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My dad was stationed here in the Navy during the end of Vietnam for a year when he was 21. He saw some of these videos with me and he pointed out places he has been and how it all looks the same. My dad has some amazing stories and he has traveled so many places in the world when in the Navy. He says it’s crazy this is abandoned and time has stood still.

LOL I can hardly believe this... At 4:04 the wooden sign you see in the airport, that says ADAK...I made that sign in High School in Mr. Vine's wood shop class when I was 15 years old! My dad was stationed there and I was a Navy dependent living there. That was 1975! I can't believe it's still there lol. Too freaking cool. It was awesome to see this. I actually questioned whether this could indeed be the same sign but seeing it now I'm positive as I remember being aggravated when I made it that the spacing wasn't consistent between the eagle and the letter A, lol. It is 2" mahogany that was cut by hand guiding the pieces through a band saw so not bad for a 15 year old. :)

I was deployed to Adak with my Seabee battalion as a small unit in 87/88. It was the most majestic and peaceful place I have ever been. So beautiful but the environment was no joke. I believe that it was termed the birthplace of the winds. We were housed in the barracks up on the hill and used the underground steam tunnels to get around when going outside was not an option. We worked hard, ate good, and partied like rock stars! I would love to visit again. Thank you for your video, it brought back great memories!

The McDonald's was a concessionaire of the Navy Exchange. It officially closed in June of 1994. In September 1994 a crew came in and removed the arches that were adjacent to the main road. The arches were packaged and shipped off the island on a Sampson barge back to McDonald's Corp. MWR was going to open it up as a burger joint, but the Skipper said no to that idea as there was still the Raven's Roost, The Husky Club, The Pizza Shop and the Aleutian Steakhouse open for the sailors.

May be headed back there in August with a group of Marines who served there. The "7 doors of doom" compound was guarded by Marines. The MAUW (Marine Advanced Underwater Weapons) compound had nuclear depth charges that could be deployed by the P-3 Orion submarine hunting planes stationed there. All public knowledge now. The Reaction Force Facility was the building you saw the USMC graphics in. The RFF and the guard towers were all rebuilt in 1984 when I was there. During the construction we still had to guard the place 24/7/365 so they moved our quarters to the other Weapons Maintenance building near the guard tower at the main gate. There were also two Marines that patroled about a half mile or more of the land around the perimeter fence, again 24/7/365. That was the lowest post out there and you were there during white-outs, etc. The ACC on the wall stood for Alarm Control Center and that was the top post at the compound back then. The COG Hut was were the Corporals of the Guard could hang out a little bit away from all of the guard force. The whiteboard room was used as a classroom for training while you were at the compound. I think it was 3 days there, then you'd switch with the second section and they would go out there for 3 days, and so on. Just wanted to add some color to your awesome video. A lot of the Marines from there have a much better memory than I do. Thanks for posting and showcasing the island.

I was stationed here in 1979 as a Hospital Corpsman. Looks just like I remembered. I was so happy to leave. Even with 6000 people you still are in the middle of nowhere.

Was married in the Chapel on January 1978 when I was stationed there THANK YOU for the memories of that day,❤

I was stationed there at the weather office from 1988-1990. Was the best duty station I had in my 13 1/2 year Navy career. It was a great place during it’s day.

We lived on Adak from 1991 to 1995, It was beautiful, and wonderful. Your intro actually passes our home, it breaks my heart to see it as it is now.

Lived in Adak 20 years ago,ran the grocery store.At that time only 82 inhabitants.I really enjoyed the people,and the landscape.Rats were a big problem in my triplex housing

I was stationed in ADAK from the summer of 1977 til summer of 1978. Much more was added through the years after I left. This was my first duty station. A shame it’s just left to rot. Thanks for sharing.

