US Navy’s ABANDONED Administration Building on ADAK ISLAND
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2023
- Adak is a remote Alaskan island in the north Pacific Ocean. I took several long flights to visit Adak and explore its abandoned US military base. More than 6000 people lived on the Navy base at its peak in the 1980s. However, the base closed in March 1997, and most houses and buildings were abandoned. Now, Adak Island has only 33 permanent residents. Let's explore the Administration Building and step into a real-world The Last of Us environment, including a stash of ancient 1990s software!
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In no way am I condoning vandalism but the chairs on the wall feels like an amazing art installation. I felt a release of energy/pain from whoever did it. I wouldn't expect things to defy gravity in an abandoned place. Also, the moss covered rooms are so beautiful and magical and inspiring. An added experience for the home viewers (i.e me) is your squishy footsteps as you walked through the rooms 😄
It was truly a Last of Us experience exploring that office - with its gravity-defying chairs, 90s software, and lush moss. And I knew the immersive filming style was the right choice! Squish!
this kinda stuff is fascinating to me, thanks for taking the time to film and upload it here!
Thanks for watching, and don’t forget to use a two-handed chop on that Gorn! 🖖🏻
The government should clean this island up and put it back the way they found it !
Not the government, the Aleut Corporation. They are the ones responsible for this mess. There was close to $600 billion of taxpayer funded infrastructure that was handed over for "reuse". Look what they've done to it.
My dad was stationed there in World War II I got some maps of the island from that time
Amazing to see something as recent as CD-ROM in a big, well built building that's already that severely decayed. Adak's climate is like super-hard mode for buildings.
June 5, 2023 3:00 am
That's exactly it. My host was the former Fire Chief and said the war was against Adak's climate more than the Soviets!
Pretty cool Chris
Thanks, Larry. It was a fun to stumble across so much abandoned 90s software amongst everything else in there.
This one especially I keep waiting for a zombie to jump out. I also liked the 'don't go' spray paint
Yeah, this one had a serious The Last of Us vibe going on!
Where do you buy spray paint on Adak? I am 70, everytime a buy a can of spraypaint at WalMart, the self-checkout locks up..and I have to prove I am over 18.
100 Knot Stop is the only store on Adak and it's open a few hours each week. But specialty items like spray paint would be ordered online and delivered on one of the bi-weekly passenger/supply flights.
@24:20 that looks like they had just put in that drywall. I know they had a decent amount of notice about this base closure, but things like that make you wonder.
Here's the big one for you - they built an $18-million hospital in 1990 just 7 years before the base closed.
@@chrisluckhardt I did read that somewhere. Surely that is built with some sort of a strategic long term plan in place...seems like such a waste to let something fall into complete disrepair.
Damn 🏥
I wonder if will leave a mess like this if we ever land on Mars, someone should be made to clean this place up and return it to the natural land it once was
I’m optimistic that by the time we set foot on other worlds in a more permanent capacity that problem will be solved.
It's really to Bad, that after the base was closed, the population declined to a very small number, and looking at the damage, the town population most all must have turned into vandals. Not a nice place to live 😢🇨🇦
The damage you see is from the extremely windy and wet climate, the young 1997-2004 contractors who were cleaning up toxic waste, and subsequent visitors over the years. The remaining 33 permanent residents are peaceful and preserving/protecting whatever they can. And they all love it out there.
@@chrisluckhardt Okay, I can accept that resident locals, now living in the community did not do the damage. Someone did, it's not all environmental
@@stevecarlisle3323 For sure, and I specified the source of the damage in my last comment. But I left out one incident - a group of junior coast guardsmen were caught and punished just before the pandemic for vandalizing several prominent structures. I read a news article about it while doing my research on the island. The other details were shared by locals and discovered during other research.
What you're looking at is the results of bringing juvenile delinquents on the island and letting them run wild without supervision or parental concern. This type of vandalism exists all over the island. SHAMEFUL!
Juveniles aren't really even on Adak. What you're seeing is mostly natural decay and damage from fishermen who stopped at the island over the years. And one highlightable incident occurred in 2018 when a group of US Coast Guard service members vandalized the replacement church built in the mid-80s and some derelict houses.
@@chrisluckhardt Certainly none in the present day. I'm talking about back in 1997 through 2001. Spacemark was the Base Operating Contractor when the base went into caretaker status pending the land deal. There was a raft of teenagers that came to the island to work at summer jobs with Spacemark. That's when the vandalism started. The Navy Engineering Systems Command Northwest had all the closed buildings secured with lock and key. Kuluk, Bayshore, Birchwood, Quarterdeck, Main Bering Bldg, Marine Barracks, Galley, Bering 2 thru 11, NSGA, Zeto Point, NAVFAC were all vandalized. In 1999, all the windows were broken out of the Bering Hill Chapel and the contents ransacked. The weather did not cause the bullet holes through the glass or the spray painting on the walls. Some of the perps were caught by the DOD Cop (Tom), who was assigned to the island during caretaker status. They also destroyed some Navy vehicles. Those that were caught were ordered off the island. I left the island in 2000.
Oh, that timeline makes much more sense! Thanks for clarifying. I saw the name "Space Mark Inc" but didn't find much information during my research. Not much history of that period on Adak is available online.
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Stuff, and more stuff. Humans, what are they good for. The earth should have been for animals exclusively. We take away from earths magnificent beauty.
I try to do my part, but I always keep in mind that Earth was fine before humans and will do fine after we’re extinct.
What a waste its kan be usefull for the homeless
Admirable intentions. But operating a remote island base as a homeless shelter or settlement isn't cost-effective. A practical solution is to provide support for them in their current location.
I doubt there are any homeless people on Adak when there's only 33 people on the island and more than enough remaining homes for everyone to have a place to live.
@@GrnArrow092All the unoccupied houses are unfit for occupancy - they’ve been abandoned for too long.