How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
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Casually doxxed the president
Lol
Wendover, if some guys in black suits knock on your door, DO NOT open it. Run away as fast as you can.
What is competitively doxxing the president?
@@adityachaudhari1579 I mean, that could be a thing
@@adityachaudhari1579simple, they keep hunting for you, you keep hunting them :)
The fact that the federal government saw a summer camp where federal employees enjoyed themselves and went "we'll be taking that" is so accurate to how they treat their employees
Every good anti-tax hawks knows government employees don't deserve to enjoy work on the taxpayer dime.
I briefly worked for the city of Seattle and they didn't even have fuckin coffee. Sections of the floor would pool together into "water clubs" and rent water cooler service. You had to pay up in that club to use that water. Fuckin dystopian. But it's all because selfish conservative fucks are like "why are government workers enjoying themselves with MAH WALLIT?!?!"
It was necessary for a war. It was for a good reason. Now that they invested a bunch into securing it, might as well keep it. Plenty of other places in the park the employees can go.
People enjoy themselves everywhere. Where else should the President vacation?
@GeorgeLiquor I'm saying it's a good representation of how federal employees are treated, not that it is itself a big deal. My mom's a federal employee and she's never been to a summer camp except as a kid, that doesn't really matter.
Think we found someone who's not going to be getting their Yankie White clearance. Fucking traitor.
The park areas open to the public are actually pretty nice. Not technically a national park, but since it’s federal land, it’s run by the National Park Service
Does this mean the camp will be shutdown tomorrow?
Yeah, I would recommend Cunningham Falls if you’re good with a bit of hiking and you’re in the area. I grew up a half hour from there, and never really noticed how close it was. There’s also Raven Rock Hollow on the appalachian trail a bit to the west, if you want to get *really close* to *another* location of interest. Definitely *don’t* walk north-east from Campsite Three up that’a’way, unless you want to have a bad time of it, though.
You can rent cabins at camp David
It is owned and managed by the National Park Service, so while it's not technically classified as a "national park," it is, for all intents and purposes, a national park. It's in the "other designations" here: www.nps.gov/aboutus/national-park-system.htm
Fun fact, I’ve actually been to Camp David, although I hardly remember it, and it *was* before 9/11. My parents owned a landscaping company in my hometown when I was a kid, and my dad got a contract to deliver mulch to them ten-or-so times over the course of two years. And then he screwed over any chance he’d ever have of renewing that contract by bringing 4-year-old-me along for the ride on his second-to-last delivery.
Apparently the security thought it was pretty unprofessional of him, and I wasn’t allowed to leave the truck, but he got away with it; and really, he thought the experience was worth the cost to business.
I mean how much damage a 4 year old can do?
@@soumitrakandpaljust a bunch of gov c#nts high on their power
Never underestimate the cuteness of 4 years old. That is destructive.
You never know, that kindergartner could be a disguised recording device, or even rigged to explode! If you don't X-ray them, how can you be sure?
Why unprofessional. What if your mom was sick or out of town. Riding along with your dad doesn’t seem that bad and you were 4 at the time. What was your dad supposed to do leave you home alone
I don't think "giving the marines something to do" is a good idea, just a hunch.
Just the opposite, it's extremely important that the marines be constantly busy, for the safety of the crayons in the rec room and any red buttons in the general area.
@@westrim Yeah. By their superiors. Not by some random guy like me coming around and "giving the marines something to do" like HAI was suggesting.
just give them a couple of crayons to snack on and they good
Giving marines something to do is a very good idea. You never know what could happen if a couple marines get bored.
Wdym? They love hide and seek, just remember to bring crayons
“Worst day of their life spending their day in Hagerstown, MD” I live in MD and couldn’t agree more. What a nightmare
For real, I don't think there's anything there beyond the outlets
@@zap.zapzap there’s carjacking and hookers
Baltimore city is worse imo but yeah, not a great town
It’s a nice small town - y’all come back after the lord bless ya real good.
I drove through Hagerstown by mistake once, it was awful.