My husband was stationed at Moffett Field, and his rotation was to Adak and Guam during the early 70s, as an aviation electrician. I will be showing him this.

was stationed there 1973 to 1975. was suppose to be a 1 year tour, but i loved the hunting, fishing and hiking so much i extended 6 months. worked in the TSC, which is gone supporting the P-3s. looks like the earthquake proof barraks i lived in is gone too. went thru a 6.8 earthquake when great sitkan volcano blew its top. not a fun experiance watching a 10,000 foot runway undulating like waves on a lake. the only damage was two electrical/phone poles snapped off. oh...and a lot of soiled skivies.

Lived there from 90-92. Hung out at the Bering building all the time. Pool, arcade, theater, pizza place, and ice cream. I lived in the duplexes at the bottom of the hill across the street. It was weird place and very contaminated.

So many of us USNavy vets have wonderful memories of Adak. It was wonderful to see it again thru this video but also sad to see it so lifeless........

One thing I noticed after watching so many urban exploring videos is that there is an absence of any graffiti. The remote location keeps it very authentic.

Ran across this video while going down the rabbit hole! Boy, was I surprised! My husband was stationed at NSGA in 84-88. I have lots of great memories from living this experience. Thank you for sharing 😊

I was stationed on Adak from 1977 to 1979 as an enlisted man. Your lodge looks like a housing area called Kuluk I believe. One of my best friends and his wife and 2 kids lived there. The view of the living room gave me flashbacks! LOL The first area you visited around 9:07 of the video was a housing area known as Turnkey. It was almost new when I moved in. On the ground floor were the living room, kitchen and a half bathroom with laundry. Upstairs were 2 bedrooms and a full bath. The shop building you went to was the hub of the "town". My unit had a bowling team that played there, the Navy exchange ran the little restaurant. There was no McDonald's nor Baskin Robins at that time. We got Burger King flown in for the Fourth of July, but you had to place and pay for your order in late June. The "unidentified" cart at 19:05 is a cart that is used to load and unload autoclaves where surgical instruments are sterilized. The item you called a gurney at 19:18 is a folding stretcher as used in the field. The squarish feet on it actually fit into "pockets" on field hospital operating room tables so injured can be placed directly on the table without having to remove the patient from the stretcher. The Tundra Tavern was the Marine club. (Named after the founding site of the USMC). Their claim to fame was their Mexican food. Bering Hill was mainly a mainly barracks area. There were 2 clubs there, the Enlisted Men's club (in the main building) and the Petty Officers' Club (The Husky). The movie theater, library and small extension of the Navy exchange were in the main building as was the pool, gym and snack bar. The chow hall was across the street as I recall. The large beige building was not there when I was. The stream emptying to Finger Bay is a salmon run (Humpback) where we fished in the spring as they were on the way to spawn. There was a WWII vintage Quonset hut on the side of Mt Moffett that we used a s a ski lodge. Access was by snow mobile and if you had one you had a key to the lodge. There was an abandoned ski lift up there also. In my 23 years in the Navy, Adak was my absolutely favorite duty station. The Birthplace of the Winds, where the duty was great, but the liberty sucked!

The best video I’ve seen of Adak. Thank you for the quality content!

With the focus of the US Military shifting to the Pacific theater it’s only a matter of time before this place is re-activated and expanded. I’ve seen a few proposals of the rebuilding the airport’s runways & taxiways. Triple the original size. Great video!!

In the late 60's I went to sonar school in San Diego. On of the instructors had just spent 2 years in Adak where sonar technicians operated and maintained underwater listening devices in the Aleutians waters. Needless to say we heard a lot of stories about Adak ... good and bad. Having grown up in Hawaii, Adak was the last place I wanted to be. Two of my classmates who were from the NW requested to be stationed there and they got the assignment.

I just started to watch, about half way through,and I just keep saying WOW WOW , this is the first video I have watched on your channel, your narrative is excellent , I'm amazed at that McDonald's, and oh my yes the wrath of mother nature,, I imagine I will be wowing the rest of the way through the video, this is a great combo for me of abandoned places, ghost towns and the beauty of Alaska,Im retired medical so I was really WOWing at the hospital, recognize alot of the equipment, I really liked you explaining how got there...thank you , a good description of the remoteness, ill like share and subscribe, safe travels , I agree very hard to wrap your head around that its closer to Tokyo than Seattle

So wasteful. That’s our government.

