Camp Hansen.
"...When they're not at work camp Hansen marines can take advantage of two
of the most beautiful beaches on the island,Kin Red and Kin Blue.All active
duty military personnel on Okinawa receive either rent and utility cost
free housing on base,or enormous housing allowances ranging from 900$ to
2000$ a month,depending on rank and family size.These benefits are
supplemented by a generous cost of living allowance for which a captain or
a major with one dependant is about 700$ a month.This is not hardship living.
Okinawa is still essentially a military colony of the Pentagons,a huge safe
house where Green Berets and the Defence Intelligence Agency,not to mention
the Air Force and Marine Corps,can do things they would not dare to in the
United States.It is used to project American power throughout Asia in the
service of a defacto US grand strategy to perpetuate or increase American
hegemonic power in this crucial region.The US military is the author and
prime benificiary of this strategy and is in the drivers seat executing
it.This becomes clear when we turn to some of its secret global (and
especially Asian) activities that it is fully aware of - but that other
parts of the government and its people are not."
End of chapter titled,'Okinawa: Asia's last colony.'
Page 64.'Blowback,' by Chalmers Johnson.Any later figures from our military
readers?
