I was thinking about graduating high school, pretty sure I knew all I needed to know and certain I knew more than my parents.
Dinochrome wrote:March 1982; I had just arrived at Naval Security Group Activity, Adak, Alaska as a new ET1.
Adak had been my goal ever since reluctantly leaving Kodiak in 1971 and I finally made it after
a tour at Boardman bombing Range in Oregon.
I loved Adak. You only had to wander fifty yards off the road to find a howling wilderness
full of interesting WW2 relics.
"Birthplace of the winds."
I had some projects on Adak when I was in Alaska in the 90's. Water main replacement, I think, though I never got to set foot there.
Our surveyors came back and told us about the Adak rule - you never open both doors of the truck at the same time. They watched a week's worth of notes flying away. I think they caught about half of them. I still tell the kids to mind the Adak rule when it's windy.
They brought back lots of pictures of scruffies, too. At least I think that was Adak. Little scruffy looking foxes that were all over the place.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
March 82, I was finishing my final semester in college, gearing up for my commissioning in May and awaiting my report date for Nav School at Mather AFB.
There may have been some beer drinking in there somewhere.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
Weetabix wrote:I was thinking about graduating high school, pretty sure I knew all I needed to know and certain I knew more than my parents.
Dinochrome wrote:March 1982; I had just arrived at Naval Security Group Activity, Adak, Alaska as a new ET1.
Adak had been my goal ever since reluctantly leaving Kodiak in 1971 and I finally made it after
a tour at Boardman bombing Range in Oregon.
I loved Adak. You only had to wander fifty yards off the road to find a howling wilderness
full of interesting WW2 relics.
"Birthplace of the winds."
I had some projects on Adak when I was in Alaska in the 90's. Water main replacement, I think, though I never got to set foot there.
Our surveyors came back and told us about the Adak rule - you never open both doors of the truck at the same time. They watched a week's worth of notes flying away. I think they caught about half of them. I still tell the kids to mind the Adak rule when it's windy.
They brought back lots of pictures of scruffies, too. At least I think that was Adak. Little scruffy looking foxes that were all over the place.
All of those Aleutian Islands have birthed winds. During my first tour at Adak I ran into a shipmate from NAS Lemoore, RM1 Evertt Palmer. He was working in the TTY-repair shop at NSGA and as a sideline, was trapping the blue foxes and selling the pelts to the P-3C Orion flight crews. The Alaska Fish and Wildlife Department had declared the Blue Fox vermin and there was open season on them. When I got back there in 1985, the foxes were all gone. Some of the other uninhabited islands still had the foxes that were introduced back in the 1930's, but Adak was trapped out. If your surveyors saw foxes at Adak later than 1988, then they probably reintroduced themselves from one of the nearby islands. Wouldn't surprise me.
"Fair is fair; If somebody tries to kill you, kill them right back."
Captain Malcolm of Serenity