My dad was stationed there in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s. He flew on the P3s and we lived in the Eagle Bay housing.

Thank you for doing this tour. As a resident of Adak Alaska living there until 91 4 years or around there. It sure takes me back. If you have any questions about what you saw my mother was the MWR director which is morale welfare and recreation the building that you were in with the bowling alley the kuluck building was where my mom's office was. She also took care of the pool in the bearing building. We lived in the ugly brown and yellow houses called turnkey right off of seal drive. I used to eat at that McDonald's regularly and go see my mom at work and bowl to my heart's content. I could go on for hours about Adak.

Was stationed there 79-82. It was an amazing place and my favorite place to live in my life. The friendships we made are still going strong. I was an air traffic controller and worked in the control tower seen in this video, and also in a radar trailer next to the runway. Weather was nice in this video but it was bleak, windy, rainy with low ceilings most of the time. At times very difficult for aircraft to land.

I was stationed on Adak in the 80’s. A little history. The Bering hill area was the marine corps section of the base. The rest was all navy

I really appreciated you sharing this !My foster father who raised me from age 4,was stationed in the Alucian Islands as a young man.Ive seen many pics of his buddies and planes he worked on ,but not the landscape.He would just talk about how freezing cold it was.Very interesting to get to see it !Many years later ,but so interesting and even sad to see the life it once had.Thanks so much.

The government should've had to clear all the contaminants up . But we see this all the time. The government walks off and abandons a facility. Companies are really bad about it too .

When they clossed that base, all of the homes were still fully furnished. It's like the people just took themselves and left in a hurry. A friend of mine was sent there on a rescue rig. Told me all about it with pictures to verify.

The restaurant in the bearing building was a Pizza Hut but unlike any other Pizza Hut I have ever seen. It was a white tablecloth restaurant that served Cherry's jubilee and Pizza Hut pizza as well as many other fine dining dishes. Caribou and halibut surf and turf. And many other things.

My uncle was stationed there in the early sixties. He was a Chief Petty Officer. Never talked about his time in the Navy. It looks pretty gloomy 🙁

I was stationed on Adak while in the Navy. I can't believe you didn't show the Polar Bear at the Anchorage airport.

I once lived on this island, while serving in the military

I was stationed at NAS Adak in the mid 80s. Thanks for the look back bro

First time to see your channel was this video. Very good footage as well as very interesting content. Think I'll subscribe and look for more adventures from your videos.

Thanks for showing this to the country. It's a perfect example of why military budgets are out of control and shows how recklessly they spend TAXPAYER MONEY! Disgusting is the only word I have for how they abandoned this and allowed it to rot away. (It's like what they did in Afghanistan!!!) It's time someone calls out those in charge of military budgets and shows this film every time they request more money!!!

Great video Dave. First timer here. Former Alaskan of 33 years. I worked with a guy up in Fairbanks that was stationed out on shemya island, the last island on the chain, as a radio operator. Airplane in, airplane out. He had stories that would make you shiver. Ropes that tied buildings together in the winter so that you could go between because the wind blew so hard. Food was rationed because the planes couldn’t get in. Just imagine that. Crazy. I worked for two different all cargo airlines over the years out of Fairbanks. I missed my one chance to go to Adak. It was a beautiful winter day out there at that time so I was told. I always regretted not going on that trip. Thanks for your content. Take care and stay safe.

As a boy my dad told stories of his naval time in WWII on the battleship Nevada, shelling Adak to retake it.

