Comments on: Island for Sale

By: William Lindsey III

William Lindsey III — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:14:08 +0000

The Army Chemical Corp pumped all of the Agent Orange from 500,000 bbls onto the chemical incinerator ship Vulcan. The Agent Orange was supposedly incinerated at sea, away from the Island.
One contaminated missile launch facility and silo was left intact and surrounded by cyclone fencing due to radiation.

By: William Lindsey III

William Lindsey III — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:06:02 +0000

Was a contractor on Johnston in 1980. Dismantled the missile silos and launch facilities, as well as the LOX plant. Prepped all of he material for export to Hawaii.
Mel Kaneshiro and I loaded all 500,000. empty bbls that once contained Agent Orange onto a Young Brothers, HTB barge for transport to Flynn-Lerner on sand Island Road, Honolulu Hawaii.

By: David Borden

David Borden — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:59:39 +0000

I was on Island from 1995 to 2003. I met people that I will charish forever and my wife. It was the best part of my life. I will never see anything as great as the water and coral as there is there. I sometimes wish it never ended.

By: Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:13:00 +0000

I was stationed on Sand Island 8/73-9/74 with the Coast Guard. Too many great memories to count. I have written a few of the stories and included some pictures at my blog-billtaylorcsp.wordpress.com
if interested.

By: Roy Whitehead

Roy Whitehead — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:56:46 +0000

I was 18 , station on JI in 1952-53 for a long year. All my teeth were pulled in a very small room w/ no air cond.. But ther were no ac any where. JI was a mile long . I could write a book about that year in a young boy life!!

By: Ralph Simmons

Ralph Simmons — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:29:17 +0000

I was on the rock in ’88. I was in charge of 2 teams installing the temporary back up generators. Best 6 month TDY I ever did. It would be great to have a JI reunion.

By: Ed Shepard

Ed Shepard — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:00:43 +0000

I was on JI in 1970-71 in the Air Force, Helped to build the bunkers, would love to hear from some of the guys from that era, when did they start bringing woman to the island???

By: Terry Peacock

Terry Peacock — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:42:04 +0000

I was there in 1952-53 with my father, a Captain in the USAF. Wow, what an experience. My brother and I used to play in the old WWII gun bunkers, not to mention the various aircraft wrecks around the island.

By: Marty Kiepke

Marty Kiepke — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:26:22 +0000

I served in the U.S. Navy for a year in 1968. I went diving in the lagoon and thought it was a good duty station. It has a nice climate year round. We took the base colonel out on weekly fishing trips and spent 60 days on bikini atoll while stationed there.

By: wayne yonce

wayne yonce — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:14:02 +0000

I was on Johnston in 1946 as an 18 year old member of the Naval Air transport squardon VR-12 detachment.We seviced R5D transport aircraft.My last duty station before discharge from the WW II Navy.