Bob Ackley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to Bob Ackley:

 BA>>> AFAIK it's a tossup whether the nearest
 BA>>> military hospital is at Fort Riley (Topeka, KS) or Scott AFB
 BA>>> (Belleville, Il), assuming that both of those bases still *have*
 BA>>> military hospitals.

 MG>> Malstrom in Great Falls, MT (is the correct abbreviation for an Air
 MG>> Force base "AFB"?)

 BA> Yes.  And I believe it's Malmstrom, I think a B52 base at one time.  I
 BA> know it is a former SAC base.

 MG>> has a tiny little clinic and won't see any
 MG>> patients who aren't signed up (and paid) for Tricare. That clinic
 MG>> (while I was there) isn't going to win any awards for medicine,
 MG>> either. :)

 BA>>> I note that the Navy once had large operations in the SF Bay area,
 BA>>> but NAS Alameda closed years if not decades ago, and the Oak Knoll
 BA>>> Naval Hospital (where I was born, BTW) was closed and sold off years
 BA>>> ago.

 MG>> That's true; Alameda has taken the land and dock facilities, Treasure
 MG>> Island has been turned into a condo and touristy area.

 BA> Treasure Island was *originally* built as a 'touristy' area.  San Francisco
 BA> created the island (from the sludge that makes up the bottom of the bay)
 BA> specifically for the 1938 World's Fair that was held there.  The Navy took
 BA> over the facilities (and most of adjacent Yerba Buena Island - which the
 BA> SF-Bay
 BA> Bridge goes through) during WW II and didn't let go of them until fairly
 BA> recently.

 BA> (We didn't get into Hunter's Point and Mare Island - both former Navy
 BA> shipyards, the
 BA> USS Maryland was built at Mare Island, as were a lot of other ships
 BA> during WW II -
 BA> or the reserve fleet that's rusting away up in Suisun Bay). 

 MG>> The Army still has Ft Mason, but who knows how long that will last.

 BA> Is that the old fort that's under the Golden Gate Bridge on the SF side?

Yes, it is. On a side note Lucas Films took over the Presidio area except
for the few buildings designated as historic landmarks that are part of
Golden Gate Park.

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