"There's no way of phrasing this that doesn't sound like a joke." Proceeds to phrase it in the most hilarious way possible.
Yea if he cant phrase it as not a joke then obviously its a joke
Imagine signing up for the service, being top of your class, going through the intense background check, and then being assigned the patriotic duty of picking up dead leaves at a house the president rarely visits.
I can tell you that part of the video was not true. Some good info but some of it is BS
@@timbrooks_Agent2Agenthow
lol Rarely? President Biden spent almost three-quarters of his time as president on vacation.
@@timbrooks_Agent2Agentwhich part was BS? It's always good to know the facts
Depends on how you look at it. On the bright side you made it to one of the highest military clearances possible and you get paid to hang out on US soil where your chances of being KIA are practically zero. I’m not sure how military ranking works but if the military trusts you enough to protect the president I’m sure it comes with some pretty cool benefits. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig if you ask me!
Sam on HAI: * meticulously censors his own face *
Sam on Jetlag: Here's a close-up shot so zoomed in my editor had to add a note about it.
How do we know that's the same Sam? for all we know Sam from Jetlag could just be Sam from Wendover in disguise, and we know for sure Sam from Wendover is a different person
@@1224chrisnghear me out, but I think you've got it all wrong. I think Sam from Wendover and Sam from HAI are both different people from Sam from Jetlag. My theory is that they're twins, or a genetic experiment, or both. Except for Sam from Wendover. I think he's just unrelated tbh
As a Canadian, never been more thankful the president has a place to chill 😋
As an Indian, never been more thankful the president has a place to chill 😋
My dad was a park ranger at Catoctin for a while. A couple times some random tourists would walk into the ranger station and ask for a room at camp david. They weren't super discreet about operations there, whenever the president was there, the phones would get super staticy from the monitoring. We would see the helicopters fly over our house whenever the president was staying there.
Imagine if they said yes and you get to sleep in the same house as Biden
In orientation at the fire academy, a mere thirteen miles away, they mentioned the presence of Camp David, one of the reasons for the armed guards protecting the fire academy, and explicit orders to not go there (or give the lonely marines something to do).
And “no pictures of the blackhawks”. 😂
The best part? The "Do not enter" sign at the Camp David entrance road is written in Comic Sans!
That itself is part of the security scheme. Would you go to a place that uses comic sans?
Well, this is a vacation home. Gotta keep things fun.
I was stationed here as a Marine. While the majority of this video is accurate, the last 1/4 of it isn't so much. We never had to pick up leaves and no one sleeps in Aspen the night before, lol
I was up there too. Thats the part of the video that had me scratching my head
So "revealing" the location of Camp David is like the HAI equivalent of leaking military secrets for Warthunder accuracy 😅🤔
2:34 - I'm thinking this is to provide proof the President is no longer living so that the 25th Amendment can be exercised ASAP to ensure the continuity of government.
Possibly also to have more evidence. Maybe a picture of the helicopter makes it more obvious what went wrong.
@@JamieElli that's what I thought too, every single picture, video and audio recorded of an attack on the president would make it far easier to investigate who did it, and how the attack was executed
Theodore Roosevelt is the most gangster president
Nope.
Donald John Trump is. ✝️🇺🇸
Just wait... 🥳
Can confirm.
@@alitlweirdin terms of criminality and an overwhelming number of his associates also being convicted criminals, yeah, absolutely
@@alitlweird Who is Donald John Trump?
@@mattd6085 He’s your Legal, Lawful, and Acting Commander-in-Chief.
Originally known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was built as a retreat for federal government agents and their families by the Works Progress Administration. Construction started in 1935 and was completed in 1938. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt converted it to a presidential retreat and renamed it "Shangri-La", after the fictional Himalayan paradise. Camp David received its present name in 1953 from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and his grandson, both named David.
I object the notion that Wendover would be more expendable than the president. There's a backup plan and replacement if the president kicks the bucket. There is no backup for Wendover... though I suppose this HAI guy does sound similar.
