Hello fellow Hokkaido LORAN (or is it ROLAN?) guys! I've been getting lots of emails from guys that served on Lorsta Hokkaido. Got motivated to start this blog as a central location to store stories and photos of life on Lorsta Hokkaido. Let us here from you. Send stories and photos to rrborison@gmail.com.
Ron Borison
I served from May 1992 untill cosure jul 4 1993 as EPO Mkc I see on several sites the the off air time for january 13 through has been omited. The unit suffered a sevier earth quake 8.7 40 mile off the coast of kashiro japan. The 9 ton trans formers were moved from there foundations like legos. The buildings developed major cracks as did the earth and major equipment malfuntions stoped operations. The Cats broke all there foundation isolators. The engines kept on running supplying power to the unit. shore power did not return for 2 months . The antenna shook like a wet speagetti noodle for 48 seconds. We were down untill FESEC could transit the tower and inspect it. I think almost two weeks.
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Hey Ron, I was stationed there from June 1987 to July 1988. This was my first unit out of boot camp. I look back at this unit in particular with such reverence. I am still in the CG after all these years.
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LORSTA Hokkaido was my first of 3 LORAN duty stations, freash out of ET school at Governors Island, NY. LTJG Patrick Shuck was the CO and CWO Robert Stolpa was the XO. Since these were one year isolated/restricted assignments, people were coming and going at different times. While I was there LTJG Ron Borison became the CO and CWO Bob Strong became the XO. Though everyone gets homesick it was a great station, with great people, in a great setting. I spent nearly every chance I got traveling around Hokkaido and today still maintain contact with people I met at the station and in Japan. It was very life changing for the then 19 year old. Dave Masinter
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