Pantex: The Place Where Kimmet Was

[Red Shirt]

"Hey Puck, when did the Colonel get back from pantex?" Ch. 29 1/3, @ 16:08

At first blush, I thought that it was PANTEX or PANT-EX. -EX is a common suffix for Exercise. like JLFEX (Joint Live Fire Exercise) or CLFEX (Combined Live Fire Exercise). I figured it was some kind of training exercise out in the Box that he was observing.

But then I figured I'd look it up to see what it was. In 20 years in the service, I'd never heard of a PANTEX.

Well, I think there might be a problem:

U.S. D.O.E. Pantex Plant. Pantex Plant is America's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. Located on the high plains of the Texas panhandle, 17 miles northeast of Amarillo, Pantex is centered on a 16,000-acre site just north of US Hwy 60 in Carson County.

That's right. Pantex is a nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility.

I think that with the loss of contact with the East Coast, notably the Pentagon, the White House The National Command Authority or anyone that outranks him for that matter, the Colonel just might have some plans of his own.

Hot and glowy plans that involve fallout, 10,000 years of radioactivity and zombies with two heads and three legs.

[ClearSights]

Why has this not been commented on? That is an outstanding find. Highly possible, who knows what all radiation can do to people

[VEE]

Hate to burst your bubble but Pantex is upholds a world-wide reputation for its high qualified veterinary pharmaceutical products. Although it is in Holland.

No, really, good spot. Goodbye L.A?

Michael gets to go back against the clock on a rescue?

This thread should be 40 pages long by now!

[COsurvivor]

I am glad someone pointed out that abbreviation... I wondered myself, BUT what does that have to do with the cracks in Inglewood? Please no pre-historic crap... I want REAL TANGIBLE happenings, sounds silly when talking about zombies and all, but you get my drift.

I see a bigger battle perhaps from the mallers and the Colonel?

[Cabbage Patch]

Here are some links to background sources:
http://www.pantex.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantex_Plant

[Nate Eeez]

Awesome find! Still leaves much to the imagination.

[nikvoodoo]

I've changed the title of this thread. Now it will let everyone know exactly what it's about and we can generate the conversation this probably deserves.

[Red Shirt]

I've changed the title of this thread. Now it will let everyone know exactly what it's about and we can generate the conversation this probably deserves.

Thanks, I thought better of the title, but realized that I couldn't change it. (Think that it was the result of scouring episodes for time codes and it being, or feeling like 3AM when I posted.)

Frankly, I think that Kimmet is on the up and up... but with the disintegration of the entire chain of command above his position, and presumably the Commander in Chief, he may very well be the "rankingest" person left in the US military. That would actually give him the authority to deploy nuclear weapons.

I've had a look at Pantex on satellite, and it might not even be the nukes he's after, it might be the facility. That place makes high security prisons look like a playground. He might want it to use as a forward base. It is centrally located in the continental US, and relatively easy to get to it seems.

Then again, he may be lying about the loss of contact with the East Coast. With the collapse, maybe what is left of the government has become factional, each with their own ideas on how deal with the threat. His apparent ideas on this might be a bit more direct. And fiery.

[7oddisdead]

hmm...thats an interesting idea you've got there. a few of us did mention and discuss the idea of the nuke element, but really when you stop and look at just the facility as a whole...moving some portion of the survivors there does'nt seem like such a bad idea.

the problem with that, in my mind at least. is KC tends to write about what he knows...and while he may know ABOUT pantex, i cant see him moving any portion of the story to that location..which leaves us with the original option.

or not

damn, i hate trying to guess what someone else is thinking...eh...here we go

the positives of a place like that is obvious...its built up tighter than a damn prison, as it should be. as americans the one thing we need to be the most protective over is our weapons of mass destruction..those are by far more deadly than a hundred loons and serial killers, since it only takes one person to wipe out hundreds of thousands. you also have the advantage of being at perhaps the site of one of the most powerful of weapons one could have against ANY enemy...

but theirin lies the problem... if you make your weapons distribution center your home base, what if absolute catastrophe strikes. you find yourself and your community of thousands surrounded...by thousands. thousands of enemies ...that want nothing more than to EAT you..by placing yourself so close to the enemy, you have effectivly neutralized your greatest asset....i dunno man, i would have a hard time figuring thats an entirely sound plan.

still...i really like the idea..way to think outside the box for sure..love seeing posts like this!

[Witch_Doctor]

The whole Pantex is a Nuke assembly/disassembly plant discussion took place on the Chapter 29 part 1 thread. Chogidog first posted a link with the correct spelling

Pantex maybe?
http://www.pantex.com/about/index.htm

followed by a few mentions of nuking L.A. Starting with comment number 54.

Puck sound's depressed about the state of things and hints that things are either really really bad or are about to get really really worse....
3) He returns from Pantex, a nuclear weapons (dis)assembly plant.....
Questions
1) Are nukes being planned?....

The discussion just didn't get very far.