Built in 1976. There were four 700' towers at one time. Five active duty and 2 reserve duty Coast Guard personnel were stationed at LORSTA, outside Searchlight, NV
You should drive up to the rocket site (JPL) outside of Edwards AFB. Take the paved road that leads straight to a suspiciously man-made looking "mountain" (a 700 ft tall pile of rocks) that is miles after the rocket site. If you make it to the base of the mountain, take a look at the plethora of cameras moving while you do.....and keep your hands visible because you are about to have a conversation you don't want to have. I was stationed at Edwards from 95-98 as a phone technician and it took me to WILD places way out in the desert. One time in the dead of the night we kept getting 911 hangup calls from a line that ran out miles into the desert. I followed it on a dirt road for miles before a clean looking gov sedan was parked blocking the dirt road. Two guys in tan fatigues ---but not armed slowly walked up to my rig and told me if I went any further that I would be arrested. I told them we cannot ignore 911 calls and we are getting a vague one from the cable leading out here. They looked at eachother and told me theyd take care of it. I drove away and was soon radio'd to stand down. There is sketchy stuff that goes on out there.
I was in the Coast Guard, 1975-1979. My last two years I was a Yeoman in the 11th District office in Long Beach. My job was to be yeoman for all the units that were too small to have their own yeoman assigned as part of the crew. Those units were mostly small boat stations, but one was the Coast Guard LORAN Station, Searchlight Nevada. My recollection is that Searchlight had a crew of about a dozen men and a junior lieutenant as a commanding officer. I knew them all and they were a great crew to work with. One time there had accumulated a mass of personnel paper work that required me to sit down with various crew members confidentially, and the Commanding Officer had a lot of business he needed to sit down with me about. Lucky for me I was given orders to Travel to Searchlight to get this done. I spent 2 days at the station. There are some specific memories I will share with everyone that will help you better understand this video and perhaps, hopefully, help those commentors who have suspicions about this site. Afterall, a USCG station in the middle of the desert? My first impressions of the station started with the long drive on a lightly travelled desert road. When I arrived the first thing I saw was the sign identifying the location as United States Coast Guard LORAN Station Searchlight and the the colorful red and blue bars and seal of the USCG. The sign posts and frame are still there at 2:07 in the video. From the road you could see the sign and the small collection of buildings in the distance and a collection of tall antennas reaching into the sky. The antennas appear to be gone. After arriving and being greeted by the crew I realized, unexpectedly, that everyone had been looking forward to my arrival, which surprised me, pleasantly. The station had a very informal, relaxed and friendly atmosphere and I was treated with more attention than I deserved. After lunch got the full tour of the station, which didn't take very long, but did get to see everything and learned what it was all about. The crew maintained a large cork bulletin board just inside the main entrance. Pinned on the board were dozens of clippings from local newspapers and such that were speculating about what was really going on out there in the desert. The suspicions centered around the presence of a CG station in the desert, what all those antennas were really for, secret govt. operations, UFO's, you name it. Nobody seemed to believe it really was what it pretended to be. The crew liked pointing out their favorite clippings to me. They thought is was all very amusing and it made them feel like they part of something I guess. There were no secret tunnels or giant air ducts going down into the earth. The generators ran 24/7 to power the station and most importantly, the LORAN transmitters. Think of LORAN as electronic light houses. These stations were located all over the globe at strategic locations and were relied upon for navigation the way shipping depends on GPS today. The calculus that determined where these stations needed to be located happened to land one in the desert southwest of the U.S. The signal these stations transmitted had to be maintained 100% of the time and that was what this stations mission was. Nothing more, nothing less. The crew I knew lived and worked there. The station was spotless clean, the equipment professionally maintained and more importantly they were a team. The memories of my two days there have stayed with me over the many decades since. Seeing this video and this now forgotten station was distressing because in my mind it was a living thing, given life by those who served there. I was treated very well by the crew. When we weren't doing business we were outside playing volleyball and just enjoying ourselves. That's how I will always remember that place.
Yeah that is Loran-C, it was a Navigation building that the Coast Guard used till 2010. It was actually abandoned with everything still inside and with power. Soon vandals came along and ruined the location unfortunately. Keep up the good work, there’s so much more this desert has to offer.
While getting certified to run SAR in the USCG on the 41's, we had to learn loran C. I was quite happy to see that large bulky unit removed from the 41 and replaced with GPS.
Air Force Plant #72, by Boron. Was a proposed Zip Fuel testing and manufacturing site. Zip fuels would have been burnt in the afterburner section only of the Valkyrie and others with the right engine, for a extra "kick". The stepchild of Zip Fuel testing was Triethylborane, which is the zip fuel ignition agent for JP7 fuel, used in the SR-71 Blackbird. Miserable deadly stuff that was dropped, but it did have potential gains. One testing facility in New York exploded,,killing people. We found that plant on 3 wheel Honda ATV's a long time ago in the desert. Had no clue what that was. Only years later did we find out. Crazy stuff, like A Coast Guard Station, in the desert. Thanks Uncanny.
Yes; tri-ethyl borane was a failed experiment. (I have a degree in Chemistry and experience in organo-metallics) It ignites too readily upon exposure to oxygen to become a fuel ignitor for afterburners and such. Don't know too much about "Zip Fuel" personally.
