I lived there from 1984 to 1986. Worked for the fire department. I miss the beauty and the isolation of the island. P.S I was there for the grand opening of the McDonald's, just about every islander there showed up that day. Such a long time ago.
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If you worked for the fire dept, you might know Steven Carroll?
Sorry but I dont remember any names . This was 40 years ago and my memory is not like it used to be. I do remember there was a Petty Officer 2nd named Steve and 3 civilian fire chiefs but I cant remember there names. Also there was 3 fire stations. One on the hill near the school, one at the airport and one on the listening post about 5 miles away from the main base, that is where I was 99% of the time.@
I was station on Adak twice!! The first time was in 1979-1980 and the second time was from 1984-1986. We watched the McDonald’s being built and the newest housing being brought in by barge and put together. I met my husband there and got married in the Bering Chapel. My son, who was conceived on Adak, went to Kindergarten there. We have a lot of history there and we loved every minute of it. It is something that we will always cherish. So sad to see the Bering chapel falling down. Good memories!! ❤️❤️
I was 19 yrs old stationed on Adak with the Seabees at the Public Works Dept from June 1974-June 1975. I was a Power lineman for the base. Lived in Bering Hill barracks. (at 1:00 min in video). There were 6,000+ people living there, civilians and military. Sad it had to be shutdown in 1999 and be abandoned for so long. And now it is the City of Adak. The people on island are trying to preserve the history and memories of the island the best they can. This is a beautiful video of what Adak looks like today. Oh the memories I still have today from back then. Thank you for this video.
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Glad you liked it and thank for sharing those memories! The islanders are amazing people with enormous strength, I had a chance to talk to a few and they impress.
I was born on Adak in 1958. We made a second trip back (my dad was stationed) and I went to 1st thru 3rd grade. I have many memories of it even though I was very young. Thanks for posting this. By the way we lived in Roberts Village and Remember Kodiak Circle where there was a totem pole somewhere around the road or something. So cool, but looks much different. There where quansit (sp) huts from the war still around we used to find boots and rations and bullet shells and I do remember Berring hill. I believe that's where the school was. Had a blast as a little kid there. My brother (10 years my senior) even had a Heathkit one or two tube AM transmitter kit he built and would play all of the early 60's rock from his reel to reel and he would occasionally talk. It was KDAK Adak radio.... and we would drive around and we could here it sometimes in our F85. I think that's a Pontiac version of the Corvair. Not sure. Ok enough.... Wow!
5:40 church. My mom was the church pianist there when my dad was stationed on the island with his family of 5 from 1954-58 (age 2-6 for me). She tells the story of having to go there one evening for some music and was chased from the car to the church's front door by a pack of starving dogs abandoned by people leaving the island, and barely made it inside. After that, soldiers shot abandoned dogs on sight. All the housing from the 1950s and 60s was replaced by the structures seen in this video, one reason being to get rid of asbestos in the original housing.
Great job! You I appreciate how you showed some of the damaged houses but minimized their importance. It helps protect the fond memories of the past inhabitants.
The only olace in the world you can go to sleep at night in the winter and wake up to 4' of snow. I was stationed there 90-92. Notice the sun rooms on the back of the houses. The Navy sent Hawaii houses to Adak and Adak houses to Hawaii.
How many days did it take to get such perfect weather? I have seen a number of Adak Island videos and the conditions were typically overcast. Looks like a fascinating place to visit.
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I happened to get 2 great sunny days in a row. The rest of my time on the island it was overcast and foggy. Alaska Airlines plane had to make three attempts to land before they could in the fog.
SERGEY My Friend if you ever Get lucky 🍀 Enough to Return to Adak hopefully 🤞 U can make Some Clear Drone Footage of NSGA Also !!! My Old Base 🚁🚁🚀🚂🚀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Hi Mitch! Always good to hear from you. I sure will when life takes me there again.