I was there 65-68 as a dependent. My father was with MCB 10. You should have seen what the winds did to the old quonset huts and wooden buidings. We used to play in them and came across some amazing stuff. The are all gone now. They removed them as part of the superfund cleanup. My dad and his crew paved the road from the airport terminal to the traffic circle and a lot of other infrastructure on the island during the 3 tours he did on Adak. It was a great place. The Bering building was not officers entertainment building. I was for the use of everyone. The library was upstairs. There was a gym right by the theatre. Bowling alley, sauna, hobby shop, ceramic shop and AFRTS studios in the basement The Williwa lounge was on the same floor as the theatre. Burger, fries and a coke. I spent so many hours in the Bering building. 1.00 movies and a free shuttle ride up the hill. We weren't there more than a couple of months before we had a tsunami alert and had to evacuate to Bering hill. The set off the nuke on Amchitka. Great memories.

I used to go out to finger Bay to go fishing all the time. You could literally catch salmon upstream with your bare hands. I have pictures of it in fact.

Kind of reminds me of Stephenville Newfoundland where I grew up. The US base there closed in 1964, 20 years before I was born. But rather than being left to rot, everything was sold to locals. Many of my friends grew up living in the base housing. The hospital where I was born was once the base hospital. Many of the buildings have been torn down at this point but many have been maintained and renovated. The main difference is that 20 years later there were still 8000 people living in town and over 25,000 people living in the service area.

I was there from 94-96, bowled in that alley many times!!

Dave, it was amazing. We drove around in military 4x4’s and had access to everything. There was still a listening post with a few military. They left two 90’ ocean going tugs that looked so new I didn’t go on to them but a crab boat captain told me they had left them. They left about six new big school buses and four big aircraft fuel trucks. It was endless. There was so much heavy equipment including a mobile road building machine pulled by a Cat D9 that they just parked it all in the open. Ask about those signs in the fence. I can’t tell you here in the open. Safe travels.

One of my dearest friends served up there. It would break his heart to know what has happened to it now.

First, AMAZING AMAZING video thanks for sharing. Second, it was so cool reading the comments of service men that were stationed there and people who lived there.

The house you lived in is the old housing. I lived just around the corner from there. We lived in one while waiting to move over to the new ones. Two story units came in on barges prebuilt. Was there 86-88. Went to high school there. Dad was Company I 1stSgt out at NSGA.

I was a U.S.MARINE there for a short time in the late 80's.

Wow! Thanks for the video. I'm sure glad you showed me this. Something I'd never do.

I lived there from 79-83, all 4 yrs of high school...I really miss it and think of it often even after 40 yrs😊good memories for the most part..the lodging neighborhood was called Kuluk that's where I lived.

How could you spend 4 days there and not pick up a fishing pole ! Some people like chicken, and some people don't. Thanks for showing us around. I was stationed on an island out in the Atlantic Ocean. A thousand miles from the closest land. It wasn't abandoned, but there is something about small isolated places, very peaceful.

Turned down orders to Adak Ak in 1991 after getting back from Desert Storm... Kinda wish I hadn't 0 but its good to see the Adak National forest is still standing.

Perhaps all of the ullegal immigrants were told they would be resettied into the Aleutian iskands, they would rethink about comung ti the US.

For reasons I don't even understand, I love remote places and abandoned places. So this video is pure gold to me. Thanks!

I was 11 when we lived in Adak in 1969 -70 my Navy Commander dad ran the airfield tower, we landed in a full on blizzard at that very airport(that was where my Dad worked)....We lived on Kresta (Circle or Loop?, it was a long time ago) It was a street across from the Middle/High School. If there was any left over ammo or shells we found very little as kids :p Those houses look a little better than the ones we had, but very similar. There are a lot more buildings now, also falling apart. We went through many gale force storms on the island. Didn't they have a slot car track there by the bowling alley? We also spent a lot of time up the hill at the Bering Building...Movies, bowling and cafeteria...Yup, the barracks and church and all the other stuff. we lived down the hill ....Never knew they had a nuclear storage :o, I did see the DEW radar arrays , with the same signs...there was a underground hospital from way back, to the north of the island(?) Is the Adak Natl Forrest still there? and I hear now, it now is a Pet Cemetery...It was certainly beautiful, but I was a kid out exploring...I remember Caribou getting on the runway, they used shotguns(in the air) to scare them off the field. I saw several otter in a inlet like that...we caught trout in those creeks...there are a lot of hidden gun nests around the hills we discovered on our hikes....Sitkin is the volcanic one, not Moffet...I think our pet was the buierd behind the house

