Abandon tunnels

[stormlion1]

I was stationed at Yokota in the mid 90's. We kept those tunnels sealed except for one entrance that was able to be opened. I believe that they were used on occasion for training, or at least the parts that had been cleared had been were. Someone told me that there were sections booby trapped with high explosives which is why they were sealed so tight. I never went down there though even though I knew were the entrance was and probably could have gotten my hands on the keys if I really had wanted to. I did remember them finding two old US Bombs when we were paving the flight line as well, seem to remember the wash stand for cleaning C-130's had to be sealed off after finding unexploded ordinance beneath it.

[Schone23666]

Originally Posted by stormlion1

I was stationed at Yokota in the mid 90's. We kept those tunnels sealed except for one entrance that was able to be opened. I believe that they were used on occasion for training, or at least the parts that had been cleared had been were. Someone told me that there were sections booby trapped with high explosives which is why they were sealed so tight. I never went down there though even though I knew were the entrance was and probably could have gotten my hands on the keys if I really had wanted to. I did remember them finding two old US Bombs when we were paving the flight line as well, seem to remember the wash stand for cleaning C-130's had to be sealed off after finding unexploded ordinance beneath it.

Jeez, that had to be comforting...

"Hey, what's this little thing sticking out of the ground?" BOOM

It wasn't uncommon to hear stories in Germany of them finding another unexploded bomb in a town or city somewhere when they were doing construction, probably dropped from a B17. Hell, when I visited Verdun in France (WW1 battlefield, the terrain still looks like the moon from all the sheling after these years) a couple times, they always had plenty of WARNING signs everywhere indicating areas that still weren't safe to venture into, plus a French EOD team standing by just in case. WW1, mind you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxR4Fgs0iB0

[stormlion1]

How do you think the decades of guys who's job it was to clean C-130's felt to discover where they had been standing every week to clean aircraft had been sitting on top of a pair of bombs! I remember those bombs, some unexploded ordinance (I think they were mortar rounds) that got dug up during road construction, and a grenade found in a storm drain during my two years over there. I always heard about this stuff second hand as my job was to drive around the flightline and count rivets on the night shift.

[.45cultist]

My job was to make sure I used the ECP's to deliver aircrews for the 374th Transportation Squadron. We probably passed each other if you were a Security Specialist! I wasn't there for the main runway paving, they sent me to Kadena to help take up the extra traffic there. Six of us watching Rhodan the fruit bat tackle palm trees. I remember when a dependent smuggled pepper spray to Yakota. The little genius set it off on the shuttle bus. I think the German facilities had a lot of booby trapped tunnels.

[stormlion1]

Security Police, they changed the name a year after I got out to Security Forces. I always joked I'm the last of the Security Police. Spent the bulk of my time on the flightline looking at C-130's with an occasional day away doing patrol on the east side of base. Never got to enjoy any of the real fun jobs.