** See more photos here: Bird's Eye View of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex
Raven Rock Mountain Complex Photos
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| Main gate - 2012 |
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| Close-up of main gate and Visitor Control Center/Remote Delivery Facility (Schungel Bldg) |
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| Visitor Control Center/Remote Delivery Facility (Schungel Bldg) |
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| Fire station |
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| Fire station |
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| Site R helipad |
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| Security building |
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| "A" Portal and the Site R Security building |
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| "B" portal |
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| "B" portal |
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| "A" and "B" portals |
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| "C" and "D" portals |
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| Site R wastewater treatment plant |
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| Site RT |
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| West vent East vent |
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| Tunnel entrance to Site Creed Creed tower |
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| Back gate (Cove Hollow) |
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| Back gate (Cove Hollow) |
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| Back gate (Harbaugh Valley) - 2012 |
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| Close-up of signs on the fence |
** See more photos here: Bird's Eye View of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex
Sources
Aerial views of Site R - Bing Maps Bird's Eye
Firestation (ground level ) - The Renovation of the Pentagon (GovernmentAttic.org)
Security building (ground level) - 21st Signal Brigade (link no longer active)
Cove Hollow gate (ground level) - Cryptome
Signs on the fence - The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Very cool. I worked inside the 'Rock' from 1975 to 1977. The security center wasnt built then, we just parked our cars and walked up to the Portal A and stood waiting for the bus...LOL
ReplyDeleteI was stationed at Fort Ritchie and worked out at the site 1964 - 1966. Looking at the pictures it sure has changed on the outside. It was good duty with good people. I felt so sad when they closed Fort Ritchie, visited it a few years ago and it was all run down,
ReplyDeleteI was also stationed at Fort Ritchie and worked out at the site 1964 - 1966.
DeleteI was stationed at Fort Ritchie Maryland and worked in Site R as a cook from 1980-1983.Miss the wonderful people I served with.My best friends were the MP's!!!
ReplyDeleteI was stationed at Site R and worked there as a cryptographer from 1959 to 1961 and still remember some of the great men and women that I worked communications with, including the memory of winding punched paper tape around your hand, in the same way you would wind up clothes line with your arm. I was appalled to learn of the ignominious exit for Fort Ritchie, and hope the Site never suffers the same fate.
ReplyDeleteI might add in the almost two years that I lived and worked in in and around the Site, I never heard the phrase Raven Rock, once!
I was at Ft Ritchie from 96 till closing, and worked Site R as an MP.(95B back then) It was my first duty station, and I have to say it was the best one, strange as it may seem. I too was heart broken knowing Ft Ritchie shut down, and seeing her off was an honor, and serving there was a privilege. Site R was really cool, and I made lifelong friends there. I'd go back in a heart beat.
ReplyDeleteI was assigned to Ft Ritchie/Site R from 1963-1965.I remember the excitement on Nov 22, 1963. Amazingly everything fell into place that day. A long day for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI was an MP there 80-82. Best Sgt Chiomento
ReplyDeleteFormer MP 1989 - early 1991 - When they were expanding the Delta entrance so that semi trailers could get in there (they had to use explosives). I was the Control Board Operator (CBO). Post 18 was the radio tower. We often put newbies up there. I told him we were losing the reactor and if he heard an explosion or felt the mountain shake to lock and load and go to MOPP level 4. I called every other post and said don't answer the phone unless it is the direct line from the CBO. What a jerk I was. The dynamite went off at the exact time that was scheduled but the new guy up top didn't know anything about that.
ReplyDeleteReactor? Like a nuclear reactor? Or do you mean the diesel generators that power the place?
DeleteI was a Military Police Captain in charge of security at Site R from 1976 until 1979. I cannot imagine how they have removed most of the tight restrictions we once had. I knew this installation inside and out and can still remember what was known and what was hidden from all but of a few who were stationed there,
ReplyDeleteFt Ritchie was my first duty station in 1979, I was just a E2 when I drove the buses in and out of the tunnel. I remember assisting with the J4 and J5 World planners meeting there. I got to know some very high ranking people back then. As mentioned, I'm surprised of the lack of security, Back then you were not allowed even mention Site R to anyone. You had to have a secret clearance just to get through the main gate and now there are birds eye photos of it on the world wide web.
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