I was Stationed NSGA 80-81. 395 days !!! A The Sun Shined 1 day out of 395 and Captain 🧑✈️ Brown called Sunshine Liberty and we got off of Work the rest of the day. Arrived on the 🪨 at 18 years old straight out of Radioman A class School 🏫. Left the Rock 🪨 at 20 years old !! Headed to a US Navy Ship 🚢 and Served longer there than Adak. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪨🪨🇺🇸🇺🇸😂🤔👀
SERGEY u are one ☝️ lucky 🍀 son of a gun to have Traveled 🧳 that far to Adak and had Clear Skies 🌌 for Days !!! I never 👎 saw one ☝️ Day like in your Video out of my 398 day Stay on Adak 80-81 🚶🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm intrigued over semi-abandoned towns. I'd love to visit. Are the inhabitants of Adak part of the military that chose to stay? Any chance of doing another video about the people living there, the resources, tourist attractions which I would think would mainly be the beautiful island, and of course the birthplace of the wind!?
I see adak has no trees. Apparently, even a mighty sitka spruce can't even make it over there.
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Yes, Adak island is basically tundra. Funny thing is that there's a small 'forest', about 10 trees maybe, that someone jokingly called 'Adak National Forest' and it is even on the map. So I guess, trees can grow on the island.
I served at Navcommsta September 73 to October 75. Drove past that "forest" just about every day. The story at that time had the little (sapling) trees were planted by G.I.'s during or just after WW II. I think they had only grown to about 6 feet when I lived there.
Great video. With the tensions growing between China and also Russia I would not be surprsied to see this base come back into action again. All the infrastructure is still basically intact. A bit of TLC and lots of money and American determination would make it happen.
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I agree with a bit of determination Adak can be settled again in little time. Its location is too strategically valuable to neglect.
Late evening after dinner I when for a walk and check the little forests and come back to the apartment I walk long the beach I c a Driftwood half covered I wrote my name 😊
This was a wonderful video…. But I would love to see a video, of the Berring Barracks building on Berring hill… no one has ever giving a video of the Barracks building inside… I was there in 1973-74, I would love to see what it looks like now, I have asked several times, and no one has ever given a tour of the old rooms we lived in for our year there… not sure it would look the same but I would love to see what it looks like now… I have a yearning, to see my old room or close to it… I was a ships Serviceman, and I ran the ships store on the Hill for my year there. There is something about Adak that calls us all back, but I know i will never be able to come back there, so I would love to see this.. I know a lot changed in those years, but not sure if the Barracks changed much? If you can do a video in the old barracks’s? Thanks
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Hi Steven, the barracks are still standing up on the hill and I went inside for a short bit - it looks very post-apocalyptic and makes you want to leave as quickly as possible. Everything is decayed, like the community pool I've seen, pretty gloomy. I didn't take any videos from the inside. You sure you can't come back for a visit? There's a direct flight from Anchorage twice a week.
@ Thanks for the reply… its very sad that everything is sadly decaying there, it was a great Navy Base in it’s day!!!! I don’t think I’d want to return to see all that gloom… I only wanted to come back because of the fun and happy days,, and I think it would really depress me….so I’ll not return….thanks for the Info….
Steven, you can see the inside of the barracks/dorms on Bering Hill/NSGA in a video entitled. "Adak Navy Abandoned Housing" by Fallstallion. Semper Fi! ~ June P.
🏃🏃🤷🤷♂️🧌🧌🧟♂️🧟🧟🧛♀️🥷🕵️🕵️🕵️♂️👁️👀👣👣👣🫵💪🏿👋🙀👏😹😹🤖👾👽👽💀💀👻👻👻🤡🤡👺👹👿😵💫😵🥴🥴😲🙄🫨😬😬🫥🫥🫥🫠🤫🫣🫣🫣🤔🤭😳😳😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😱😱😫😫🥳🥳🧐🤪🤪😇🤣🤣😂 Some of Adaks Ghost 👻 left 🆙 in SOME of Them buildings !!!!!🇺🇸
It definitely makes me curious. I can't believe people live in places like this, seems like such a pain in the ass to get food and supplies way out there. Wonder if it would be hard to find cannabis lol
@ кстати, а вы не узнавали, чем сейчас "живет" Адак?
