How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
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The fact that it’s one of the most secure buildings on the planet and a bunny still somehow got in is one of the funniest things I’ve heard all day
It's clown proof, not bunny proof.
Similar thing happened at Ronald Reagan National Airport, which is right by the Pentagon, a few years back. They spent around $20 million dollars on a new security system. Next to the airport is a small lake that some drunk people were riding jet skis on. One jet ski broke down but the others didn't hear the rider calling to them. The drunk rider got off and swam to shore, where the airport was, then managed to get past the fence and cross four runways before a baggage handler spotted him and contacted security. The new multi million dollar system never detected him
“You guys are stupid see there going to be looking for army guys”
The parking lot chickens have yet, to breach the courtyard… but they’re working it.
Ps. Running theory is a hawk or eagle dropped the rabbit in the center courtyard in a bid for the most recent Dude Perfect opening.
@@eduardoalcazar2600luckily I'd say, otherwise he would have probably been shot dead
Ok, now I’m not a conspiracy theorist but that sudden test of terrorism hitting the brand new anti terrorist section is super funny
So is the "airplane"...
Giving more conspiracy fuel that it was a planned test.
You know what else is funny, operation sandstorm funding the creation of al Qaeda the same time they build these defenses. Haha so funny
@@joshuamena-tornay8557actually yes, even imagining Bush was behind 9/11, both of these are probably coincidences. Do you know how hard is to hit a specific spot with an airliner? Even if was planned, hitting the right side and only the right side in the right way would have been basically impossible.
This is one of those "they couldn't have done it if they tried" kinda thing
:)
I had a summer job at the Pentagon in '97, and it was laughably insecure. You could enter the building with your badge clipped to your backpack, not even showing the guard your face as you strolled in (without even a metal detector or a turnstile) Once inside, you could go down almost any of the corridors inside without restriction; the exceptions being things like the hallway with the Joint Chiefs. But functionaries like deputy secretaries were just off of ordinary hallways. They were just planning the renovations that summer... forget Kevlar or bomb-proof glass; most of them were of the "Holy Crap, this place isn't up to code" innovations like "fire doors", and "vent shutters", and "single-pane non-tempered glass is a great way to get decapitated in an explosion." sort of updates.
Fun Fact: The "Hot Line" is not, in fact, a bright red telephone on the President's desk. It's a computer connected to a phone line, sitting in a closet in the Pentagon's basement; the computer replaced a literal teletype sometime in the early 90's. This closet has an extremely bored Air Force officer sitting at a desk 24x7x365, exchanging occasional test messages with their counterpart in Moscow.
Your anecdotal evidence of lack of security may have been true in 1997, but it is no longer 1997. 26 years have passed since then, and 22 since the biggest (foreign) terrorist attack in the country.
@@MonkeyJedi99 I am fully aware it was long ago; I thought me supplying the year and using the past tense would have made it obvious I was offering no view on the building today.
@@MonkeyJedi99 I don't think he was saying that the security is bad now, just that it was bad then. Homeland security became so much tighter after 9/11 that I doubt you could compare anything pre-9/11 to now
@@jbsgroup96 Fair point.
At one point during WW2 Admiral Lee highlighted the insecurity of the brand new Pentagon building by wearing a name badge with his picture replaced with that of Adolf Hitler. Since he got through the entire day with no one questioning him at all, he repeated the stunt the next day with his picture replaced with that of a woman. This time he was stopped and questioned because whatever else he may have been, he was not a particularly good Mae West impersonator.
Sam: pentagons are the world's most important shape
CGP Grey: HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS
PILOTS FOR 911 TRUTH
Time for a cage match.
beat me to it...
I’m so happy this is already up at the top.
I was immediately like “hell no, hexagons are the bestagons“
Well considering what CGP Grey did to a certain History channel, then yeah, I’d rather trust Sam here. What honestly makes it worse is the fact that he intentionally swapped out the regular comments for his own patron-exclusive ones, for “Spambots”.
The Pentagon is claiming the rabbit may have been dropped by a hawk, which is an interesting theory. Apparently nobody noticed it in the hallways, and it's hard to imagine how a rabbit could run through any busy building that large without someone noticing. But there are probably other explanations, too. Evidently a chicken once got into the Pentagon, though it didn't make it very far inside, certainly not all the way to the courtyard.
So despite the Pentagon's best efforts, it still got bunny-bombed
Was the chicken in a bucket marked "KFC"?