It's to bad so many just vandalize places like that. When I wasa kid we kept places like that clean so we could have a place to hangout away from adult eyes
Rendered obsolete until an enemy attacks or interferes with the satellites... The first thing Russia or China would do prior to launching an attack on the US, would be to disrupt all satellite navigation. Oddly enough, neither of those nuclear armed adversaries are dependent on GPS nav. If something that happened the old LORANS would prove anything but obsolete.. .
@@oriraykai3610wasn’t being wasted. Was being saved. It would have cost more to remove them and store them then to leave them. No point in paying to remove a bunch of crap that there is no use for. This is in Nevada. So what a generator may have been able to be used in New York? They are going to pay to have people completely remove it, then pay for a trucking company to ship it across the country, then pay for more people to install it. It’s already used and could have thousands of hours on the clock already. Why pay all that and then have it fail sooner than later. Stuff was left for a reason. It was at the end of its useful life, it would have cost twice and much to remove it and store it to never be used again anyway since everything was phased out anyway. That’s why it was closed, stuff was obsolete and got replaced with newer tech. None of this still could have been reused.
@@PTRRanger951when Fed/Military facilities are no longer needed they are transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA) for management and disposal. The GSA could have, should have, auctioned off the equipment. Everything there had a value. Obviously, many commentators here have never tried to find a used generator. If the structures were inconsistent with the use of the land, they should have been removed. Typically, the GSA issues a contract for removal and the contractor gets to keep anything of value. It's done all the time. In this case, the GSA must have been lazy.
@@dicktaug4773 yes I am well aware, but fact is that the property is STILL owned by the government. They could be keeping the land so it doesn’t get reclaimed and taken over by BLM. Who knows what the working condition was of the generators. Not everything military goes to GSA either. They still have to pay the contractors to do the removal job. Where this is located, and I have been in that area many times, is literally the middle of no where. Contractors may not have wanted to touch it due to the costs they would have to cover to do it with having equipment transported to the site, security to sit at the site at night for weeks to ensure nothing is messed with, and then lodging and the travel time to and from the hotels which would be about an hour each way. And not to mention all the costs they would have to pay for renting the equipment because the would have to get stuff from Las Vegas or transport their own equipment from wherever they have it. All of that could easily be tens of thousands of dollars, for a return that maybe a couple thousand at auction. Everything that was usable was removed, I guarantee it. But the only thing that could have been of value there was the generators, if they were even working. All of the navigation equipment was obsolete and useless. They could not be used by anyone for anything except a display piece. That is why the station closed to begin with, different technology took its place and the systems it ran were taken off line and cannot be used again. The government could have got the bids from the contractors for the job and simply didn’t want to pay it. It would not have been feasible. It’s different when it’s demiled military stuff that is sitting on a base or an office building that is easily accessible for people to come pick it up if they win an auction and it’s in a centralized location. Even if they listed it as where is, and required a winner to remove it, they would of had to pay employees lodging and time to sit at the site for days or weeks while everyone that won something came and removed it, with no guarantee they would even show up or finish it, or had the right equipment. Not everything goes to auction. There is no requirement anything has to go to auction. It only has to go to auction if they want to sell it. They can leave it or destroy it. Just in order to sell it legally it has to go to auction, and not just have a price set. There are tons of instances where equipment that was deemed obsolete and no value or not worth the costs to remove were just left. Sometimes it’s just more expensive to remove it or auction it. It may seem like a waste, but it got its use and it’s things that can not be used again, not even for private parties. Just like the generators, laws and policies change about the efficiency, emissions, and requirements. From the time they were installed, to the time it was closed, they probably did not meet any of the new laws that they would need to meet for them to be installed in another facility, and then the costs involved to remove them. It’s Coast Guard, not too many inland Coast Guard bases. So they would have to send a crew from somewhere to travel to Nevada with heavy equipment, and spend time and money to remove them and transport them back somewhere else. They should have just asked Nellis to do bombing practice on it.
Why? Literally nothing was wasted. Nothing was able to be used it was all old by that time and would never be used again. So it would have costs tens of thousands to remove it to sit somewhere to serve no purpose. It’s the same reason you don’t wear any of your baby clothes to this day, they served their purpose and don’t now.
each of those diesel generators you saw run for about $100,000. government had their decades use out of everything. so the commoners came in when gov moved out to collect up. very likely the people who stripped it also worked there are some point.
Came here looking for a comment like this. I figured there had to be way more to this place. That's way too much power going in for a data center that was that small haha.
All the valuable copper has been stripped, from the two generators rotors and the stators completely gone, as is all the copper wiring. What’s left is stuff that would cost money to dispose of.
Shoot----the amount of scrap metal alone would warrant multiple trips out there! The lockers alone are 50lbs of steel. Wasteful stuff and a slap in the face to taxpayers.
I wish I could take one of those generators tbh. I'm surprised the vandals damaged it instead of taking it. Like... guys... you know how great it would be to have your own power? Though idk what the generator was powered on though.
Station Searchlight is still owned and governed by the Military, there are no trespassing signs. And, as an fyi a trespasser was sentenced not long ago with a heafty fine, active period of imprisonment that was set aside condition they do a good bit of community services and their RUclips channel was closed. This land is not BLM managed.