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@@adambrown756 Адак живёт как и предыдущие много лет: хаб для рыболовецких судов, метеостанция, спасательные службы, геологоразведка, авиатранспорт, плюс немного туризма, это рай для bird watchers. Не исключено, что рано или поздно город расконсервируют.
@ а во сколько вам обошелся перелет в Адак? И какой самый дорогой перелет был на Аляске?
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@@adambrown756 Мне бы не хотелось в публичном пространстве оставлять информацию о таких деталях :) Можете написать на имейл aulismedia@gmail.com, по телефону будет проще ответить на ваши вопросы.
Adak is "almost" a ghost town, there are about 50 year-round residents on the island and even less in winter. Vast majority of those houses are empty and deteriorating.
@ maybe 🤔 but if a new town is developed new infrastructure new industry investments opportunities bring back some sort of tourism and of some sort to the area I’ve lived in Dutch harbor and there is a major potential for the Aleutian Islands if it is done properly and advertised properly where talking 50-70 years from now it can easily be a place people from all over the world would want to visit just remember how Dubai was or Abu Dhabi was 70 years ago granted the weather will be extremely difficult in certain time of the years but if done properly it has potential
@ the Dubai of the Americas so to speak construction would present sum challenges but nothing that has not been done before the trick will be to establish industry and lower the cost of travel to there
I was station on Adak twice!! The first time was in 1979-1980 and the second time was from 1984-1986. We watched the McDonald’s being built and the newest housing being brought in by barge and put together. I met my husband there and got married in the Bering Chapel. My son, who was conceived on Adak, went to Kindergarten there. We have a lot of history there and we loved every minute of it. It is something that we will always cherish. So sad to see the Bering chapel falling down. Good memories!! ❤️❤️
I lived there from 1984 to 1986. Worked for the fire department. I miss the beauty and the isolation of the island. P.S I was there for the grand opening of the McDonald's, just about every islander there showed up that day. Such a long time ago.
If you worked for the fire dept, you might know Steven Carroll?
Sorry but I dont remember any names . This was 40 years ago and my memory is not like it used to be. I do remember there was a Petty Officer 2nd named Steve and 3 civilian fire chiefs but I cant remember there names. Also there was 3 fire stations. One on the hill near the school, one at the airport and one on the listening post about 5 miles away from the main base, that is where I was 99% of the time.@
I was station on Adak twice!! The first time was in 1979-1980 and the second time was from 1984-1986. We watched the McDonald’s being built and the newest housing being brought in by barge and put together. I met my husband there and got married in the Bering Chapel. My son, who was conceived on Adak, went to Kindergarten there. We have a lot of history there and we loved every minute of it. It is something that we will always cherish. So sad to see the Bering chapel falling down. Good memories!! ❤️❤️
I was 19 yrs old stationed on Adak with the Seabees at the Public Works Dept from June 1974-June 1975. I was a Power lineman for the base. Lived in Bering Hill barracks. (at 1:00 min in video). There were 6,000+ people living there, civilians and military. Sad it had to be shutdown in 1999 and be abandoned for so long. And now it is the City of Adak. The people on island are trying to preserve the history and memories of the island the best they can. This is a beautiful video of what Adak looks like today. Oh the memories I still have today from back then. Thank you for this video.
Glad you liked it and thank for sharing those memories! The islanders are amazing people with enormous strength, I had a chance to talk to a few and they impress.
Such a beautiful place. I will never forget Adak. I was there from 83 to 86 6th grade through 8th. I miss friends I had there .❤
So nice of you to leave this comment. Glad this video evoked it in you.
My dad and two of my uncles used to live there in the early 70s when my grandpa was in the Navy
My dad was stationed there in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, he flew on P3 Orions.
Saw Adak many times in 1975-77 with the Coast Guard. They picked a beautiful day to film. Its seldom this clear.