Chickens have been found in the parking lots a few times.
Lol no the rabbit definitely didn’t go through the building…
So you just have to train a hawk to deliver a (small) clown inside the penthagon.
Which shouldn't be that hard considering that falconry is a thing
Yeah hawks drop prey pretty often. A lady in Texas got a snake dropped on her a few weeks ago. The hawk then swooped in to grab the snake off her arm (lady was fine, snake got carried off)
My parents visited the Pentagon back in like 1995 when they didn't really prioritize security and they literally just waltzed right into the building. No security guards, no one stopped them, and doors were all unlocked--just two graduate students walking about the hallways for like an hour before they left bc they "couldn't find anything interesting"
Key point. That was 1995, before they started increasing security.
You can still do that.
3:09 and 3:18 are of stock footage of Russian weapons and 3:09 is the TOS-1 Buratino multiple launch rocket system which is not an air defense system. Hope I get onto the next mistakes video.
Also the coastguard is the first line of defense in DC. Long before missiles
yep, 3:18 is the Soviet BUK anti-aircraft system.
That short fragment is fraught with errors. Another one (3:19) is that there’s no Avenger missile-it’s the name of the system which fires Stinger missiles.
Edit: The same goes for 3:17 but it’s kinda worse-they just left out the “System” part of the Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS). The name of the missile fired by that system is Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM).
0:11 the Coast guard's headquarters are not in the Pentagon, they are located in an old hospital which was supposed to be the "Pentagon" for DHS but never got all of agencies to move to the new headquarters.
And im pretty sure the metro station stop is still active
"BUNNY! QUICK! TAKE A PICTURE!"
"Shouldn't we eliminate it? It could be a threat."
"PICTURE!"
It's a bunny no harm done right?
@@monkofdarktimesThat's how the Killer Rabbit lures in it's prey.
@@SuperCatacata they are only endemic in Britain
@@monkofdarktimesThat's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you've ever laid eyes on!
@@Merennulli
Bors, chop off it's head!
As a former soldier, I can assure you there are still plenty of clowns in the Pentagon.
I think we are forgetting about the biggest clown of all in DC,sleepy joe
@@coolsnake1134 better then the last clown. but yea non are that great. at lest give us one thats not 70+
@@crazydinosaur8945the inflation would disagree witn u. I dislike trump and Biden. But sadly trump was just better than Biden in more ways than one. To deny actual facts is just foolish. And sadly many will. Look at the border and New York City and California literally running out of money because they’ve too many migrants
@crazydinosaur8945 at worst he's just the latest clown of 2 parties arguing who gives more money to the IDF
@@longiusaescius2537"I love Israel"
"Well I love Israel MORE!"
When you take a tour, the marine guides only walk backwards so there is no way you can sneak away. Marines walking backwards - the peak of security.
How I'm imagining the Marines acting like those really chipper college tour guides
i imagine they don't blink either
@@someasiandude4797 they obviously have transparent lizard eyelids🙄
Tour guides come form all services.
@@someasiandude4797 they blink, but they have to alternate so only one guard blinks at a time.
As someone interested in getting into the business of shipping clowns to the Pentagon, this video was very helpful for me!
I don't think the pentagon needs more clowns than what it already has though, so you gotta look for another business.
Yeah, maybe look at getting clowns into the White House, like every other American voter.
sir.... perhaps you have not noticed....
Since not too long ago they contracted another clown. A real one. An actor.
To act as president for peace for Ukraine, meanwhile sending that country into a perpetual war against Russia
The more clowns they can get their hands on, the better.
Because: People believe a clown before they believe an intelligent person.
Just look at Murica today and what is in the white house.
There is no way of denying the fact that people want a clown in charge....
And so: Let;s go Brandon,....,,
@@abrahamalsaraj6529
_Payday 2 theme intensifies_
@@abrahamalsaraj6529 The Pentagon might not *need* all the clowns, but that doesn't stupid them from ordering them regardless. It's clearly a lucrative business then!
Also fun fact: it’s not just Dunkin Donuts. The Pentagon is essentially a shopping mall for military people!
Could you elaborate on this? Sounds interesting.
My parents had their first date at a seafood restaurant in the middle when they both worked at DOD in the 80s. So romantic
Every base needs an exchange. You have giant hallways. Basement mall created. Hit the basics of food, clothes, barber, mail, alterations, and gifts (eg. florist), then rent out the rest as a bonus.
