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volunteerwork2020 ago

Killeen, TX seems to have a lot of creepy stuff going on from what people say online. Uncle Sam's Snuff factory supposedly is in an underground complex there.

MercurysBall2 ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killeen,_Texas

Killeen is directly adjacent to the main cantonment of Fort Hood. ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting

On November 5, 2009, a terrorist mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas.[1] Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.[2][3] It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is a former American Army Major convicted of killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009.[3] Hasan was a United States Army Medical Corps psychiatrist who admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013...During the six years that Hasan was an intern and resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, colleagues and superiors were concerned about his job performance and comments. Hasan was not married at the time and was being described as socially isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare

Army Names Independent Panel In Fort Hood Review, Following Vanessa Guillen Killing - https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/897277522/army-names-independent-panel-in-fort-hood-review-following-vanessa-guillen-killi

History of tunnels shrouded in mystery - https://kdhnews.com/fort_hood/homefront/history-of-tunnels-shrouded-in-mystery/article_2da1fe63-6778-5362-be66-1d945f6be729.html

Nestled in the hills above Robert Gray Army Airfield at West Fort Hood, past ammunition bunkers and razor-wire fences liberally decorated with warning signs, lies a relic of the country's past and a tool to shape the military's future. It's called the Fort Hood Underground Training Facility - a pair of reinforced networked tunnels with 2-foot-thick concrete walls dug nearly 1,000 feet into the hillside.

Originally built between 1947 and 1948, it was part of a network of two other tunnel complexes constructed to house the atomic bomb. Today, it's a unique Army asset, the only true underground training facility in the country. In 1947, West Fort Hood was known as Killeen Base, and it, along with locations at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., and Fort Campbell, Ky., became an ideal spot to store the nation's nuclear arsenal...

Killeen Base became known as Site Baker, which was jointly run by the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission.

"The U.S. Air Force maintained the maintenance part. The storage side (where the plutonium cores were kept) was maintained by the Atomic Energy Commission," said Lauer. "There was a separation between them. Later on, and I don't know what point, the Army took charge of the Air Force side. That was done so no one service or agency had total control over any weapon system." He added that military personnel were forbidden to enter parts of the facility under Atomic Energy Commission control.

Lauer said he's heard all kinds of stories from residents about the complexes, from a tunnel running from the Gulf of Mexico so the complex could service submarines, to the tunnels being used as former President George W. Bush's alternate command post.

The latter rumor has some basis in fact, as the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks changed the bunker's fortunes. Starting in 2002, Lauer said, the U.S. Special Operations Command took over the complex, starting renovations and conducting training for the next two years.

The details of that training is classified, but when special operations finished, the complex was transferred to III Corps in 2006, which recognized its capabilities for training soldiers.

..."Obviously, (the tunnels) were highly classified. Even people in the know weren't allowed to talk about it," he said. "If you were a soldier assigned to work there, you couldn't wear your unit patch on your uniform." The other tunnel in the complex is off limits due to ongoing research. Lauer said various government agencies, both military and civilian, use it to test underground sensing equipment, as well as other classified training exercises.

Interdasting.