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

Steve Slate restonham at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 01:49:07 EST 2019 

Ft Ritchie has been closed and the property handed over to the county in 1998.  All the military are gone and the facilities are decaying at a rapid pace.  There have been some attempts by the redevelopment agency to get something done with the land, but nothing seems to stick.  If the Russians are targeting that site, their info is about 20 years out of date.  I wonder if they think it’s the secret location of Stargate SG-1 🙄.

BTW, I used to got to occasional meetings at Ft Ritchie in the early 1980s and it was a very nice small post with beautiful scenery.

> On Mar 3, 2019, at 23:39, SCOTT BAUER <odyslim at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys, Did I something happen or are you all just making conversation.
> Regards, Scott W3CV. QTH 1 mile from NSA
> 
> 
> 
>> On March 3, 2019 at 5:23 PM Albert LaFrance <albert.lafrance at coldwar-c4i.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure that anything replaced The Greenbrier insofar as rank-and-file congresspeople are concerned.  Do you recall where they were evacuated to (if at all) on 9/11?  I think the leadership went somewhere - probably was Mt. Weather - but I'm not certain. 
>> 
>> Mt. Weather has always been the relocation site for the civilian side of the executive branch, sort of a hub for individual agency sites.  One interesting aspect of The Greenbrier is that it was intended not just to shelter Congress, but to allow them to continue performing their constitutional role as a bicameral legislative body.
>> 
>> Albert   
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Joel Kahn
>> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2019 4:40 PM
>> Cc: Scan DC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland
>> 
>> 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-maryl
>>>> a 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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