@@charleslee1373 to hell with them for working for the terrorist department of defense
@@originend8393The inside of the building when you walk in basically looks like a shopping mall. There’s a large concourse/mezzanine overlooking a food court, and along that mezzanine there are plenty of shops- everything from military uniform shops to a men’s wearhouse-type suit store. There’s even a restaurant run by Robert Irvine (the celebrity chef). The video did get one tiny detail wrong though! The restaurant in the middle of the courtyard is an au bon pain, not a Dunkin’, and there’s way more than one Dunkin in the building.
Source: I work in the building
One correction: Pentagon Station (a part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, AKA "the DC Metro") is not closed, and actively serves the Blue and Yellow lines. The station DOES operate under special procedures, however, such as no photography or video inside or on the station grounds (or on any of the transit hub premises, as there is a bus hub just outside the Pentagon as well), as well as being closed during non-operational hours (as the DC Metro does not operate 24/7) and only being opened 10 minutes before the first train arrives in the morning.
Source: WMATA's website, and me, who has used the station a number of times.
I guess we can look forward to this one in the yearly "mistakes we made this year" video
The change was removing an underground entrance. As Sam described.
Today, you have to get off the metro, go upstairs, walk a short distance outside, and then enter through applicable entrances.
Sadly, won’t be getting this into the annual mistakes video.
Correction: Blue and Yellow lines.
One correction to your correction: Sam said that one entrance to the station was closed, not the entire station.
Apparently they walled off the metro direct connection
I feel like working at a Dunkin’ in the Pentagon has to be one of the better jobs out there.
Very safe place to work, no bitchy customers, and you get to say you work at the Pentagon.
Oh trust me, there’s still gonna be a bunch of bitchy customers In there! There might even be more! They all know they’re important!
imagine how clean it has to be and thr security BS every time you enter and leave
Pentagon is just a regular office with a lot of regular people (Its the 2nd largest office in the world, used to be the largest until very recently). There's gonna be asshats there as well lol.
I feel like it might actually be a nightmare. I imagine even taking out the trash is a huge security ordeal
It might be very safe now, but not quite sure in an unfortunate event of nuclear war. In that case, that Dunkin will become the most dangerous Dunkin Donuts in that area, since it is located right at the center of the Pentagon and thus it will be the #1 target of the enemy.
The sponsor segue here is great. "You know what else is a waste of money? Getting food delivered." ... that's why I love our sponsor that exists exclusively to deliver food to you.
It’s so secure that they flew a plane into it to prove how durable it was.
what a total coincidence
Yeah, no
I mean people in the building still died
You didn't watch the video did you?
The CRIADS wasn't in place in 2001
"plane"
There's a reason the Pentagon is a pentagon: Before the Pentagon, the then War Department (the Department of Defense wasn't called such until 1947) had multiple temporary structures built during WWI right on the National Mall. In the late 1930s, a new War Department Building was constructed in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, now the Harry S Truman Building for the Department of State, but it didn't solve the War Department's space problem. So when WWII broke out in 1939, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson found the department's situation unacceptable, and so the need for a much bigger place was further cemented. That's why they were in quite the rush, not just WWII but what they had before was overcrowded and temporary.
When they were looking for locations, they first selected the site of Arlington Farms which was a temporary housing complex for WWII female civil servants and service members. This site had an asymmetric, roughly pentagonal shape, so the building was planned accordingly as an irregular pentagon. Concerned that the new building could obstruct the view of DC from Arlington Cemetery, President FDR selected the former site of Hoover Airport instead for the Pentagon. The building retained the pentagonal layout because Roosevelt liked it and a major redesign at that stage would have been costly. Freed of the constraints of the Arlington Farms site, the building was modified as a regular pentagon. It was built between September 1941 and January 1943.
Can you tell us more about the Dunkin’ Donuts on pleasure island?
Early
What
The WHAT?
*US DoD:* "Now, nothing can penetrate the security of the Pentagon!"
*Local bunny:* "And I took that personally."
I once took a picture casually of the Pentagon when I was a tourist in DC... Within seconds, security had my phone and were questioning me... I was like oh shit, sorry, I'm just a 22 year old Aussie who likes to take photos of things.
How far where you from the building?
@@llllllllllllllllllllllllZ I'd gotten off at the Pentagon metro station, so, a couple roads away.
