Abandoned Military Base in the Mojave Desert - What's Inside?

Built in 1976. There were four 700' towers at one time. Five active duty and 2 reserve duty Coast Guard personnel were stationed at LORSTA, outside Searchlight, NV

It never fails that when young people, as evidenced by the tagging, find an abandoned anything their first reaction is to smash the place.

You should drive up to the rocket site (JPL) outside of Edwards AFB. Take the paved road that leads straight to a suspiciously man-made looking "mountain" (a 700 ft tall pile of rocks) that is miles after the rocket site. If you make it to the base of the mountain, take a look at the plethora of cameras moving while you do.....and keep your hands visible because you are about to have a conversation you don't want to have. I was stationed at Edwards from 95-98 as a phone technician and it took me to WILD places way out in the desert. One time in the dead of the night we kept getting 911 hangup calls from a line that ran out miles into the desert. I followed it on a dirt road for miles before a clean looking gov sedan was parked blocking the dirt road. Two guys in tan fatigues ---but not armed slowly walked up to my rig and told me if I went any further that I would be arrested. I told them we cannot ignore 911 calls and we are getting a vague one from the cable leading out here. They looked at eachother and told me theyd take care of it. I drove away and was soon radio'd to stand down. There is sketchy stuff that goes on out there.

Yeah that is Loran-C, it was a Navigation building that the Coast Guard used till 2010. It was actually abandoned with everything still inside and with power. Soon vandals came along and ruined the location unfortunately. Keep up the good work, there’s so much more this desert has to offer.

It's to bad so many just vandalize places like that. When I wasa kid we kept places like that clean so we could have a place to hangout away from adult eyes

While getting certified to run SAR in the USCG on the 41's, we had to learn loran C. I was quite happy to see that large bulky unit removed from the 41 and replaced with GPS.

Stators removed from generators. The diesels and AC unit worth a lot of money.

Those gen-set engines looked practically new! What a waste! What a shame!

Air Force Plant #72, by Boron. Was a proposed Zip Fuel testing and manufacturing site. Zip fuels would have been burnt in the afterburner section only of the Valkyrie and others with the right engine, for a extra "kick". The stepchild of Zip Fuel testing was Triethylborane, which is the zip fuel ignition agent for JP7 fuel, used in the SR-71 Blackbird. Miserable deadly stuff that was dropped, but it did have potential gains. One testing facility in New York exploded,,killing people. We found that plant on 3 wheel Honda ATV's a long time ago in the desert. Had no clue what that was. Only years later did we find out. Crazy stuff, like A Coast Guard Station, in the desert. Thanks Uncanny.

I'm just horrified at the amount of wasted money and equipment. Unbelievable!

very sad to see what looked like two pretty new diesel generators and equipment just abandoned to the looters.

LOng RAnge Navigation LORAN was a great navigation tool until it was rendered obsolete by GPS. Is this the one near CAL-NEV-ARI?

I've seen what copper thieves can do but wow. Even the windings off the generator rotors!

Soo well built, massive constructions. with 'some' modifications, i can imagine them as a modern/cool living places.

That with all the tiles in floor removed is an old computer 🖥 room.

Nice

Doesn't anyone else find it odd that there would be a Coast Guard station in landlocked Nevada?🤔 Interesting video!! Thanks for sharing 😇👍💯🇺🇸

this is so sad, this place has been torn to pieces by idiots who have no respect for property that does not belong to them.

As you pan around the outside of the buildings and off into the distance, my only question is, "I wonder how badly you have to screw up to get stationed there." And I had no idea the USCG invented and maintained LOng RAnge Navigation systems. Weird.

Looks like cool buildings for side winder's and Mojave Green Rattlesnakes 😮