Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (also called Gitmo or GTMO) is located on 45 square miles (120 km2) of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba which the United States leased for use as a coaling (fueling) station following the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903. The base is located on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the oldest overseas U.S. Navy Base, and the only one in a country with which the United States does not have diplomatic relations. The Cuban government opposes the presence of the naval base, claiming that the lease is invalid under international law. The U.S. government claims that the lease is valid.

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  • Worked at the Liquid Oxygen Plant (LOX  Plant) located at the end of the runway overlooking the entrance to the bay. Feb. '69-Feb'70

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Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Assigned to VC-10 as Squadron Corpsman from 1969-1971. TAD to NAS Dispensary. Qualified on HU-16 type aircraft and flew SAR missions for NAS. I had a relatively good tour, accompanied by wife and son and lived at VL-603C on main side. The downside of my tour was two back-to-back Flight Surgeons who were definitively not people persons and felt that the Corpsmen were their whipping boys. Worked for one of the greatest chiefs that I ever had the pleasure to know HMC Charles M Jones, USN. That man…

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Guantanamo Bay Cuba, NAS Medical Dispensary

Was in GTMO from January 1966 to January 1967, worked and resided at the NAS Medical Dispensary up on the hill, for LT. Doctor Robert White, who was awesome. Remember the early morning drills for NEGDEF, was on the Search And Rescue Crew that flew the HU-16 out of McCalla Field and was the Sick Bay Corpsman. It was great duty, had a bunch of awesome Corpsman to work with, unfortunately can't remember all of their names. Jenkins was the senior Corpsman, Larry Fink taught me the finer points of…

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