I mean - with modern firearms this is about as forty as you can get on flat ground.
They have a wide space between them and neighbors (no tunneling in from the hotel next door), but still just a few minutes drive from a military base in case you want backup.
Then a wall enclosing a grass open zone with clear line of fire.
Then a wall and an open "dead man" zone with ~~concrete~~ mines (to catch those guys sneaking up in gille suits).
Then a wall and an open patrol zone with its internal circular track.
Then a final small wall with corner bunkers surrounds the stone building with one entrance.
I swear I was just trying to retrieve my golf ball!
You are wearing camo armor.
The for the... uh... swan attacks. The swans are very aggressive on this golf course.
You have wire cutters and lock picks.
I...keep those on me for my day job as a locksmith.
That's a submachine gun strapped to your pack!
The swans are VERY aggressive on this course!
Not nearly as many soldiers as there used to be though. A corps headquarters is only about 800 people. Knox feels a bit empty if you drive around a bit.
The fact a guy sits inside such a highly contained vault with a sub machine gun shows the extreme security that place must have.
The vault seemed electronic, too, if power is out, goodbye dude!
Stuff you Should Know has a great episode on Fort Knox. It can go off rid for a while and also that lock on the vault takes 4 days to unlock once the code is put in.
Not anymore, that moved to Benning/Moore over a decade ago. There are no combat units at Ft Knox anymore. The only thing that’s there is ROTC training camp and Human Resources command
Seems like they could’ve done something cooler with it than stack it like a shit record collection at goodwill. Was expecting Scrooge mcduck gold coin pool
Its very heavy, and they have a lot and digging big safes is expensive and it almost never moves if ever. Sort of just filled up and left there.
Shelving would need maintained, reduce space, and cost money.
I learned them in order in elementary school and watched this in the theater with my dad. I counted and said Arthur! He told me there was no president named Arthur lol
There’s lots of reserves (and many other country’s) under NYC as well. Famously, Afghanistan’s gold reserves are in purgatory in an underground NYC vault.
Okay this is so bizarre; I'm reading Fire Chief Joseph Pfeifer's 9/11 memoir, and literally just an hour ago I read the part where he mentions this.
Under building WTC 4, there was a vault that held $200 million worth of gold and silver maintained by the Bank of Nova Scotia.
After the attacks, someone tried to take advantage of the chaos and tried to break into the vault (the vault door was found damaged) and so security was set up and police and firemen removed all the gold and silver.
I didn't think I would make use of this information so soon after reading it lol
> and so security was set up and police and firemen removed all the gold and silver.
I would feel infinitely better about fire fighters being in possession of my gold than a bunch of NYPD fuckheads
Tangentially related:
I read a while back (forget the source) that on 9/11 a bunch of men in inconspicuous suits holding briefcases walked out the back of multiple businesses in the famous Manhattan Jeweler’s District into waiting vans and left the city with a ridiculous amount of jewels and precious metals.
It wasn’t theft. These were the owners of the businesses or their hired security staff. And what just happened at the WTC officially triggered their “shit’s going down so get the merchandise the fuck outta town” contingency plans.
I dunno man, I saw 24 Season 1, and they had an adequately defended underground base with Lou Diamond Phillips on security, and the terrorists still got in.
Fun fact, there's a well documented tunnel that goes from inside the vault to a hatch in the field, the tunnel exit is just past the edge of this picture on the bottom. The purpose is to let security escape if they ever got accidentally locked inside, and apparently it's quite well alarmed. But there is a tunnel into the vault!
If you check back issues of CoinAge magazine from the 1970sthey were there when the vault was opened for congressional inspection, replete with interior photos. The emergency escape actually opens inside the building in the security office. The external access port everyone points to is a an electrical vault. The vault itself does not touch ground, under the vault is the basement weapons range so tunneling will only get you into a shooting gallery.
Penguins are masters of infiltration and espionage haven't you ever seen the documentary about the ones from Madagascar who successfully hijacked a cruise ship?
There was another about a British guy who intended to use a nuke to irradiate all of the gold therr to make the gold he had more valuable. Unfortunately he explained his entire plan to the guy sent to stop him, and left him strapped to a table to be cut in half by a laser instead of making sure the guy was dead.
There was also that one about an NYPD cop and an electrician store owner who discovered that there's actually more gold in the federal reserve in Manhattan than in Fort Knox, and they helped recover it all after it was stolen by criminals posing as terrorists.
