re: #797 pre-Boomer Marine brat

*grin* … Worked contract in one place which did some (though not a lot) of DOD work. There was a door which had four locks on it. Asked a very-long-time friend, who ran the research lab there, what the door/room “was for”. He looked me straight in the eye and said … “What door.”

There was no question mark in his voice.

I had a friend who worked at a DOD job. He had to walk between hung up tarps to get to where he was working. He was told that he might never go home if he ever tried to look on the other side of those tarps. I think it turned out to be the B-2 bomber on the other side of the tarp while it was still a classified project.

SR-71 pilots used to train in a secret basement underneath a grocery store in upstate NY.