Main Gate at Osan Airbase Begins Reconstruction
Is it just me or does two years to reconstruct the main gate at Osan Airbase seem like a really long time? I have seen Koreans put up apartments and shopping centers quicker than that:
Years of planning has paid off for the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron, which designed and advocated for funding the complete overhaul of the installation’s main gate that begins Friday.
Stars & Stripes
The two-year project by Korean contractors will bring the main access control point, constructed over three decades ago, up to standards for anti-terrorism force protection implemented after 9/11.
“The way it is set up now is just not hitting the mark,” said Lt. Col. Timothy Fryar, commander of the 51st Civil Engineers. “The gate is too close to the perimeter, so our defenders don’t have enough time to determine if someone is trying to run the gate or not.”
An ideal control point setup consists of serpentine entry roads that force drivers to slow down to an acceptable speed, and a deployable barrier system that prevents potential threats from reaching the base perimeter.
You can read more at the link.
GI, they sound like they want a clear field of fire for the railguns, claymores, and ultrasonic/infrared to stop any assault/protest/”lone wolf” from successfully entering the commissary…
Of course, the current gate would stop me; but I’m a large, slow-moving, unarmored target. And besides, I probably wouldn’t stray much closer than Mike’s Arcade for kitch or Blue Mountain for coffee.
Excuse me… Mike’s Arcade for custom flight jackets and “kitsch”…
Military construction being done but foreign companies who only interest to to rip off daddy war bucks. Project is probably over budget and behind already.
Actually 2 years sounds about right.
3 months of nothing being done but tons of “Men at Work”, “Fines Doubled in Work Zone”, and “10k/hr” speed limits.
6 months of doing it wrong but not realizing it.
3 months of tearing down the last 6 months of work.
6 months of doing it again.
3 months of various inspections.
3 more months of fixing the issues the inspections found.
Add an extra week holding off opening it so some officer can do a ribbon cutting event and get a bullet in their OER for it.
Morin gate took longer, pretty sure almost 3 years.
The new Morin Gate had a huge amount of space between the old Doolittle Gate and old Morin Gate to work with. That entrance and exit road is so long and convoluted, it took me a while to figure out which lanes I should be in.
Whatever their plan for to new Main Gate they will have a much more congested space.
JoeC is right on the money there. They might need to relocate the vehicle part and just leave a pedesrian gate for the shopping, if they care about that.
If you look at the plan they have, the road will basically enter at the same point but take a hard right where the old Airman’s Attic and the OSI det were, then snake back around to where the current road is by the middle school. They won’t need as many lanes since they won’t be handling the construction traffic, and it would theoretically help the nightmare intersection outside the gate/711 in the mornings as it’d get everyone off the Korean streets and into a queue onbase.
Was somebody looking for pics around Osan? The ville in particular?
Mike’s Arcade is still here, a few dozen meters from McDonald’s
Wait.
After 9/11, they spent a lot of money and time to make sure the access control point “hit the mark”.
But it doesn’t matter.
Osan is so amazingly insecure in so many ways, this is just kickback-induced security theater…
…like a gal with hairy arms and a beer gut spending hundreds on Botox to get rid of a wrinkle in hopes she will get a date.
CH, you sound uncomfortably familiar with some of your examples… 😯
MTB, I’d like recent photos of Sinjang shopping, particularly Mike’s Arcade, Mike’s All-Season, Blue Mountain, and any other place that looks touristy…
Setnaffa, I have specifically witnessed the example given.
Years ago, I spent hundreds of hours collecting data on thousands of dermatology patients… and I have concluded that a large percentage of the ones seeking elective treatment have a mild mental illness where they focus on unnoticeable aspects of their appearance while not noticing (or denying) things that make them truly unattractive.
Botox junkies are the worst… except to the pocketbook of the dermatology clinic.
If half of them would just put on some attractive clothes or a push-up bra, nobody would notice the wrinkle that appears near their mouth when they smile.
CH, I knew you had real life experience!!!
I always felt there is a business in there.
Most women need an appearance coach.
“Nobody notices that wrinkle, they notice your mustache. Shítcan those frumpy clothes that make you look fat and old. Take a makeup class to learn what is best for your face instead of lazily slopping it on like everybody else and considering it done. Do something about that hair; start with brushing it. Comfortable shoes don’t have to look like dyke shít. Spend a few minutes a day in front of a mirror building muscle memory that isn’t a resting bítch face. Yes, your bag and shoes need to match or you look not only lazy, stupid, and unfashionable, but also like a clown. Walk with one straight foot in front of the other instead of waddling like a duck. Don’t give me an attitude of false pride and say stupid shít like, ‘It’s just my style’ or ‘I want to be liked for who I am.” You are lazy. You are ignorant. You have uneducated tastes. That is your style. That is who you are. And everybody sees it except you.”
Anybody need my services?
CH wrote: “Anybody need my services?”
Pretty much all of the Democrat “wimmins” and “gaze” running for President need something. It’s probably too late for Bernie and Bidet; but they need your help, too.
I only took 4 quick snaps, and don’t really know where to post them. ROK Drop doesn’t allow pics.
One of the pics is (deliberately) kind of stupid. One of those thrift shop landscapes, with Star Wars Stormtroopers standing and fishing on a riverbank…
But I did get a snap of Mike’s Arcade, and will take more next time I go down there.
I’ll email what I have to GI Korea, and let him forward them to you. I don’t care if you get my email address out of the deal. You’re not a horse’s arse…
Thanks MTB. Maybe one day we’ll meet over a seasonally-appropriate beverage.
“Thanks MTB. Maybe one day we’ll meet over a seasonally-appropriate beverage.”
Don’t do it, MTB. What if it is Season of the Witch and you have to drink human blood?
Or, worse, some bodily fluid of Hillary Clinton?
Well, CH, if you’d read what I write that I don’t do blood or motor oil.
I was thinking of coffee for me and whatever the Biker was drinking for hisself.
But you’re welcome to show up, too. Somehow, I can’t picture you drinking anything that came out of any Clinton.