[FedCom] Re: FW: TACAMO a/c at Homestead

Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:13:24 -0800 (PST)

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a TACAMO?

As far as rotting buildings on government propery...that seems to be a common
thing.  The Naval Shipyard in Philly (much of it now accessible to the public)
is full of entire neighborhoods that sit dormant...nobody lives there anymore. 
It was spooky driving through a deserted housing complex with street signs,
swing sets, homes, etc and weeds growing several feet high out of cracks in the
street.  All of this and the large off-base neighborhoods (also abandoned)
would have been great things to give to Philadelphia for decent low income
housing or just housing in general.

PA state government also has plots of land loaded with empty buildings. 
Norristown State Hospital (open campus) has a number of creepy, deserted
buildings on site...they'd make good b/w photos.  

The excuse given by PA is that a lot of the old state hospital buildings across
the state are loaded with asbestos and would be cost prohibitive to remove.  I
don't know what excuse the feds have.

Ben

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> Message: 8
> From: "Robert Wyman" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:26:06 -0500
> Subject: [FedCom] FW: TACAMO a/c at Homestead
> Reply-To: [email protected]
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> Was down at a jobsite near Homestead Air Reserve Station (Florida) today and
> decided to take a brief drive around the base. For those who don't know,
> most of the old base is all open now and the public can drive right in. Not
> much to see, of course, since Hurricane Andrew's devastation almost 10 years
> ago. What always amazes me are the number of buildings and support
> structures that have not been demolished or repaired...they're just rotting
> in the sun and have been since August 24th, 1992 (Andrew).
> 
> One section of the base has been redeveloped as a U.S. Job Corps residential
> campus and training center...frequencies in use are unknown, but I saw some
> handhelds that looked like VHF-Hi (antennas)...maybe a FedCom'er can help
> with that.
> 
> The southern flight line area is the new & downsized HARS, while Florida Air
> National Guard has a building on the extreme northern flight line. No
> land-mobile radio activity was heard from the USAF or FANG sections while I
> was there, but the Tower's (fairly new) simulcast channel of 173.7125 (FM)
> came up briefly with departure instructions. I drove over to the closest
> publicly-accessible section near the tower and saw a TACAMO on the far side
> of the transient parking area. No activity was around it except for a AF
> security vehicle parked nearby. Nothing departed while I was there, and no
> further activity was heard. I just thought it interesting that a TACAMO was
> here.
> 
> It's probably NOT related, but we did have two big events and several
> smaller ones in Miami this weekend. The Grand Prix of Miami race was held in
> Homestead, and the Genuity Championship golf event was at Doral (NW part of
> Miami). I don't know if any CAP flights go up for those kinds of things.
> 
> Robert Wyman
> Miami
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Ben R. - Norristown, PA
http://home.earthlink.net/~benandchrisie

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