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Originally posted by Lil Drummerboy
reply to post by md11forever
Thank you, I am sure someone with tiny mind syndrome will challenge you to your employment.
Originally posted by Muundoggie
I'm not discounting the fact that these boxcars are real but IF they are for new car transport then why are there no pictures to show this? Surely this is not secret information that can't be photographed. I would like to see pictures with cars being loaded into them.
And why would FEMA need these "auto" transporting boxcars? Are they going to be going in "auto" transport business?
Why are they being stored in remote areas? Shouldn't they be transporting "autos" if that's what they are for?
Originally posted by Michelle129
Perhaps people are seeing them abandoned or in odd rural places because there are not as many cars to be transported these days...
Originally posted by bpg131313
The downside with train cars is that you can't just let them sit in populated areas because they'd block the train cars that do need to get through. Rural places where there are extra tracks seem like an obvious choice for storage of train cars that aren't needed.
Originally posted by nataylor
Originally posted by Muundoggie
I'm not discounting the fact that these boxcars are real but IF they are for new car transport then why are there no pictures to show this? Surely this is not secret information that can't be photographed. I would like to see pictures with cars being loaded into them.
Are you saying you've never seen car-carrier train cars in general, or are you referring to these specific train cars?
Cause there's a place I drive by frequently where they offload cars from trains to ship out to local dealers. There are plenty of these car-carrier train cars there.
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[edit on 7-1-2009 by nataylor]
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Civilian Federal Inmates are broken into 6 categories, home custody, community custody, minimum (low) security, medium security, high security (maximum) and Super Maximum Security. Community custody inmates are kept on Navy, Air Force and Army Bases in segregated portions of the camp. They live in converted dormitories with unlocked doors, and have free roam of a section of the base during non-work hours, except for the six official counts a day when they either have to be in their rooms, or at their work station. It is called community custody because many of them are bussed daily without shackles or guards to smaller satellite military facilities to work in mostly menial jobs for a dollar a day. The rest of the time they are free to utilize the same type of recreation available to the Military personnel on the base, are often fed the same food the Military Officers on the base are, and if they have serious skills that can be used sometimes even given command of military work details and security clearances. It’s what’s known as Club Fed, and if you are a non violent offender, with 10 years or less to serve, and are giving that type of facility recommendation at sentencing that is where they place you. I highly recommend it for anyone who has a wife and five kids, and can’t get a wood be robber to shoot you!
Originally posted by wx4caster
while i have no knowledge one way or the other on rex-84 or whatever it is, i can say that at least one part of this post is garbage. (sorry...) There are no prisoner camps on military bases with the exception of "restricted" barracks which consist of military servicemen who have found themselves under NJP Punishment for doing somehting dumb. i have been stationed on/ a guest of multitudes of military bases from Chambers field, Langley AFB, Keesler AFB, NAS Fallon, NAS Oceana, FT Eustis, Little Creek, NAS Pensicola, Jaxonville, Camp David, NAS Bahrain, Naples, Rota, even Jebel Ali in Dubai (its called the sand box, not much of a military staion... lol)
there are NO US civilian prisoners of any security on any military base.
-A