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Originally Posted by dreams
 My ex father in-law was hired to do a project for the government at the Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. I sooo wanted to go, but I wasn't given clearance to be on the atoll without a job, and he had already created a job for his wife and my brother-in-law's wife. The atoll is so tiny and isolated that my sis-in-law started to go crazy and couldn't stand having stuff checked and censored and finally left after 6 months.
My brother-in-law wasn't allowed to scuba there (must be something to do with national defense or something) and had to wait until he went to Hawaii. |
Might have been due to radiation levels in the water? The US did a lot of nuclear testing in that area right up until the early 60's. God only knows the size of the octopi there today!
Kwajalein is just about the largest coral atoll in the world, certainly the largest in the Marshalls, but it's mostly dead reef. Much prettier things to see under water east or west of there... especially west, on the western side of the Micronesian islands (especially the Northern Marianas) closer to the Mariana Trench! Nice fishies and crystal clear warm water!
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 what was this thread about again? Oh yeah.. "How do you plan to prove you are a citizen?"...
I'm Spanish / Native American (born in USA). I'll just continue to renew my passport.
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You might think about getting one of the new 'passport cards' at the same time you renew your regular passport. Renewal only takes a week or so, but getting the new card takes more than a month right now, even though there is no backlog. Once/if (?) the new laws go into effect, there will be a massive crush of people applying for them, so should take even longer. Same size as a driver's license and not as pretty as the new passports. I think they will come in very handy soon... (foreshadow... foreshadow...
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Stitchawl