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

[Joel Kahn]

Thank goodness they don't know that Mt. Weather replaced the Greenbriar years ago.

Joel R Kahn 

    On Sunday, March 3, 2019, 1:42:54 PM EST, BobCrain <staticone at comcast.net> wrote:  
 
 Thinking I’m toast. I live close to The Naval Academy.  
And knowing my luck, they probably think the transmitter site is still active.

BC 

> On Mar 3, 2019, at 1:37 PM, Albert LaFrance <albert.lafrance at coldwar-c4i.net> wrote:
> 
> Thank goodness they haven't found out about The Greenbrier 😊
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Joseph M. Durnal
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2019 1:17 PM
> To: Scan DC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland
> 
> 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-maryla
>> nd-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
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> cdinsmore at baltsun.com
>> 
>> twitter.com/CKDinsmore
>> 
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