Site R Photos


** See more photos here: Bird's Eye View of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex


Raven Rock Mountain Complex Photos

Main gate -  2012


Close-up of main gate and Visitor Control Center/Remote Delivery Facility (Schungel Bldg)



Visitor Control Center/Remote Delivery Facility (Schungel Bldg)


Fire station


Fire station


Site R helipad


Security building



"A" Portal and the Site R Security building


"B" portal


"B" portal


"A" and "B" portals


"C" and "D" portals



Site R wastewater treatment plant


Site RT


West vent                                                                                              East vent


Tunnel entrance to Site Creed                                                                         Creed tower


Back gate (Cove Hollow)

Back gate (Cove Hollow)

Back gate (Harbaugh Valley) - 2012

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Security building (ground level) - 21st Signal Brigade (link no longer active)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



14 comments:

  1. 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

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  2. I 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,

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    1. I was also stationed at Fort Ritchie and worked out at the site 1964 - 1966.

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  3. I 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!!!

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  4. I 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.
    I 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!

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  5. 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.

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  6. I 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.

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  7. I was an MP there 80-82. Best Sgt Chiomento

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  8. Former 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.

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    1. Reactor? Like a nuclear reactor? Or do you mean the diesel generators that power the place?

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    2. To funny, I was an MP there at that time!

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  9. I 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,

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  10. Ft 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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  11. Birds eye photos taken at a distance, and you still need a S or TS for entry to RRMC. Spent last 10 years of my career going to and from RRMC and participating in endless exercises before retiring.

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