Aberdeen Proving Grounds....... Can non-army people visit???

[Aquaman]

I was looking at some WW2 pics of US/British & German tanks from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds and I was wondering if non-military people can visit it. I searched for a site on the net but the only thing I could find is the Army site (nothing about visiting).

It sure would be cool to see all those old tanks.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[b0mbrman]

Of course you can. In fact, there's very few places normal people (read civilians) can visit on an Army installation.

And the places you don't have the clearance for are boring enough that you're not missing anything...I know from experience

 

[Aquaman]

Ever been to Aberdeen?

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[oni]

Dont go to Aberdeen, the only thing thats there are alot of frustrated men and alot of tired sheep

 

[cipher00]

I'm pretty sure there's an ordnance museum there - Aberdeen is the ordnance officer's basic training camp, I believe.

Fort Knox will have tanks, as will Catigny (sp?) just outside Chicago -- very interesting quasi-interactive museum (you start out on Omaha Beach----)

 

[soapdish]

Aberdeen is loaded with tons of equipment from WWII.

The road leading up to the base even has equipment displayed on the outside of the base.


There is *alot* of equipment there, even dating back to WWI!


Go, go now, go fast. If you are a WWII buff, you will enjoy it. The only thing is they don't let you get in the tanks

Some of the equip even has big scorrings in it, from where they were hit. When I was there, the only thing was all the equip was painted this grayish yellow... all the same color. It would have been better had they kept the original paint schemes.


Note, this was like a dozen years ago.

 

[Aquaman]

Cool Now all I have to do is find the time to go.

Cheers,
Aquaman