Places looks like mid Nineteen Eighties to early Nineties because of the construction for a building that size that was built the military during that time. I wonder what kind of rainwater catch system it has?
It’s their money too. And it actually saved us money by leaving the crap there. Nothing was able to be reused. It was obsolete stuff. It would have cost a hell of a lot more to pay more people to come in and haul it off for what? To sit and rot anyway? Not removing it saves money. It’s the same reason you don’t have every piece of clothing you ever wore in your life. It served it purpose and was disposed of.
@PTRRanger951 bull, those generators could have been sold at auction and hauled off by the purchaser. It's not like leaving an Mrap in Afghanistan and it encourages waste and theft.
@@stevenhall2408that’s if they worked. And it would have cost even more money for that to happen. They government would have to pay people to sit there around the clock to watch it UNTIL the agreed pick up time for the purchaser to get them. And then if there were multiple winners of the auctions for each one, each will have a different day. It won’t be just a day to get them either. The buy will have to get a bunch of heavy machinery and trucks to lift it and haul it away. The government will still have to pay someone to sit there ensuring only those are removed, and stay there until it’s done. And no guarantee the buy won’t show up and can’t do it, or will decide not to. And there is no losing near there so tax payers will have to pay thousands for several people to spend the night at hotels and drive the 30-60 minutes to the site each day. And pay them per diem every day, several vehicles and fuel. The costs add up. They were left for a reason. They couldn’t be reused or sold. It would have cost a buyer more than it was worth and cost the government, or the contractor more than it was worth. It’s not just something that is as simple as picking up a generator and throwing it in bed of a pick up and going on their way. They will need a huge flat bed, and the truck to pull it. And a huge forklift or crane. So now you need something to take the equipment to the site, and something to actually haul the generator away. And each buy would need that stuff. And then the weeks leading up to the auction and the timeframe that is allowed to remove it. The government is responsible for it. They have to have people there to protect it since that is how they sold it. Can’t have a seller showing up after they paid and someone stole half of it in between. They didn’t want to remove it because they couldn’t use it for anything else. It’s old technology, even the generator. Emissions standards changed and it wouldn’t be allowed to be use on other government property. There is a reason they do stuff, even if it doesn’t make sense. Same reason people junk stuff and throw stuff out all the time even though they can sell it an get some money from it. Out of our tax dollars maybe half a cent from everyone went to purchase it. Yet you might have something you personally spent hundreds or thousands on and threw it out or it’s sitting in a box somewhere. Just because something looks useful doesn’t mean it was. Maybe only one worked and the others had blown motors or thousands of hours on them. Surplus equipment gets destroyed or left to rot all the time on bases when it can’t be auctioned or reused for something else. It got its use, that’s all the matters. Someone could have bought one for 3,000 and spent 6,000 extra just to remove it and another 2,000 to get it running, and then not be able to get more than 6,000 for it if they tried to sell it because it’s so old and someone that would need something that old, is not going to spend a lot of money on it. It’s simple economics.
In the early 1980s I worked as an oiler on a trenching machine laying pipe for a jet fuel line from the AFB in Adelanto to Edwards, only for it to be shut down a few years later. What a waste of taxpayer money.
Not anymore! But don't get caught there on a random drive-up by Feds, or you'll be in for some serious trouble. They have patrols that visit these abandoned sites every couple of months on a rotating basis.
Nice, the govt' just leaves hundreds of thousands of dollars behind for scavengers to pick at. It's not like they paid for it anyway. Just the blue gensets inside are 165k apiece.
It would have cost tens of thousands to remove a bunch of stuff that was obsolete and useless anyway. So they saved taxpayer money by leaving the stuff. New generators cost that, these were not new when they left them. Everything was outdated. And requirements changed for what energy efficient things could be used. No point taking old generators from the 80s and 90s and paying to have them removed, repaired and transported across the county when newer more efficient ones were cheaper, and provided more power.
@@PTRRanger951 Have you seen the stuff at Govplanet auctions? I bought an early '60s era USAF light tower m just because it had the right two cyl. Detroit Diesel I needed. ALL of that stuff would sell and for more than you know. People want obsolete stuff now more than ever, it's simple to work on.
What happened to what? Are you speaking English? It was closed because nothing there was of use anymore. It was literally explained in the beginning of the video.
Oh yeah and you’re not asking the major question here? Why are there such enormous generators in THAT COMPLEX and there’s nothing else there?? What about the huge A/C vents and where do they go? Below ground? Hellooooooo?????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have made the decision not to watch any videos of urban exploring when the area has no trespassing signs, no matter how old. I know I won't be missed
This is what military does. They been doing it forever they leave stuff and buildings abandoned. People think Afghanistan was the first time lol nope. They do it every there they go even with equipment. They just take the important stuff out of it and then leave
I wonder if we should tell the scrappers there are places called companies and they pay people money to do work for them. Better money and work conditions too 😆 🤣
As you pan around the outside of the buildings and off into the distance, my only question is, "I wonder how badly you have to screw up to get stationed there." And I had no idea the USCG invented and maintained LOng RAnge Navigation systems. Weird.
People crying about the waste. But no one knows how old the equipment was. In business equipment is depreciated in a very short time and no doubt the equipment there was too. LORAN as a marine technology was on its death bed 25 years ago.
