Naval Air Station Sigonella

Naval Air Station Sigonella

       Here's a wiki link about the subject:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Sigonella

            The USA has recently sent 250 Marines (our young USA people) to "camp out" there, so I figure many people would want to know about this place.

            Probably they flew there in USAF transport aircraft from the USA. I suspect it was not charter aircraft (like flying commercially), but don't really know.

            Now 250 Marines are not that many, despite their reputation and their own claims about their vaunted abilities.

            And just where they are now living  and eating,  is of interest to me. Even in my time, I lived in "expeditionary camps", which were basically jazzed up Quonset huts from even older times, usually WWII.  At least I got to eat.

            And nothing like waking up in an abandoned Quonset hut in Vieques after Hurricane Hugo had come through, and there were wild horses also seeking shelter in these same old wiped out Quonset huts. Nothing like sleeping in a barn with horse poop, and being glad because it was better than the alternatives.

            Only time will tell how it sorts out for these young people in Sigonella in 2013.

 

Poster's comments:

            I was once on my  way to rescue Americans in Phnom Penh, Cambodia when I first saw the  movie "Jeremiah Johnson" while on a Navy ship carrying us there.  The movie made me homesick for my Country.

            Morale is important, I would say.

            The State Department canceled our rescue, and some other Marines did it later.