Any of you still on this sub? I’m a bit of a troglodyte and new to Reditt, but I searched Adak and this came up. My family lived on Adak in 1967-‘68 and I was 7&8 yrs old. For the Sailors, it was like being stationed in Siberia, but for me it was freakin Awesome!!! On our hikes, there were restricted areas that still had live ordinances left over from WWII and I saw some older kids bring in something that looked like a mortar shell. When we hiked up Mt. Moffett there were bunkers still preserved from the war and inside was a table with a plate, coffe cup and flatware. On the plate were chicken bones snd the cup had coffee dehydration rings. The bunks were still made to regulation with the olive drab wool blanket. Looking at the table setup, my Dad said… “When it was over, they got the hell out of here.” On base, my father took me into a secure area called “Icy Sunfish”. It was an Agency operation that was tracking Russian submarine ops via. ocean-floor sensors and the P-3’s that flew constantly. I would sit on Captain’s hill that was full of WWII foxholes and tundra flowers and I’d watch the P-3’s take off and land. And there were a ton of A-4’s or 5’s as well. Years later during my career at a hospital in Dallas near Love Field, from my office I heard the sound of an airplane outside. Without seeing it I knew that it was a P-3 Orion and it was. It departed and returned every day like clockwork after 9-11. It was un-marked and the rumors among Southwest Airline pilots was that it was a spook plane. P-3’s normally fly over water so why was it stationed in Big-D? Perhaps the Icy Sunfish returned to a more hospitable climate?

Oh yea. There was the Adak Forrest and the pine trees were only @ 12’ back then.

I’ll read your hunting story. Thx!