Depreciation is an accounting method to lower the value of equipment over time. It has nothing to do with actual value or usability of the equipment. While it's true some things like computers advance and need replacing other equipment can be just as functional in another role or location with even older equipment. Not arguing the point just clarifying.
I see wooden doors to be salvaged, so much left. What a wasteful America. Great bones for a nice building. Someone could salvage what’s left. Metals just need a large dump truck, tractor and the will to WORK. 😅
There are DEFINITELY tunnels and secret facilities all over the mojave. I was stationed there and can tell you for a fact that MILES out in the desert---far from anything man-made---there are huge doors that slide open and lead down a steep ramp into the tunnel and facility systems. It is actually not a secret---we knew about them back in the late 90's. They probably traffick children through them nowadays
No way it was just a Loran station. There were 2 rooms there that were server rooms. That much square footage of server room, cmon that was a nsa site or something black.
The building that she's showing was used on the show MacGyver it was only built to be used on that show then they abandon it because they no longer needed it
Hawes had a bunker that was removed about 9-10 years ago now, after gang menbers murdered somebody at the facility. This looks like the Loran site at CalVada.
So walking around in an Abandoned military installation . It’s not public land , it’s own by the government, and if they gave up there rights it’s own by the state . Your still committing a crime by being there . Smh , you fill your self , incriminating yourself on government property . All one person has to do is report you and your going to catch a shit load of charges.
Built in 1976. There were four 700' towers at one time. Five active duty and 2 reserve duty Coast Guard personnel were stationed at LORSTA, outside Searchlight, NV
Been there a few times. Massive concrete bulk heads are still there
You should drive up to the rocket site (JPL) outside of Edwards AFB. Take the paved road that leads straight to a suspiciously man-made looking "mountain" (a 700 ft tall pile of rocks) that is miles after the rocket site. If you make it to the base of the mountain, take a look at the plethora of cameras moving while you do.....and keep your hands visible because you are about to have a conversation you don't want to have.
I was stationed at Edwards from 95-98 as a phone technician and it took me to WILD places way out in the desert. One time in the dead of the night we kept getting 911 hangup calls from a line that ran out miles into the desert. I followed it on a dirt road for miles before a clean looking gov sedan was parked blocking the dirt road. Two guys in tan fatigues ---but not armed slowly walked up to my rig and told me if I went any further that I would be arrested. I told them we cannot ignore 911 calls and we are getting a vague one from the cable leading out here. They looked at eachother and told me theyd take care of it. I drove away and was soon radio'd to stand down. There is sketchy stuff that goes on out there.
That is a dumb.
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the one time you are duty bound to enter federal land and you let it slip...
Yes, mostly secret evaluation of captured enemy airplanes. IF you think they've got aliens or flying saucers in the inventory, you deserve your life.
I was in the Coast Guard, 1975-1979. My last two years I was a Yeoman in the 11th District office in Long Beach. My job was to be yeoman for all the units that were too small to have their own yeoman assigned as part of the crew. Those units were mostly small boat stations, but one was the Coast Guard LORAN Station, Searchlight Nevada.
My recollection is that Searchlight had a crew of about a dozen men and a junior lieutenant as a commanding officer. I knew them all and they were a great crew to work with.
One time there had accumulated a mass of personnel paper work that required me to sit down with various crew members confidentially, and the Commanding Officer had a lot of business he needed to sit down with me about. Lucky for me I was given orders to Travel to Searchlight to get this done.
I spent 2 days at the station. There are some specific memories I will share with everyone that will help you better understand this video and perhaps, hopefully, help those commentors who have suspicions about this site. Afterall, a USCG station in the middle of the desert?
My first impressions of the station started with the long drive on a lightly travelled desert road. When I arrived the first thing I saw was the sign identifying the location as United States Coast Guard LORAN Station Searchlight and the the colorful red and blue bars and seal of the USCG. The sign posts and frame are still there at 2:07 in the video. From the road you could see the sign and the small collection of buildings in the distance and a collection of tall antennas reaching into the sky. The antennas appear to be gone.
After arriving and being greeted by the crew I realized, unexpectedly, that everyone had been looking forward to my arrival, which surprised me, pleasantly. The station had a very informal, relaxed and friendly atmosphere and I was treated with more attention than I deserved. After lunch got the full tour of the station, which didn't take very long, but did get to see everything and learned what it was all about.
The crew maintained a large cork bulletin board just inside the main entrance. Pinned on the board were dozens of clippings from local newspapers and such that were speculating about what was really going on out there in the desert. The suspicions centered around the presence of a CG station in the desert, what all those antennas were really for, secret govt. operations, UFO's, you name it. Nobody seemed to believe it really was what it pretended to be. The crew liked pointing out their favorite clippings to me. They thought is was all very amusing and it made them feel like they part of something I guess.
There were no secret tunnels or giant air ducts going down into the earth. The generators ran 24/7 to power the station and most importantly, the LORAN transmitters. Think of LORAN as electronic light houses. These stations were located all over the globe at strategic locations and were relied upon for navigation the way shipping depends on GPS today. The calculus that determined where these stations needed to be located happened to land one in the desert southwest of the U.S. The signal these stations transmitted had to be maintained 100% of the time and that was what this stations mission was. Nothing more, nothing less.
