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empire.iS - A Map of US Military Bases World Wide

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http://empire.is/

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I thought some of the neophyte military minded members might bet a kick out of this. (Yes, you can find all of these on google maps, but this is rather neat)/
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He's missing quite a few.
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I like that one of them is just a neighborhood of military housing.
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This is outdated by several years concerning Iraq, rather incomplete on Afghanistan, and lists a number of places where the US military simply has landing rights to refuel but no permanent personal as bases.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:This is outdated by several years concerning Iraq, rather incomplete on Afghanistan, and lists a number of places where the US military simply has landing rights to refuel but no permanent personal as bases.

Also counts bases that may have parts not adjacent to each other(Little Creek and Fort Storey, for instance) as separate installations.

Also, counting ammo plants like Radford as bases.
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If you read the "About" link, he mentions that its an incomplete list, and invites people to point out ones he's missed.
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Has he got the Darwin, NT, Australia training base?
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PhilosopherOfSorts wrote:If you read the "About" link, he mentions that its an incomplete list, and invites people to point out ones he's missed.
I'm speculating here that he doesn't care about getting corrected unless it adds to the number.

EDIT: Just noticed he's including decommissioned bases like NAS Dallas and Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells. So he's counting NG armories/activities as well. Real class act, this guy.
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PhilosopherOfSorts wrote:If you read the "About" link, he mentions that its an incomplete list, and invites people to point out ones he's missed.
He could just do his own homework.
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Him doing his own homework would be nice, but at a bare minimum an honest man would remove a base after someone explains to him that it's been decommissioned for twenty years.
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Simon_Jester wrote:Him doing his own homework would be nice, but at a bare minimum an honest man would remove a base after someone explains to him that it's been decommissioned for twenty years.
Yup. Alternatively make it a wiki-like project where a core group of admins could keep the map up-to-date.
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