Abandoned Military Base in the Mojave Desert - What's Inside?
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- Back after a long break with a new exploration. Check out this abandoned facility formerly operated by the United States Coast Guard in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert. Thanks for watching!
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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.
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...
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
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.
Those gen-set engines looked practically new! What a waste! What a shame!
Big ass Detroit Diesels❤
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.
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
Kids now days would rather shit on anything they can't tear up.
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.
Stators removed from generators. The diesels and AC unit worth a lot of money.
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...
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.
LOng
RAnge
Navigation
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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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.
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.
Soo well built, massive constructions. with 'some' modifications, i can imagine them as a modern/cool living places.
That with all the tiles in floor removed is an old computer 🖥 room.
These empty buildings in the desert should allow these humans to live in
But greed just went to waste what insult
Looks like cool buildings for side winder's and Mojave Green Rattlesnakes 😮
Kind of reminds me of the base they hid the astronauts away in the film 'Capricorn One'.
Underrated film!
Nice location.
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.
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.
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 UA-cam channel was closed. This land is not BLM managed.
Such a waste, drives me nuts! Nice Video though!
Why not drive your car up there??? It's not like there isn't anywhere to park!!
Did I miss it? I'm not seeing any chain link fence around that installation..... OR did that, get ripped off the first....lol
I have flown over this many times on my way to breakfast at calnevari casion in the kidwell airpark
Two Giant motors where the power plant for the facility
Thats a 20 million dollar building!
People always have to destroy everything they touch in this country. It's a shame and disgrace.
lol a Coast Guard station in the middle of the desert? What's next, a heavily fortified Army installation at Point Nemo?
They took the manifolds and turbo’s off the engine’s wow those people were desperate .
Looks like the Loran c site used for navigation before gps was adopted,
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.
Yes, it was abandoned, but yes, the feds still own it., so don't get caught in there.
Nice
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.
Coast Guard ? In the desert?
Can you tell me where in mojave it's located
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?
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.
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.
I've been there and walked around the building.
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??????
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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.
No tunnels where are they?
Coast guard in the desert hmmm
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
Missing the tower and transmitter stuff.
Sad how people just jave to mess shit up
All this facility was is a power station !
What a waste - at least they could have sold the place for scrap
It's only tax dollars, no need to auction any of that
What a mess
typical govt, use our tax dollars to build something then abandon it
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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.
Sad how tweekers and rat steal everything and taggers tear everything up
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
Do you know when the building was built.
1976
yeah I don’t understand the reason for young people to destroy
Anger, boredom, ego, plain old meanness, stupidity.
Meth addiction
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.
So are the taxpayers still maintaining this or are we suppose to rent it? Who left this sh#t/
Not much left compared with Afghanistan.
Military and Government agencies always waste.
Nothing compared to Vietnam.
Kids destroy everything
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
Great to see how taxpayer money is thrown away.
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
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
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.
I hate music with a click track in it.
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. 😅
Must have sucked to worked out in the middle of nowhere.
kidding? kinda sounds cool... no boss and other stupid ppl.
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"?
Don't get caught in there by the police because you could get a hefty fine by the federal government.
LOL - US tax dollars at waste... Its a good one, write it down... LOL
Why? It closed in 2010. Nothing there was worth anything even before it closed. That’s why it closed.
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.
Loose the music hip hop dude
The desert there pretty much sucks. Don’t visit or live there. It’s nothing but drug labs, the prison and air bases
There are quite a few normal and productive people out here.
Funny how everybody misses the most expensive metal. Probably twenty to thirty grand sitting there but I won't tell
Been there, done that. Used a D8. Worked fine!
They don't know what paper is😮
Really don't carry a flashlight.
Coast whole.? They're isn't water for 100 miles in any direction
So, consider what it costs to build, operate, and maintain the facility. Then consider, that the equipment inside could have been auctioned off and some “ return “ on the investment could be realized. Once the building is free and clear of major components, re purpose the facility for another use! Training center, boys n girls rehab, higher education/ tech center. Theres a million options. Looking at our countries deficit, social situations, and overall economic outlook,,,,….. any one of these options would be a far better choice/investment vs what we have here! In closing, this is just one small example of how our government is failing us. And society,,,,…. Well that too doesn’t seem too great either. There is hope though. Unfortunately it will get worse before it gets better. Hang in there peeps and be the best you can at what ever it is that you do!🤙🫵😎
If its in the Mojave Preserve there is no legal use authorized for it.
The generators are worth minimum $10,000 each X 4. The AC unit too.
A perfect isolated prison for Trump's crime family & his long list of MAGA insurrectionists, grifters, criminals & demented fascist fanboys .
@@rogersmith7396 more than that... but they were also traceable where the stolen copper is not. If you think like a tweeker you'll see their reasons... strip as much valuable copper as fast as possible... probably in the middle of the night... I doubt that their Meth dealer would take stolen generators in trade for drugs.
Nothing there was worth the cost it would have cost to auction it. There would have been an even larger loss on the investment. None of the equipment could be used for anything than. What it was designed for, no one would have bought it because they couldn’t do anything with it. Generators are worthless when you factor in the cost to remove them and transport them to auction. They would have sold for a couple thousands for old used generators. But it would have cost tens of thousands to get them to auction. If they even worked to begin with.
Crap was left because it was obsolete and useless. Literally useless. There was no way it could possibly be used again because technology advanced way beyond it. Same with the generators. They are from the 80 and 90s. They would have thousands of hours of use on them. And there are newer more powerful more efficient and smaller versions to replace these.
You guys are making a huge deal out of crap that older than most of you. It’s the same reason why no one here still uses or wears their baby clothes to this day. Or still owned every single piece of clothing they have ever had in their life. Do you sell every single thing you have ever used in your life? Why not sell every pair of socks of you have every owned. You may get 25 cents back after you paid 30 bucks for them. It’s not worth it, that’s why.
The place is in the middle of no where. It would take an hour to and hour and a half to drive there from Las Vegas. And then a lot of man power and equipment costs to remove stuff. It all adds up more than it’s worth when the facility was closed.
Two big cat desil genirators.
FJ for life
Tax payer dollars at work.