The crew I knew lived and worked there. The station was spotless clean, the equipment professionally maintained and more importantly they were a team. The memories of my two days there have stayed with me over the many decades since. Seeing this video and this now forgotten station was distressing because in my mind it was a living thing, given life by those who served there. I was treated very well by the crew. When we weren't doing business we were outside playing volleyball and just enjoying ourselves. That's how I will always remember that place.
Thanks for the history. It does make the video more understandable. Thank you for your service.
Yeah that is Loran-C, it was a Navigation building that the Coast Guard used till 2010. It was actually abandoned with everything still inside and with power. Soon vandals came along and ruined the location unfortunately. Keep up the good work, there’s so much more this desert has to offer.
It never fails that when young people, as evidenced by the tagging, find an abandoned anything their first reaction is to smash the place.
@@return2sender791 Broke the neighbors window when I was 6. Scrappers don't have time to vandalize.
And piss on everything.
Young punks with no respect
Everyone wants to leave a mark on the world. Some people are not very creative.
Because they are raised with no appreciation of value.
While getting certified to run SAR in the USCG on the 41's, we had to learn loran C. I was quite happy to see that large bulky unit removed from the 41 and replaced with GPS.
Air Force Plant #72, by Boron. Was a proposed Zip Fuel testing and manufacturing site. Zip fuels would have been burnt in the afterburner section only of the Valkyrie and others with the right engine, for a extra "kick". The stepchild of Zip Fuel testing was Triethylborane, which is the zip fuel ignition agent for JP7 fuel, used in the SR-71 Blackbird. Miserable deadly stuff that was dropped, but it did have potential gains. One testing facility in New York exploded,,killing people. We found that plant on 3 wheel Honda ATV's a long time ago in the desert. Had no clue what that was. Only years later did we find out. Crazy stuff, like A Coast Guard Station, in the desert. Thanks Uncanny.
Yes; tri-ethyl borane was a failed experiment. (I have a degree in Chemistry and experience in organo-metallics) It ignites too readily upon exposure to oxygen to become a fuel ignitor for afterburners and such. Don't know too much about "Zip Fuel" personally.
I enjoyed the tour. It’s fun to find places like this in the desert. I love exploring.💪😎
Those gen-set engines looked practically new! What a waste! What a shame!
Big ass Detroit Diesels❤
Government wastes at it’s finest
I've seen what copper thieves can do but wow. Even the windings off the generator rotors!
Had to have battery angle grinders, and several batteries, those windings get thick.
Looks like cool buildings for side winder's and Mojave Green Rattlesnakes 😮
It's to bad so many just vandalize places like that. When I wasa kid we kept places like that clean so we could have a place to hangout away from adult eyes
Kids now days would rather shit on anything they can't tear up.
Stators removed from generators. The diesels and AC unit worth a lot of money.
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LORAN was a great navigation tool until it was rendered obsolete by GPS.
Is this the one near CAL-NEV-ARI?
Rendered obsolete until an enemy attacks or interferes with the satellites...
The first thing Russia or China would do prior to launching an attack on the US, would be to disrupt all satellite navigation.
Oddly enough, neither of those nuclear armed adversaries are dependent on GPS nav.
If something that happened the old LORANS would prove anything but obsolete..
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Long Range Aid to Navigation
Not quite obsolete, there is talk about reinstating LORAN as a backup for GPS
@@jackbeale3101 E-LORAN
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this is so sad, this place has been torn to pieces by idiots who have no respect for property that does not belong to them.
Taxpayers money ... why would the government care
Doesn't anyone else find it odd that there would be a Coast Guard station in landlocked Nevada?🤔
Interesting video!! Thanks for sharing 😇👍💯🇺🇸
4 X massive generators for that building?
It was a radio facility.
Who's gonna tell Sheree about the Air Force and Space Force?
Just as much so as the naval underwater research facility in Henderson. China Lake. Umm.
They had to be in very specific locations because of the type of radio communications that could travel underwater to subs.
Soo well built, massive constructions. with 'some' modifications, i can imagine them as a modern/cool living places.
Abandoned in 2010 when the Coast Guard finally realized the actual coast was several hundred miles away.....
very sad to see what looked like two pretty new diesel generators and equipment just abandoned to the looters.
Your tax dollars being frivolously wasted.
more like 5 or 6 and each one was worth $30k or more
@@oriraykai3610wasn’t being wasted. Was being saved. It would have cost more to remove them and store them then to leave them. No point in paying to remove a bunch of crap that there is no use for.
This is in Nevada. So what a generator may have been able to be used in New York? They are going to pay to have people completely remove it, then pay for a trucking company to ship it across the country, then pay for more people to install it. It’s already used and could have thousands of hours on the clock already. Why pay all that and then have it fail sooner than later.
Stuff was left for a reason. It was at the end of its useful life, it would have cost twice and much to remove it and store it to never be used again anyway since everything was phased out anyway. That’s why it was closed, stuff was obsolete and got replaced with newer tech. None of this still could have been reused.
@@PTRRanger951when Fed/Military facilities are no longer needed they are transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA) for management and disposal. The GSA could have, should have, auctioned off the equipment. Everything there had a value. Obviously, many commentators here have never tried to find a used generator. If the structures were inconsistent with the use of the land, they should have been removed. Typically, the GSA issues a contract for removal and the contractor gets to keep anything of value. It's done all the time. In this case, the GSA must have been lazy.
