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<blockquote data-quote="Mikem" data-source="post: 554587" data-attributes="member: 29"><p>I wasn't in the Military (due to a bad leg) but worked for the Army on Kwajalein Pacific Missile test range from 1977 to 1982. We had the last two C-54's (civilian version of the McDonald Douglas DC-4) in the Military inventory. I went as a flight engineer/mechanic. We flew to Bikini Atoll with three huge pigs (two sow's and a boar) for the Marshallese who the Army Corps of Engineers had just resettled on the island. They were "supposed" to raise and breed for a food supply. A lot of Military and Civilian dignitaries. We offloaded the pigs and wondered why the Marshallese really didn't show thst much interest in their care or well being. We found out later that we no sooner got wheels in the well and I guess they threw one hell of a luau. Really didn't matter as a couple months later we had to fly back to evacuate the people as the islands around where Bikini island "use" to be was still contaminated from all the nuclear bomb tests.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikem, post: 554587, member: 29"] I wasn't in the Military (due to a bad leg) but worked for the Army on Kwajalein Pacific Missile test range from 1977 to 1982. We had the last two C-54's (civilian version of the McDonald Douglas DC-4) in the Military inventory. I went as a flight engineer/mechanic. We flew to Bikini Atoll with three huge pigs (two sow's and a boar) for the Marshallese who the Army Corps of Engineers had just resettled on the island. They were "supposed" to raise and breed for a food supply. A lot of Military and Civilian dignitaries. We offloaded the pigs and wondered why the Marshallese really didn't show thst much interest in their care or well being. We found out later that we no sooner got wheels in the well and I guess they threw one hell of a luau. Really didn't matter as a couple months later we had to fly back to evacuate the people as the islands around where Bikini island "use" to be was still contaminated from all the nuclear bomb tests. [/QUOTE]
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