By It looks like the alleged “free vacations” for US military families in Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami created nuclear crisis is coming to an end:
The military was working Wednesday to provide return air transportation to thousands of family members who fled to safe havens in the United States in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, according to base officials in the Tokyo area and Misawa.
The families are expected to return to their homes and military spouses over the next five days either by commercial flights into Tokyo or via the military’s Patriot Express commuter service, though some who have enrolled children in local schools in the U.S. might wait to finish the school year before returning. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read the rest at the link but most of the families should be returned to Japan by April 25th. The fact that the US military is returning families to Japan should be taken as a sign that the US government is confident that the nuclear crisis has been stabilized.
9:27 pm on April 20th, 2011 1
So they ran away when the going got tough, now they're back?
Go away, Americans!
10:51 am on April 29th, 2011 2
It's was for the safety of our families. Most of our brave military men and women stayed back to help with operation tomodachi. So whatever
As far as Go away Americans
Please, we've done alot more than your sorry behind has done for the country of japan whether we were here or the states. The countless hours that were put in by not only the service members but also by the contractors, schools, spouses, and families that reached out to the Japanese people. Let's no mention the spouses who do work off base who've helped Japanese people send their donations to the affected areas since they weren't able to do it in their own. Which was continued by those who took over for the ones that left. How dare you sit here and say go away Americans or that we leave we times get worst. No matter what the reasons that our families decided on, what matters is that we helped from the beginning, middle and we are back to see it to the end.