@nojnard5481
0:49 ‘Bricked up and forgotten’ is gonna be the title of my autobiography
@brentgoeller8257
I highly recommend you go take the tour. You're right, they aren't going to let you into classified areas. But it is an entire city inside. There is a shopping areas with lots of stores, multiple food courts and restaurants, and every square inch of the whole building, including the classified areas, are covered in memorials, history, and art. If nothing else, look at it as the most secretive museum tour ever as they won't let you have a phone or recording device. And, if you want to get in, just join the military. It's a military base like any other. If you're in the service, you can go anytime you want. Again, it's a whole city with a movie theater, bowling alley, etc.
@wondersteven
I lived about 2 miles from the Pentagon. On 9/11 after the attack, my SO and I took off from work early from our jobs in McLean, Va. and drove home, changed clothes, and walked to the Pentagon. We approached it from the west side, the side that the plane went into. Of course we could not get any closer than the west side of Columbia Pike on a hill where the Navy Annex was. I believe the USAF monument is there now. Anyway, we as well as other onlookers stared at the gaping hole and the fire fighters trying to put the fire out that the plane had caused. It was quite a day. About a year later, I had a four month task I had to do in the Pentagon. I enjoyed the time I was there. I even got to see SecDef Rumsfeld walking up the hallway with his security detail. One day, I wandered over to the wing that got hit. They were just about ready to reopen it up I believe a year after the impact. Also one time my son and his girlfriend came to D.C. to visit and I got them into the Pentagon as visitors. His biggest kick was to eat at the "Cafe Ground Zero, that's the building in the middle of the courtyard. One other thing, as an Arlington resident, I was able to take the Metro to the Pentagon and thus not have to deal with the parking situation.
@jin1063
Ryan you forgot to mention that the guy in charge of construction was a Col. Leslie Groves. Later General Groves and in charge of the Manhattan Project.
@skifast9721
I've been in the main computer room/data center in the basement. It's just massive and open. Like that pic you had with the file cabinets but it just goes on and on row after row of computers. This was 1989 and they still had a massive hodgepodge of technology. They were still running a lot of Sperry univac mainframes with reels spinning around from what looked like the 60s side by side with modern ones of the time. I am told it's been cut down in the amount of computers on a grand scale with the advancement in technology and storage. My friend in govt sales says it's mostly empty in there now from those upgrades. At least compared to the massive hive of activity and equipment it once was. Back then, there was so much cabling they just ran it across the aisles and covered it with carpet -like carpet speed bumps-or left it there to step over. There were no walls to run it through in the middle of a massive concrete bunker/ cavernous space. Even deep in there they had a soldier with a rifle at the immediate door into it. I only got to go one time for my employer, to deliver...some more cable. But I was guided to the courtyard in the middle after that and saw the hot dog stand named "Ground Zero", for the obvious reason a nuke would land right there. That was my best day working there. I also went to NASA a lot and got to go in where they run the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. I ran into a guy I knew while I was there. I had no idea he worked there let alone on Voyager stuff. Mind blown. It's a small world. Hi Greg! I basically ran all over the DC area to defense contractors daily for printed circuit work and CAD work we did for them and NSA when I wasn't doing the CAD editing work.
@Josh-yr7gd
After the plane attack on September 11, 2001, the Pentagon was completely repaired and reopened exactly one year later. I was always impressed by this. The government proved that they could get things done swiftly when they wanted to. But after hearing they built the ENTIRE building in just 16 months, I now realize it would have been a disgrace had they taken any longer to restore it.
@johnjuhasz7476
I've never been on a tour of the building, but was there for a briefing as part of an assignment as an attaché, then later for a debriefing back in the early 70s. When I first got my assignment in the late 60s to go to Vietnam, I wasn't too thrilled with my particular assignment, called the officer in charge of my orders, made a request, then several days later received new orders which changed not only that assignment, but also my training and subsequent MOS and future assignments.
@GH-oi2jf
The Pentagon Papers weren't about The Pentagon, though. They were just historical, dealing with policy regarding Vietnam.
@michaelwhite2823
Ive always been fascinated by yhis building but was paranoid if i got caught researching it too much. A misunderstanding might ensue. Great job Socash. At ease!
@Hansaman58
Definitely an interesting building. I visited it several times in my professional career and even worked in it for a time years ago.
@cbmirada
When I was in the military in the '80s and '90s I used to go in the Pentagon for the Pentagon Federal Credit Union down on the Concourse, but it was easier to park by the river side and go thru that entrance and go past the Secretary of State and down the elevator, I'm sure the privileges we had as military are more restricted now
@Livlifetaistdeth
That was a nothingburger and I'm still hungry for real information
@caiusKeys
That five-sided fist-a-gon!
@garrysekelli6776
0:51 i remember when it got struck by a cruise missile in 2001 one day after Donald Rumsfeld announced that 2.3 trillion dollars from the Pentagon's budget was unaccounted for. And the section of the building that was struck was the accounting department.
@boosterdude6921
2min of the 12 for a dodgy sponser,,,,, lol
@TheLiamster
The Pentagon is great but there should be solar panels on the roof. There’s a lot of potential electricity generation
@Dacheat
Another great piece of content Ryan. Thank You! On another note, If I were given the option to know our Government's Deepest & Darkest Secrets, I honestly think I'd take a hard pass. I think the truth would make my head explode!🤯
@randallhill7979
Thanks for the video 👍 interesting.
@cooperraleigh
A tunnel from Waldorf to the Pentagon is crazy 🤣🤣 Usually you have to catch a flight to Waldorf.
@ITSHISTORY