Wanna talk? I know some secrets about pentagon
Ok but now I need to know about the Dunkin at the Pentagon. You can't just drop that info and leave us hanging? What are the logistics of having a minimum wage employer inside of the most secure building in the world?! That would DEFINITELY be half as interesting. Maybe that awesome guy at wendover productions can create a cool in-depth video about it!
In 1967, I had to provide where I had lived from the moment of birth to work in the Pentagon. Fortunately I had my mother to figure it out since I didn't remember some of it. I had to provide directions to the places that didn't have actual street addresses. I'm sure that DD does not have the turnover (or pay) of their other locations because of the clearance process. I doubt any of the shops in the concourse (which is no longer public) have a lot of turnover because it would be so difficult and expensive to check the workers. There was a sandwich shop in the courtyard when I worked there.
@@dorothydotson7154 Today I learned the Pentagon has shops and a food court. Yeah I would have imagined having a high turn over with low pay would be unsustainable in a high security location. Thank you for the really cool insight!
@@ElDapperCaballo Thanks. I went to work there in Oct of 1967. Back then the busses came through the building and the concourse and shops were public. Barbershops, hair salons, candy stores, banks, gift shops. It had everything. The having clearance areas started when you left the concourse. That's all too risky now.
First off, they are not minimum wage. They fall under the same rules as other federal contractors and must be paid at lease $16.20 an hour.
They are no different than any other employee. Background check, restricted from going to the important places.
The $16.20 per hour just happened in January 2023. All those years before 2021, when Biden passed the EO14026, they were minimum wage jobs. It's a pretty awesome Biden success. www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/government-contracts/eo14026
Within 5 seconds, you already called out CGPGrey and the dominance of our almighty Hexagon.
#HexagonsAreTheBestagons
My brother in law was a colonel in the Air Force (flew F4’s and f16’s) and his wife is still a JAG (prosecutes misbehaving people in the Air Force, usually for sex stuff). I got to do a tour of the pentagon in 2017. For everyone who asks “why do we need RealID?!” I don’t have a good answer. But, it does in fact allow you to take a tour of the pentagon.
They do have a Dunkin’. And a subway. And lots of empty 20x10’ rooms which apparently come in handy when you’re looking for a place to cry.
It was the biggest building I’ve ever been in and is definitely a bullseye example of ant hill inspired bureaucracy in the United States.
I stole a pocket sized, camouflaged & universally christian bible.
That's it, your next visit will be to Gitmo.
Did you burn the Bible?
@@franchezvibritannia7320 So edgy
Dont steal a bible, it is written inside to not do that sort of thing. 😂
I worked for C&P of VA in the Pentagon in 1967 and my bus took us right into the building. The concourse was free to anyone and there were lots of shops of various kinds. My work location was close to the courtyard and wasn't all that far from where the plane hit on 9/11. I was on Corridor 3 and it hit between Corr 4 and 5. I started work on October 21, 1967 on the Monday after the Pentagon "levitation" and I also remember getting on my bus for home and seeing parts of DC in flames after MLK was killed. BTW, I'm sure there is lots of wildlife in the courtyard. The stealth bunny was probably born there.
1:23 hmmm pretty convenient
You missed an interesting point about above-ground security! You point out that the VA-110 highway was routed away from the eastern side of the building and through the parking lot, but do not talk about how VA-27 (which runs on the western edge) was not moved. This was because it is bordered on the other side by Arlington National Cemetery, so instead of rerouting it they added a large earthen berm between the road and the building as a blast shield. And interesting to note that the Pentagon was built with segregated bathrooms because it was in Virginia, however when FDR visited, he told them to stop doing this, and when Virginia protested, he was like "It's a federal building, too bad". So it was the only building in Virginia like this until 1965.
Another huge administrative building with a similarly sized floor area is the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest! It houses the two chambers of Romania's parliament. Inspired by Pyongyang, its construction was ordered by Nicolae Ceaușescu. It has a floor area of 3,930,000 square feet, compared to the Pentagon's 6.5 million square feet. However, the Palace of Parliament has a volume of 90,000,000 cubic feet and weighs 4.10 million tons! To put this into perspective, the Great Pyramid of Giza weighs about 5.75 million tons! Despite being used for parliament and the building having over a thousand rooms, the majority of the building is empty as it remains unfinished, with around 400 rooms completed.
