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  • HI TO ALL GTMO VETS;I WAS THERE SEPT.'59 TO SEPT.61 AS A BT3 AT THE BOAT SHED..HOT DAYS BUT GREAT NIGHTS OUT IN THE BAY...HOPE TO MEET A LOT OF PEOPLE AT THE REUNION.
  • The 2009 reunion of the Guantanamo Bay Assn. will be held in Gettysburg, PA from October 4-8th. Contact John Kellett, PO Box 387, Mount Wolf, PA 17347; 717-266-1102; johnkwolves@yahoo.com for details.
  • any body meet these two peeps?

  • HI all! Gitmo 2 timer! Loved it.

  • was in gitmo 66-67 at the boat shed and on the ferrys. was a hard time for a boy fm maine to get that much sun
  • Feb 1971 - Feb 1972. PN - worked on Admin Hill. Hamburgers at the "Hey Mon" shop (halfway between barracks and Navy Exchange-run by Jamaicans, therefore, Hey Mon). This was before they built the new EM club. Crawled away from the old Barrel Club on many nights. If I had known I was headed for Vietnam with the Mine Warfare Force, I would have stayed in GTMO. I wonder who ended up with the Lambretta scooter I had...
  • I was stationed In Gitmo 79 to 80. Every command is what you make of it. I enjoyed my time there.
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Gitmo, 1968-1969

I arrived here from Norfolk in January of 1968 and departed in August of 1969. I was a commissaryman 3rd class petty officer (cook) at Bay Hill Galley. When working the steam kettles I often had a wet towel around my neck to help stay cool. I lived in a separate barracks across from the galley for all the cooks called the “cook shack.” We had a small patio behind the barracks where we sat in the evenings and told stories and sang country music. Being a cook had some advantages as we could go…

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My Time in GTMO

I was in GTMO from April 1969 to April 1970. I worked at the O2 N2 generating plant that was adjacent to the Fuel Farm on Leeward Point. We didn't live in the barracks, we stayed in a Quonset hut right at the site. We worked for Chief Charlie Sullivan. Looking back I would say the time spent there was pretty enjoyable

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