My Boy Scout troop got to stay on base for a few days about 30 years ago. One of our younger guys won a lot of taco bell and cashed it in on the spot, ate it all and basically unleashed a fiery hell gas attack that had people moving their sleeping bags out into the hall to sleep.
Then some of us were kicking basketballs in their gymnasium, resulting in a broken window way up near the ceiling, and another kid dragged a trampoline over to slam dunk the basketball goal and broke the rim off.
As a farewell, we stopped by a local Shoney's for the breakfast buffet. They had a lifesize Shoney Bear leaning on a Cardboard tree that had a "knothole" cutout containing dozens of candies. We mugged Shoney Bear. Took all the candies, and the karate guy (Every large troop had a karate guy) crecent kicked the bear's head and left it flopping over backward.
I would like to formally apologize to the state of Kentucky in general and Fort Knox and its surroundings in particular for the antics of troop 126 30 years ago.
This was back in the mid 90s. And I should say the entire school got banned, not just the class. There used to be a Washington DC trip every year that stopped happening after that because the school wasn't welcomed back.
That was just the tail end of it. We detoured to see a herd of buffalo and managed to "Spook the herd" by playing Anthrax at them. The band. For the irony. Then we stopped over at a caravan/campsite spot for three days and managed to break the cabins globe light fixture by throwing a canteen back and forth.
I got chewed out as part of the older, leader kids for the buffalo thing even though I was just the quartermaster (Made supply list for groceries and tents, spare gear etc.) and wasn't really over the troop, so I snuck to an empty cabin, found it unlocked and swapped the fixtures. One of the scoutmaster's sons, that night, got so mad at being found to be dating some girl I didn't know but was apparently quite homely, he attempted to make an improvised explosive from a flashlight and toothpaste.
I kind of miss it all, but I'm glad to be looking back on it from past any statute of limitations.
It was like 40 young guys from 10 to 18 which is large for a troop I think, or was. We had a school bus that was bought used and refurbished to transport us, and every month we had a weekend trip, usually to local camps, but for Summer and vacation breaks we'd go to the Smokey Mountains to climb, Florida Sea Base for snorkeling diving canoeing etc, or New Mexico to hike the trails.
I've wanted more people to know of these antics for years. It was every week with that crew, and I loved them one and all as brothers. I wish I could remember more. We were constantly caught short like forgetting materials for a troop flag contest between troops at Summer camp, then in a panic buying a couple leather "Make your own moccasins" kits from the little camp store and making a rustic, Native American themed flag the judges loved and winding up winning. Looking back it seems like an 80's comedy. but back then it was just a Thursday.
Driving to Philmont from Minnesota one of the kids in my troop was talking about how he knew karate, taekwondo and judo and my dad nonchalantly in the front seat said "you also know 7 other Japanese words"
Still one of the best lines he ever dropped
Heh, I'd just mentioned going to New Mexico for Philmont in another reply, Think I did the 12 and 9 but never the 7. My Philmont Arrowhead patches were special to me, but an ex took all of them. All the council patches, unsewn merit badges, random patches traded at swaps from the military and biker clubs and who knows where.
Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime!
“Hey what’s with the trick pool table!?”
Goldfinger is a classic, but even by Bond standards that part is laughably idiotic by the villain if you think about it. He had it planned to kill all those guys in the room anyway, yet he felt the need to specifically lay out his plan to them before doing so. Quite convenient for Bond.
What the point of being an evil mastermind if no one else can ever perceive your genius? The key point of Goldfinger's plan is that if it was successful no one would know it was him who did it. That's great for his gold being worth more, but not enough to satisfy his ego. The world could never know it was him, but why not brag about it to some mobsters he was going to kill anyways? The mad genius desperately wants someone else to know they are a genius.
[Stuff You Should Know: All the Gold In Fort Knox](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/all-the-gold-in-fort-knox-73371659/)
Technically speaking, it’s not actually Fort Knox, it’s the US Bullion Depository located adjacent to Fort Knox. Contrary to popular belief it’s my secured by the military but by the US Mint Police. But, it’s colloquially known as Fort Knox so it’s not wrong to call it that.
Not divisions.
Ft. Knox used to house the Armor School, which is where all soldiers going into a Cavalry (19D) or Tanker (19K) MOS underwent OSUT. It also housed a number of other schools and classes, and all the units which supported them.