Funny how he's saying that Camp David is in "the middle of nowhere, Maryland", but I grew up like less than 30 minutes away from Camp David and it's pretty close to civilization - Frederick, a city of 70k, is directly south of it.
Dang, I was hoping this video would be about bricks
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As someone from Maryland, The dig at Hagerstown is real.
I see the Amazon bots are working overdrive in the comment section
What's crazy is that the entrance is just a normal-looking intersection in the middle of the woods, but one of the roads has signs saying something about severe penalties for unauthorized entry.
That is SO CRAZY
The part that says "use of deadly force authorized" should be seen as truth in advertising.
I lived in MD my first 60 years. As a child we would go to the park and the entrance to Camp David was marked with a sign reading, "Camp David." As time went by this changed and all obvious signs that it was there were removed. But it is not hard to figure out that the high fencing and warning signs were for some reason. LOL The Cozy Country Inn in Thurmont is a must if you want good food and homemade pies.
Unfortunately, The Cozy Inn closed years ago. It’s a car dealership now. The Mountain Gate Restaurant, just down the road from where The Cozy once stood is a decent spot.
I worked as a Job Corps recruiter between 1968 and 1972. This LBJ Great Society program starting in 1965 established CCC-like camps in rural areas across the country to provide education and job training for disadvantaged youths between 16 and 21 years old. I sent a number of young men to the Catoctin Job Corps Center that was essentially next door to Camp David. While Camp David had been used by President Eisenhower through 1961, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson used their own family compounds for relaxation. In 1969, President Nixon decided to start using Camp David again, and the Catoctin center was closed, along with a number of other centers across the country. My understanding is that the center became the place where the marine contingent was housed, since it had barracks, a mess hall, and gymnasium. I think I saw it to the left outside of the perimeter fence in the photo @ 1:49.
I didn't realize Camp David was a vacation home- I thought it was just some military base...
Also, the crypto bots coming in full force here already. CZcams should really do something about that.
You could technically call it a military base in the same way some hyberbolists call every embassy and consulate with a marine guard a military base (not a joke, they really clutter up honestly trying to learn about the US military footprint with that and other inanity like separating an administrative building and its motor pool into 'two' military bases).
having grown up in frederick, hearing someone else say "pilots will have the worst day of their life because they have to spend the day in hagerstown" is the most beautiful sentence i've ever heard.
We in Hagerstown aren’t THAT terrible. 5.5/10 city at least.
One summer my family was out on our boat in Kennebunkport where the Bush Family has a home. We found out when a black speedboat came out of nowhere on a bullhorn and told us politely yet firmly to leave.
Oh man, I would love to see Sam do an episode on the clearance process and how so much he would not get clearance.
Even getting close to the TFR when the president is there can lead to some spicy conversations lol. Used to fly on EMS helicopters over that ridge all the time. Our pilots were always good about knowing when the TFR was expanded but sometimes local pilots would wander into some trouble lol. Catoctin Mountain park has some great hiking trails especially this time of year as the leaves change.
Also Camp David is not far from Site R just little further up the road outside of Fairfield PA which is helpful in case things go sideways.
Bro this is not the War Thunder forums
@@ProfitSlim? This isn't remotely close to "hurr dur classified information"
There was one President who went to Camp David once and decided to just go to one of his properties and charge the Secret Service for the hotel rooms they needed to protect him.😊
The same president that charged the Secret Service more than double the usual prices for accompanying him to Golf?
You'd think people would reconsider voting for a president who is abusing his position so blatantly for enriching himself...
I mean, if nothing else people should feel offended by the brazen openness of it and the lack of subtlety...
@@Bird_Dog00people feel like pretty much every elected official is going to blatantly abuse their power to enrich themselves, and apparently many of them find it refreshing to be stabbed from the front instead of in the back.
The same president that refused to take a salary? Yep! Ohh and American tax payers foot the bill no matter where it is at.
