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I grew up in the middle of no place in NJ, and we had a YMCA by us. It wasn't until I was much older than I understood what the YMCA was. For us, locally, it was a place that invited us to parties every now and then - Christmas parties, Halloween, Thanksgiving, that sort of thing. They had a huge property with multiple lakes that we more or less used as our own, being as we rarely saw anyone at the properly. When I was older I figured out it was really a summer camp for inner city kids. We had no clue growing up.
If that's not odd enough... We knew the property inside and out - we played there and explored there as kids, and when we got older rode dirt bikes (trikes really) on the property. But there was one area that was fenced in and... guarded by armed guards. Turns out the property had radar installation. We should have known being as the road the YMCA was on - which was really just a short drive way - was called "Lockheed Road". If you do a search in google for "lockheed road califon nj" you can see the YMCA building (with the parking lot) and on the end of "lockheed road" was the radar - and now I see a huge paved surface that could serve as a helipad.
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