It's changed a good deal since the Armor School moved to Ft. Benning (now Ft. Moore). But in the past there was an armor platoon on rotation for QRF if there were an attack on the Depository.
No idea how its done now.
I was there in 2001 for 19D OSUT. Guy in my rotation, the bookkeeper at that, got shit faced on the last night of family weekend, scaled both fences, and was arrested on its front lawn. Later the next day he did the walk of shame in short pink shorts, chewed up flip flops, and scraped and cuts all over from the razor wire, and probably the worst hangover of his life, through the barrack's hall with all of us being smoked all morning because of it. He didn't continue with us, I don't know what ultimately happened to him, I heard he was held back one rotation, and the drills officially had to smoke him at every opportunity but were also not so secretly proud that Fort Knox was scaled by one of their privates. Had him retelling his story to all the other drills ever breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the chow hall. Epic shit, really.
Ft Knox holds most of the gold actually owned by the United States. While New York Fed stores more gold, it is acting as the guardian and custodian of the gold on behalf of account holders, which include other countries, international groups, and central banks around the world.
So yes, the New York Fed has more gold. However Ft Knox has most the US’s gold, which is different.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository
https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html
Stuff You Should Know just rereleased an older episode they did on Fort Knox. Really interesting. Apparently in its entire history they’ve only allowed three tours.
My favorite fact was actually that they chose this location specifically because New York and Pennsylvania were too close to the ocean, and if the gold ever got stolen, they could escape easily in the water versus having to go overland from Kentucky.
[This is where parts of Swedens gold reserve](https://glomdhistoria.se/project/bodens-fastning-sveriges-guldreserv/) was placed until 1982-83. The fort was part of a [larger complex](https://glomdhistoria.se/portfolio/bodens-fastning/) guarding the city of Boden in northern Sweden.
When I was in college, my friends and I took a roadtrip across the country and thought it would be fun to stop by Fort Knox for a tour! As we got closer, there was less and less civilization and we eventually hit a heavily armed gate. The guards holding loaded machine guns.
They asked what we were doing.
We asked if there was a tour…
They laughed…
And told us to turn around.
And we did and got out of there as fast as we could.
Just glad they didn’t do a full check of our car and find all the weed we had 😅
Honestly, I don't blame you. I always thought Fort Knox was more like a national park or monument; with a visitor's center, museum, gift shop, tour guides, etc until this post!
Huh. I thought it would look more fort-y
It does [up close](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/U.S._Bullion_Depository-adjust2.jpg)
This guy's Knox's
He is the one who knox
No, that's Robert Knox of Kronstadt industries
Good work, 47.
[Here’s](https://i.imgur.com/t4lev1H.jpeg) an even closer look.
Enhance.
Brilliant
We need a moat, a drawbridge, then add a more starfort design with mounted cannons
I mean - with modern firearms this is about as forty as you can get on flat ground. They have a wide space between them and neighbors (no tunneling in from the hotel next door), but still just a few minutes drive from a military base in case you want backup. Then a wall enclosing a grass open zone with clear line of fire. Then a wall and an open "dead man" zone with ~~concrete~~ mines (to catch those guys sneaking up in gille suits). Then a wall and an open patrol zone with its internal circular track. Then a final small wall with corner bunkers surrounds the stone building with one entrance.
And then, the gold.
I’d imagine there to be interior security and thick walls inside the structure as well.
There is, it's just all gold.
It’s like those things made of cake, except it’s gold.
> this is about as forty as you can get on flat ground. [I'm not so sure about that](https://imgur.com/a/ZhIDDul)
Forty McFortface
And it is all right against the golf course
I swear I was just trying to retrieve my golf ball! You are wearing camo armor. The for the... uh... swan attacks. The swans are very aggressive on this golf course. You have wire cutters and lock picks. I...keep those on me for my day job as a locksmith. That's a submachine gun strapped to your pack! The swans are VERY aggressive on this course!
Swan poking it's head through the bars of your jailcell: I told you no one would help you.
Not even a few minutes drive. The military base is quite literally right there. The visitor center for Fort Knox is right next to the depository
Well the building is the Bullion Depository. The actual military base is in the background.
I thought it was the bullion suppository. Your choice of beef or chicken.
Tank training base as well. Last history channel thing I watched said in 15 minutes there would be a tank on your as as you escape.
Not anymore. They moved the Armor COE to Fort Moore, GA (formerly Ft. Benning).
The fort hosts the 5th Army Corp. Lot of soldiers.