@@Bird_Dog00 the last one we elected obviously accepted bribes through his son
Love that all the presidents have ritzy or exotic locations for their vacation homes and Joe is just like “I just want to go home, man”
He does go other exotic and ritzy places he spent new years in the Virgin Islands. He does go to his home more often than other presidents(mostly weekends) but to be fair his house Delaware is closer than most others in recent history: Obama, Chicago; Bush the Younger, Crawford Texas; Clinton...Arkansas?(I don't remember him ever going home he spent a lot of time in Martha's Vinyard); Bush the Elder, Maine; Reagan, Rancho del Cielo Santa Barbra, California.
Sam accurately representing most feelings on Hagerstown, MD.
I feel the need to document the fact that I was holding a cheez-it in my hand exactly as that line was spoken
Whoa...not the Hagerstown, MD slander
The Marines don't do landscaping. That's mostly Navy CBs. Most of the staff is Navy, the Marines are only there to do security.
Gotta love seeing Navy personnel assigned to a landlocked site.
@@radagastwizthey’re all got lulled in with promises of “David”
But marines are just wet soldiers anyway. The most overrated arm of the DOD.
@@radagastwizApparently, they do quite a bit of stuff out of the water
The Navy Seabees are the Navy's Construction Group so they are land sailors. I should know since I was one of them. Never set foot on a boat.
Catoctin Mountain park is actually a really nice park, they have excellent group campsites.
While the Marines provide security, it's the Navy that runs the Camp. Maybe not as glitzy a video, but Seabees keep the place up and running.
The marines are technically part of the Navy
3:36 I count four bathrooms, one for each bedroom. See you in the next mistakes video?
We need a video on the armored cadillac
I bet the armour was bricks.
By comparison, the King of the United Kingdom was recently seen out walking on his own with no security whatsoever in some hills in Scotland by some people on mountain bikes, the mountain bikers even stopped and had a chat with him. One of the cyclists was wearing a helmet cam and managed to film the encounter, which you can find online easily.
The British do more invisible security, when the King goes for a walk, his route is swept in advance to check for any hidden bombs and the like, and there's security at both ends of the trail, not all that far from him at any time, but they don't interfere with public access as long as you're not there to cause trouble, and don't really keep him in their eyesight continuously. He's alone and approachable, but not unprotected.
Hagerstown truly is a fate worse than death
Nah, DC is worse.
1:42 Teddy Rosevelt: I’m about to end this man’s whole career
Hi Sam!
I, too, have a bad habit of nuking Canada when I feel down.
Canada here, would you please stop that already! Please!
@@flightmaster9999 out of 10 doctors agree nuking Canada helps with depression
@@flightmaster999nevada got tired, you're next
@@toasterhavingabath6980Screw this, I'm moving to Russia... oh wait.
I used to go to summer camp right near there as a kid. Everyone talked about a camper who stumbled upon it one time and got surrounded by agents, but it's not clear how true that was
Summit lake? Me too lol
Marine: ok I just finished my incredibly intense training what cool stuff do I do now
Officer: go rake leaves in maryland
Sounds about right for the Marine Corps.
That unquestionable loyalty just dashed the possibility of me seeing Camp David from a fraction of a percent to zero.
I assume the photographer is there because in 1941 that was the only way to prove the president was actually alive if someone tried to execute a coup by claiming that the president was dead... which is not unusual and happened in Turkey not long ago.
I assume the photographer is there for various official snapshots on all occasions, but also technically has the specific duty of joining the helicopter crash team.
I know you joked about the Marines picking up leaves, but that's genuinely exactly the kinds of tasks they are told to do on a daily basis
the joke about hagerstown is perfect i used to live in hagerstown\
I've been in camp David to do maintenance in the gym 30 years ago during the gulf War. The security was intense even though Bush was not in residence.
A couple years ago a pilot friend of mine flew us up to Hagerstown where we had a great lunch at the airport. The airport is beautiful by the way. Out flight path to us over camp David which was fine. He just had to increase his altitude to 5k feet. We flew the rest of the flight at 4k feet.
My boy scout troop would go camping very close to camp David. We sent a young scout out to look for firewood and never heard from him again.
