America's Favourite Missile Test Site is No Longer Playing Ball

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Rocket Island (2009): America has tested their missiles on the Marshall Islands for decades, but the poor island residents have had enough.
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An American test warhead arcs gracefully through the sky towards Kwajalein Island, a strange but familiar sight here. But now a rift between America and the Marshallese is making the island s' future unclear.
A Minuteman III intercontinental missile was fired 28 minutes earlier from a Californian airbase. Fortunately the re-entry vehicles splash down harmlessly in deep water in the Kwajalein Atoll. US Army Lt-Colonel Harold Buhl is pleased. "In order for a weapon to be a weapon of deterrence it needs to be proven that in fact it will work. " For 63 years the Marshall Islands has played host to American war games but in 2016 America 's lease for 11 of the islands is up. The Marshallese say the US compensation is inadequate and their people are struggling.
Dubbed The Slum of the Pacific , 15,000 people are crammed into a narrow strip of coral and sand. "We have running water 3 days a week 2,000 kids don t go to school at all," tells Michael Kabua, an Ebeye Senator. Landowners are asking more than they' ve been offered, and now negotiations have stalled.
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@PromasterHOF 4 года назад

I was there in 2009 for work and I never saw anyone dining the way these people are dining. And there is no mention of the money paid to the actual Marshallese people Not the government.

@caffiend. 8 лет назад

Google what happened to the island of Diego Garcia by the US and the UK.

@joelmillett8981 6 месяцев назад

I lived on Kwajalein for three years in the mid-1970s as a child with my family. We had a maid who came over from Ebeye every morning. We paid her $8 a day to clean, do laundry, etc. When we went to the grocery store (on our bicycles), workers from Ebeye would bring your grocery bags back to your house for you. Life on Kwajalein was nice, but fairly primitive compared to living on the mainland (no cars, no TV at that time). I never realized how much worse things were on Ebeye!

@AdventuresinthePhilippines 3 года назад

That radar tracking building "built in the mid 1980's" was there when I was there in 1979. :-)

@atheistpeace7579 10 месяцев назад

it was not part of star wars program

@brianmi40 9 месяцев назад

I was inside it during my time there with JCWS as head of PC Support, 90-95. It's all steel beams so dense you have to constantly duck, cross bracing to withstand the blast and then open the doors to have radar after an initial strike and have a peek...

@mikeables 6 месяцев назад

@@brianmi40 It was used for storage when I was there in 2000-2006. Why was there a man door near the top? I heard it was designed for a different location in a mountain or partially buried, so the door was ground level. The builders on Kwaj stuck to the original plan and placed the door in the same spot, regardless of it being completely useless. It's funny but is that true?

@brianmi40 6 месяцев назад

@@mikeables Never heard anything about that. So couldn't add anything.

@brianmi40 9 месяцев назад

A bit off here about the Prinz Eugen. While working at Kwajalein for JCWS from 90-95, I read the account of the pilots circling and filming the nuclear test. They were terrified, stuffing rags in the plane to try and keep out any dust from entering and thought they could never have children. The Prinz Eugen was tossed 100' in the air during the blast, and when it landed, it cracked it's spine and started taking on water. That is why it capsized near Kwajalein after being towed there.

@daviddarden1915 2 года назад

This film was very intense and interesting. I worked at Kwajalein on three (3) different occasions for a total of about fourteen (14) years. All my children and grand children ancestry is from there too. Now living in America. Times worked were A. November 1996 to November 1998, B. May 1999 to May 2003 and C. May 2004 to January 2012. The heart of the Marshall Islands from Kwajalein, Roi Namur, Ebeye and Majuro is in my heart. I really enjoyed the years working as US American Department of Defense (DOD) contractor at the Kwajalein Police Department. GOD speed to the Marshall Islands and all the people.

@martineastburn3679 6 лет назад

I lived there for several years, parents for a dozen. The film is single sided and forgets to mention the islands were controlled by Germans and then many years later, Japan. I operated a storehouse during a summer and had one local Native that spoke German (so did I at the time), Japanese, English and naturally the local language.

@robertsmart5600 5 лет назад

Pacific islands were pacified by "people of the book"/"religious nut cases" from Europe. 15km x 5km Rotuma island has 2 methodist churches on the north shore and a cathedral on the south shore! Game plan: 1 - Send in gunboats to pacify natives. 2 - Send in missionaries to teach natives to "turn the other cheek" 3 - Send in business men to rip them off. USA destroyed Europe in WW1 and payed and armed communist Soviet Union, that central bankers created, to destroy Europe in WW2.

@bdog4280 4 года назад

This is why some of us can’t have nice things

@uilanikahiamoe6986 6 лет назад

Well I say to you that yes we are only poor if we do not follow our ancestors. But seems like we can't cause of the test they did back home and to my people. But we will be more poor if our island sinks which is going thru sea rise which sometimes go inland.

@atheistpeace7579 10 месяцев назад

sadly mankind has already pushed nature to far to save the islands. if we went pure environment today. it is to late to save the icecaps of Greenland and the doomsday glacier in Antarctica

@mrmatt5519 8 лет назад

Disarmament of America worldwide would be a great idea. What to do?

@Sr.406 6 лет назад

Independence in 1986, that's 31 years they've managed they're lease money x 12 million a year = 372,000,000 they've recieved. Money doesn't solve poverty, man's self control does.

