The following are some facts about the Fort Knox newspaper Inside the Turret, by far the longest running newspaper on post. The list was originally published in the last edition of the Turret, dated Feb. 9, 2012, before it became The Gold Standard:
* First edition: Nov. 4, 1948
* Original weekly distribution: 6,500 copies
* Current weekly distribution: 17,200 copies, with readership estimated to be 40,000
* Founders: Leonard Bean and Floe Bowles founded Bean Publishing Company, who printed the Turret until 1979 when the contract was transferred to Landmark Communications, Inc., the parent company of The News-Enterprise. LCNI has held the contract ever since.
* Longest-serving editor: Larry Barnes, 29 years
* Last Soldier assigned as a Turret reporter: Spc. Michael Behlin, now Staff Sgt. Behlin at 3rd Sustainment Command Public Affairs on Fort Knox(Editor's Note: Behlin is now a sergeant first class assigned to Training With Industry at Google headquarters in Washington, D.C.)
* Number of Turret editions as of Feb. 9, 2012: 3,238
* Number of times the Turret failed to be published since its first edition: 1 - Jan. 29, 2009, due to the Ohio Valley Ice Storm of 2009 which left 609,000 homes and businesses in Kentucky without power -- the state's largest power outage on record.
* State recognition: Dec. 17, 1992 was proclaimed "Inside the Turret Day" in Kentucky by then Gov. Brereton Jones.
* Turret journalists who went on to fame included Gay Talese, a best-selling author; Harlan Ellison, fiction writer; and Doug Poling, a CBS announcer.
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