I’m still Watching your Adak Videos Buddy
Great 👍 Work My Friend 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was born on Adak in 1958. We made a second trip back (my dad was stationed) and I went to 1st thru 3rd grade. I have many memories of it even though I was very young. Thanks for posting this. By the way we lived in Roberts Village and Remember Kodiak Circle where there was a totem pole somewhere around the road or something. So cool, but looks much different. There where quansit (sp) huts from the war still around we used to find boots and rations and bullet shells and I do remember Berring hill. I believe that's where the school was. Had a blast as a little kid there. My brother (10 years my senior) even had a Heathkit one or two tube AM transmitter kit he built and would play all of the early 60's rock from his reel to reel and he would occasionally talk. It was KDAK Adak radio.... and we would drive around and we could here it sometimes in our F85. I think that's a Pontiac version of the Corvair. Not sure. Ok enough.... Wow!
Does it rain too much over there
Like 👍 Cats 🐈⬛ and Dogs 🐕
Beautiful video!!! Thank you for your thoughtful rendering of an Adak that still evokes memories of our home...so very long ago.
Glad to see you liked it!
Hello 👋 My Friend. Yes 👍 Sir I’m still watching !!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mister Mitch! Always great to hear from you, Sir! Hope you're doing well!
My father was stationed on Adak 74ish....CTT Zito Point. Twas a blast as a kid. Fishing was amazing. I would give anything to have those times back.
What year was that? Fishing is still crazy good on the island :)
@ 1974-75 Besides Finger Bay, I would go to the "traffic circle" and catch fish all day long.
My Friend SERGEY : Just Watched Video Again. If any CLEARER ℹ would Think 🤔 I was back on The ROCK 🪨 Again after 42.5 Years
Great to hear, Mitch, glad you like it!
Such a nice place
5:40 church. My mom was the church pianist there when my dad was stationed on the island with his family of 5 from 1954-58 (age 2-6 for me). She tells the story of having to go there one evening for some music and was chased from the car to the church's front door by a pack of starving dogs abandoned by people leaving the island, and barely made it inside. After that, soldiers shot abandoned dogs on sight. All the housing from the 1950s and 60s was replaced by the structures seen in this video, one reason being to get rid of asbestos in the original housing.
Great job! You I appreciate how you showed some of the damaged houses but minimized their importance. It helps protect the fond memories of the past inhabitants.
The only olace in the world you can go to sleep at night in the winter and wake up to 4' of snow. I was stationed there 90-92. Notice the sun rooms on the back of the houses. The Navy sent Hawaii houses to Adak and Adak houses to Hawaii.
Lived there from 90-92. You can see my old house in the beginning of the video. It was a weird place.
damn right !!! 😤🤔
My home 73-74 OT at the Navfac. Best year of my life.
Do you happen to have pictures of Adak the way it used to be back then?
I was an OT there in 78-80 fond memories.
How many days did it take to get such perfect weather? I have seen a number of Adak Island videos and the conditions were typically overcast. Looks like a fascinating place to visit.
I happened to get 2 great sunny days in a row. The rest of my time on the island it was overcast and foggy. Alaska Airlines plane had to make three attempts to land before they could in the fog.
SERGEY My Friend if you ever Get lucky 🍀 Enough to Return to Adak hopefully 🤞 U can make Some Clear Drone Footage of NSGA Also !!! My Old Base 🚁🚁🚀🚂🚀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hi Mitch! Always good to hear from you. I sure will when life takes me there again.
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Sergei my great video a true inspiration
I was Stationed NSGA 80-81. 395 days !!! A The Sun Shined 1 day out of 395 and Captain 🧑✈️ Brown called Sunshine Liberty and we got off of Work the rest of the day. Arrived on the 🪨 at 18 years old straight out of Radioman A class School 🏫. Left the Rock 🪨 at 20 years old !! Headed to a US Navy Ship 🚢 and Served longer there than Adak. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪨🪨🇺🇸🇺🇸😂🤔👀
Same thing happened when we were there. It was unseasonably warm and sunny out. We got the day off of school.
Wow 🤩 went to School 🏫 Adak I bet that is a MEMORY !!!
Now don't get too much sun kids !
