Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Ill, U.S.A.

Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Ill, U.S.A. shut down in 1993 at the end of the Cold War against world-wide tyranny. This is version 2 of 3.

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[dw33b]

The base was obsolete, and the location didn't make sense. I enjoyed my time there (crosstraining into F-16 engine weenie 1984) but can see why it got the BRAC axe since it had no flying mission.

It DID have fascinating Old Air Force "vibes" due to so many structures accumulating over time.

The captioning in this video is cretinous but funny.

[Ironskillet]

@dw33b thank you. I am being a bit snarky. I have another longer one on my channel- it won't let me post a link. But it is 3 minutes if you wanna watch it.

I like to mock the old Soviet style propaganda by emulating it.

Thanks for serving for the US of A!

[Lawndale1984]

This looks like Soviet propaganda video. Eat shit and die COMRADE

[Ironskillet]

@Lawndale1984 you would make a terrible secret agent. I am being sarcastic.

[rhblakeman]

Chanute is 120 miles south of Chicago, 15 miles north of Champaign Urbana. Many bases were isolated due to the nature of what they did and were self sufficient, leaving many closed bases as dumps. I was at Chanute as a retrainee in 1985 and came back as an instructor in both White Hall (building shown here) and Grissom Hall (the present museum) teaching electronic principles, CAMS and Air Launched Cruise Systems from 85 to the 93 closure. What a shame to see it now, it was pristeen until 93.

[golfrick007]

It was A good time when I was ther back in 83

[Dolphindream15]

I would love to go through some of the old buildings at chunute to see what they look like on the inside now,,,I was born at chunute and still live in rantoul; but I dont know  if its allowed or not to go through the buildings

[cecivic1]

Part of my weather training was in that building. What a shame to see it in that condition now.

[greghol]

This old AF base didn't get cleaned up like other bases that got closed. Shame. I live in Sacramento, CA, which was touched by two base closures and an Army depot closure. These facilities got cleaned up properly. Chanute AFB is not near a major city so the f**k cares! Shame.