2020-10-12, 12:48 PM
(2020-10-12, 10:32 AM)Candace66 Wrote: .Though certainly other classified projects have flown in the region. Check out the following book for an example.
Candace, there you go again with another fun filled factoid about DEVA and the nearby area.
I wish that I had more time to spend in Tonopah heading back and forth between DEVA and home. I love the place and its colorful history so here are some more tasty tidbits.
My father-in-law was one of three partners in a Utah based construction company that won several bids for projects "way out in Tonopah" in the 1980's. Everyone on the crew had to go through security checks and sign non-disclosures. He also scored contracts at Dugway Proving Grounds in the Utah West Desert and I worked on one of those projects myself during college years after being cleared by security background. Nothing obviously secret, just concrete and framing a new facility building. My FIL was tight lipped about it except to say it was something big.
I also worked with a physician/psychiatrist for nearly two decades who early in his career was also a private pilot and would fly out to Tonopah from Utah once or twice a week to do clinic at the small local hospital. He would sometimes joke about gaining "broad experience" in clinic because once a month he was tasked to check "all the ladies of the night" for STD's and issue certificates of health so that they could continue to ply their trade as "vital parts" of the Tonopah economy. LOL
Life begins in Death Valley