Pictures from an album given to me when I left Kwajalein in March of 1978. I went out there on an 18-month contract for $3.65/hour in 1975. When I left two years and ten months later I’d gotten up to $5.25/hour. My last eight months I worked on an island about a half-hour’s flight away. I flew up there every morning at 0630 and got back on a plane again at 1730, which meant 2 1/2 hours overtime every day, five days a week. That’s how I managed to walk away from the island with about $12,000 in the credit union.

From Kwajalein

You had to make your fun where you found it on Kwajalein, so we had a darts league. Most of the time we could be found at the Oceanview Club, an open-air bar right on the beach. Believe it or not, none of those guys are findable with the Google.

From Kwajalein

This was taken when I was leaving for good in ’78. I only remember the names of about half those folks. It was taken on the balcony of one of about ten barracks/dorms which housed all the single men and women (mostly men, by about 10:1), two to a room. Both these shots were taken by my roommate, Terry W. Elliott, who was a professional photographer for the same contractor I worked for.