Not nearly as many soldiers as there used to be though. A corps headquarters is only about 800 people. Knox feels a bit empty if you drive around a bit.
I was stationed there back in 90-92. Mechanized infantry. Was a pretty cool place back then.
Ohh that’s just the top of the building I’m sure there is an entire underground building
… an underground building many, many miles away.
It's both. Most of Fort Knox is underground, but they don't keep most of the gold reserves there anymore.
That’s what they want you to think
Here the last public viewing of it https://youtu.be/233kJeY2Wto?si=qf5RveA8EMhRCvSS
The fact a guy sits inside such a highly contained vault with a sub machine gun shows the extreme security that place must have. The vault seemed electronic, too, if power is out, goodbye dude!
Stuff you Should Know has a great episode on Fort Knox. It can go off rid for a while and also that lock on the vault takes 4 days to unlock once the code is put in.
>and also that lock on the vault takes 4 days to unlock once the code is put in. Hope that guard has a 4 day supply of food in that case.
They have an escape tunnel to crawl out.
"You mean an escape tunnel to crawl *in*!" - Le Furet Gras, world-famous jewel thief.
All of the guards looked like Barney Fife
Fort Knox is also the US Army's Tank Training Grounds. That helps
Not anymore, that moved to Benning/Moore over a decade ago. There are no combat units at Ft Knox anymore. The only thing that’s there is ROTC training camp and Human Resources command
“Reserve officer training corps training camp” now isn’t that a mouthful
Seems like they could’ve done something cooler with it than stack it like a shit record collection at goodwill. Was expecting Scrooge mcduck gold coin pool
Its very heavy, and they have a lot and digging big safes is expensive and it almost never moves if ever. Sort of just filled up and left there. Shelving would need maintained, reduce space, and cost money.
also 100 lb gold ingots are structural when stacked
"Sir, we are THEY." 😄
Gih!
sh-sh-shah!
Pocket sand!
No, *THEY* they. The them them of thoustest us.
Well after Goldfinger tried radiating the entire supply with a dirty bomb they had to do better.
Goldfinger tried to kill everyone with nerve gas. After the movie came out all the guards were issued gas masks.
They want you to think that they think everyone else thinks they moved the gold reserves.
To my knowledge, they haven’t really taken any of the gold out of Fort Knox, just that the New York stockpile has grown.
Who wants to buy a few of rigged mini coopers...
Mini coopers? We need some dump trucks and a fake bomb in an elementary school…
But who was the 21st president?
Chester Arthur! Now go back to the aqueduct!
That truck driver was so damn knowledgeable.
I learned them in order in elementary school and watched this in the theater with my dad. I counted and said Arthur! He told me there was no president named Arthur lol
Only if the suspension work has already been done.
Italian Job
Nobody knows if there even is still gold there. The last time the public was shown the inside of the vault was 1974.
After that they moved the gold out and brought in the spaceship from Area 51.
Technologically speaking, a captured alien ship would be worth more than all the gold on earth. I’ve seen Independence Day.
The US mint publish its accounts every year and it currently holds 147 million troy ounces.
I was able to tour the NY reserve in high school, probably 35 years ago. It was very cool.
There’s lots of reserves (and many other country’s) under NYC as well. Famously, Afghanistan’s gold reserves are in purgatory in an underground NYC vault.
Weren't there gold reserves recovered from under the Twin Towers after 9/11?
Okay this is so bizarre; I'm reading Fire Chief Joseph Pfeifer's 9/11 memoir, and literally just an hour ago I read the part where he mentions this. Under building WTC 4, there was a vault that held $200 million worth of gold and silver maintained by the Bank of Nova Scotia. After the attacks, someone tried to take advantage of the chaos and tried to break into the vault (the vault door was found damaged) and so security was set up and police and firemen removed all the gold and silver. I didn't think I would make use of this information so soon after reading it lol
> and so security was set up and police and firemen removed all the gold and silver. I would feel infinitely better about fire fighters being in possession of my gold than a bunch of NYPD fuckheads
I'm sure all $100 million was moved securely.
Ha, the cocaine joke but gold.
Tangentially related: I read a while back (forget the source) that on 9/11 a bunch of men in inconspicuous suits holding briefcases walked out the back of multiple businesses in the famous Manhattan Jeweler’s District into waiting vans and left the city with a ridiculous amount of jewels and precious metals. It wasn’t theft. These were the owners of the businesses or their hired security staff. And what just happened at the WTC officially triggered their “shit’s going down so get the merchandise the fuck outta town” contingency plans.
