Located off Parliamentary Ridge Road, approximately 5 miles from China Village, Maine. Coordinates (approximate): 44 deg 26.75 min North, 69 deg 28.75 min West.
The sign out to the road announces three businesses are located here:
The Blake Farm
Mainely Weathah Meteorology Consulting and Forecasting Services
CTP Electronics
The base consists of approximately 50 acres of fields and buildings (most of the buildings are on the front five acres) and another 150 acres of woods. The main building is an old fashion two-story, white clapboard New England farmhouse circa 1800, complete with hand-dug, granite lined basement and summer kitchen ell jutting off the back. A large matching barn is connected to the house at the back of the ell. This whole structure is perpendicular to the country road. The farmhouse minus summer-kitchen serves as the living quarters of the widow of the past commander of the base, Colonel Steve Blake. The summer-kitchen area is split into two office-like rooms. One is the office of Mainely Weathah operated by Major Eugene Pomerleau, the base's currenct commander. The other is the office for CTP Electronics, run by Chris Pomerleau ('It ain't broke, unless I can't fix it!'). The attached barn is split into a few offices (first floor) and 'guest' (prisoner) quarters (second floor).
There are another eight or so outbuildings (they seem to add all the time), scattered around, all designed to look like farm outbuildings/barns which house various functions of the base including barracks, mess hall, work-out gym, communications/computer center, medical facility, Chris P's repair and demolition shop, etc.
The central computer system looks like a nightmare out of a 60's sci-fi, except substituting late-70's through 90's computer parts in place of the scuzzy-tape reels. Chris Pomerleau set as his goal to design the ultimate uncute Fudd computer and gave a whole new meaning to recycling unused computer parts. The results he has christened, The Falcon VII (the first 4 didn't succeed, the 5th and 6th were destroyed in devilbunny attacks), running P.A.T.C.H.W.O.R.C.S. (Pomerleau Advanced Technologically Correct Hard Wired Online Re-activated Computer System). The system is a mad scientist's nightmare combination of old computer parts. (Please see The China Battle, The Calm 2-4 for a full description of the Falcon V. The Falcon VII isn't much different, minus the battle glass and add a Pentium processor or two.) The computer center is powered by its own 'commercial' grade diesel generator (and a couple of '72 Buicks up on blocks out back serve as a heat sink) to prevent a brown-out on of Maine's statewide power grid.
Out of site from the main road are the actual training grounds for the troops, including shooting ranges (no one bats an eye in the Maine countryside at the sound of distant gun shots), axe yards, obstacle course, and other more 'normal' fudd training technique areas. Those who are trained at the Maine Fudd base get a heavy workout on the woodpiles to build-up arm muscles (and to build-up the base's winter heating supply) and lots of backcountry hikes to build-up endurance. In the past they had received the unique experience of actual hand-to-paw combat training as they sparred-off with either the Colonel or one of his daughters (Who were kidnaped and converted by the devilbunnies before being rescued. See The County for the full story.). Currently neither of the Blake daughters (does) reside on the base, but one or the other do come to visit their mother from time to time. When they do, they offer to train with the troops in hand-to-paw combat techniques.
Base funding comes from the investment of Mrs. Blake's life insurance claims over the 'death' of her husband in the summer of 1996 (the unknowing public believes he was killed in an Air Force mishap, not changed into a bunny) and a farm insurance policy she collected on after a bun agent torched their old farm in the northern Maine town of Caswell Plantation in the fall of 1996. The late Steve Blake (died for real in battle, Sept. 2000) also claimed fees as executor of Jean-Paul Oullette's will (late summer '96). To a lesser extent, Eugene and Chris Pomerleau supply some funding through their businesses, Mainely Weathah and CTP Electronics (Chris makes almost as much selling scrap metal as he does doing repair work!). A minor amount of royalties still trickle in now and then from Devilbunnies, a horror film created as a cover-up to the Battle o'Portland in '95, rereleased on DVD for Easter 2002. Several of the Fudds work as building contractors/carpenters or in the lumber industry. Some of them even own and operate portable sawmills.
Currently, there are approximately 300 personnel on base and another 50 recruits. Other recruits are trained through the Fudd ROTC program disguised as the Woodsman Competition Teams on various college campuses around Maine including the University of Maine system, Unity College, and Colby College. Each ROTC program is headed by one or more Lumberjack Fudds.
You won't find a map of the current base layout here for we wouldn't want that info to fall into fluffy paws.
Would you like to learn more about:
The late Colonel Steve Blake, pro-Fudd devilbunny, previous commander of the base
Lt. Eugene "Moxie Man" Pomerleau, current commander
Chris Pomerleau, electronics-technician extraordinaire
Other characters of the Maine Fudd Base
Or return to Moxie's devilbunnies main page.
Text ©1998-2002 by Scott Bernier
First HTML-ized 5 May, 1998
Last updated 22 February, 2002