Mustard Hamsters explores Loring Air Force Base, a decommissioned facility packed with derelict military technology.
Living at MSSM for two years, I was about three miles from the decommissioned Loring Air Force Base, but I had no car and never really had the chance to get out there. This weekend was graduation weekend for the class of ‘08, and as an alumnus my friends and I planned to meet up at the old stomping grounds for the ceremonies. Much to my delight a friend offered to bring me over to the base to explore. We went twice during the day and found some really great and cool stuff.
In its time, it was the largest Strategic Air Command base and stored more weapons and fuel than any other air base in the nation. It even had its own ski slope.
Visit to LAFB [Mustard Hamsters]
I grew up very close to Wurtsmith Air Force Base in the town of Oscoda. It was also a SAC base, and was the main base used to deploy B-52 bombers during the Desert Storm conflict. A lot of the people who were stationed there were gone during that war. I never got to go on the base when I was growing up, because I was a civilian, but when it closed in the early ninties, my bothers, friends and I, went exploring a place we had never got a chance to see. Years later much of the base has been redeveloped by the town, and the area is thriving. But there was a time when it looked like an episode of resident evil. There were tons of empty buildings, paint was peeling everywhere (tons of that brown paint was used on everything). It was very spooky and sad.