My dad was with Seabees on Adak (WW II). I think they were building an airstrip. The island in this video sure looks different from the pictures my Dad took. Fascinating!

My first duty station was NAF Adak from Dec 1974 to Dec 1975. I was stationed at AIMD down in Birchwood barracks. Would loke to visit but realistically probably won't happen.

Much respect for traveling to this far flung location and giving us a great video tour!

This was so great to see! My dad was there in the '80s as a civilian contractor, working on the Naval communication system. It's so strange to think he would have lived for months in one of those abandoned buildings. Thanks for a great tour! Greetings from Oregon.😊 P.S.: He loved it there for the landscape and said the "grub" was pretty good.

Knowing about a job that I was offered when I was young in the 80s for a base, not sure if this was the actual base, but it was obe of them in the islands in AK, I would bet Parcel 4 has the underground complex. The position that was offered to me was working on an island with a base and an underground complex and it was a 6 month on, 6 month off assignment. And it was made clear to me that I would be underground the entire time the whole 6 months. The underground complexes are never listed and the only people who know about them are the high level commanders and the people who work in these complexes. Incredibly I was going to be a cook. Nothing to do with anything military. They needed people who were cooks and I had passed the security clearance and background check and credit checks. I went on to work for the government directly and as an independent contractor for many years and for my State directly and as an independent contractor for many years. I really regret not taking the job in AK. It is the type of job you should take if you are young.

The otter painting was a reference to the Adak school mascot. The Adak otters. There was a bridge where you could watch the otters somewhere on the island. Took many field trips to that area

This is fascinating. I grew up in Anchorage, which is of course a world apart from Adak. This makes me want to visit Adak.

That Mickey-D drive thru menu was a trip - and those prices were for the most remote mcdonalds in the US (if not the world)! I've spent many hours checking out Adak (and Attu) on Google Earth, in great detail. Quite a few abandonded and overgrown airfields and hardstands can be seen, if you look closely. Fascinating! Lots of open trash pits are visible scattered around the area though, on both islands. Much to clean up, someday... Great video blog, thank you sir. Now I need to put travel to Adak on my bucket list.

All the boxing smokers were set up @ bering hill gym i want to come up !I was stationed there 1976 boxer 5 for 5 - and 4 k.os they shipped me off to Seattle and watched rocky 1 I loved going to the bering hill pizza & bowling alley!the 7doors of doom was known as - A.U.W. ADVANCED UNDERWATER WEAPONS 👍many sea otters in that area I worked on tug boat "&" 6 most. Ran inter office mail "Guard mail " around island 2 times daily , thanks for this video ❤️ it !!!