I love in Dr Strangelove that Mandrake was just able to call the president at the Pentagon from a pay phone
go into the pentagon’s 9/11 memorial from the subway system at night, very beautiful, and it’s eerie being so close to the pentagon, too!
also, can confirm, you are very close to the pentagon when driving that road, but more interesting are all the black SUVs they have parked out there!
I'm disappointed you didn't send Amy or Ben to test Pentagon security
New jet leg season idea
I'm from Arlington and I can't believe we only have 15 other dunkin donuts, we have an entire block of nothing but vietnamese restaurants but only 16 dunkin donuts
You guys trying to be like Boston?
Here's my entry for tbe next mistakes video
minor: The SL-AMRAAM is pretty nuch the same thing as NASAMS, as the medium range interceptors of NASAMS are AIM120 missiles (AMRAAM) launched from the surface.
Major: You showed an image of an SA-11 "Buk" SAM system when talking about the SL-AMRAAM, which not only is a different system but a SOVIET system
Someone else already pointed out that you showed a Russian TOS-1 MLRS when talking about SAMs
Another correction is that the Coast Guard in not headquartered in the Pentagon but in the Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building across the river in southeast DC.
The pentagon guys : Yeah, looks great nothing can bypass our security measures.
The savage bunny 🐰 : EY.. What's up doc
3:30 “go crazy”
The FBI would like to know your location
not as secure as my basement with a few people in it
😬
As a skinstealer, one of few people living in it, i can confirm this is the basement of all time
Can confirm, please come change my bucket
the termites seem to disagree
FBI: *AYOOO!*
Unfortunately for the United States, they forgot that the hexagon is there bestagon.
Imagine the nerve to say pentagon is the best shape! 😅
The best shape is obviously the tetracontadigon.
42 sides :)
They know. The only reason why it's Pentagon shaped is because that was the shape of the plot of land the DoD purchased to build new HQ
The Pentagon was built hastily and cheaply, they couldnt afford the divine perfection of a 6th side.
The 5:55 length of the video and the 5 sides to the pentagon are no coincidence I respect the attention to detail
That one airplane:
😭😭
"...The Pentagon. Weird looking building. Four walls and a spare. A monument to Murphy's Law..." - Col. Potter, M*A*S*H*
Just a correction on "engagement assets" part the second and third pictures have mistakes on then, the second image is from a russian BUKm2 missile, and the third image shows the avenger vehicle that fires stinger missiles and not avenger missiles.
This was exactly half as interesting. Congratulations 🎉
I had no idea that the Pentagon was actually divided into wedges, I thought that was just something he came up with so that we could understand.
With the addition of the space force, they need to renovate the pentagon into a hexagon.
there also a ton of CVS's inside the pentagon. when i worked at cvs and found that out was like make sense lots of old ppl work there.
Fun fact: the pentagon exists to protect that one dunkin donuts. Truly a national treasure
"The world's most important shape",
CGP Grey in shambles
4:29 Mother Nature proves once again that she still knows how to prove humans wrong.
Mother Nature used her air wing of Bald Eagles to drop a platoon of bunnies on some unsuspecting DoD personnel. Genius military strategy, if you ask me.
So that is why nothing was done during 2001, they wanted to test the new building standard with a plane before extending it to the rest.
It took a long time for everyone to realize what was going on. It had never been done before. It's also worth noting the serious risk of false alarms. During that 30 minutes between the second tower and the Pentagon, the DoD had identified a dozen aircraft as potentially hijacked. Only two aircraft in the skies at that time would be hijacked and one wasn't hijacked yet at this point. Had they acted, there is a very real chance an uninvolved plane could have been shot down for no reason.
Hey @HAF, for your next mistakes video, make sure you include that the Coast Guard is not headquartered at the Pentagon, but at the Douglas A. Munro building across the Potomac.
Such security measures are merely useless against the oldest trick in the book
Walking in with a clipboard and a toolbox
Thats why I would hope that everyone gets trained well.
Cool video. The Pentagon is definitely iconic.
My sci fi faction that I’ve spent the last 3 years creating is headquartered in a massive 8 sided building called the Octagon.
but hexagons are best
1:12 I dig the DOD's thumb ring. Very fashionable.