It's alright, not too bad with sunlight, Adak is on the south side after all
@ Thats good. My Dad was stationed there in the army. WW 2
Beautiful work. Hope there will be more
Thank you, Dawn! More is cooking up.
if you visit Adak be sure to climb to the top of Steve Hill….
Great video as usual. I've been to Alaska a couple of times but haven't visited the Aleutian Islands.
Thank you very much for coming back. Glad you liked it.
SERGEY u are one ☝️ lucky 🍀 son of a gun to have Traveled 🧳 that far to Adak and had Clear Skies 🌌 for Days !!! I never 👎 saw one ☝️ Day like in your Video out of my 398 day Stay on Adak 80-81 🚶🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm intrigued over semi-abandoned towns. I'd love to visit. Are the inhabitants of Adak part of the military that chose to stay? Any chance of doing another video about the people living there, the resources, tourist attractions which I would think would mainly be the beautiful island, and of course the birthplace of the wind!?
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拍的真好，景色很棒，在用谷歌地球时，偶然搜到这个城市，好奇感一下上来了，心想这么偏远的地方是个什么样子，非常感谢博主让我大开眼界。
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it. Take care!
@garcias muchas
I see adak has no trees. Apparently, even a mighty sitka spruce can't even make it over there.
Yes, Adak island is basically tundra. Funny thing is that there's a small 'forest', about 10 trees maybe, that someone jokingly called 'Adak National Forest' and it is even on the map. So I guess, trees can grow on the island.
I served at Navcommsta September 73 to October 75. Drove past that "forest" just about every day. The story at that time had the little (sapling) trees were planted by G.I.'s during or just after WW II. I think they had only grown to about 6 feet when I lived there.
I was there 80-84...Dad was navy.
Wonder if your Dad has any pictures of Adak. Would be interesting to see what the town looked like back then.
SERGEY Remember Utube Video-1981 Adak Gerrit !!! Was filmed While I was Stationed there 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was there from June of 74 to June of 75 I work at the GSE shop for the ones that don't know that is ground support
Great video. With the tensions growing between China and also Russia I would not be surprsied to see this base come back into action again. All the infrastructure is still basically intact. A bit of TLC and lots of money and American determination would make it happen.
I agree with a bit of determination Adak can be settled again in little time. Its location is too strategically valuable to neglect.
🐎🐎✈️✈️✈️🚁🚁🛬🛫🚀🚀🚢🚢🚢🚨🚨☢️☢️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
looks beautiful !
Thank you! Cheers!
Late evening after dinner I when for a walk and check the little forests and come back to the apartment I walk long the beach I c a Driftwood half covered I wrote my name 😊
This was a wonderful video…. But I would love to see a video, of the Berring Barracks building on Berring hill… no one has ever giving a video of the Barracks building inside… I was there in 1973-74, I would love to see what it looks like now, I have asked several times, and no one has ever given a tour of the old rooms we lived in for our year there… not sure it would look the same but I would love to see what it looks like now… I have a yearning, to see my old room or close to it… I was a ships Serviceman, and I ran the ships store on the Hill for my year there. There is something about Adak that calls us all back, but I know i will never be able to come back there, so I would love to see this.. I know a lot changed in those years, but not sure if the Barracks changed much? If you can do a video in the old barracks’s? Thanks
Hi Steven, the barracks are still standing up on the hill and I went inside for a short bit - it looks very post-apocalyptic and makes you want to leave as quickly as possible. Everything is decayed, like the community pool I've seen, pretty gloomy. I didn't take any videos from the inside. You sure you can't come back for a visit? There's a direct flight from Anchorage twice a week.
@ Thanks for the reply… its very sad that everything is sadly decaying there, it was a great Navy Base in it’s day!!!! I don’t think I’d want to return to see all that gloom… I only wanted to come back because of the fun and happy days,, and I think it would really depress me….so I’ll not return….thanks for the Info….
Steven, you can see the inside of the barracks/dorms on Bering Hill/NSGA in a video entitled. "Adak Navy Abandoned Housing" by Fallstallion.
Semper Fi! ~ June P.
@@junepurvis4720 thank you.
