How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2023
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The fact that it’s one of the most secure buildings on the planet and a bunny still somehow got in is one of the funniest things I’ve heard all day
I had a summer job at the Pentagon in '97, and it was laughably insecure. You could enter the building with your badge clipped to your backpack, not even showing the guard your face as you strolled in (without even a metal detector or a turnstile) Once inside, you could go down almost any of the corridors inside without restriction; the exceptions being things like the hallway with the Joint Chiefs. But functionaries like deputy secretaries were just off of ordinary hallways. They were just planning the renovations that summer... forget Kevlar or bomb-proof glass; most of them were of the "Holy Crap, this place isn't up to code" innovations like "fire doors", and "vent shutters", and "single-pane non-tempered glass is a great way to get decapitated in an explosion." sort of updates.
Ok, now I’m not a conspiracy theorist but that sudden test of terrorism hitting the brand new anti terrorist section is super funny
"BUNNY! QUICK! TAKE A PICTURE!"
The Pentagon is claiming the rabbit may have been dropped by a hawk, which is an interesting theory. Apparently nobody noticed it in the hallways, and it's hard to imagine how a rabbit could run through any busy building that large without someone noticing. But there are probably other explanations, too. Evidently a chicken once got into the Pentagon, though it didn't make it very far inside, certainly not all the way to the courtyard.
As a former soldier, I can assure you there are still plenty of clowns in the Pentagon.
Sam: pentagons are the world's most important shape
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When you take a tour, the marine guides only walk backwards so there is no way you can sneak away. Marines walking backwards - the peak of security.
My parents visited the Pentagon back in like 1995 when they didn't really prioritize security and they literally just waltzed right into the building. No security guards, no one stopped them, and doors were all unlocked--just two graduate students walking about the hallways for like an hour before they left bc they "couldn't find anything interesting"
Also fun fact: it’s not just Dunkin Donuts. The Pentagon is essentially a shopping mall for military people!
As someone interested in getting into the business of shipping clowns to the Pentagon, this video was very helpful for me!
One correction: Pentagon Station (a part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, AKA "the DC Metro") is not closed, and actively serves the Green and Yellow lines. The station DOES operate under special procedures, however, such as no photography or video inside or on the station grounds (or on any of the transit hub premises, as there is a bus hub just outside the Pentagon as well), as well as being closed during non-operational hours (as the DC Metro does not operate 24/7) and only being opened 10 minutes before the first train arrives in the morning.
I feel like working at a Dunkin’ in the Pentagon has to be one of the better jobs out there.
It’s so secure that they flew a plane into it to prove how durable it was.
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My brother in law was a colonel in the Air Force (flew F4’s and f16’s) and his wife is still a JAG (prosecutes misbehaving people in the Air Force, usually for sex stuff). I got to do a tour of the pentagon in 2017. For everyone who asks “why do we need RealID?!” I don’t have a good answer. But, it does in fact allow you to take a tour of the pentagon.
Ok but now I need to know about the Dunkin at the Pentagon. You can't just drop that info and leave us hanging? What are the logistics of having a minimum wage employer inside of the most secure building in the world?! That would DEFINITELY be half as interesting. Maybe that awesome guy at wendover productions can create a cool in-depth video about it!
There's a reason the Pentagon is a pentagon: Before the Pentagon, the then War Department (the Department of Defense wasn't called such until 1947) had multiple temporary structures built during WWI right on the National Mall. In the late 1930s, a new War Department Building was constructed in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, now the Harry S Truman Building for the Department of State, but it didn't solve the War Department's space problem. So when WWII broke out in 1939, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson found the department's situation unacceptable, and so the need for a much bigger place was further cemented. That's why they were in quite the rush, not just WWII but what they had before was overcrowded and temporary.