Command Post Tango
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Command Post Tango is a 5 billion dollar top secret facility covering over 240 acre (0.9712464 km²) and over 8500000000 square feet (789,675,840 m²) above and below ground military bunker
Bunker
A military bunker is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks...

 U.S. Government real property. It is the Theater Command Post for the Combatant Commander, UNC/CFC/USFK and State Department Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

. It is located in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

 about 11 miles (17 km) south of Seoul.

Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush...

 visited the bunker in her March 2005 trip to six Asian nations as well as the President of South Korea Lee Myung-Bak
Lee Myung-bak
Lee Myung-bak is the President of South Korea. Prior to his presidency, he was the CEO of Hyundai Engineering and Construction and the mayor of Seoul. He is married to Kim Yoon-ok and has three daughters and one son. His older brother is Lee Sang-deuk, a South Korean politician. He attends the...

. Lee Myung-Bak also visited the bunker in August 2008.

Numerous outer resources of this facility include a water treatment operations center, living quarters, several helicopter landing zones, container storage area, equipment and facility supply storage area, operations location for fire department, Emergency Response Center, numerous other structures include building for external armed security personnel, Directorate of Public Works personnel, Korean Service Corps personnel, Installation Facility Management, communications personnel and a live fire range with range personnel.

Command Post Tango stands for Tactical Air Naval Ground Operations Center . The CP was built right after the Korean War
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

. There are more Command Posts scattered across the globe in Europe, America, Hawaii and the far east.
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