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“At approximately 9 p.m. on 20 January 2024, a series of weather-induced waves hit Roi-Namur which caused significant flooding in the northern portions of the island,” said the U.S. Army in a statement Sunday afternoon.

A video circulating from Roi-Namur, an island at the northern end of Kwajalein Atoll that houses some of the U.S. Army’s most sophisticated space tracking equipment as part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site, shows a three-to-four-foot (approximately one meter) wave hitting the Army’s dining hall, breaking down doors, knocking people down and washing them from outside into the facility. A second follow-up wave, caught on video, was higher, possibly as high as five feet (one-and-a-half meters), washing through the dining hall.

No deaths were reported at Roi-Namur, but one person was being treated for injuries at the clinic on Kwajalein Island, the base headquarters. “One individual sustained injuries to lower extremities and is currently being seen at the Kwaj Clinic,” said Army public affairs officer Mike Brantley. “He is in stable condition.”