{"id":368,"date":"2017-05-15T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytrngdept.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2017-05-15T01:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T08:51:35","slug":"marble-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mytrngdept.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Marble Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were sitting at my new favorite place around here, the rooftop bar and pool on the roof of our hotel, and I was looking south towards Marble Mountain. These are a few large outcroppings of very high quality marble that are a few kilometers south of our hotel. Suddenly I began to realize that about 500 meters south of our hotel and partially obscured by trees and tall buildings was something that looked like the remains of a runway. After looking at Google Earth views and some old photographs I came to the realization that the Marine Corps Air facility at Marble Mountain was very close to our hotel.<\/p>\n

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View from our hotel looking south<\/p><\/div>\n

As we drove by there the other day I thought I saw some of the concrete revetments they used during the war over there but I wasn’t sure. They look like open-ended cement Quonset huts. Now, after looking at Google Earth views I know they were revetments and I know why they were there. Here’s a view of the place looking towards our hotel site taken in 1968.<\/p>\n

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Ariel view of Marble mountain looking North in 1968<\/p><\/div>\n

Our hotel is where the trees are at the far end of the runway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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