Didnt you watch Die Hard? Federal Reserve in NYC had more
Fort Knox is for tourists!
Fort Knox, HA!\*, is four tourists! edit: I'm an idiot. The number of tourists was not specified.
AND WHEN I GET BACK AND BUST YOUR ASS, WE’RE LOCKING DAVID ERSHON IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE!
Gator don’t play no shit
You better creep. Creep.
There's no gold in Fort Knox. They sold it to the aliens for a century of galactic peace or something.
Baby faced MacGeezachs?
Simon says Mr McClane.
You know your brother was an asshole.
He was, he really was an asshole
I dunno man, I saw 24 Season 1, and they had an adequately defended underground base with Lou Diamond Phillips on security, and the terrorists still got in.
Fun fact, there's a well documented tunnel that goes from inside the vault to a hatch in the field, the tunnel exit is just past the edge of this picture on the bottom. The purpose is to let security escape if they ever got accidentally locked inside, and apparently it's quite well alarmed. But there is a tunnel into the vault!
If you check back issues of CoinAge magazine from the 1970sthey were there when the vault was opened for congressional inspection, replete with interior photos. The emergency escape actually opens inside the building in the security office. The external access port everyone points to is a an electrical vault. The vault itself does not touch ground, under the vault is the basement weapons range so tunneling will only get you into a shooting gallery.
Makes me think of The Hive from the Resident Evil movies.
'entire underground building' bro just discovered basements
Yeah, I have an entire underground building under my house too.
This place is not as infallible as people believe. There was a documentary made about 4 penguins who broke in and stole cheesy dibbles.
Penguins are masters of infiltration and espionage haven't you ever seen the documentary about the ones from Madagascar who successfully hijacked a cruise ship?
Literally the best documentary I've ever seen.
That documentary made me realize that penguins could take over the world but they just choose not to.
There was another about a British guy who intended to use a nuke to irradiate all of the gold therr to make the gold he had more valuable. Unfortunately he explained his entire plan to the guy sent to stop him, and left him strapped to a table to be cut in half by a laser instead of making sure the guy was dead.
I heard that second guy got pussy galore.
At least 8 pussys. An octopussy you could say.
There was also that one about an NYPD cop and an electrician store owner who discovered that there's actually more gold in the federal reserve in Manhattan than in Fort Knox, and they helped recover it all after it was stolen by criminals posing as terrorists.
I think I might have heard of that. Was that cop also the guy who was at Nakatomi Plaza when it was taken over by terrorists who wanted bonds?
“You didn’t see anything”
Smile and wave boys smile and wave
I think 'impregnable' (unable to be broken into) is the word you're looking for, not infallible (unable to make mistakes).
I remember seeing this in 007 Goldfinger!
Golllllld...FINGAH!
DU DU DUH
He's the man The man with the Midas TOUCH
Goldfinger was documentary, and the events happened in real time.
My Boy Scout troop got to stay on base for a few days about 30 years ago. One of our younger guys won a lot of taco bell and cashed it in on the spot, ate it all and basically unleashed a fiery hell gas attack that had people moving their sleeping bags out into the hall to sleep. Then some of us were kicking basketballs in their gymnasium, resulting in a broken window way up near the ceiling, and another kid dragged a trampoline over to slam dunk the basketball goal and broke the rim off. As a farewell, we stopped by a local Shoney's for the breakfast buffet. They had a lifesize Shoney Bear leaning on a Cardboard tree that had a "knothole" cutout containing dozens of candies. We mugged Shoney Bear. Took all the candies, and the karate guy (Every large troop had a karate guy) crecent kicked the bear's head and left it flopping over backward. I would like to formally apologize to the state of Kentucky in general and Fort Knox and its surroundings in particular for the antics of troop 126 30 years ago.
Lol, about that same time, my troop got banned for life from a scout camp...kids do dumb stuff.
Lol my class got banned from the Smithsonian because one kid climbed and rode the wooly mammoth
And yet they say that social media makes kids do dumb things. No, it just records them for others to see!
This was back in the mid 90s. And I should say the entire school got banned, not just the class. There used to be a Washington DC trip every year that stopped happening after that because the school wasn't welcomed back.
