duplicate. That's one of the reasons why I made damn sure that I turned in all my badges, so that if there was ever a problem that they would be less likely to potentially blame me. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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