Kwajalein Atoll
29 September 2012
Cheri Larson and Bill Glynn, two friendly natives from Kwajalein.
We have become accustomed to friendly natives in every atoll we visit. Most often they live the simple life of food gathering on the coral reefs and farming vegetables behind their thatch huts. For those natives, drying the white meat of the coconut, to make copra, is the common cash crop from which one can earn $30 per week. But here on the largest atoll in the world, named Kwajalein is, a speck of land called by the same name. Kwajalein is the main island for the American Army post populated by 1000 civilian workers and only 17 soldiers. The purpose of the base is to use its extensive RADARs to track the growing flotsam of space junk, monitor every orbiting satellite, and possibly interfere with an adversaries test missile to keep it from reaching more than the ionosphere. Much goes on behind sealed doors on Kwajalein. No one talks about things more lofty than a sailboat mast. Star wars is well and evolving. Actually we can learn more about what goes on around us by searching the internet.
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