@@dicktaug4773 yes I am well aware, but fact is that the property is STILL owned by the government. They could be keeping the land so it doesn’t get reclaimed and taken over by BLM. Who knows what the working condition was of the generators. Not everything military goes to GSA either. They still have to pay the contractors to do the removal job.
Where this is located, and I have been in that area many times, is literally the middle of no where. Contractors may not have wanted to touch it due to the costs they would have to cover to do it with having equipment transported to the site, security to sit at the site at night for weeks to ensure nothing is messed with, and then lodging and the travel time to and from the hotels which would be about an hour each way. And not to mention all the costs they would have to pay for renting the equipment because the would have to get stuff from Las Vegas or transport their own equipment from wherever they have it. All of that could easily be tens of thousands of dollars, for a return that maybe a couple thousand at auction.
Everything that was usable was removed, I guarantee it. But the only thing that could have been of value there was the generators, if they were even working.
All of the navigation equipment was obsolete and useless. They could not be used by anyone for anything except a display piece. That is why the station closed to begin with, different technology took its place and the systems it ran were taken off line and cannot be used again.
The government could have got the bids from the contractors for the job and simply didn’t want to pay it. It would not have been feasible.
It’s different when it’s demiled military stuff that is sitting on a base or an office building that is easily accessible for people to come pick it up if they win an auction and it’s in a centralized location.
Even if they listed it as where is, and required a winner to remove it, they would of had to pay employees lodging and time to sit at the site for days or weeks while everyone that won something came and removed it, with no guarantee they would even show up or finish it, or had the right equipment.
Not everything goes to auction. There is no requirement anything has to go to auction. It only has to go to auction if they want to sell it. They can leave it or destroy it. Just in order to sell it legally it has to go to auction, and not just have a price set.
There are tons of instances where equipment that was deemed obsolete and no value or not worth the costs to remove were just left. Sometimes it’s just more expensive to remove it or auction it. It may seem like a waste, but it got its use and it’s things that can not be used again, not even for private parties.
Just like the generators, laws and policies change about the efficiency, emissions, and requirements. From the time they were installed, to the time it was closed, they probably did not meet any of the new laws that they would need to meet for them to be installed in another facility, and then the costs involved to remove them. It’s Coast Guard, not too many inland Coast Guard bases. So they would have to send a crew from somewhere to travel to Nevada with heavy equipment, and spend time and money to remove them and transport them back somewhere else. They should have just asked Nellis to do bombing practice on it.
I'm just horrified at the amount of wasted money and equipment. Unbelievable!
Just like Biden left all those wepons in Afghanistan.
It’s hell on earth. No one wants to live there.
Why? Literally nothing was wasted. Nothing was able to be used it was all old by that time and would never be used again. So it would have costs tens of thousands to remove it to sit somewhere to serve no purpose.
It’s the same reason you don’t wear any of your baby clothes to this day, they served their purpose and don’t now.
Which has nothing to do with this.
@@markbivens277 Oh that's right. Mexico would pay for that Wall...
So how do you get underground to the real working area?
Why do people always tear shit up.And we are supposed to be civilized.
each of those diesel generators you saw run for about $100,000. government had their decades use out of everything. so the commoners came in when gov moved out to collect up. very likely the people who stripped it also worked there are some point.
Such a waste, drives me nuts! Nice Video though!
I went there in about 1982 and they gave tours. The crews lived in Boulder City Nevada
That with all the tiles in floor removed is an old computer 🖥 room.
If you know, you know, it's not the above ground stuff that was interesting, it was what's below it! You were SO close!!!
Came here looking for a comment like this. I figured there had to be way more to this place. That's way too much power going in for a data center that was that small haha.
@@primefocusphotography Correct.
No its not, they are only small looking gensets. Radio broadcasting and a myriad od other american garbage takes up a lot of power.
A coast guard facility, hundreds of kilometers inland, far away from the coast ??? What a ridiculous cover up !
Nice location.
Kind of reminds me of the base they hid the astronauts away in the film 'Capricorn One'.
Underrated film!
Nice
Surprised they did not steal the diesel motors !
All the valuable copper has been stripped, from the two generators rotors and the stators completely gone, as is all the copper wiring. What’s left is stuff that would cost money to dispose of.
Shoot----the amount of scrap metal alone would warrant multiple trips out there! The lockers alone are 50lbs of steel. Wasteful stuff and a slap in the face to taxpayers.
Did I miss it? I'm not seeing any chain link fence around that installation..... OR did that, get ripped off the first....lol
People always have to destroy everything they touch in this country. It's a shame and disgrace.
I wish I could take one of those generators tbh. I'm surprised the vandals damaged it instead of taking it. Like... guys... you know how great it would be to have your own power? Though idk what the generator was powered on though.
Hell, they could have squatted the place, maybe. I wonder if anybody tried that? Not like it would be legal, but, meh, place was already abandoned.
Look at the height of the trees at the front brilliant to think they kept growing
Can you tell me where in mojave it's located
It's by Searchlight NV - easy to find
I have flown over this many times on my way to breakfast at calnevari casion in the kidwell airpark
Station Searchlight is still owned and governed by the Military, there are no trespassing signs.
