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  • joseph john rich December 12, 2018 at 3:12pm

    Memorabilia from GITMO 1962!

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  • joseph john rich December 12, 2018 at 3:03pm

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  • Christopher James Cook July 19, 2018 at 8:49pm

    GITMO,1988/SLEP,USSINDEPENDENCE CV-62.I WILL NEVER FORGET.AOAN,COOK C.J.USN/DAV/PRM.20183439446709?profile=original

  • John Kellett March 31, 2015 at 8:29pm

    I just got back from a wonderful week in Guantanamo Bay. If any of you ex-GTMOites would like to join us for next year's trip to Guantanamo Bay, go to www.gitmobay.org and join the Association. Details for next year's trip should be available within the next few months. This year there were only 48 of us on the trip.

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  • Raymond Kozlowski March 31, 2015 at 8:38am

    Was stationed in GTMO 63-65 at the Fleet Training Group (FTG) served under Commodore Pridmore.  One of the last remaining true Commodores from WWII

  • John R. Thompson March 23, 2015 at 11:10am

    Stationed at GTMO from 1969 through 1972 at Crain Hill as OS1 / AIC

    CDR Sherouse was OIC.

    Hated the Goats they bumed to many cigaarettes.

    Spent many hours underwater with Blaze Pearson my diving partner and loved the fishing.

  • John Kellett November 29, 2014 at 8:00am

    If everything continues to go well, members of the Guantanamo Bay Association will be going back to GTMO for a week, in March 2015.  We are limited to 70 visiitors.  Even though the  buildings have changed dramatically, I am looking forward to this trip to a place where I was stationed at in 1960-62.

  • Stanley Neely November 28, 2014 at 9:59pm

    I was stationed at GITMO in 1973 as a RMCS. loved the diving.

  • John Kellett August 8, 2013 at 9:10pm

    Oh, so you were referring to the Captain of NSD, not the Commanding Officer of the Naval Station.  Now I understand.

  • Gary Lennert August 8, 2013 at 3:24pm

    John, The NSD communications room was on the second floor of the NSD admin building by the docks. We did not have any radio gear so all messages had to be sent from the radio room in the base admin building where you were. The only way to get them there was to take the punched tape from the TTY machines and drive it over. How things have changed! I believe the actual radio communications center for the base was up in the hills behind the navy exchange.

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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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