Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/18/2011 9:43:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
US military police stationed at Fort Knox, home among other things to the United States Bullion Depository, are reportedly none too pleased at having to patrol in rather feeble solar-powered electric golf carts in line with Pentagon efforts to be more environmentally friendly.
"Most of the officers are reluctant to use the cart," reports the US Army Installation Management Command. Apparently the vehicles' top speed is only 25mph, and though they are fully equipped with flashing lights and windscreen decals reading "Army Green - Army Strong" they are thought to have a certain lack of cop credibility.
Nonetheless Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Schiller, top military cop at Fort Knox (which is a large Army base as well as housing just over 5,000 tons of federal gold) insists that the solar patrol-carts are a boon.
"It's a win-win situation," he says. "The cart is small enough to maneuver but large enough to hold a stretcher if there's a medical situation."
Bob Knoll, transport chief for Schiller's mil-cops, is also an enthusiast. He notes that before the solar panels were installed, the battery carts would often run flat after just 25 minutes' use.
"That's not helpful," he notes, adding: "If you have to plug it in, it's really not that green, is it?"
Now the carts apparently never need topping up, though this may be because the Fort Knox cops refuse to drive them.
Nonetheless Knoll describes the idea as "really cool – in many ways – it's really cool."
American readers worried over the security of their national gold reserves will be reassured to hear that apart from the military the bullion depository is also guarded by the United States Mint Police, who are equipped with bicycles.
Ahhh yes, Pussy Galore.
...yeah..a top speed of 25 MPH and a 50/50 chance of breading down.
breading=breaking
There is probably no gold there. Just a Potemkin village. One tends to cut corners on things that aren’t really important.
Wasn’t the inventor of those things killed ... by going over a cliff while riding one?
>>> Wasn’t the inventor of those things killed ... by going over a cliff while riding one?
Yes but that wasn’t a design fault in the machine. You drive off a cliff, you have to expect unwanted results.
It was quite the thread if I remember correctly. :O
Just damn.
LOL!
It was definitely there in 1977. I was part of the casual labor (read “college students on Summer break”) who moved ~47,000 bars in support of a Treasury / GAO audit. And the other sealed vaults had plenty of gold, you could see though the ventilation holes.
Redundant.
“If you have to plug it in, it’s really not that green, is it?”
There’s the revelation.
“Rob Schiller and I were company commanders together in Korea. I’ll let my absence of further comment speak for itself.”
LOL
REMF extrordinaire I take it.......
Ft Knox was until a few years ago the home of the Armor School, what’s next solar powered M1s?
I sow that HC special on Ft. Knox last night - pretty interesting.
The crown jewels of Hungary & the Magna Carta? Who knew.
These wont work when patrolling the Dixie Dieway Hwy 31w
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