I was stationed there in the AF in 1975. Even then there was a big mess over a marine that killed a 14 year old school girl. Another gang of marines were stalking the streets and one of them killed a guy I had traveled there with. He got stabbed in the chest and died on a sidewalk.
Okinawa is a very warm, humid place, sometimes like a festering jungle.
The marines on Oki then were living in the worst quarters I ever heard of in the military. Flooded barracks when it rained, lizards on the walls and no regular passes to go downtown. When they did get a pass it would be a whole group all at once and they would roam the streets pissed off and drunk, scaring crap out of the little Ryuguyan people.

We should leave. Marines' fault.