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Guantanamo Gazette
Guantanamo Bay Gazette
Vol. 66, No. 13
CLICK ON COVER IMAGE FOR THIS WEEK'S GAZETTE
Inside This week's edition:
Page 1: USS Samuel B Roberts visits GTMO
Page 2: Snapshot in GTMO History
Page 3: April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Page 4: Chief Petty Officer at Your Service
Page 5: W.T. Sampson Photography Club
Page 6: MWR Movie Schedule
Page 7: GTMO Shopper
Page 8: GTMO Happenings
Click on the cover image to view the paper in its entirety.
2008 Hurricane Guide
Inside this edition
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Welcome to the website for the oldest overseas U.S. Naval Station and the only one in a country with which the U.S. does not maintain diplomatic relations.
U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, serves as the cornerstone of U.S. military operations in the Caribbean Theater providing logistics support to both U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels and aircraft, and to assets of the assigned Joint Task Force-Guantanamo.
The station is on the front lines of the battle for regional security and protection from drug trafficking and terrorism, and protection for those who attempt to make their way through regional seas in un-seaworthy craft.
The base protects the ability of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships to operate in the Caribbean operating area with supplies and support for their operational commitments. Late in 2001, U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay became host to the Detainee Mission of the War on Terrorism following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Guantanamo Bay History
In February 1903, the United States leased 45 square miles of land and water at Guantanamo Bay for use as a coaling (fueling) station. The treaty was finalized and the document ratified by both governments and signed in Havana in December 1903.
A 1934 treaty, reaffirming the lease, granted Cuba and her trading partners free access through the bay, modified the lease payment from $2,000 in gold coins per year, to the 1934 equivalent value of $4,085 U.S. Treasury dollars, and added a requirement that termination of the lease requires the consent of both the U.S. and Cuba governments, or the U.S. abandonment of the base property.
For more on GTMO's history see:
History of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay
For a more detailed history of Guantanamo Bay see the history written by RADM M.E. Murphy:
The History of Guantanamo Bay 1494-1964
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