Alice
Location: Nor Cal Gender: Female
"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
| | | our visit to Mare Island < on 4/14/2011 12:05 AM >
| | | I understand that this is highly treadded ground but madcap and i wanted to share our visit(s) to Mare Island. We have been a couple times and will continue to do so as there is still a lot of ground to cover. We have found many archived threads about MI, but none are active so we thought we'd post a new one. A spoon-full of history for those with a taste for it: Mare Island is the oldest naval base on the west coast and had four main functions: shipyard, ammunition depot, hospital (building later converted for training facilities) and Marine barracks. It was founded in 1853 and by it's closure in 1996, it had built 512 ships, 17 submarines, 4 subtenders, and hundreds of other vessels. In 1993, the Department of Defense (DoD) Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission recommended the closure of Mare Island in the "third round" (BRAC 3) of military closures. As part of this process, the Reemployment Center was developed to provide a comprehensive range of support services to more than 3,000 civilian federal workers requiring transition after being laid off from the base closure. It was a multi-agency model "one stop shop" for a wide array of services. Our visit to the Reemployment building was on a very stormy day in March. The sounds of the rain and the wind ripping through the broken windows and blinds was surreal. madcap and I were quiet and listening to the sounds of the storm most of the day. I was convinced someone was scrapping for the first 10 minutes or so, until we turned a corner and saw the blinds banging around violently in the wind. We also visited the nearby warehouse. This building was very strange to me as there were segregated piles of junk throughout. It seems as though an OCD transient had spent a lot of time here. In one pile there was only vacuums, in another child car seats and toys, in another dog food. Here are some of my photos (madcap will post some too) and also a place to put more when we visit more of the island. 1.
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The rest of our photos: http://www.flickr....72157626282062425/ and http://www.flickr....72157626282854301/ Where i stole my data from: http://www.globals...ty/mare_island.htm and the resume of the senior project manager for the MI Reemployment Center: http://www.yatedo....5b3c7f8ead2efeafc7
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