Sam proves his DC area bona fides by trashing Hagerstown.
If you're curious, trashing Hagerstown as a redneck-y place is something Marylanders, specifically, are wont to do. We Virginians have a lot of Appalachia in our state, so places like Winchester (a close analogue of Hagerstown) don't get the same hate. But Maryland has only a tiny sliver of Appalachia with a correspondingly small impact on state identity, so when the snobby urbanites from Silver Spring and Ellicott City put down their Old Bay-seasoned blue crabs long enough to go west, they can't believe Hagerstown is part of their state.
Shit, as someone who lives in Hagerstown, I approve the trashing of Hagerstown lol
Once got to see GHWB flying through Little Harbor, Maine (near Kennebunk) on his cigarette speedboat with like a dozen secret service boats desperately trying to keep up with him.
We lived in Maryland and often drove in that area. One time we were curious to see Camp David and drove there. Just before you get to house, the road divides and we drove on the lane that goes up to the house but soon encountered security. The pres wasn't there at the time but we had to turn back and were only able to see the trees which hide the house. It is not a fancy place. The house is old and small.
We used to go to a Buffett restaurant in Hagerstown and some times there would be secret service at the restaurant.
0:40 Northern Maryland is like the least descriptive way to describe a place in Maryland.
FDR is the most gangster president in history?
Teddy says hi
Frederick county school kids used to do an overnight education adjacent to Camp David, and we were given very specific warnings about not wandering near the edge of the
Thank you for another great video and on another subject I did not know I was even interested in.
There is a Quaker summer camp located very close to Camp David, and it fairly regularly has a group of campers get lost and wander onto the property of Camp David, where they are met by men with big guns asking them why they crossed that barbed wire fence instead of you know, turning around. This happened like yearly during my youth as a camper there, I was never one of the campers though.
wtf how many summer camps are in that town? There's a jewish summer camp, and a summer camp for disabled people that literally fit this exact description.
For the very first time on any of your videos, I cannot tell if the thing about redistributing the leaves was sarcasm or not…
I don't think it is, as leaves could hide IEDs or other lethal devices, so they remove the leaves, make sure there are no bombs, and put the leaves back.
No it's wasn't
The music in this video is such a vibe!
Residents of Hagerstown, MD: Hey man, wtf
Why wasn't Amy allowed to try out the hot tub?
FDR named it Shangri La before Eisenhower changed it to Camp David
Its a very interesting area to hike. You czn get much closer than you think. Some of the hiking trails are even gated, and closed in the event that someone from camp david wants to use the hiking trails.
Thanks for putting ads at the end. Subbed.
As a lowly airman who's had to weed a parking lot (in Arizona!) because some big wig commander MIGHT be stopping through our unit, I sympathize for the Marines and leaf duty lol
Hope you enjoyed your stay here in one of the hottest states in the country, LOL!!!
I'm sure that Hagerstown, Maryland is a fine town. it even has an airfield!!
A squirrel: this seems like a perfect spot to store my nuts. It seems very safe.
3:30 stated as if Hagerstown, Maryland hasn't been a popular regional/local destination and tourist trap for like 50-100 years now
Unquestional loyalty during the hiring process - seems reasonable. But how do you work there for years without thinking the entire system isn't some surreal joke?
Edit: Please don't give me an actual answer. It's not really a question. It's a thought that's funny to me.
I honestly wonder this about every high level government job, and how miraculously there are not more confidential information leaks - how can you work with all this absurd information for many many years of your life and never think once “wait, maybe torturing people and drone sniping civilians is bad? Maybe we shouldn’t do all this to protect someone who does not have anybody’s interest at heart? Maybe I should do something about that?”, yet it’s always “Nah, i’ll just get my paycheck and go home to my family that never sees me because i’m always off managing the destruction of people’s livelihoods”. I work in a financial industry for a few years and i’m very close to leaking trader secrets to expose several businesses of their fucked up nature, however that information is already out there and nobody cares unfortunately since it’s just a fact of life we deal with on a daily basis.
