User talk:Billieboy62

Canadian Forces Base North Bay Page
Hello, Billyboy62. Thank you for your contribution, but a couple of points. First, the North Tunnel platform and elevator/stairs access to the platform still exist, and, second, the North Portal to the tunnel was never blocked by a wall.

Regarding the former point, Building 64 was the original North Portal, i.e., control of passage in and out of the North Tunnel. The building became Military Police Headquarters when a new North Portal was constructed, and a couple years ago began transition to our Wing Telecommunications & Information Services after a new MP facility opened. Throughout this time, the platform and elevator/stairs access has continued, intact. I personally know this from having worked in the Underground Complex (UGC) as an Air Weapons Controller, later as a UGC tour guide, and, over the past 15 years, the Wing Heritage Officer, the base's Subject Matter Expert on the complex. In all of this time I and everyone else who entered or exited the North Tunnel has passed by the platform and elevator/stairs access. In fact, the platform and access also served as an emergency exit from the UGC to the air base, and was used a couple of times in this capacity in base exercises during my service in North Bay. I.e., how to get out of the North Portal if its vehicle door is blocked by rubble or rendered inoperative.

Regarding the second point, my office and our base museum have a host of photographs of the construction of the North Tunnel that show a vehicle entry from the base and no interceding wall. Having a wall would have prevented direct access to the complex by vehicles from the base, unacceptable for many reasons of safety and security. Furthermore, my office archives holds a nuclear strike structural planning document for the Underground Complex; the North Portal was outfitted with a vehicle access door, the idea being when an atomic weapon detonated on the base the blast would roar through the door, down the North Tunnel and up and out the South Tunnel, to minimize the blast's impact (ergo damage) to the Complex. A wall would have made this impossible.

For these reasons your editing of the CFB North Bay page was undone. We appreciate your attention to our page, and wish you the best.

22WHERO (talk) 16:13, 8 April 2013 (UTC)