Hey 👋 Drifter Dave you have not heard the last of me yet !!!! 😁😄😃😆 I bet I’m still The only Sailor NSGA WW2 and beyond that by Mistake during an Adak : I want to say blizzard 🥶 but that doesn’t even Capture it the Weather !!! 🤣 Raised and Tied off The COLORS 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Don’t think 🤔 I told you this Story Drifter Dave !!! Well I had been at NSGA maybe a Week before I went to the XO’s Office. I was Ordered The next morning to Raise Colors 🇺🇸 So Come the NeXT morning I Retrieved the Flag 🇺🇸 and Went Outside To The flagpole same flagpole in your Video!!! 🤣😂 Like I said earlier damn Snowing 🌨️ SIDEWAYS !!! 😅 with all The Top 🔝 Brass Looking 👀 on for Colors including The XO. So in a Hurricane 🌀 I begin raising The Flag 🇺🇸 and it gets to the top and I tie it off and pace back to Salute 🫡 Colors and I got the Flag Upside down 🙃 with All the Top 🔝 Brass inside of the galley walkway looking 👀 on through the Windows 🪟 and a Upside Down 🙃 American 🇺🇸 Flag represents The Fort is under Siege !!! So I quickly in the damn hurricane 🌀 just arrived there week ago Knew Knowone but they was all fixing to know me !!! Maybe 🤔 that’s the reason they called me while I was Stationed there Downtown Mitch Brown !!! 😆😁 My Ship 🚢 also !! Unbelievable Ran to the flagpole and lowered and raised the right way !! Embarrassing as hell !! But to me funny 😄 as hell now!! I was Stationed there after that incident another 387 more days and I was Never 👎 Ordered to Raise Colors Again !! Even tho it was a Mistake !! Maybe 🤔 I just figured out Why The XO Hated me so in my last Comment Drifter Dave !!!!! PTSD is a funny thing. I’ve been out of the Military 41 years and The VA just started paying me benefits 2018 and I got out 1983. Had to fight them for years still fighting them for benefits I Earned 🇺🇸 got one ☝️ Appeal To a VA Judge 👩‍⚖️ In Washington DC Now for 3 years 4 Months and 5 days so far he hasn’t even Looked at it yet !! And I’m a Low Income Veteran!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Since Oct 8 2020. Claim first put in to the VA before Appeal July 19 2019. I didn’t mean 😭 to go off on this tangent but A Lot of Other Honorable Veterans that Served this Country are Still fighting for their benefits also 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I've never been to Adak but in 1976 after my military training in florida, we had choices of about a dozen duty stations for my line of work. One of those choices was Adak. Everyone turned in their top 3 choices and I ended up in Scotland.

I was there as a Naval Officer's wife for 18 months from the Fall of 1965 to the Spring of 1967. It was considered a hardship post then and tours were extended later when all those amenities were added for the 6,000 people in the 80's. There were about 1,000 people when I was there. My daughter was born at the old hospital which had 14 beds I think and baptized at the old Chapel which is falling down now. I bowled on a bowling team in that bowling alley. I recognize nothing of the housing areas of Adak because they weren't there in my time. Being on Adak was the most unique thing I have even done and I treasure my memories of being there. I must say that the damage to the abandoned buildings. broken windows and furniture etc. was not caused by wind and the elements but by pure vandalism after the Navy left . I have read about how much damage was done by civilian teens still living there at the time. Things were destroyed that could never be replaced like a pool table!

This is not the "elements" taking their toll on the buildings. Most of that (especially interior damage) was people damaging and looting and exploring. These buildings were built to endure that environment (by the Military no less). But they weren't built to withstand intentional human destruction and looting. That old chapel has been rebuilt or reinforced at some point in recent decades. Those pressure treated 2 x 6s or 2 x 8s are the dead giveaway. That price of gas isn't that bad actually (given the remoteness). We had over $7.00 a gallon gas in the Bay Area/ Silicon Valley a year or two ago (and it's still almost $6.00 a gallon for Premium 91 Octane).

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.. I really appreciate your efforts to make this video i watch lots of urban explorer type stuff but nothing on this level, i enjoyed reading all the comments from the service men that served there.... 5 * s ☮️👍🇬🇧

This reminds me of an abandoned air force base I stayed at in 1979 near Glasgow, MT. I was told it used to house up to 10,000. They had a grocery store, movie theatre , schools etc. I don't know who actually owns the site, but I know you can buy houses there

Greetings from Toronto Canada. This was an amazing tour. Thank you to Aleutian Outfitters for help making it happen!

