How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

But how does its smallest, least secure embassy work?

Sam didn't send his correspondent Amy to test the security of the embassy? What is journalism even coming to these days?!

speaking of Disney World, an original idea was that it would have it's own airport and nuclear power plant. Walt wanted it to be as self-sufficient as possible

A government building project expected to cost around 500mil only ended up costing 750mil? Wow, that's actually quite impressive considering where it was being built...

Someone take this guy to Space Mountain

Hi Sam! Big thanks to Amy for ditching work so she could go ride Space Mountain over and over again. She deserves a raise!

1:34 This appears to be based on the claim that the Magic Kingdom cost $400 million to build. There are no firm sources for this figure, and none of the sites that use this figure indicate that this figure is inflation-adjusted (the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971). If it isn't adjusted for inflation, then the cost to build the Magic Kingdom in 2009 (when the embassy opened) dollars would be $2 billion, making the embassy about 1/3 the cost of the Magic Kingdom.

3568 toner cartridges is 892 per color, if we assume all their printers are color. Let's guessproximate they have double the cartridges for black, meaning 713 full refills. If they have 7 printers, that's 100 refills. If they have 14 printers, that's 50 refills. If they have 28 printers that's 25 refills. So, no. Probably not too much toner.

"What the hell is an acre?" "An acre is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet)" Wat.

Sam, a US Defense Dept. project ONLY using 150% of the budget is a miracle and you know it. And there's no way that $400mil figure for Magic Kingdom is inflation adjusted.

So it's basically more like an Military Base like Ramstein, but without the Airstrips?

Considering how many documents the government prints out on every occasion, I'd imagine the toner cartridge spending is in line with any other agency that's working abroad.

Plot twist: Sam is just mad because Amy went on Space Mountain to do "research" and he didn't...

The shape of the embassy looks like the shape of oklahoma

All these videos and HAI STILL doesnt have a space mountain!

You forgot the part where it's also a giant legal CIA base in the middle of the middle east

So what I'm getting from this is that the Bagdad embassy needs to install a Space Mountain

The embassy houses at least two or three platoons of Marines and somewhere near 5,000 State Department staff and local staff.

Iraqi child points to embassy: What's that, daddy? Daddy: Our nation's actual capital.

When I was in the military, I was stationed at the Baghdad Embassy for a few months, and I have fond memories of the American Club. It's a pretty normal club, but in the old definition of club, a-la "Golf Club". No crazy raves or anything, it has the vibes of a country club mixed with a golf resort. The reason it's specifically called the "American Club" is because, being on an Embassy, it's considered to be on sovereign American soil, and operates on American law instead of Iraqi law. While this is true of everything in the complex, most places still have a lot of local visitors/staff, so they choose to at at least follow local customs as guidelines. The American Club is staffed and caters to Americans, however, so it serves things like alcohol and pork. It's also the only place in the complex to serve Rip It, which anyone who has served will confirm is what truly matters.