Exploring 10 Abandoned Military Bases in the United States: Part 2

[@rangerider51]

I was drafted in 1971 (# 1 in the draft lottery), and was sent to Fort Ord for basic training and AIT and afterwards sent to Vietnam. When I returned to the U.S. I was sent to Fort Lewis, Washington for out processing but decided to stay in and I retired from the Army in 1991. Thanks for the memories.

[@ghosttownchronicles]

Thank you for your comment and your story! Have a great day!

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Thank you for your service.

[@HenauderTitzauf]

Thank you for your service, I too am one that went in and decided to stay until I retired after 22y,11 m,18 d, 7&1/2 hours. Looking back, sure went fast although some parts didn’t, but, as I look back, it did.

[@berthalloway8182]

Thank you for your service. A busted up veteran

[@raygalvan368]

Thank You for your Services. My Father was stationed in Fort Ord and Fort Lewis before heading to Vietnam. He was with the 4th Infantry 68-69. My Grandfather was stationed there too. ❤

[@ak_downrange_threat7251]

Parents Met on Midway I was born at Castle AFB and my Father was stationed at Loring in 83. In fact the Castle AFB air Museum was curated by my friends father and often we would get to play kick the can or ghost in the graveyard amongst the planes on the museum grounds, while dodging the security police. One of the coolest things I can say I did was a kid was got to hide in the Exhaust port of the SR-71.

[@boblachance7014]

I was assigned to Loring AFB, ME. When the base closed in 1994 the local community was severely impacted. They are attempting to encourage businesses to relocate to this former active duty USAF base. There has been some degree of success but the extreme climate of Maine does not make the area overly optimistic. I consider my time assigned to this base one of the best I have experienced.

[@bobdenton1]

Dad was stationed at Castle in 1960. Merced was my first California home, our moving there from Oklahoma right around my first birthday.

[@BohemothWatts-vz1lc]

Do a video on the Military bases in Puerto Rico.

[@SPC-Berry-Ret]

The US should not have a homeless population. Besides, it does with all the closed military bases it has, they should all be repurposed to home the homeless can no longer afford to pay the staggering rent cost in this country.

[@KevinMitchell-w2k]

Fort Ord what a shame that was a great place to be stationed

[@chuckbrown2765]

I was stationed at Castle AFB and served in a detachment to Fritzsche Field Fort Ord. I have also served time at Boring Loring. Most of the bases I’ve been to are closed now. Hello Chanute

[@fedupamerican6534]

I live next to Wright Patt Air Force . If the base ever closed it would devastate multiple cities that surround it. I feel so bad to all those communities that their bases closed

[@brentonwinslow9490]

All the closed bases would still be great training grounds, they would also make great airsoft/paintball fields. Renovate some of the better houses and let lower income live there, and along with the other reason I stated I could bring in money for state/County or whoever owns it

[@robertdobbs2265]

I lived two miles going to the gunnery station that was built during ww2 on and I have great memories of the place. It was a 6in inch installation and is still in place

[@RaymondMullen-t9j]

What happen to the '''CONCREAT SHIP '''' that is off Cape May New Jersey ????

[@01dumbfrog]

You forgot to mention that Fort Monroe, was the birthplace of slavery for the United States. A slave ship stopped in to resupply before winter and traded slaves for the supplies and thus started slavery in the United States. I learned that from Critical Race Theory and most historians want to forget.

[@CharlesCo918]

The amount of asbestos in this video is probably amazing.

[@dakotahazell3512]

I live less than a mile from Loring, and it's sad to see it in such a dilapidated state, and compare it to old pictures. There's still plenty of solid buildings that could be re-purposed. It's still wicked cool for "Urban Exploring", it spans something like 11,000+ acres.

[@Dan4CW]

These areas should be sold and created to create new housing.

[@nordland2235]

You left out the AFBs in Michigan ?

[@joellenrhodes456]

The Devil's Slide Bunker will eventually end up in the ocean below as the California sea cliffs erode. In Jan 2023 the bunker housing the guns referenced came crashing down from where it was built in the hillside. The storms of 22/23 were brutal causing billions of dollars in damage.

[@lowandslow3939]

Boy, I hope this video just came out, because there are very few likes or comments. I really enjoyed it. I’m about to watch Part 1. There are other closed bases that I know of.

[@ghosttownchronicles]

Thank you for watching and for your comment! If you have some other bases that you know of please let me know so I can feature them in future videos. Have a great day!

[@lowandslow3939]

@@ghosttownchronicles There is one in Road Island, (or was it Mauntauk, or Block Island)that is not open to the public but I explored it back in the mid 80’s. It was a NIKE missile base. Control rooms with lots of gauges, switches and other instruments. Papers strewn on the floor, all dated from the 60’s. Another one I visited is an old Air Force base in Murfreesboro, TN. I was born on that base in 1961. It has massive runways but is completely vacant except for one hangar with a few single engine general aviation planes there. I went there to see my birthplace in the 80’s.

