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Detainees pray in a communal area of Camp Six at Joint

Detainees pray in a communal area of Camp Six at Joint

Detainees pray in a communal area of Camp Six at Joint Task Force Guantanamo, March 18. JTF Guantanamo provides safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detainees, including those convicted by mi... More

An enemy combatant detained by Joint Task Force Guantanamo

An enemy combatant detained by Joint Task Force Guantanamo

An enemy combatant detained by Joint Task Force Guantanamo strolls during recreation time inside Camp Four, Aug. 6. Camp Four houses the JTF's most compliant detainees. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, le... More

Army Sgt. Michael Owens escorts members of the media

Army Sgt. Michael Owens escorts members of the media

Army Sgt. Michael Owens escorts members of the media during a tour of the Camp X-Ray at Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Although no longer used, most who visit are unaware it has been abandoned. JTF-GTMO conducts ... More

Joint Task Force Guantanamo offers special programs

Joint Task Force Guantanamo offers special programs

Joint Task Force Guantanamo offers special programs to eligible detainees such as basic language education courses in Arabic, Pashto and English. Detainees have access to classrooms, such as this one photograph... More

A Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion guard patrols

A Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion guard patrols

A Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion guard patrols a Camp Delta corridor, Feb. 14, 2008. The NEGB supports the Joint Detention Group as a guard force in the detention facilities. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe an... More

Young Army Corporal Pursues Excellence in Duty

Young Army Corporal Pursues Excellence in Duty

Army Cpl. Krystal Ahern describes her duty mission as "making sure the troopers have what they need to perform their duties inside the wire." Ahern serves with the 193rd Military Police Company, 525th Military ... More

Humble Reservist Named Trooper of the Quarter

Humble Reservist Named Trooper of the Quarter

Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class John Shriver patrols Guantanamo's waters, Feb. 3, 2008, while on night shift. Shriver said there is "no greater enjoyment in the Coast Guard than driving a boat." Joint Task ... More

Young Army Corporal Pursues Excellence in Duty

Young Army Corporal Pursues Excellence in Duty

Army Cpl. Krystal Ahern inventories gear for her supply shop. Ahern serves with the 193rd Military Police Company, 525th Military Police Battalion. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and ... More

Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, commander, Joint Task Force

Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, commander, Joint Task Force

Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, commander, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, surveys the contents of the post office first aid kit while Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew French looks on during a JTF zone inspection, Feb. 21, 20... More

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alice Brooks cultivates

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alice Brooks cultivates

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alice Brooks cultivates various types of indigenous plants in the garden she created next to Cuzco Barracks where she lives. Brooks, a yeoman assigned to the Joint Task Force, hopes... More

Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer John Inglis discusses

Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer John Inglis discusses

Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer John Inglis discusses future engineering projects, Feb. 25, with Navy Capt. Greg Rismiller and Navy Chief Petty Officer Jason Marino. Joint Task Force Engineering Directorate is ... More

Windy City Son Hosts 'Vibe Sessions' for Troopers

Windy City Son Hosts 'Vibe Sessions' for Troopers

Sgt. Lavelle Jones discusses a legal matter, Feb. 26, 2008, with Lt. Erika Delaparra in the Joint Task Force Military Justice office where both work. During his off duty time, Jones hosts "Vibe Sessions" at his... More

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey visits Guantanamo

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey visits Guantanamo

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey visits Guantanamo Bay, Feb. 27, 2007. Mukasey's tour, like all distinguished visitor tours, was coordinated by the Joint Visitors Bureau, a directorate within Joint Task Fo... More

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Hayhurst shows Rear Adm. Mike Tillotson,

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Hayhurst shows Rear Adm. Mike Tillotson,

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Hayhurst shows Rear Adm. Mike Tillotson, the commander of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, a typical layout of detainee issued supplies, March 3, 2008. The NECC is the administrative bo... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Sean Mallory directs the concrete

Petty Officer 2nd Class Sean Mallory directs the concrete

Petty Officer 2nd Class Sean Mallory directs the concrete flow for a foundation for the upcoming pro shop at the Guantanamo Golf Course. Mallory, a builder with Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 74, is the pro... More

Joint Aid Station Health Fair Keeps Troopers Informed and Healthy

Joint Aid Station Health Fair Keeps Troopers Informed and Healthy

Navy Lt. Angela Coriano of the Joint Stress Mitigation.

Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Crider makes plans for a cargo

Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Crider makes plans for a cargo

Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Crider makes plans for a cargo shipment leaving Guantanamo Bay. Crider is currently on a six month stint working in the Joint Task Force logistics office where he processes all transact... More

Army Sgt. Lavelle Jones hosts 'Vibe Sessions' at his

Army Sgt. Lavelle Jones hosts 'Vibe Sessions' at his

Army Sgt. Lavelle Jones hosts 'Vibe Sessions' at his residence, Feb. 22, 2008. "Vibe Sessions" is an opportunity for budding artists to sing and recite poetry every Friday evening. Jones serves with the 525th M... More

Army Spc. Joseph Sandovar mans a .50-caliber machine

Army Spc. Joseph Sandovar mans a .50-caliber machine

Army Spc. Joseph Sandovar mans a .50-caliber machine gun on a "Maverick," an up-armored Humvee, on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, March 10, 2008. The "Maverick" is a roving sentry that provides external sec... More

Staff Sgt. Joseph Crider (U.S. Marine Corps), Capt.

Staff Sgt. Joseph Crider (U.S. Marine Corps), Capt.

Staff Sgt. Joseph Crider (U.S. Marine Corps), Capt. Craig Dutton (U.S. Air Forces), Staff Sgt. Michelle Wickell (U.S. Air Forces) and Tech Sgt. Jason Short (U.S. Air Forces), shown on March 10, 2008, apply frie... More

Air Force Senior Airman Nick Skinner and Air Force

Air Force Senior Airman Nick Skinner and Air Force

Air Force Senior Airman Nick Skinner and Air Force Staff Sgt. John Heiser weld a detainee cell door, March 13, 2008. Both are members of the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron which broke ground on ... More

Sherard Wilson gives one of his players game-time advice

Sherard Wilson gives one of his players game-time advice

Sherard Wilson gives one of his players game-time advice before the league championship game, March 18. Sherard's team, The Wizards, won the MWR 11-14 year old basketball league by going undefeated 8-0. JTF Gua... More

Army Capt. Chaplain Scott Brill dialogues with troopers

Army Capt. Chaplain Scott Brill dialogues with troopers

Army Capt. Chaplain Scott Brill dialogues with troopers as they are transported into Camp Delta. "Rap with the Chap" is a new weekly bus ministry designed to accommodate shift workers who may not attend church ... More

Deputy chief of naval personnel, Rear Adm. Sonny Masso,

Deputy chief of naval personnel, Rear Adm. Sonny Masso,

Deputy chief of naval personnel, Rear Adm. Sonny Masso, speaks to Joint Task Force Guantanamo and U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Sailors during an all hands call March 19, 2008. Masso visited Guantanamo to a... More

New Mexico Army National Guard soldier Mitchell Ration

New Mexico Army National Guard soldier Mitchell Ration

New Mexico Army National Guard soldier Mitchell Ration displays a picture of his wife, March 21, 2008. Ration, a family man, loves his job in the Joint Task Force Legal Assistance Office, but misses his wife an... More

Army Capt. David Maestas, director of J-6, updates

Army Capt. David Maestas, director of J-6, updates

Army Capt. David Maestas, director of J-6, updates Army Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, Joint Task Force deputy commander, on the status of various projects currently underway within the J-6 directorate. The J-6 mi... More

Members of 525th Military Police Battalion get Girl

Members of 525th Military Police Battalion get Girl

Members of 525th Military Police Battalion get Girl Scout Cookies.

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Dunn returns a salute by a guard

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Dunn returns a salute by a guard

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Dunn returns a salute by a guard on duty inside Camp Delta, March 28. Camp Delta is part of the detention facilities as part of Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Dunn, currently serving with t... More

Surgeon general of the Navy, Vice Adm. Adam Robinson

Surgeon general of the Navy, Vice Adm. Adam Robinson

Surgeon general of the Navy, Vice Adm. Adam Robinson departs Camp Delta during a visit to Joint Task Force Guantanamo March 29, 2008. Robinson visited the JTF to meet with health care providers and tour the det... More

Army Spc. Meghan Phillips of the Wisconsin-based 112th

Army Spc. Meghan Phillips of the Wisconsin-based 112th

Army Spc. Meghan Phillips of the Wisconsin-based 112th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment adjusts her video camera during a training session at Fort Lewis, Wash. The unit mobilized from Fort Lewis for their deplo... More

