Talk:Mather Air Force Base

Copyright
I lifted the first paragraph of this article nearly verbatim from the EPA. As this is a public EPA report without another copyright indicated, I believe it's in the public domain. Demi T/C 22:05, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)

I have edited this entire article based upon my personal kmowledge and research. There are no copyright issues in my view regarding the initial information posted by User:Demi. I graduated from UNT at Mather AFB Class 72-07.Colgator 04:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Grammatical error
The paragraph that starts with "On April 1, 1958 ... has the contraction "it's" where the possessive "its" should be. I would have corrected this error but the information appears to be coming from a link to something else and I don't know how to correct errors in such situations. SEdwardB 21:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed...four months later. It didn't require anything special...simply clicking the "edit" link for that section allowed me to change it. WildCowboy 23:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Natural history
Section removed. Apart from "There are numerous plant and animal species that prehistorically were found on the Mather Air Force Base site" which is nonsense, since the Base didn't exist in prehistory. Rambler24 (talk) 09:13, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Present Day Use: FEMA Internment Facility
As of this writing, Mather AFB has been widely reported to be a FEMA designated internment facility, its principal access road blocked by cement barricades, warning signs stating the area is restricted, razor wire atop its fencing turned inward, stadium lighting focused onto an empty field, with strange black boxes afixed atop its poles suspected to be surveillance cameras. Can any of these contentions be confirmed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.39.26.76 (talk) 19:36, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Uh no. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.53.232.146 (talk) 23:07, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

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As a SAC base in the 60's
Is any information like this (with our without the names) of any interest to be added to the article? I lived on Mather from 1962-1967, where my father served as the Base Civil Engineer. During that time, there were always eight (8) B-52s (the pads can be seen in the aerial photo) fully fulled and armed with nuclear weapons, including Hounddog missles on their wings, crews always on alert nearby and everything ready for take-off within 15 minutes. Col. Parker was squadron (wing?) commander. Regular drills were conducted to test that all eight could get off the ground in that time. Any failure had serious consequences. That area of the base had three fences around it and was patrolled by Air Police with guard dogs. It seemed to me that the entire base and everyone on it was constantly focused on that singular mission. Everything was about those B-52s. All of these men were giants. David Schwaab (talk) 00:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)