The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defence.It is located in the Arlington County, Virginia designed by the American architect George Bergstrom and built by the general contractor John McShain of Philadelphia.The size of the Pentagon is about 6,500,000 sq.ft of which 3,700,000 sq ft are used as offices.
The Pentagon holds about 28,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel. The Pentagon, like it's name is a five-sided building with five-floors above ground and two basement levels and give ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi of corridors. It includes a five-acre central plaza which is shaped like a pentagon and informally known as "ground zero", a nickname given during the Cold War based on the presumption that the Soviet Union would target one or more nuclear missiles at the central location in the outbreak of a nuclear war.
The Pentagon is one of most highly guarded building of the United States of America.Yet, It was once attacked.
On September 11, 2001 (Exactly sixty years after the building's groundbreaking) , A boeing 757-223, American Airlines Flight 77, was hijacked by the terrorists and crashed into the western side of the Pentagon, killing about 189 people of which 125 people were in the building.
The Pentagon is not just a building but actually a city. It holds a drug store, a police department, and a fire-fighting squad. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) is a United States govt. agency composed of sworn federal police officers of the United States Pentagon Police and civilian CBRN technicians and non-sworn civilian anti terrorism investigative and physical securtiy personnel and is also responsible for the protection of the Pentagon. The Department of Defense created PFPA after the September 11, 2001 attacks.The Pentagon holds about 28,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel. The Pentagon, like it's name is a five-sided building with five-floors above ground and two basement levels and give ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi of corridors. It includes a five-acre central plaza which is shaped like a pentagon and informally known as "ground zero", a nickname given during the Cold War based on the presumption that the Soviet Union would target one or more nuclear missiles at the central location in the outbreak of a nuclear war.
The Pentagon is one of most highly guarded building of the United States of America.Yet, It was once attacked.
On September 11, 2001 (Exactly sixty years after the building's groundbreaking) , A boeing 757-223, American Airlines Flight 77, was hijacked by the terrorists and crashed into the western side of the Pentagon, killing about 189 people of which 125 people were in the building.
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