The claim: halfway between Medicine Hat and Primrose Lake.
What it really is: It's a training base that at any given time will have about 1,000 personal located on the base, which grows during the summer when reservists undertake annual training there.
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Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Primrose Lake Air Range, Alberta, Canada
The claim: 70 miles northeast of Edmonton.
What it really is: First, the base is called Canadian Forces Lake Cold Lake, not Primrose Lake Air Range.
While the base does have several large buildings there, most of them are either hangers or other support facilities for the base itself. There is also civilian housing there and a cadet summer training facility there too.
What it really is: First, the base is called Canadian Forces Lake Cold Lake, not Primrose Lake Air Range.
While the base does have several large buildings there, most of them are either hangers or other support facilities for the base itself. There is also civilian housing there and a cadet summer training facility there too.
Suffield CFB, Alberta, Canada
The claim: just north of Medicine Hat, less than 60 miles from the USA.
What it really is: Canadian Forces Base Suffield is the largest base for the Canadian military (after looking are the place via Google maps I can tell you that it is huge), and is used for defense development and research by the Canadian military, and as a training base for the British.
Not only is the base very vast, it also doesn't contain that many buildings, and none are large enough, or in large enough concentrations to even look like a prison camp.
What it really is: Canadian Forces Base Suffield is the largest base for the Canadian military (after looking are the place via Google maps I can tell you that it is huge), and is used for defense development and research by the Canadian military, and as a training base for the British.
Not only is the base very vast, it also doesn't contain that many buildings, and none are large enough, or in large enough concentrations to even look like a prison camp.
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