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To: HAL9000
Wake Island:


Johnson Atoll doesn't even have a caretaker these days? I think they stopped incinerating chemical weapons there a few years back. They used to launch missiles from there many decades ago. I wonder if the launch facilities are still intact.
16 posted on 08/27/2006 8:59:17 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: conservative in nyc
Johnson Atoll doesn't even have a caretaker these days?

I was mistaken about it being uninhabited. According to today's Stars and Stripes -

Ioke spawned last week well to the south of the Hawaiian islands, developed into a hurricane and lashed Johnston Island last Wednesday, JTWC officials said.

The Associated Press reported that five Coast Guardsmen and seven Air Force contractors on the island took shelter from Ioke’s 105 mph winds in a bunker designed to weather a Category 4 storm.


34 posted on 08/28/2006 12:41:35 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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