Start your own blog!
by adminStart your own blog! Tell us where you’re from and if you’re currently living in Okinawa or were once here. Do you have a good tale about Okinawa or your experiences on Okinawa? We’d love to hear your stories, good or bad. There’s also the opportunity to share your photos of the island and it’s people. We’d also welcome suggestions of where we ought to make some ‘virtual tour’ photographs, bearing in mind that we usually need a 360 degree landscape.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:13 pm
I was stationed on Okinawa twice, 74-75 and 79-80. My first tour was as perfect as it can get! After being on the Island for a month I was given TAD orders to the U.S. Army Outdoor Recreation Services. I spent 4 months as a lifeguard at the pool on Camp Foster. Back then it was a Dependents only pool and as an 18 year old Marine I really enjoyed all the girls that came there to swim and tan. I must have had someone who liked me or wanted me far away from there daughter cause after a couple of months there I was sent to Okuma Beach for the rest of my tour on the Island. For those who have never heard of Okuma Beach, it was an R&R resort at the Northern end of the Island. Man what a tour it was. My Company C.O. said I had robbed the Corps of a tour. My second tour had me at Camp Kinser for the whole tour. I tried to get back to Okuma, but they would not have it, so I spent most of the time TAD to Kadena AFB as Marine Liason for Hazardous Cargo certification. I did get to Korea for a month during an exercise checking cargo coming back to Okinawa and got to take one of the last flights made by the last C-17 in the Marine Corps. Korea to Okinawa on a DC-3 WWII war bird. Anyone who remembers those days on the Island drop me a line. Former SSGT Jeff Brown.
December 24th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Merry Christmas Okinawa !!! I miss the beauty of the Far East. I remember once I was “humping a post” on the Kadena flight line on Christmas eve when my commander came out to releive me so I could go home and be with my kids. Great gesture , but at that time I had no kids. So I told him I was fine and he went to give some other young Airman the night off that did have littlin’s waiting for Santa . He was a nice commander …’til you made him mad !!!lol That was way back in1987 . Anyone who reads this can feel free to leave a comment . I would very much like to reconnect with anyone I served with in the security police from1986- 1988. Thanks for reading , …(then Sra Herron or Phil )
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
im so glad to have found this site, and a Happy New Year to all. I was stationed on Okinawa, at Onna Point from 1967 to 68, and ejoyed it immensely. Spending my time hiking and discovering the hills around Onna, the cliffs where the VOA antenna’s stood, Moon Beach and the villiage of Ishikawa. Some of the best skin diving in the world to be found there. I also practiced karate at several different dojo’s.
I returned to Okinawa with my new filipina wife in 1970 and was with the 824th Scty Pol Sq and we resided in the Kitimae area. My first son was born at the Camp Kue hospital in 1971.
Now my second son is stationed on Okinawa with the US Navy, and i will be visiting him in Feb of this year, hoping to stay untill april or may. As I will be living the life of leisure, I will spend my time discovering all those things I missed when I was there before, hiking, walking and bicycling around the Island. I will also spend my days training karate and taking lessons in nihongo. I am looking forward to this so much.
Mike Boyett