[@snoo333]

thank you. "however"

[@politicsuncensored5617]

In the summer of 2003 a couple friends flew out to join me for to play golf for 3 days. We played the 2 former military golf courses at the closed Ft. Ord base. It was really weird driving through a small city like military base that had been closed down. Many of the houses and building then were in fairly good shape, unlike in the video. This was a Big waste by our government by not making use of this housing. Shalom

[@danbixler8297]

Homeless shelters...room plus infastructure

[@danielburgess7785]

WW II era... a six inch cannon isn't "massive." It's on the small side for shore defense. Battleships of that time had 16" guns.

[@gregobern6084]

remote abandoned military bases should be used for drug treatment and rehab

[@PM-bv2nx]

WTF is US govt doing. All these incredible locations and they don't sell for development or low cost housing.

[@FloretinoContrevas]

They are not abandoned when shtt hits the fan there gonna fire them these places look maintained

[@dannysdailys]

Yeah folks, you're looking at the very reason the U.S. can no longer field a world class Army, yet we have over 750 bases world wide. Why is that?

[@dukeford]

We don't have 500 "bases" overseas. Or 800. Or whatever.

[@dannysdailys]

Actually, we have 750 and you can look that up in around 6 seconds. That's how long it took me. The ignorance is overwhelming. Don't forget your booster. @@dukeford

[@dukeford]

@@dannysdailys I spent 2/3 of my adult life on military installations, Danny Boy; 20 years active duty, 20 years civil service. I built a hundred facilities on various USAF bases across the goddamned globe. I know what a fucking "base" is, and we don't have 750 of them. For your general information, a lot of what gets counted in those "750 bases" are (for example) radar sites, comm sites, supply depots, maintenance facilities, admin facilities, motor pools, munitions depots, etc., etc. that might only have a relative handful of people assigned to it.

[@dannysdailys]

@@dukeford Maybe it is 200 today, what's you point? Why are we only at a 30% readiness rating? And you spent a career working for this crooked Government. And don't tell me it isn't crooked if you had 20 years there.

[@wofat6300]

When was the end of the cold war?

[@kandymcgee7738]

I swear they should fix them all up and help out our ppl that really needs help. Someone need to tell our government. Our would not have to live in snow just some fixing up to usable and I see lots of land to farm veggie have a cow or 2 ,just solar panels and u got power.

[@diegovega6545]

WHEN THEY CLOSED FORT ORD I DON'T SEE ANY ECONOMIC IMPACT IN THE AREA THE DINAMIC STILL THERE CUZ MONTEREY BAY IT'S A TOURIST DESTINATION ALWAY'S LOT OF TRAFFIC AND LOT OF PEOPLE STILL TODAY !!!

[@mzmattox35]

Transform use for all the Immigrants coming in .....lots of Space

[@rickforespring4834]

when michelle obama came to do a commencement speech at the borg cube...er uc merced. they wanted all military insignia's removed from the base before she landed. they did it (guys at the museum) , but no one was fond of it. today castle looks abandoned. when the bugged out in 94-95 they turned it over to the city council of some stupid chit like that. they destroyed any of what was left of the base. the gleaming exception is the flight training facility. for a number of years after the base closed, challenger aviation....or aviation challenge took that over. but now even they have gone. the only thing out there of note now is the federal prison. sad and tragic to say the least.

[@JackNiles-hc8yz]

For a lot of different reasons, former military bases won't work for homeless housing, so just forget it.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

They could have left some guns, would help out the local economy,

[@floriderllc6862]

They should give tax incentives to repurpose these buildings for commercial use.

[@bryanmartin897]

I thought we had climate change

[@myhappylive5125]

❤😂🎉😢😮😅

[@trenchcoatbandit]

UNFENCE DEVILS SLIDE

[@teestanmintiendo7842]

funny how the old sea side forts havent gone under water despite 80 years of extreme “climate change”

[@Helm-w1q]

I see ten locations that could be used to house homeless vets😢

[@AndrewDwyerKorea]

Blow that shit up in a movie!

[@fbi805]

you might want to do better research on Carlstrom airfield because it actually no longer exists. the only things that remain from that training base is a cemetery 9 buildings and an old placard with the Airbase name. The airfield was turned into a juvenile detention center and is currently being operated as such. geezus it's no wonder why your channel has poor viewership and a low subscriber rate

[@politicsuncensored5617]

Karen gripes, gripes and gripes a lot more. Another 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 Up voting (her own) silly comment Laughable ~ 𝘽𝙊𝙄𝙉𝙆 𝙔𝙖 𝙎𝘾𝙃𝙈𝙐𝘾𝙆~! 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙢

[@kandymcgee7738]

The USA would fix homeless problems

[@magnificentbastard7881]

Yes, I'm sure the homeless want to live on Midway Atoll or the Jersey bunker

[@barrygrant2907]

The homeless would have to want to be fixed.

[@dukeford]

No, these ex-military bases would not be suitable for "the homeless". The homeless should be left right where they are. No sense in fucking up more real estate on an unwinnable issue.

[@chuck2306]

It took many years to get Griffis up and running i think it is because of politics

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Looks like quite a bit of homeless housing to me. They should be fixed up and put to good use.

[@kandymcgee7738]

Shit we wouldn't have a homeless problem

[@DragonEye-bt4xl]

Fghh