The following 6 photos are of:

Rikki & Laura Kirschner's

Former Atlas-F Nuclear Missile Base,  Code Name ... "Corinth West"

578th SMS, Site 12

Dyess AFB, Texas

Rikki & Laura's House, next to Missile Base

Construction and clearing work, near the silo cap

Linda, standing on top of the silo doors

Me, standing on silo doors (notice Entry Portal behind tree in background,

and Emergency Escape Hatch {with cover installed} to the left of it)

Me, at Entry Portal

Rikki, at Entry Portal

I failed to take any interior photos of Rikki's site while we were inside, and then when I realized what I had done, it was really too late to go back inside to the LCC and the silo.  Rikki and Laura have done a lot of cleaning up, do to vandalism, and age.  There is a lot of hard work left, but I can see them living in the LCC within a year. 

For those of you that have been in these LCC's, tunnels, and silos, you can imagine the amount of material, ducting, old fixtures, and deteriorated walls (kitchen) that have to be removed.  It must take a lot of trips up to the top, unless you can carry 100 lbs. of trash and materials at one time.  If someone was nice enough to open the Emergency Escape Hatch from the inside, you may have a ton or two of sand to haul back to the surface.  Anyway, good luck to Rikki & Laura.   Linda and I plan on going back to visit Corinth West and Oplin at a later date (when the tornado season is over).

Visit Corinth West.

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