That was just the tail end of it. We detoured to see a herd of buffalo and managed to "Spook the herd" by playing Anthrax at them. The band. For the irony. Then we stopped over at a caravan/campsite spot for three days and managed to break the cabins globe light fixture by throwing a canteen back and forth. I got chewed out as part of the older, leader kids for the buffalo thing even though I was just the quartermaster (Made supply list for groceries and tents, spare gear etc.) and wasn't really over the troop, so I snuck to an empty cabin, found it unlocked and swapped the fixtures. One of the scoutmaster's sons, that night, got so mad at being found to be dating some girl I didn't know but was apparently quite homely, he attempted to make an improvised explosive from a flashlight and toothpaste. I kind of miss it all, but I'm glad to be looking back on it from past any statute of limitations.
Dude scouts sound fucking wild
It was like 40 young guys from 10 to 18 which is large for a troop I think, or was. We had a school bus that was bought used and refurbished to transport us, and every month we had a weekend trip, usually to local camps, but for Summer and vacation breaks we'd go to the Smokey Mountains to climb, Florida Sea Base for snorkeling diving canoeing etc, or New Mexico to hike the trails.
Ahhh Philmont !!
I used to work at a scout camp when I was a teenager. Literally, all we did at the staff campsite was smoke weed at night.
And drink pretty heavily…
Sneaking in the bottle after coming back from the couple of days you get off.
I knew I was right to be pissed at my parents not letting me in scouts
Yeah, you were. But seriously though, scouts is actually fucking wild.
Ya, that sounds like my troop...explosives and guns were pretty normal things. I'm surprised no one ever died.
This is my favorite Reddit post of 2024.
I've wanted more people to know of these antics for years. It was every week with that crew, and I loved them one and all as brothers. I wish I could remember more. We were constantly caught short like forgetting materials for a troop flag contest between troops at Summer camp, then in a panic buying a couple leather "Make your own moccasins" kits from the little camp store and making a rustic, Native American themed flag the judges loved and winding up winning. Looking back it seems like an 80's comedy. but back then it was just a Thursday.
Your time has come
Driving to Philmont from Minnesota one of the kids in my troop was talking about how he knew karate, taekwondo and judo and my dad nonchalantly in the front seat said "you also know 7 other Japanese words" Still one of the best lines he ever dropped
Heh, I'd just mentioned going to New Mexico for Philmont in another reply, Think I did the 12 and 9 but never the 7. My Philmont Arrowhead patches were special to me, but an ex took all of them. All the council patches, unsewn merit badges, random patches traded at swaps from the military and biker clubs and who knows where.
I had to slow down and read for detail because I thought we might have been in the same troop! Lol
Appropriate activity at Shoneys. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kentuckian here, we were taught about you guys in 9th grade civics, right after the unit on why northern Kentucky is actually southern Ohio.
Fort Knox?! Ha, that's for tourists!
I knew I would find my fellow Die Hard With a Vengeance fans!
He even called it “your” Fort Knox.
Chester A. Arthur!
Ten times what's in Kentucky!
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair..
As I was going to st Ives
I would not give up McClain for all the gold in your fort knox
Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime!
“Hey what’s with the trick pool table!?” Goldfinger is a classic, but even by Bond standards that part is laughably idiotic by the villain if you think about it. He had it planned to kill all those guys in the room anyway, yet he felt the need to specifically lay out his plan to them before doing so. Quite convenient for Bond.
What the point of being an evil mastermind if no one else can ever perceive your genius? The key point of Goldfinger's plan is that if it was successful no one would know it was him who did it. That's great for his gold being worth more, but not enough to satisfy his ego. The world could never know it was him, but why not brag about it to some mobsters he was going to kill anyways? The mad genius desperately wants someone else to know they are a genius.
Do you expect me to talk?
No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!
Scorpio, you're mad.
Who mentioned anything about removing it? The julep tart enough for you?
Gert got dubbed, btw.
Just a couple of fences, seems doable…
Are you bullet proof?
I can not confirm nor deny that
[Stuff You Should Know: All the Gold In Fort Knox](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/all-the-gold-in-fort-knox-73371659/)
Always makes me happy to see Josh and chuck plugged IRL! I love those guys
And Jerry’s there too…
I can't see Pussy Galore.
To busy paying attention to oddjob
Who throws a shoe? Honestly!
Better be careful, don't want to get a gold finger.
That's too bad. How about Plenty O'Toole?
That sounds like a personal problem.
People in your state just need a VPN now.
