That is very true...not once have I had to turn back after leaving my car to lock it, or worried about being alone in my house with the doors and windows unlocked. I went on a deployment with my house completely unlocked...came back...nope, nothing's changed! My neighborhood and more specifically my street is mostly elderly couples or families. I don't even hear a peep out of their kids! They're respectful, too. =)

People would have their cars sittin up on cement blocks by the time they got back from deployment in the States. Couldn't have anything nice. It'd either get stolen off or out of your car.

I sailor was living next to me in Zushi, and his car (Skyline) was stolen. I was shocked when he told me, because my car was parked right next to him. Later on, he bought another car, and that car got broken into and they stole the stereo. I guess they had it in for him. If you have ever seen a huge CHAIN, he used to chain his car up to a huge light pole everyday.. It was sooo funny, because it looked like those people that would tie up their bike to a pole, but he tied up his tire to the pole... He just got fed up, with things happening to this car. They never found out who was doing it either.

OMG!!!! this place has changed so much in 11 yrs we could not wait to come back. Now we can't wait to leave.
The kids here are so foul mouthed and disrespectful, bullies The base or the schools do nothing about it.one lady had the balls to tell me that we are all here for each other to watch out for each others kids at the play ground and that she knew what her child was doing all the time I told her funny I have been here three years and at the play gorund everyday and I have not once seen you down here.I don't get paid to watch your kids and no you have no idea that your kid has a foul mouth and bullies all the ohter little kids down hereat niko park. God forbid you say anything to a kid about trashing something. then you get the parent that has never been to the play ground ready to kick your ass.
This place suck ( the base) Japan is GREAT should have stayed off base.my car has been broken into my house has been broken into and I live on the second floor.Kids have been bullied so much at school we took them out. This was such a big dissappointment that we came back here. Everyone that has came back here from 11 yrs ago HATES it here.and there are lots of them.It is not just the teen aged kids I have seen kids as young as 10yrs old that act like they can do anything they want.

rosta ruck, I hear you you must live in Miyajima I live there to and the kids are always hanging out here because of the teen center but most of the are trouble makers most of them have PCSed out but your right the 6 or 7 that you are talking about have caused so much trouble they dumped grease all over the floor and the doors on our floor and have ran from base police and use our tower to hide in they were having sex in the basement and drinking cough med many bottles found the base did start locking the door that leads to the undergound area.
because these kids have parents that knows someone higher up nothing happens to them.
at the play ground Capt. Weeds Sec.'s don't know her name and don't really want to she is very RUDE!!! kids was bulling my child and when I said something to her she did not want to hear it so I told her she needed to talk to my husband who was the active duty member she said I ain;t talking to no dam man my husband was pissed because she refused to talk to him. What a joke this place is.

About feeling safe yeah okay I caught a man looking through someones window at 10:30 pm when I went out on my balconyI saw him and he saw me so he knew where I lived . When I went down to tell the people that I had caught someone looking through the window, he came into the building and stood in the hallway where I could not see him and watched me knocking on the door to see if anyone answered it. when they didn'tanswer the door he went to the elevator and got in and waited on me of course I did not get in with him, I went out side and acted like I was looking for someone. He went to the second floor in the big elevator where I live, so of course I took the samll elevator up and when I came out of the elevator he was crouched down between the elevators and was acting like he was looking in his black gym bag he was wearing all black pants and hoodie. watched me go into my house. The man watched my door for about 5 min. we could see him through the peephole.I called base police and they came out and took a report but he was gone. This was a grown man in his late 20's early30's 6ft. tall so watch out for people lerking in stairwells and parking lots at night. I have never heard anything back from base police to know if they caught him or not. Just thought I would give you the heads up on this because as far as I am concered he is still out there.

Wow this is crazy....
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