Naval Magazine Pearl Harbor (a.k.a. Naval Magazine Lualualei)

USA / Hawaii / Waianae /
 arsenal / weapon and ammunition storage, military
In January 2000 the designation Naval Magazine, Lualualei, Hawaii, was changed to Naval Magazine Pearl Harbor. The name change was a result of the command’s recent headquarters move from the Lualualei Branch to Pearl Harbor’s West Loch. Fifty W-80-0 munitions for Tomahawk SLCM's and 40 nuclear aerial bombs are stored in the Lualualei Naval Magazine (NAVMAG) at West Loch on Oahu, Hawaii.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammo_dump
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Coordinates:   21°26'44"N   158°7'12"W

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  • I was stationed at Naval Magazine Lualualei in the late 70's to 1982. It was a wonderful time in my life. Oahu is a beautiful island. Back then, it did not seem to be crowded. I remember there were two Highways/Interstates, H-1 and H-2.
  • I, too, was stationed there from '82 to '85 but I was up the road at Barbers Point and West Loch . I have vivid memories of Kolekole pass and moving some "special weapons" from West Loch to the caves of Waikele magazine in Kipapa Gulch.
  • I was here on an ammunition ship for the Military Sealift Command in 2014. The last time I was in Hawaii was about 1978. I couldnt believe how crowded the island is now. Traffic is terrible.......ah progress!!!
  • I was stationed at Lualualei Transmitter base, next to the Naval Magazine from 1964 thru 1965. It was a great place to be in the 60's. At that time the highway ended not to far past the base, did not go all the way around the island. The transmitter base is now all gone.
  • was there 61 to 64 our first base housing was a converted quanset hut but i loved it
  • I was stationed at NWS LuaLuaLei in 1973. Our orders further west ... were changed and some of us were diverted to bases on Oahu. I served as a Marine guard until my transfer to heavy weapons Plt. 3/5 on Pendleton. I enjoyed my time there on Oahu, who wouldn't in 1973. We were housed in an old pale concrete building. When I was picked up one day on sentry, I was asked if I felt the earthquake, which I hadn't tho I thought I heard a freight train. My little guard shack never moved. But on arriving back to quarters, I quickly noticed sizable cracks in the wall of our barracks. No injuries. I remember liking the small guard shack halfway up to K-Pass. Quite the view but most of the day spent counting the wild hogs down below. Night time patroling through the thickets (where the magazines were located) in a guard truck, could get hairy, as the locals were known to be wanting us out of there and there were incidents, including warning shots others reported. Maybe that's part of the reason it was moved? Semper Fi.
  • I was at West Loch from 1985-87 which included stints at Waikele . I believe Waikele closed during this time. It was bought and was renovated as a storage facility. There was a huge explosion that happened in one of the caves that stored fireworks. WL was a good duty station. Worked in the L/A and also provided security when the subs came in. After that, Kaneohe , then off to Camp Hansen. Semper Fi
  • Was stationed at WL 1979 to 1980. Did grounds maintenance there, and met my wife there. It was a blast to be stationed there. From WL went back to sea on USS Cochrane ddg21. Then on to FOCCEUR London UK. Then more sea time. Ooya
  • not quite
  • I was station at Marine Barracks NAD West Loch 1963-1965, Great Duty. There will be a Marine Barrack Hawaii Association in Branson, MO Oct 6th thru Oct 9th 2016
  • HM3 Mark Havlen. I was a Corpsman stationed at Lualualei in 1978. Best years of my life in beautiful Hawaii. I ran the small dispensary/Sick bay. It was an old WWII building, really cool. Didn't realize how good I had it at the time. The Marines stationed there always took good care of me. I live in Austin Texas these days. Still in the medical field. I worked at Lualualei for about the last year of my enlistment. The rest of the time I was stationed at Barbers Point NRMC. If you were there, or remember me e-mail me! markhavlen@yahoo.com
  • Now that the items are long gone, surely we can talk about it? How many and what models of special devices were kept at Lualualei? (The Waianae property, not the West Loch property). Subject change: That one lone building way up on the hill in LLL (Waianae) magazine that was used for Tartar missile engine maintenance "back in the day".... Was that building used for anything else? Surely Tartars were in the inventory only a tiny portion of LLL's existence, surely the building must have had other uses after Tartar went obsolete.
  • My father was a Naval Officer stationed there in the late 50's. We lived in qua sin huts til we moved to housing. We were there 2 1/2 years.
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