Monthly Archives: October 2014

“Rongelap Atoll, 1963,” by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard– Retired

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The author recounts a scientific survey mission he and the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard vessel IRONWOOD took to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1963 to study radiation effects. Continue reading →

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“Watch Where You Step, and Don’t Touch Anything,” by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard– Retired

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In September of 1949, I was an ensign attached to the Coast Guard Cutter CLOVER. Although our home port was Kodiak, Alaska, we spent only three weeks there in the fourteen months I was on her. Most of the time, … Continue reading →

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