[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "As US Military Flies Overhead, Okinawa [Japan] Residents Live Under a Cloud of Fear"

[Lenny Siegel]

As US Military Flies Overhead, Okinawa Residents Live Under a Cloud of Fear

By Jon Letman
Truth out 
March 9, 2018

Last December 7, Eriko Miyagi was at the Midorigaoka nursery school in Ginowan, Okinawa where she's a teacher's assistant. Just after 10 a.m., as the children were preparing to go outside to play, they were startled by a loud bang on the roof. The sound came right after a US military helicopter flew overhead.

Like many Okinawans, Miyagi knows military aircraft well. "It was a CH-53E," Miyagi says, recalling the morning.

Midorigaoka nursery school is just 300 yards from Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma, a major US military installation that is often described as "the world's most dangerous base" because it sits in the middle of a densely populated city.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43779-as-us-military-flies-overhead-okinawa-residents-live-under-a-cloud-of-fear

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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