Hey 👋 buddy talking about The Birthplace of The WINDS 💨 I’ve been gone from the Rock 🪨 42 years Now and still until this day if I hear 👂 a good enough Wind Strong and Whistling a long duration I will start to feel Depressed 😔 !!! I’ve read other Veterans 🇺🇸 that were Stationed there have the same issues !!!

I was stationed there in 90-92. I was a weather forecaster AG1

I was a Navy Brat there in the early 80s. So many good memories. The Pool, bowling, roller skating, fishing at Finger Bay with my Pops. He was in the EOD. CWO3 Ted Varnell. God I miss him & the island so so much.

It's so awesome to know this places exist and how beautiful it is that we taken for granted to visit this natural beauty. How I wish I could visit this someday even a slim change to be a reality. To all Americans out there, please preserve and admire your countries natural heritage that you have. How I wish I was an American citizen that could travel in this natural beauty.

Really enjoyed your trip and narration! Wish it still had a purpose--such a shame to see it all deteriorate...

I worked at Attu, Shemya, and Adak TDY all the islands pretty damn cool. IIRC the old church on bearing hill was built buy USACE in 1944 then moved to where you saw it. I was there in 91 and they started restoring it but was a huge undertaking and it might not have been finished I know PCS people might have more info on it.

My brother was stationed at ADAK during the Vietnam war65- 6 7- Radio Survellience with the Navy. Too bad he didnt live to see this video.

I lived on Adak Island as a teenager. My dad was an electrical engineer. It would be around 1983. I saw our old residence in your opener. We were the duplex unit underneath the number one in your episode number. 😅 Thanks for sharing. Interesting to see the island now. Interesting to see the old church, the way the wood would Silver like that we called it “Adak wood“ people use it for making picture frames and different crafts back in the day. As a teenager, I remember friends from the mainland would send VHS tapes of MTV. Recorded on the slowest speed crappy video but it was six hours of music videos and concerts like the us festival. Spent so much time in that swimming pool. I think I had ice cream with Bono, my first girlfriends at that ice cream parlor. Memorable times. I also recall it being dystopian when I was there too, because 40 years earlier was World War II and there was a lot of old Quonset huts and debris left over from when the military was there for the war. More than likely that’s what you stumbled across at around 53:00. In the video the bunkers you were asking what were those used for. Odds are it’s old stuff from World War II military occupation of the island. We used to go hiking with snowshoes, and there were still foxholes on the island in the 80s. He had to be careful not to fall in. I remember hiking with friends and they would fall into Fox hole up to their neck. I also remember seeing an old military recruitment poster, where it said “come to Adak Alaska, where there’s a woman behind every tree”. 😂

When I was in the Navy we had one of our aircraft brake down and land there. I had to go and fix it. Was crazy it was 25 below zero and it did not feel like it. We got the airplane fixed and left. Was weird there the Barrack's had the chow hall and movie theater all together. You didn't have to walk out side

In 1892 Russian pirate Gregory Dwargstof buried over $300 million worth of gold coins in 150 tin cans throughout the island of Adak, which is located in the southwestern part of the Aleutian Islands. Since then, only two cans have been found (.Feb 17, 2023)

Went to Adak after high school 1977…..worked at the AEFES military store…. Had to fly to Shimiya (sp) to leave from Adak….. flew on Reeves Aleutian Airways…. A modified DC3 three turbo props….. it’s weird to see Adak in this condition since 1977…. Been in most of the buildings that are in this video….there was a Burger King…..Did you visit the Alaska state forest…lol…..one tree in a square meter of fence…now it’s bigger!……Bowled in that bowling alley…..wow….did you find the submarine pens?……hellacious trip….lol thanks…!

Dave, thank you for sharing this. I thoroughly enjoyed and felt like I was visiting Adak right along side you. What a beautiful, historic, and mysterious place all in one. Please keep doing what you do best.

My Dad was stationed in Adak, we lived there from 86'-88'. I have indoor photos of that McDonalds, from my 6th or 7th birthday party. Also, we lived directly across the road from that Mcdonald. I have pictures of Bald Egale on and around their dumpsters and utility vehicles in the parking lot.