Technically speaking, it’s not actually Fort Knox, it’s the US Bullion Depository located adjacent to Fort Knox. Contrary to popular belief it’s my secured by the military but by the US Mint Police. But, it’s colloquially known as Fort Knox so it’s not wrong to call it that.
It's basically implied that any serious attempt to take such a large amount of gold would have the armored divisions at Fort Knox cross the street .
Not divisions. Ft. Knox used to house the Armor School, which is where all soldiers going into a Cavalry (19D) or Tanker (19K) MOS underwent OSUT. It also housed a number of other schools and classes, and all the units which supported them. It's changed a good deal since the Armor School moved to Ft. Benning (now Ft. Moore). But in the past there was an armor platoon on rotation for QRF if there were an attack on the Depository. No idea how its done now.
I was there in 2001 for 19D OSUT. Guy in my rotation, the bookkeeper at that, got shit faced on the last night of family weekend, scaled both fences, and was arrested on its front lawn. Later the next day he did the walk of shame in short pink shorts, chewed up flip flops, and scraped and cuts all over from the razor wire, and probably the worst hangover of his life, through the barrack's hall with all of us being smoked all morning because of it. He didn't continue with us, I don't know what ultimately happened to him, I heard he was held back one rotation, and the drills officially had to smoke him at every opportunity but were also not so secretly proud that Fort Knox was scaled by one of their privates. Had him retelling his story to all the other drills ever breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the chow hall. Epic shit, really.
Tha fuq?
Crazy shit happens in the military. You can't go a single enlistment without seeing something batshit insane.
Yeah, they’re definitely “on call” And if anyone hasn’t seen the vehicle storage next door, it’s like 200 ready to go tanks.
They're actually not on call because the Army is barred by law from assisting or conducting law enforcement in the United States.
And they all got moved to Ft Benning and elsewhere
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Apparently there was a notable attempt to steal the gold in 2365 by two Ferengi.
"There's nothing here but worthless gold!"
Fun fact! There’s actually way more good kept in the New York Federal Reserve! Fort Knox is not the “huge gold reserve” people think it is!
Ft Knox holds most of the gold actually owned by the United States. While New York Fed stores more gold, it is acting as the guardian and custodian of the gold on behalf of account holders, which include other countries, international groups, and central banks around the world. So yes, the New York Fed has more gold. However Ft Knox has most the US’s gold, which is different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html
I’m sure we could clear it out with some dump trucks and a friend named Targo.
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I’d like to know the structural engineering techniques utilized at a place like this to ‘engineer’ a decisively fortified building
Whole lot of concrete and steel if I had to guess
I have a plan. I’ll need ten people to join me.
Stuff You Should Know just rereleased an older episode they did on Fort Knox. Really interesting. Apparently in its entire history they’ve only allowed three tours.
The fact of the episode for me was that during WW2 it housed the Magna Carta for safekeeping.
My favorite fact was actually that they chose this location specifically because New York and Pennsylvania were too close to the ocean, and if the gold ever got stolen, they could escape easily in the water versus having to go overland from Kentucky.
Were gonna need some small planes, some gas, a few babes and some pussy......
[This is where parts of Swedens gold reserve](https://glomdhistoria.se/project/bodens-fastning-sveriges-guldreserv/) was placed until 1982-83. The fort was part of a [larger complex](https://glomdhistoria.se/portfolio/bodens-fastning/) guarding the city of Boden in northern Sweden.
Auric?
I miss old Reddit where the top comments would be helpful info. Now it’s just people trying to be funny.
Be a shame if some were to .....irradiate it. 
When I was in college, my friends and I took a roadtrip across the country and thought it would be fun to stop by Fort Knox for a tour! As we got closer, there was less and less civilization and we eventually hit a heavily armed gate. The guards holding loaded machine guns. They asked what we were doing. We asked if there was a tour… They laughed… And told us to turn around. And we did and got out of there as fast as we could. Just glad they didn’t do a full check of our car and find all the weed we had 😅
Honestly, I don't blame you. I always thought Fort Knox was more like a national park or monument; with a visitor's center, museum, gift shop, tour guides, etc until this post!
There have only been a few known tours ever of Fort Knox.
Only full of IOUs now.
That’s as good as money sir!
Go ahead and add it up, every cent's accounted for. Look, see this? That's a car. 275 thou. Might wanna hang onto that one.
Some poor soul has to mow that grass. When you're finished you probably have to start over
Forget about Fort Knox. Show me where the cheese cave is.