Talk:Naval Air Facility Adak

"looked on with dread"

 * Assignments to the Aleutians, however, were looked on with dread. There were no South Pacific Beaches, Piccadilly Circuses, or the warmth of Southern Italy. Adak, Amchatka, Attu, Shemya and the other airfields were cold, damp, and had very few recreational diversions or things to do. Fighter aircraft flew a dull routine of defensive alerts against an enemy which was a thousand miles away. Other than the B-24 operations against Japan, the remainder of Eleventh Air Force personnel simply counted the days until their reassignment elsewhere.

My sister and brother-in-law lived on Adak for a few years in the seventies. He was in the Navy, a radioman chief in the submarine service. Back then the rule, at least for submariners, was three months at sea, three months ashore... which meant, as a rule, that you could be present for your child's conception or birth, but not both. But Adak was considered a hardship post, so time ashore there was credited as time at sea. :-) That was enough of a draw for them!

--Thnidu (talk) 22:41, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

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I added a tag for more citations being needed to encourage others to find reliable sources to back up the claims made within this page, primarily in relation to the base's history in World War 2. As it stands, the bulk of the claims made are either unsourced or rely exclusively on Top Cover for America: The Air Force in Alaska, 1920-1983, a book from nearly four decades ago (and, without citing specific pages to allow easy verifiability). As such, more citations are needed to better verify the claims made within this article. WhatIsAPoggers (talk) 23:46, 15 December 2022 (UTC)