Years ago, some young guys signed up to work there. To them it was a paid vacation.
When they weren't working; they were "Scuba Diving".
Posted on 01/23/2024 12:03:17 AM PST by FrogMom
Video captured the moment when a massive floodwaters broke down doors at a U.S. military base in the Marshall Islands on Saturday.
Personnel at the American garrison base on Roi-Namur was knocked off their feet and some swept away in the freak flood, TMZ reported.
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Okay, this was Kwajalein Atoll island of Roi-Namur on 22 Jan 24. One person injured but recovering. Wind and storm surge caused it, but it could have been MUCH worse if not at LOW tide.
Did it tip over??
Naw, you’re thinking of Guam. Guam must be unbalanced or something.
I worked with a girl who grew up on Kwajalein Atoll - her parents were Air Force contractors. Fascinating story.
Kwajalein Atoll is interesting place...some vidoes oe you tube about it.
I used to have nightmares about being in a house on the coast where the surf was coming up and slamming against the house, while I was in it.
I cannot image that in reality. Shudder......
“floodwaters”
aka STORM SURGE.
smh
I took a look at it with Google maps. The place is one whole square mile in size. If a person likes confinement in a very very small paradise, maybe this is the place.
I had a problem with Oahu being too small. Great open spaces lacking a people population is what we like best.
That building with all the windows didn’t look very sturdy in the first place. Guess our military never read the Three Little Pigs. Surprised half the islanders weren’t swept out to sea.
I applied for a one year temporary assignment there as an Army civilian when I was young. Didn’t get picked but it sure looked like an adventure I would have loved to have experienced.
Roi-Manur
Kwajalein Atoll is the world’s largest atoll- about 90 miles across. It sits about the same distance more than the trip from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Roi-Manur is sort of on the northeast corner of the atoll. We had a three week or so job on the atoll in the mid 70s and one weekend we took the plane to Roi. The Japanese had a presence in the area in WWII and built a significant of concrete defensive structures. I think on Manur,the smaller island?. They were still there in the 70s in good shape. (Roi and Manur were two islands until the Americans built a causeway joining them. When we left, there was another passenger carrying a 2 ft diameter clam shell and we realized that we should have done our snorkelling there instead of the picked over area around Kwajalein Island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbRtHt3VfVs
From January 31st until February 4th, 1944, men of the 4th Marine and the 7th Infantry Division fought the battle to take the islands of the Kwajalein Atoll on Marshall Islands.
Years ago, some young guys signed up to work there. To them it was a paid vacation.
When they weren't working; they were "Scuba Diving".
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