Sounds like fun
Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:56 am
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/08/milita ... index.html
C'mon kids, let's go to Army World!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; Posted: 9:52 a.m. EDT (13:52 GMT)
FORT BELVOIR, Virginia (AP) -- The Army is considering a proposal to allow a private developer to build a military-themed park that would include Cobra Gunship rides and bars including a "1st Division Lounge."
Military officials said a massive entertainment and hotel complex built next to a national Army museum could draw more than 1 million people a year. But authorities in Fairfax County are objecting because of already traffic-clogged roads surrounding the proposed site.
Universal City Property Management III, of Orlando, Florida, submitted the unsolicited proposal for the theme park last year.
"You can command the latest M-1 tank, feel the rush of a paratrooper freefall, fly a Cobra Gunship or defend your B-17 as a waist gunner," according to the proposal, which was obtained by The Washington Post.
County officials have no authority over the Army's decision because the site is federal property. County Supervisor T. Dana Kauffman said he thought the entertainment concept died last year and said he had no interest in turning a military museum into "Disney on Rolling Road."
But the Army notified the county last week it is planning to move the military museum from Fort Belvoir to a site a few miles away that would be large enough for the entertainment complex.
C'mon kids, let's go to Army World!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; Posted: 9:52 a.m. EDT (13:52 GMT)
FORT BELVOIR, Virginia (AP) -- The Army is considering a proposal to allow a private developer to build a military-themed park that would include Cobra Gunship rides and bars including a "1st Division Lounge."
Military officials said a massive entertainment and hotel complex built next to a national Army museum could draw more than 1 million people a year. But authorities in Fairfax County are objecting because of already traffic-clogged roads surrounding the proposed site.
Universal City Property Management III, of Orlando, Florida, submitted the unsolicited proposal for the theme park last year.
"You can command the latest M-1 tank, feel the rush of a paratrooper freefall, fly a Cobra Gunship or defend your B-17 as a waist gunner," according to the proposal, which was obtained by The Washington Post.
County officials have no authority over the Army's decision because the site is federal property. County Supervisor T. Dana Kauffman said he thought the entertainment concept died last year and said he had no interest in turning a military museum into "Disney on Rolling Road."
But the Army notified the county last week it is planning to move the military museum from Fort Belvoir to a site a few miles away that would be large enough for the entertainment complex.
Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:40 pm
Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:20 pm
Sounds like shades of the Disney "history" theme park they talked about building in Virginia a few years ago.
Can you really "sell" history to the mass, General Public Market?
Jerry
Can you really "sell" history to the mass, General Public Market?
Jerry
Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:15 pm
a legitimate theme park?? where do i apply for a season pass???, or you could go to a wacko militia survivalist camp for nothing, do the same thing, & lose your brain & get on a govt. bad boy list!!