Originally Posted by
VacancyBid
GUM isn't a siberian labor camp but it's not a base like any other.
Commuting 7,000 miles against your will is fundamentally different than 700.
Let me guess, ...never been in the military?
And heck, there hasn't even been active hostilities there since 1952 when the last Japanese soldier discovered the war was over although he wasn't actually captured for another couple decades...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi
Of course, the UXO risk persists...
https://www.usace.army.mil/Portals/2.../Guam_MMRP.pdf