* Former U.S intelligence officer and patrol plane pilot Bill Preston was posted to the island in the 1970s
* He reveals that he navigated his way to the remote 15-mile-long atoll with the help of a sextant
* Tarina Peterson was a flight attendant on military flights to Diego Garcia between 2006 and 2010
* Bill lived on the island for six weeks at a time while Tarina was given a bus tour courtesy of a ground handler
Even getting there was an adventure.
Former U.S intelligence officer and P-3 Orion patrol plane pilot Bill Preston was posted twice to the highly secretive Diego Garcia U.S military base in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s when he was 25 and has revealed that living there felt like being on a lunar outpost - and that he used the position of the sun to find it.
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WNU Editor: These pictures were taken over 45 and 10 years ago. I am sure there has been a lot of changes since then.
A few years later there were trains. You would see them on the northwest tip of the island, "downtown". There would be a woman and there would be a few to several men straggling behind. I saw it more than once. Also on the northwest tip there was a warehouse stacked to the rafters with pallets of alcohol.
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