And, as an fyi a trespasser was sentenced not long ago with a heafty fine, active period of imprisonment that was set aside condition they do a good bit of community services and their RUclips channel was closed. This land is not BLM managed.
Coast Guard ? In the desert?
Two Giant motors where the power plant for the facility
They took the manifolds and turbo’s off the engine’s wow those people were desperate .
Places looks like mid Nineteen Eighties to early Nineties because of the construction for a building that size that was built the military during that time.
I wonder what kind of rainwater catch system it has?
Another example of how the goverment finds it easy to spend and waste other people’s money- namely yours and mine. 😩
It’s their money too. And it actually saved us money by leaving the crap there. Nothing was able to be reused. It was obsolete stuff. It would have cost a hell of a lot more to pay more people to come in and haul it off for what? To sit and rot anyway? Not removing it saves money.
It’s the same reason you don’t have every piece of clothing you ever wore in your life. It served it purpose and was disposed of.
@PTRRanger951 bull, those generators could have been sold at auction and hauled off by the purchaser. It's not like leaving an Mrap in Afghanistan and it encourages waste and theft.
@@stevenhall2408that’s if they worked. And it would have cost even more money for that to happen. They government would have to pay people to sit there around the clock to watch it UNTIL the agreed pick up time for the purchaser to get them. And then if there were multiple winners of the auctions for each one, each will have a different day. It won’t be just a day to get them either.
The buy will have to get a bunch of heavy machinery and trucks to lift it and haul it away. The government will still have to pay someone to sit there ensuring only those are removed, and stay there until it’s done.
And no guarantee the buy won’t show up and can’t do it, or will decide not to.
And there is no losing near there so tax payers will have to pay thousands for several people to spend the night at hotels and drive the 30-60 minutes to the site each day. And pay them per diem every day, several vehicles and fuel. The costs add up.
They were left for a reason. They couldn’t be reused or sold. It would have cost a buyer more than it was worth and cost the government, or the contractor more than it was worth. It’s not just something that is as simple as picking up a generator and throwing it in bed of a pick up and going on their way. They will need a huge flat bed, and the truck to pull it. And a huge forklift or crane. So now you need something to take the equipment to the site, and something to actually haul the generator away. And each buy would need that stuff.
And then the weeks leading up to the auction and the timeframe that is allowed to remove it. The government is responsible for it. They have to have people there to protect it since that is how they sold it. Can’t have a seller showing up after they paid and someone stole half of it in between.
They didn’t want to remove it because they couldn’t use it for anything else. It’s old technology, even the generator. Emissions standards changed and it wouldn’t be allowed to be use on other government property.
There is a reason they do stuff, even if it doesn’t make sense. Same reason people junk stuff and throw stuff out all the time even though they can sell it an get some money from it.
Out of our tax dollars maybe half a cent from everyone went to purchase it. Yet you might have something you personally spent hundreds or thousands on and threw it out or it’s sitting in a box somewhere.
Just because something looks useful doesn’t mean it was. Maybe only one worked and the others had blown motors or thousands of hours on them.
Surplus equipment gets destroyed or left to rot all the time on bases when it can’t be auctioned or reused for something else. It got its use, that’s all the matters.
Someone could have bought one for 3,000 and spent 6,000 extra just to remove it and another 2,000 to get it running, and then not be able to get more than 6,000 for it if they tried to sell it because it’s so old and someone that would need something that old, is not going to spend a lot of money on it. It’s simple economics.
These empty buildings in the desert should allow these humans to live in
But greed just went to waste what insult
Looks like the Loran c site used for navigation before gps was adopted,
In the early 1980s I worked as an oiler on a trenching machine laying pipe for a jet fuel line from the AFB in Adelanto to Edwards, only for it to be shut down a few years later. What a waste of taxpayer money.
Thats a 20 million dollar building!
Not anymore! But don't get caught there on a random drive-up by Feds, or you'll be in for some serious trouble. They have patrols that visit these abandoned sites every couple of months on a rotating basis.
Yes, it was abandoned, but yes, the feds still own it., so don't get caught in there.
We own it, we paid for all of it. Don't forget that.
THere was Loran C site IN BC Canada west of Williams Lake .
Some people will destroy an anvil and for no reason.
When you said all of the copper had been taken, you weren’t kidding.
Nice, the govt' just leaves hundreds of thousands of dollars behind for scavengers to pick at. It's not like they paid for it anyway. Just the blue gensets inside are 165k apiece.
It would have cost tens of thousands to remove a bunch of stuff that was obsolete and useless anyway. So they saved taxpayer money by leaving the stuff. New generators cost that, these were not new when they left them. Everything was outdated. And requirements changed for what energy efficient things could be used. No point taking old generators from the 80s and 90s and paying to have them removed, repaired and transported across the county when newer more efficient ones were cheaper, and provided more power.
@@PTRRanger951 Have you seen the stuff at Govplanet auctions? I bought an early '60s era USAF light tower m just because it had the right two cyl. Detroit Diesel I needed. ALL of that stuff would sell and for more than you know. People want obsolete stuff now more than ever, it's simple to work on.
No tunnels where are they?
I've been there and walked around the building.
