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Ahh, Hawaii, back when it was known as MCAS Kaneohe Bay

Turtle Rock
I once was swimming off the Hale Koa beach area and a WM lieutenant was there with her friends, they were the girls tennis team from Okinawa, competing in an All Marine championship.

Their friend, the WM Lieutenant, Ernestine something, wanted to see what was on the other side of Turtle Rock.

So, she grabbed her boogie board and paddled out from Hale Koa to see what was on the other side...

She was gone over an hour, her friends were crying on the beach, taking their fancy Japanese cameras and searching for her with the telephoto lenses, and all exclamining "I CANT SEE HER!"

What a lot of people do not know, Kaneohe Bay is a hammerhead Shark breeding ground. SERIOUSLY. So, when people go out deep, they could be in trouble. Plus, EVERYONE who goes to the Island needs to be briefed by RECON on the dangerous fish they might encounter. It could be yer last visit, not just the best one.

So, I heard this crying about her being gone, wondered what was up, asked, and then organized a search party with my fellow MACS-2 friends who were barbecueing that day on the Hale Koa Beach.

They, the Woman's Tennis Team, had a SSgt who insisted we stay behind, but we all had our masks, fins, and snorkels, were half drunk, told him not to worry and so we took off.

I was the fastest swimmer, and got to her first, and she asked me, "What are you guys doing out here?"

I asked her, "Is your name Ernie?" She said yeah, I told her they were going to launch a SAR bird to look for her! All her friends thought she drowned!

So, we had a good laugh, and we escorted her back to the beach, and guess what we saw when we got to shore:

3 MP trucks, the Base Officer of the Day, all standing there, with his arms at his hips at Parade Rest almost, and exclaming to us with a huge grin on his face, "Good Job Marines!"

It was just a good swim for us, the MACS-2 and MASS-2 guys were all expert swimmers because we were next to Pyramid Rock all day and swam for lunch in the wild surf, so, it was a joke.

But, they took it seriously.

THis is a WWII map from my Dad.

Hawaii...tough duty, but someone had to do it!