[Milsurplus] Truk stuff

[William Cromwell]

Hi Gordon,

Thanks for confirming my own thoughts about this. We get reprts in the 
news form time to time of unexploded ordnance in various places left 
behind from both world wars and other conflicts - to this very day.

73,

Bill KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 12/31/21 7:47 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> At 04:06 PM 12/31/2021, CL in NC via Milsurplus wrote:
>> I ponder the reasoning behind the US keeping folks off of all those 
>> islands we blasted into the next realm during WW II, where nature has 
>> totally restored them. First guess is that if they did allow 
>> visitation without permission folks would walk it to death, pick the 
>> flowers, and trash it up.  Like many things government, visitation to 
>> those places is for government employees only, and anybody else needs 
>> special dispensation from every acronymed government office on the 
>> planet.  15 and 16 inch rifles on those battle ships plowed the 
>> fields back then, but now, your Keds are not welcome.
>>
>> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
>
> Hi Charlie,
> I think I can answer that question for you. It has to do with 
> unexploded ordnance and the liability if said ordnance blows up when 
> someone stumbles over it and it kills them by blowing up. This is not 
> an unfounded fear. I was part of EODMU 1 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal 
> Mobil Unit 1) in the early 90's and one of it's missions was to find 
> and dispose of unexploded munitions on the Hawaiian island of 
> Kahoolawe. Kahoolawe was used as a Naval Test target for ships guns 
> from the 1920's to 1990 and was heavily populated with unexploded 
> munitions. We used to send a large group of people over to the island 
> at least once a year for 2-3 weeks, search for unexploded munitions 
> and shell remains, gather them up and then blow them up at the end of 
> the search time.
>
> 73, Gordon KJ6IKT
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