Houston: Home to the next strategic military command center?

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by TimBomb

haha here we go again with "houstons so important we'll be bomb next"

But wouldn't that raise our coolness factor???

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by TimBomb

haha here we go again with "houstons so important we'll be bomb next"

Didn't know Oklahoma City was more important than Houston.

[vertigo5110]

Originally Posted by houston-nomad

Haven't read the whole thread, but my first thought is that it would move us up the ranks in terms of a terrorist target. No thank you.

AFRICOM (or Africa Command) wouldn't be a really large terrorist target. If anything in Houston would be a terrorist target it'd be either the Port of Houston or maybe even the Texas Medical Center. Both are large sources of income for the city and (the Port more so than TMC) if damaged and/or compromised for a long period of time would have serious repercussions for the rest of the country. That said, the TMC would be a large (and rather ugly) statement to the nation/world (that is if they attacked the largest medical center in the world - which would be awful but then again, you can't put anything past these people). I'd always thought their attacks were more about making statements than being strategic. If they'd wanted to make a statement by attacking Houston, they'd have tried by now. In fact, terrorist organizations HAVE heard of Houston (Why did underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab target Detroit? Cheap tickets | MLive.com) so your concern is valid.

The only military command center that I know terrorists have attacked was the Pentagon - even then, to my knowledge, the Pentagon is unarmed as far as deflecting large scale attacks such as the one it sustained (like I said, to my knowledge). As far as the COM centers are concerned, I don't' know that they'd be as unarmed but even then, AFRICOM, if it were to come to Houston, would be housed on a retired air force base. It would stand to reason that they'd at least keep SOME planes on the ground at Ellington (might as well).

As I said, I think your concern is valid but if terrorist are focused on making small attacks which aim to harm civilians as a means of making statements - Houston is already within their sites. Having a military command center here wouldn't detract or add to it, I don't think.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by vertigo5110

Having a military command center here wouldn't detract or add to it, I don't think.

I feel better now that "one of their guys" clarified this for us

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by Truth713

That does not even make any sense...

Your username doesn't make any sense. Why you tryin to copy my style bruh

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by Trae713

Your username doesn't make any sense. Why you tryin to copy my style bruh

HA I hav,nt even heard of you before you posted this. Second 713 is common becasue its easy to remember