Word: shemya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground bases to the west. With the closing of the two sites in Iran, the bases in Turkey are the nearest to the Soviet Union. The impact areas in the Pacific and on the U.S.S.R.'s Kamchatka Peninsula are watched by the massive radio and radar installation on Shemya Island in the Aleutians. What made the Iranian posts especially valuable was their proximity to the launch site, thus assuring very accurate reception of telemetry, the performance data being beamed by the test missile. The huge eavesdropping antennas of the Kabkan base in Iran were almost on the Soviet border...
...John Blashill's article "The Island of Not Having" [May 17] makes Gan sound like an ideal spot for the troops here on Shemya to visit for rest and recuperation. Our island is a 2-by-4-mile dot of tundra at the far western end of the Aleutian chain. We are about 1,200 Air Force, Army and civilian men with no females. We do get a chance to ogle the Reeve-Aleutian Airline stewardesses twice weekly. The Gan Island weather, fishing, golf, tennis and volleyball sound like a little bit of heaven compared with Shemya...