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  1. 12-18-2011 #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve the Planner View Post
    The roofs are very heavily reinforced for routine mortaring (and sealable for gas attacks), but there are plenty of helo landing points on site below the exterior wall elevation.

    Five-story height buildings with a twenty foot wall (wire included).
    Whoever designed that should have been reminded of this:

    “Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man”

    George S Patton
    Last edited by Dayuhan; 12-18-2011 at 12:45 AM.
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