At Ewa Beach Elementary School (a hop, skip, and jump away from what was the Barber’s Point Naval Air Station, home to a squadron of P-3 Orions and host to miscellaneous carrier squadrons when their carrier was in Pearl Harbor) we had fire drills. We heard about the duck-and-cover, get under your desk bullshit from the Civil Defense movies/filmstrips we were shown, but we never had the drill that I recall. Probably not a bad decision, given that Barber’s Point NAS, Pearl Harbor/Hickham AFB (they are adjacent, and now it’s called Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham) almost surely were on the USSR’s target list and we were smack dab in the middle.
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