@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 8 лет назад

So what are they doing with that 12 million a year? I noticed they never bothered asking that question. 12 million a year solves ALOT of problems. I mean lets be honest here it's not as if this micro state has alot of overhead....

@robertsmart5600 5 лет назад

Israel gets billions a year, Trump could build his wall to keep out Mexicans, ripped off by USA, every year if he just stopped funding Israel.

@Influ3nc3 4 года назад

Try supporting hundreds of thousand people and let me know how far you will get with 12mill a year not including schools, hospitals, roads, etc...

@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 4 года назад

@@Influ3nc3 That 12 mill a year is in ADDITION to the state budget...

@williamdunnamjr972 4 года назад

Robert Smart you made some pretty bone headed replies on other people’s comments but your Israel comment is spot on. I’ll be called an AntiSemite for saying this but Israel has a higher GDP, per capita, than the US and yet we are expected to not only give them BILLIONS of $ a year in support but we sell them our military tech at a MASSIVE discount, hand over our technology, and allow dual citizens of Israel serve in American politics, which boggles the mind. Anyone with dual citizenship, regardless of country, should not be allowed to serve in American government as they will not serve our best interests. I don’t have a problem being allies with anyone but we shouldn’t be supporting their country. Israelis get free healthcare and college education on American tax payer’s dime. I could go on and on but it’s past time for America to stop funding the world.

@AdventuresinthePhilippines 3 года назад

Its good to be a member of the Kubua clan in the RMI.

@monmouthcounty-livingthedr4209 Год назад

Im am sure it i no problem for them to ask the US Military to leave, you know, if they actually wanted them to ...

@brianmi40 9 месяцев назад

Sure, because the 15,000 people living on an island 1/2 mile long (80 acres) would do just fine having their economy ripped apart. Detroit could have "asked GM to leave" also for decades... it's not what you do when your economy depends on it.

@bethroesch2156 6 лет назад

We should be ashamed. This is WRONG and I'm embarrassed. How the Hell is it NOT our problem?? We are the direct cause and we have an OBLIGATION to these people

@beatmaker9145 6 лет назад

Beth Roesch they still call us illegal immigrants

@williamhadley8611 6 лет назад

We pay them tens of millions a year and build schools and libraries at no cost. We donate tons of food and water, what they DO with the material is up to them.

@VladaldTrumptin 2 года назад

Yes

@VladaldTrumptin 2 года назад

Golf courses worldwide should be rewilded

@toamataafa4647 6 лет назад

$5 per hr that's not bad at all oppose to Samoa's $3 an hr rate.

@petersonpeter208 7 лет назад

Nice guys u guys are good.

@freedomfighter4681 6 лет назад

Stop taking people there?

@hellykiluwe5776 5 лет назад

Because nice secret

@robertsmart5600 4 года назад

The film accurately represents the time period when it was made.

@macrotech6507 5 лет назад

Just a simple question. If you know you struggle with life to make ends meet, the island where you live has very limited space and is way overcrowded , have no schools or education, life is nothing but hardship with no hope for advancement, why in the fuck are you continuing to fuck and bring child after child into a life of squalor that you can't afford to take care of? And not just on this island. This is a problem all over the world. I would not have the heart to bring a child to life in places like these. It is just not logical. It is no great mystery how this happens.

@amapparatistkwabena 6 лет назад

My grandma used to say: poor doesn't mean nasty. I'll never understand why in some cultures poor people are so nasty. Poor doesn't mean stupid. People can put all rubbish in one area. There is no need to throw your refuse all over the place---especially where you live. This is ridiculous. When you work on the US leased island--is it filthy? No. Do the same at home.

@atheistpeace7579 10 месяцев назад

please tell me you are joking

@sonnybaker8100 6 месяцев назад

That trash heap IS where the local islanders put all their garbage…”in one area”. The kids were playing ball at the garbage dump bc the island is so small they have nowhere else to play.

@righteousgod8376 7 лет назад

Great piece of anti-American propaganda! Loved how numerous issues of financial mismanagement, political dysfunction & tribal infighting along with a trapped culture struggling to survive in a modern world were completely ignored by the film. Mission accomplished!

@williamhadley8611 6 лет назад

'Pre USA takeover'? They were slaves to the Japanese used as slave labor and sex slaves. I think getting paid for work is better than having to sleep with a hundred japanese soldiers a day.

@williamhadley8611 6 лет назад

Actually you're wrong. I'm in the medical field and live HERE in the Marshall Islands. Very very few people died from cancer and it's actually LOWER than the the average around the world except for thyroid cancer and that is treated upon diagnosis. So please, learn the truth before you spout off garbage.

@luvscandycanes 3 года назад

@@williamhadley8611 I'm curious the patient population you actually see! You need to double check your facts and numbers.

@luvscandycanes 3 года назад

@@williamhadley8611 They were NOT slaves BEFORE any of the colonizers came to the Marshall Islands! Now they are just slaves to the US, to be ignored.

@atheistpeace7579 10 месяцев назад

@luvscandycanes I believe he is on your side

@casienwhey 3 года назад

Sort of biased against the US. The bomb testing there was wrong and they definitely should receive compensation for those events, but the Marshal Islands are now an independent state. If they want the US to leave, the US would do so. The Marshallese are not subservient as they are made out to be in the film.

@Sciolist 10 месяцев назад

What makes you think US would just leave, check up on the history of the region a bit. Heads of State have been assassinated for merely speculating about asking Americans to vacate.

@atheistpeace7579 10 месяцев назад

how can you not see that