The Roman soldiers dress code on the battle field is the correct battle field dress code for every soldier I care about. Chess armor, back armor, hard hat that covers the back of the neck & shield that blocks swords & bullets yet light weight & easily manuverable. The Germans during war war II were smart enough to use hard hats first, even though it didn't cover the back of the neck, it gave them an advantage untill the alliance caught on.
The editor’s beef with Sam is so funny
"Ground Control!!! Bunny Laden has entered the field, I repeat BUNNY LADEN HAS ENTERED THE FIELD, SEND BACKUP.
I think CGP Grey would have something to say about the pentagon being the world's most important shape...
His search history is filled with questions about th Pentagon’s security isn’t it? He’s on a watchlist now for sure💀
Alternate timeline: the pentagon is a rhombus and we refer to the DoD as "The Rhombus"
What if I wanna discuss my strategies in a dodecahedron?
I really love the concept of this channel 😂😂
Ey what's up doc I infiltrated the Pentagon
If that bunny isn't named Bugs they should all be fired
The pentagon metro stop is open and operational. I believe they did have it closed for some time but I use to take it to work. There are a lot of men with machine guns there tho.
Project bunny was a success!!!!
I hadn't heard anything from my team leader...
Thanks for this information
The fact that the Pentagon has a massive parking lot with an interstate cutting through it is the most american thing i can imagine (outside of, yknow, manipulating geopolitics and capitalism)
Also, 395 runs nearby and we all know that most drivers can barely navigate it. Terrorists would most likely miss their exit.
2:58 Just missed the mistake recap lol. The airspace around DC is a Special Flight rules Area (SFRA) and inside of that is a smaller Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ). The ADIZ is only found offshore that borders the mainland airspace
such a massive project
If its so secure, how is it only one camera took one photo of an airplane hitting it?
Objection: Hexagons are the bestagons and thus are, generally speaking, more important than pentagons
Ah, a man of culture, I see
Unless you're a soccer ball, and even then the bestagons have you outnumbered.
"Please turn around before we replace this laser with something more explosive"
XD
I lost it there.
Love my local paper ArlingtonNow getting a feature!
The best security is not to have all the important stuff in one place although im pretty sure the government has alot of sites for important shit that we dont know about for obvious reasons. Hopefully they put as much effort in cybersecurity since that is the most important thing these days
We know how several secure locations around the country, like area 51 or that one bunker inside a mountain
@@Anankin12 I doubt they put anything other than props in area 51.
@@Anankin12 Area 51 is as secure as any other airbase, it's only special to UFO whack jobs
> The best security is not to have all the important stuff in one place
That's.. not entirely true. Having a single location means you only have to secure one location. If you have stuff spread all over the place then you have no idea how secure any particular asset is, whether that's people or documents or whatever else.
Sure a single breach of security has a smaller impact if things are spread all over the place, but you have to balance that against the fact that breaches are significantly easier to accomplish in that scenario.
Plus there's the simple fact of convenience. Its a mere annoyance in peacetime, but if the US suddenly needs DoD to respond immediately (say, Putin proves he's not bluffing with all those nuclear threats) then not having any idea where your assets are or how to retrieve them quickly becomes a pretty massive problem. When its all in once place you just run down the hall to whatever designated meeting room and everyone's right there with you ready to go.
@@altrag true and false... there need to be redundancy and a central dashboard. and a well rehearsed contingency plan.
I can't imagine how much money it will cost to add an extra side to this building because of the Space Force.
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area 51 :- *am i a joke to u?*
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The coast guard is Homeland not Defence so it's not in the Pentagon
3:30 I was going to go crazy, but then I read the fine print.
The fact this video is almost 5 minutes and 55 seconds long makes it almost perfect in. 5 sides.
"The world's most important shape" - but hexagons are the bestagons though!
I miss a new mistakes episode. been a year since the last one
He has been making less mistakes I guess...
@@o_s-24 yeah I guess
ok, thats not where Dunkin is, thats where Au Bon Pain is. Dunkin is in the main food court between corridor 1 and corridor 10, opposite end from Popeyes.
Not even close on the secrets. We keep some there, but not the really sexy ones.
Can absolutely confirm the work of the delivery facility. In my job I received a number of external snail mail letters with no return address. Every one was opened and examined before delivery which I very much appreciated.
The bunny getting in really isn't that hard. There are literal roads between the B Ring and the C Ring and they have exits.
If you ever get a chance to visit, the tours are really cool. The corridors of the Pentagon are essentially a museum that is occasionally refreshed. One of the coolest is the "Time Capsule Room". Its actually more than one with one exactly what it looked like in the 40s, and one from the 80s plus an area where the original construction is visible.
