Kwajalein’s troop facilities starkly outclass displaced residents’ Ebeye living conditions.

Evidence

The contrast couldn’t be greater or more dramatic. Kwajalein is like Fort Lauderdale or one of our Miami resort areas, with palm-lined beaches, swimming pools, a golf course, people bicycling everywhere, a first-class hospital and a good school; and Ebeye, on the other hand, is an island slum, over-populated, treeless filthy lagoon, littered beaches, a dilapidated hospital, and contaminated water supply. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 207