🏃🏃🤷🤷♂️🧌🧌🧟♂️🧟🧟🧛♀️🥷🕵️🕵️🕵️♂️👁️👀👣👣👣🫵💪🏿👋🙀👏😹😹🤖👾👽👽💀💀👻👻👻🤡🤡👺👹👿😵💫😵🥴🥴😲🙄🫨😬😬🫥🫥🫥🫠🤫🫣🫣🫣🤔🤭😳😳😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😱😱😫😫🥳🥳🧐🤪🤪😇🤣🤣😂 Some of Adaks Ghost 👻 left 🆙 in SOME of Them buildings !!!!!🇺🇸
Wha happened to Adak? Why it so empty
Military base was relocated away from the island
So it’s abandoned
It definitely makes me curious. I can't believe people live in places like this, seems like such a pain in the ass to get food and supplies way out there. Wonder if it would be hard to find cannabis lol
Navy 80-81 Adak no problem 😉 Mary Jane 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Do they have fire fighters there
Yes they do, and a Fire Marshal also
where the people go? a ghost town?
Practically everyone left after the military base was closed a couple decades back
and still have a Mayor?@
There are still pirate gold on the island
I believe there's a show on this, experts were brought to the island to search for gold
Я так понимаю, вы решили посетить отдаленные уголки Аляски...
Про Адак, есть любопытный сериал "Пиратское золото острова Адак".
Спасибо за наводку, обязательно найду время посмотреть
@ кстати, а вы не узнавали, чем сейчас "живет" Адак?
@@adambrown756 Адак живёт как и предыдущие много лет: хаб для рыболовецких судов, метеостанция, спасательные службы, геологоразведка, авиатранспорт, плюс немного туризма, это рай для bird watchers. Не исключено, что рано или поздно город расконсервируют.
@ а во сколько вам обошелся перелет в Адак? И какой самый дорогой перелет был на Аляске?
@@adambrown756 Мне бы не хотелось в публичном пространстве оставлять информацию о таких деталях :) Можете написать на имейл aulismedia@gmail.com, по телефону будет проще ответить на ваши вопросы.
Por qué no hay gente ?
The town was relocated a few decades ago, but a few people still stayed
It’s sad Adak is too far away to ever be a viable community, when it closed if I remember right a native tribe took it over
I was a C-141 Loadmaster out of McChord loved our flights out on the chain
✈️✈️✈️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
Beautiful but doesn't look like anyone is around.
Adak is "almost" a ghost town, there are about 50 year-round residents on the island and even less in winter. Vast majority of those houses are empty and deteriorating.
I claim squatter rights. See you later.
It looks like an empty subdivision
Look great place to send the homeless
Too expensive to keep them there
@ maybe 🤔 but if a new town is developed new infrastructure new industry investments opportunities bring back some sort of tourism and of some sort to the area I’ve lived in Dutch harbor and there is a major potential for the Aleutian Islands if it is done properly and advertised properly where talking 50-70 years from now it can easily be a place people from all over the world would want to visit just remember how Dubai was or Abu Dhabi was 70 years ago granted the weather will be extremely difficult in certain time of the years but if done properly it has potential
@ the Dubai of the Americas so to speak construction would present sum challenges but nothing that has not been done before the trick will be to establish industry and lower the cost of travel to there
Remote? Not nearly as remote as Shemya or Attu......
Thanks for the comment. Everything in its time! One day it will be Shemya's and Attu's turn. If you know good shortcuts to those places, let me know.
I was station on Adak twice!! The first time was in 1979-1980 and the second time was from 1984-1986. We watched the McDonald’s being built and the newest housing being brought in by barge and put together. I met my husband there and got married in the Bering Chapel. My son, who was conceived on Adak, went to Kindergarten there. We have a lot of history there and we loved every minute of it. It is something that we will always cherish. So sad to see the Bering chapel falling down. Good memories!! ❤️❤️
I Arrived on her Adak August 1980
On Adak 1986-1988, NSGA supply department
I worked for The City of Adad off and on for15 years. 2⁰05
It is a very beautiful place. My dream locale. Thank you for sharing your beautiful memories. Cheers.