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TexasTowelie

(116,762 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 08:36 PM Oct 2019

The US Military Is Pouring Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Tiny Wake Island

Amid mounting tensions in the Pacific, the U.S. government is investing a lot of money on infrastructure at an isolated atoll, Wake Island, best known as the site of a heroic World War II battle.

Little information is publicly available about Wake, a secretive military base on a cluster of three small islands far out into the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Japan. Wake is operated by the U.S. Air Force through Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, and is located within the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

Wake Island is linked together in history with Pearl Harbor because both were hit by successful Japanese surprise attacks during a 24-hour period in December 1941.

Now Wake is at the forefront of a new military buildup in the North Pacific. A review of federal contracting information and defense industry press releases confirm that the United States government has committed hundreds of millions of dollars for work at Wake in the past few years.

Read more: https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/10/the-u-s-military-is-pouring-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-into-tiny-wake-island/

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The US Military Is Pouring Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Tiny Wake Island (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP
Next year's birthday gift to Putin. blm Oct 2019 #1
One missile atreides1 Oct 2019 #2

atreides1

(16,386 posts)
2. One missile
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 09:18 PM
Oct 2019

And it'll disintegrate...it's a coral atoll...unless that money is being spent on a force field!!!

I'll bet that the Russians already know what's going on, thanks to their many assets in this administration, and what the Russians know...the Chinese know...

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