Did you get to the beach where landing craft was training for wwii. I was station up there and flew all around the base. 1st Lt plot

New subscriber. Great filming. 10 years Active Duty Air Force 1991-2001.

I was stationed on Adak from October 88 to January 91. I deployed there in 95-96. I love Adak and would love to go back some day.

My father was an IC Electrician in the navy, 1959-64. Served on a Fletcher class destroyer that sailed to the Artic Circle and Adak was one of his "port" stops. Later he served on a Geering class destroyer deployed in the Caribbean hunting Soviet subs. He never really talked about his time on the Keppler DD-765. Most of his stories came from the Remey DD-688 and his time spent traveling the European ports. Funny thing is my father joined the Navy and couldn't swim a lick!!!! True story 😂😅

Bering hill, houses the bookstore, a pool, and skating rinc, also pizza place

Crazy to see! My dad was stationed here in the late 80's early 90's. I was born in Adak in October 1992!

Absolutely amazing video. Especially seeing the abandoned McDonalds and all the once thriving and really nice facilities. For many years I have followed Cecilia Blomdahl who lives in Svalbard in the Artic Circle which is a very cool community and large town that belongs to Norway. She has visited abandoned Russian bases further north and they are very similar to this.

NSGA Adak 80-81. CTO3 worked at Zeto point. Lifetime ago. Sad to see it like this.

I flew a private jet into Adak the day after it became a civilian airport. I was stuck there for a week and everything had just been abandoned and looked like new. You wouldn’t believe how much equipment, trucks, tractors and 90k gallons of Jet fuel was left behind. At the time they still processed crabs there and we all eat at the only second McDonalds to have closed in history at the time. You have ‘chits’ for meals and eat whatever they had. We explored the whole island. Go see Torpedo bay. Amazing history.

What an awesome video, I did my first deployment around 1985. The winds there are beyond belief, and when the weather rarely was nice we got the day off but that was a rarity. You kept saying those garage type things had grass on them for camouflage, those were ordnance magazines and they had earth on them to to help contain any accidental explosion. I was an Aircrew Ordnanceman with VP-48 when I was there, they opened the McDonalds when I was there. The first night opening was by invitation only, mostly Officers and VIPs on the base, I wasn't on the list. I did go later, the price of food was sky high and the milkshakes tasted like they were made with powdered milk. They also added to base housing, they were brought in as prefab modules and bolted together I guess. The Adak national forest used to have an Adak windsock by it, it was a 3 foot pole hanging from a chain and it worked too that's how windy it it. We got a tour of the Security group where they monitored the under water sonobuoys, it was called SOSUS I believe. I was a room with lots of tracking print-outs, I'm sure that's why they needed all of that electricity. Flying around the islands we would spot left-overs from WW2, including an island that was an abandoned based. They were going to be overrun so they parked all the vehicles on the runway and drained all of the engine oil and then started them up, the engines seized up and they were still there over 40 years later. Thanks for the video and the tour, good job.

Was out in Adak ak in 1998-1999 that house is an older on then the two stories are newer had awesome sunrooms and older is the ones falling apart also loved that high school building had an gaming room workout gym and pool there is also mc Donald's and Boling Allie I been there while I was there on the island and live mines out in the tundra awesome to see all again

My father was there in the early 40s and he toldme that the sun never came out the entire time he was there except once when he was sleeping and a buddy woke him up so he could see it. He refered to it happy valley because it was cold wet and miserable

Storage ? That could be a home for someone!!! 😮

Last year I visited Alaska and stayed in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Seward. Outside the cities Alaska is a very harsh environment and seeing some of abandoned buildings reminds me of how quick land reclaims everything.

If it wasn't so expensive to live in such a remote area, I would be one of the ones wanting to live there. Not to mention that I would probably be the guy being seen occasionally on a zero turn mower running around mowing some of that high grass!!