The Glynco Naval Air Station, near the coast in southern Georgia, was established as one of eight blimp bases built hurriedly during WWII. Like most of the others, it had two 1,000-foot-long wooden hangars, one to house a squadron of blimps, and the other to house additional and transient blimps. Blimp operations continued there until 1959, and the hangars were torn down in 1971. But the layout of the blimp base set the pattern for the future development of the site, and a few circular blimp parking pads are sill visible on-site, though used for other things now. After the base closed in 1974, it was redeveloped into a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, with a variety of vehicular training tracks, mock towns, and even a mock international border port of entry facility. It is now one of four of these FLETCs, and is the headquarters for the federal program (now part of the Department of Homeland Security).
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