My wife and I were driving back from the mountains a couple of weeks ago and we noticed around 10-15 military Humvees parked at the Federal Center in Lakewood, Co. If you all aren’t familiar with it, it’s been here in Lakewood since I can remember and being in the civil engineering business, I have only been there to collect USGS maps and what not. It runs from Union Blvd. to Kipling St. and from the 6th Ave. freeway to Alameda Ave. I’m not really sure what else they have there though.
Anyway, we were driving towards the mountains today (July 4, 2011) and we noticed that there were a lot more military vehicles there today than there were a few weeks ago. Along with the Humvees, there were what we think are troop transporters or carriers, I don’t know much about what they’re called.
Where these vehicles are located is surprising because you can clearly see them from the 6th Ave. freeway. We stopped back from our trip back home on the southbound ramp to Kipling on 6th Ave and took as many pics of these vehicles that we thought would be safe to get. The vehicles are located just south of the Kipling off ramp and if you have Google Earth, here are the coordinates: 39 degrees 43′ 28″ N, 105 degrees 06′ 45″ W.
Interesting that we had the opportunity to get these pics on this Independence Day of 2011, huh? =)
UPDATE: I messed up on my directions, it’s south instead of north. Sorry for the confusion.
50 Years of Freedom 
In other words, those military vehicles should not be there at all. Here is the Wiki on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Federal_Center This is clearly not a military center from what I have gathered about it. So, why would those military vehicles be there? Why did they increase the number over just a few weeks. I wish I could have gotten better pics, but being on the highway it was hard, because I counted about 50.