But you left out the single best thing about the Pentagon - the DMV. There is a state of Virginia DMV in there and it is by far the nicest DMV ever. Sure there is a post office, gym, medical center, dentist, eye doctor, jewelry store, etc but a DMV where you can take a number and if you have to leave come back two hours later and go to the front of the line? Yeah, thats heaven.
Agree with everything you mentioned. There’s also plenty of mice and rats in the building as well.
Agree with everything you mentioned. There’s also plenty of mice and rats in the building as well.
I like the funky music makes the video jolly🕺🏼
So secure a plane hit it and completely disintegrated while cutting out a clean side section of the offices with the accounting audit department.
yup
This always reminds me that I pass by the entrance to the pentagon on my way into DC. I take the metro and the yellow line passes through. They don't let you get out of the station there unless you've got the proper clearance.
but you can get on platform??
this is blatantly untrue; you can leave the station. they have a bus station above ground and you can definitely get from the metro platform to the bus station. if you want you can walk from the metro stop across the southern parking lot to pentagon city mall and no one will stop you.
there are, however, a lot of guys with guns that will stop you if you look fishy enough. solution: don't look suspicious.
this is one of the best and humorous episodes I have watched! not just informative but truly entertaining!
1:19 honestly... wasn't expecting that but I laughed... I laughed soo hard 😂
Who else didn't know that The Pentagon is actually in Virginia?
Yep. Technically DC was supposed to be a square, with half the land being from MD, And half being from VA. Something happened and Virginia either didn’t give the land or took it back. I can’t quite remember the details. It’s another HAI video tho 👍🏼
Washington DC was established in 1790 when Virginia and Maryland agreed to concede a 10x10 mile square at the widest part of the Potomac River.
In 1847 Virginia said, “Tricked ya bitch” and took back their portion of the square. That dismembered portion of the og DC square is now Arlington, VA
@@wcarson4634Virginia took back the land before seceeding in the Civil War.
Part of D.C. used to be in Virginia so a lot of government buildings ended up in Virginia because of that and the fact that there isn't much space in Maryland (the only state D.C. is located in currently).
Thanks for the info :) @@ChuckThree
I really doubt it is the most secure building. I have been there.
Do you work there?
Let me guess, you just waltzed in through the front door off the streets😂
"here is the adresse, go crazy"
caption: "please do not, under any circumstances, go crazy."
11/10
You mention one road being rerouted but what about the other one, Washington Blvd? That one looks just as close as the other one was originally.
A magnificent building surrounded by parking lots.
You should talk about the 9/11 memorial right outside of the pentagon
You didn't watch the video did you?
The CRIADS wasn't in place in 2001
@@cockatoo010 Thanks for for proving there are generic AI bots setup to attack anything with the words 9/11 in it. Setup to waste our time and provide a false representation to skew our views.
Hexagons are bestagons, Sam.
I had to look it up, but there really is a Dunkin' Donuts in the Pentagon.
There used to be a hot dog stand in there
@@cockatoo010 And the soviets noticed that a lot of people congregated at that location, so they assumed it was actually a secret conference room.
It's kinda stupid to locate every office of the forces to one building. It would kinda make more sense to have them in different places so it would be hard to attack all of them at once
They're the Generals.
We don't need them.
Everybody knows that the various services are actually run by Chiefs and Sergeants.
I mean it's just upper management. The airforce has their hq in a small town in Nebraska. They just built a 1.2 billion$ command center
This is better for communication between departments for primary day to day operations. They have other locations for worst case scenarios like the Beast of Caerbannog taking up residence in the courtyard.
it’s the most secure building until the octagon is completed
9/11 pilots really had missile like precision to be able to hit a building at such a low height horizontally.
You missed an interesting point about above-ground security! You point out that the VA-110 highway was routed away from the eastern side of the building and through the parking lot, but do not talk about how VA-27 (which runs on the western edge) was not moved. This was because it is bordered on the other side by Arlington National Cemetery, so instead of rerouting it they added a large earthen berm between the road and the building as a blast shield.
Don't post mailing addresses of public officials and then say "go crazy". Do you want to wind up on a list, Sam? Because that's how wind up on a list.
Bold of you to assume he hasn't already ended up on a list given everything else he has covered so far