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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military) is a United States military base located on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba.
The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base surrounds the southern portion of the bay. The U.S. Marines 1st, 2nd & 3rd Regiments at Deer Point Camp, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, April 26, 1911. The naval base, nicknamed "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers 116 square kilometres (45 sq mi) on the western and eastern banks of the bay. It was established in 1898, when the ...
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, [note 1] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay ( NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants ...
1 April 1941 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Operating Base, after vast construction program for build-up of the Station Frederick Snare Corporation. 18 June 1952 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base. List of commanders and commandants Commandants. 10 December 1903 – May 1904 : William H. Allen
Leeward Point Field. / 19.90639°N 75.20694°W / 19.90639; -75.20694. Leeward Point Field [1] ( IATA: NBW, ICAO: MUGM ), also known as Leeward Airfield, [3] is a U.S. military airfield located at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On August 18th 1993, a DC-8 freighter crashed in Leeward Point field.
Website. jtfgtmo.southcom.mil. Commanders. Current. commander. BG Scott W. Hiipakka, USA. Joint Task Force Guantanamo ( JTF-GTMO) is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the base. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command.
2 gunboats damaged. The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was fought from June 6 to June 14 in 1898, during the Spanish–American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Capturing the bay from the Spanish forces was instrumental in the following Battle of Santiago de Cuba ...
Guantánamo ( UK: / ɡwænˈtænəmoʊ /, [4] US: / ɡwɑːnˈtɑːn -/, [5] [6] Spanish: [ɡwanˈtanamo]) is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province . Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of ...