Nestled in the hills above Robert Gray Army Airfield at West Fort Hood, past ammunition bunkers and razor-wire fences liberally decorated with warning signs, lies a relic of the country’s past and a tool to shape the military’s future.
It’s called the Fort Hood Underground Training Facility – a pair of reinforced networked tunnels with 2-foot-thick concrete walls dug nearly 1,000 feet into the hillside.
Originally built between 1947 and 1948, it was part of a network of two other tunnel complexes constructed to house the atomic bomb. Today, it’s a unique Army asset, the only true underground training facility in the country.
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