@@Artyomiyeah you basically answered it. Even if they could do something or had something valuable to expose, it would most certainly just be rolled back by your replacement. And most likely the population would not be roused to action by your sacrifice (everyone already knows the government is corrupt as heck)
So when faced with arrest and losing everything for most likely nothing, people understandably shut up and take the money. It's a shame though, because that calculus is why our world sucks now
It's totally reasonable to spend billions of dollars protecting a single man, despite there being precedent that if he were to get whacked he could easily be replaced without much of a fuss and the fact that he is in that position willingly. Right?
@@Artyomiand that's precisely why you don't have Yankee White clearance...
Some people just want a powerful position and don't care about the bad shit if they aren't doing it themselves, then they enjoy doing that bad shit. There's often probably some level of nationalism too, but that's usually not the main reason the goverment officials want to be in their positions since they could serve the country in 1000s of other ways
The other Roosevelt was the most gangster president in history.
To say from past experience the secret service is quite polite to lost hikers (not a fun day)
It is Navy Seabees who do all the upkeep on the grounds of Camp David.
The precursor to camp david was Hoovers camp built in what became sheandoah national park. You can go visit a meticulous recreation if you ever go there.
5:02 says every 100 yard, but thumbnail says 100 meters - what is it? How am I supposed to be able to sleep with this mystery still unresolved?!!
Camp David isn’t really very secluded. It’s not too far from DC, and you can drive right past the entrance. The sign says “Camp #3.” I’ve been by there many times. However, they close the road when the President is there.
2:10 "people where it's way less of a problem if they die" using Wendover productions logo! LOL Didn't know you guys were rivals
I actually went to a real summer camp for children with mental disabilities when i was like 11 at Catoctin Mountain Park near Camp David in 2009. We even saw Marine One once. It felt like a prison for me since it was full children who had very severe autism, like they can't function in the "real world" and down syndrome and i have the kind of autism that makes you scream "I AM A SURGEON" to Dr.Han.
That last is such a mood as someone with autism
The Wendover shot was hilarious 😂😂
3:22 HEY I was born in Hagerstown. It’s not THAT bad. 😂
Dude camp David is geotagged
When i was in the Marines I had hoped to become the Camp David squirrel tracker, but I never got picked for some reason. I always felt that it was my biggest failure during my active service. Then i saw this and I realize what sh*t duty that would have been! Glad I stuck to chasing geese off the runway instead...
Having a no fly zone centered on a “top secret” building seems a little counter productive
Canp David's location is no secret.
4:45 Oh, I definitely wouldn't either 😂😂😂😂
nice area and facilities for the former president to have for his final resting place - thanks for giving the world all the necessary information
This video needed Hagerstown md related humor.
The Roast to Wendover Productions😂
Hey! I live in Hagerstown MD!!!
I also have friends who used to come to Hagerstown MD for vacation! So ha!
**Casually discusses the president's vacation home**
This video was the second time across 2 channels that sam has referenced Hagerstown, Maryland
"Absolutely nowhere, Maryland" happens to be within spitting distance of where we went to a midyear 1-week-camp back in middle school.
If this doesn’t get taken down I don’t believe it
I wonder if there's a priest at the chapel
Its funny you mention FDR's wandering in South Dakota, FDR had a few summer white houses here in the Black Hills of South Dakota, one up near Sylvan Lake that burnt down not long after but another was the Rapid City High School Building in Rapid City, thats the place from which he announced he would not seek re-election and the same place I would attend high school some 80 years later, my math class was his former summer white house oval office.
3:36 I see 4 bathrooms but maybe there is a differene between an imperial and a metric bathroom
I’ve lived in this neck of the woods for a long ass time and I was waiting for this video. Camp David is actually pretty chill fr. Also don’t hate on hagz, they are trying
Being from maryland its so funny hearing some of these names. And yes, hagerstown is… a place
I swear there's a sign that says Camp David close to Thurmont. My grandmother lived there.