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** Airmen sailing ** to Wake Island for damage check
Airmen and Sailors from Andersen will sail 1,500 miles to Wake Island to see how well the U.S. territory survived Super Typhoon Ioke.
I don't think AIRMEN would be SAILING if there was anything left of the airfield - but that is just my opinion.
I've been through one of those typhoons where an island was "erased" when it took a direct hit (we were NOT on that island but around 100 miles away) there was no trace of the villages, plant life or anything except for bare coral when it was all over.