[Scan-DC] Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland

[Joseph M. Durnal]

Maybe, closing it was all a fake story and it really remains a secret
military installation that they don't want us to know about.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 1:07 PM Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:

> Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland
>
>
> https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/investigations/bs-bz-maryland-targets-russia-20190226-story.html#nws=true
>
>
> #Russia's state TV:
> Host Dmitry Kiselyov boasts that Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile "won't
> allow Americans to sit it out across the ocean," names potential targets:
> ▪️Pentagon
> ▪️Camp David
> ▪️Fort Ritchie (Maryland)
> ▪️McClellan (California)
> ▪️Jim Creek (Washington State)
>
>
> Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland
>
> Maryland doesn’t stand much of a chance should the United States and Russia
> come to nuclear blows.
>
> It’s not only next to Washington, but also home to Fort Meade and the
> National Security Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Camp David
> presidential retreat.
>
> Camp David, nestled in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, was among five
> targets listed on Russian state television for that nation’s hypersonic
> missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead within five minutes.
>
> View image on Twitter
>
> https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1099747323750608897
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> The bellicose threat by Dmitry Kiselyov, host of Russia’s main weekly TV
> news show “Vesti Nedeli,” came after Russian President Vladimir Putin
> warned the U.S. not to deploy new missiles to Europe.
>
> Other targets included the Pentagon, the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station in
> Washington State, McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento, Calif., and
> Fort Ritchie, a few miles northwest of Camp David.
>
> Camp David, the Pentagon and Jim Creek, a powerful radio station that
> broadcasts to ships and submarines around the world, make sense, but those
> last two are peculiar. Both McClellan and Fort Ritchie were closed in the
> 1990s.
>
> Since 1997, state and local officials have struggled to find new uses for
> Fort Ritchie, which sprawls across 600 acres in Washington County with old
> stone buildings, spruce trees and two lakes.
>
> Recently, a South Korean developer backed out of plans to buy most of the
> base for $6 million, according to the Herald-Mail in Hagerstown.
>
> Perhaps, the developer heard about Russia’s targeting.
>
> While Fort Ritchie may be fallow ground, it is just a handful of miles from
> Raven Rock Mountain Complex, a nuclear bunker across the border in southern
> Pennsylvania considered by some an “underground Pentagon.” Some believe
> that Raven Rock was the “secure undisclosed location” used by Vice
> President Dick Cheney in the aftermath on the 9/11 attacks.
>
> So Russia, what do you have against Fort Ritchie?
>
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