A few years ago my buddy worked construction on a military project. Every morning he’d wake up before sunrise and drive 3 hours out into the middle of no where

A few years ago my buddy worked construction on a military project. Every morning he’d wake up before sunrise and drive 3 hours out into the middle of no where to work what looked like a gulag. They ran huge capacity wires out to no where. They’d build a structure, tear it down, and build it again 20 feet to the left. They did this for months. Then he was fired for no reason. It seemed common knowledge that they rotated contractors like that and it wasn’t a long term gig. The uncharitable explanation is that this is a massive exercise in fraud funneling tax dollars into someone’s friend’s pocket. The charitable explanation is that there are 14 or so other sites doing exactly the same thing, with the same numbers on the books, and the same raw materials being shipped in. And at one of those other sites is an actual base they’re trying to keep secret.