SO. VERY. SAD. WHUT. HAPPENED. TO. RESPECT. THATS. ALL I. WANNA. KNOW.
What happened to what? Are you speaking English? It was closed because nothing there was of use anymore. It was literally explained in the beginning of the video.
Why not drive your car up there??? It's not like there isn't anywhere to park!!
Yes mate I Don't see won't they get smash up the place mate
Do you know when the building was built.
1976
Sherminator?
Sad how people just jave to mess shit up
Watch ur step. No way the rattle snakes dont take over that place at night.
You were trespassing making this video - just so you know !!
lol a Coast Guard station in the middle of the desert? What's next, a heavily fortified Army installation at Point Nemo?
What a waste - at least they could have sold the place for scrap
Oh yeah and you’re not asking the major question here?
Why are there such enormous generators in THAT COMPLEX and there’s nothing else there??
What about the huge A/C vents and where do they go?
Below ground?
Hellooooooo??????
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have made the decision not to watch any videos of urban exploring when the area has no trespassing signs, no matter how old. I know I won't be missed
Missing the tower and transmitter stuff.
All this facility was is a power station !
Not much left compared with Afghanistan.
Military and Government agencies always waste.
Nothing compared to Vietnam.
What a mess
That doesn't look too far from Edwards
Tuber said it's near Searchlight Nevada, or Nipton in the East Mojave Preserve.
Former Lorsta Searchlight
This is what military does. They been doing it forever they leave stuff and buildings abandoned. People think Afghanistan was the first time lol nope. They do it every there they go even with equipment. They just take the important stuff out of it and then leave
I wonder if we should tell the scrappers there are places called companies and they pay people money to do work for them. Better money and work conditions too 😆 🤣
yeah but you can't show up to a real job at 1AM with a scrambled brain from Methamphetamine
It's the rush they get from stealing and vandalizing.
As you pan around the outside of the buildings and off into the distance, my only question is, "I wonder how badly you have to screw up to get stationed there." And I had no idea the USCG invented and maintained LOng RAnge Navigation systems. Weird.
People crying about the waste. But no one knows how old the equipment was. In business equipment is depreciated in a very short time and no doubt the equipment there was too. LORAN as a marine technology was on its death bed 25 years ago.
Depreciation is an accounting method to lower the value of equipment over time. It has nothing to do with actual value or usability of the equipment. While it's true some things like computers advance and need replacing other equipment can be just as functional in another role or location with even older equipment. Not arguing the point just clarifying.
Nice example of government waste.
yeah I don’t understand the reason for young people to destroy
Anger, boredom, ego, plain old meanness, stupidity.
Meth addiction
Coast guard in the desert hmmm
I see wooden doors to be salvaged, so much left. What a wasteful America. Great bones for a nice building. Someone could salvage what’s left. Metals just need a large dump truck, tractor and the will to WORK. 😅
Loran C was never very accurate. In some cases, hundreds of miles off. Interesting video.
I found it to be accurate to less than 8 miles off after 5+35 hour flights from Lax to HNL on B720 H
typical govt, use our tax dollars to build something then abandon it
So are the taxpayers still maintaining this or are we suppose to rent it? Who left this sh#t/
It's only tax dollars, no need to auction any of that
That was a support facility for a net work of tunnels and bunkers maintained by the government and some corporations.
Lol but it wasn’t. It was a navigation station.
There are DEFINITELY tunnels and secret facilities all over the mojave. I was stationed there and can tell you for a fact that MILES out in the desert---far from anything man-made---there are huge doors that slide open and lead down a steep ramp into the tunnel and facility systems. It is actually not a secret---we knew about them back in the late 90's.
They probably traffick children through them nowadays
Great to see how taxpayer money is thrown away.
No way it was just a Loran station. There were 2 rooms there that were server rooms. That much square footage of server room, cmon that was a nsa site or something black.
Kids destroy everything
The building that she's showing was used on the show MacGyver it was only built to be used on that show then they abandon it because they no longer needed it
I hate music with a click track in it.
The old Hawe's Tower.
Hawes had a bunker that was removed about 9-10 years ago now, after gang menbers murdered somebody at the facility.
This looks like the Loran site at CalVada.
What a waste of taxpayer money's. Could be reused maybe to house the homeless, retraining, health services.
Lmao. No it can’t. Its middle of no where. There is nothing there and it’s not by anything. Also new big enough or worth it.
"... reused maybe to house the homeless..." Ever read "Lord of the Flies"?
Sad how tweekers and rat steal everything and taggers tear everything up
Don't get caught in there by the police because you could get a hefty fine by the federal government.
it's the rap music
White kids do love rap.
didn't say racial.....said it's the antisocial rap music
Heavy metal headbangers would be my 1st guess, or Kid Rock & Ted Nugent fanboys.
Must have sucked to worked out in the middle of nowhere.
kidding? kinda sounds cool... no boss and other stupid ppl.
So walking around in an Abandoned military installation . It’s not public land , it’s own by the government, and if they gave up there rights it’s own by the state . Your still committing a crime by being there . Smh , you fill your self , incriminating yourself on government property . All one person has to do is report you and your going to catch a shit load of charges.
Oh well, tax payers money 😡!
So much money wasted. This is absurd.
American tax dollars spent on good waste