Joint Task Force troopers scale a difficult hill at

Joint Task Force troopers scale a difficult hill at

Joint Task Force troopers scale a difficult hill at the halfway point of the Bataan Memorial Death March, March 30, 2008. This was the first year that the event - organized by members of the New Mexico Army Nat... More

Bataan Death March Memorial, operation Enduring Freedom

Bataan Death March Memorial, operation Enduring Freedom

Marines, Sailors and Soldiers troop up the long winding road on the Cuban boarder, March 30, 2008. Troopers from the Joint Task Force Guantanamo put together a Baatan Death March Memorial to commerate the 66th ... More

Cuzco Barracks Expands to Accomodate Troopers

Cuzco Barracks Expands to Accomodate Troopers

Laborers assemble the frames of housing units at McCalla Field, March 31, 2008. When completed, the units will provide housing for 192 individuals assigned to Joint Task Force Guantanamo as phase three of the C... More

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Thomas Atkin, newly appointed

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Thomas Atkin, newly appointed

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Thomas Atkin, newly appointed commander of Coast Guard Deployable Operations Group, visits Coast Guard personnel, April 1, 2008. Atkin served here with Joint Task Force 160 during the Hait... More

Navy Petty Officer Joseph Horne prepares for the bike

Navy Petty Officer Joseph Horne prepares for the bike

Navy Petty Officer Joseph Horne prepares for the bike leg of the Spring Beach Party Triathlon held Aug. 2. In addition to competing in the mini-triathlon, Horne also coordinated the event that included a 500-me... More

Anchors Aweigh for JDG Deputy, operation Enduring Freedom

Anchors Aweigh for JDG Deputy, operation Enduring Freedom

Navy Cmdr. Andrew Haynes speaks with a Joint Detention Group trooper inside Camp Delta prior to his departure from the Joint Task Force. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained enem... More

It has arrived ... Taco Bell Express opened for business,

It has arrived ... Taco Bell Express opened for business,

It has arrived ... Taco Bell Express opened for business, Apr. 8, to a crowd of hungry guests that extended out the door. Capt. Mark Leery, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay commander, was on-hand for the ribbon cut... More

Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of the 12th

Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of the 12th

Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of the 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern, speaks to Joint Task Force Guantanamo Airmen during an all-hands-call here, Apr. 9, 2008. Seip addressed budget issues an... More

A Soldier tries to complete a hula-hooping event during

A Soldier tries to complete a hula-hooping event during

A Soldier tries to complete a hula-hooping event during the Amazing Base event, Apr. 12, 2008 here. Fifteen events, ranging from a trivia questionnaire to a water balloon launching game, had base residents scra... More

NEGB and PSU 313 Conduct Beach Cleanup

NEGB and PSU 313 Conduct Beach Cleanup

Members of the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion and Port Security Unit 313 joined together, Apr. 13, 2008, at Blue Beach for a community service beach clean-up. Blue Beach is a wildlife preserve at U.S. Naval... More

J4 Supply Property Book, operation Enduring Freedom

J4 Supply Property Book, operation Enduring Freedom

Army Sgt. Eric Regensberg orders and tracks supplies needed for Joint Task Force Guantanamo April 14. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained enemy combatants. The JTF conducts inte... More

A construction worker measures out a section of wood

A construction worker measures out a section of wood

A construction worker measures out a section of wood flooring, April 15, 2008, at McCalla Air Field at Guantanamo Bay. The flooring will be used in the additions to Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Cuzco Barracks ... More

Air Force Senior Airman Mike Hites, from Joint Task

Air Force Senior Airman Mike Hites, from Joint Task

Air Force Senior Airman Mike Hites, from Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Joint Personnel Reception Center, arranges a welcome-aboard package for incoming JTF personnel in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station Air ... More

Army Staff Sgt. Drew Neal, non-commissioned officer

Army Staff Sgt. Drew Neal, non-commissioned officer

Army Staff Sgt. Drew Neal, non-commissioned officer for the Joint Visitors Bureau at Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, coordinates for an upcoming distinguished visitor event. Neal handles such concerns as meals, tr... More

Air Force Senior Airman Mike Hites, Joint Personnel

Air Force Senior Airman Mike Hites, Joint Personnel

Air Force Senior Airman Mike Hites, Joint Personnel Reception Center, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, arranges a welcome-aboard package for incoming JTF personnel in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Air Mobil... More

Moonlighting As Radio DJ Earns Alonso High Naval Honor

Moonlighting As Radio DJ Earns Alonso High Naval Honor

Navy Chief Petty Officer Joey Alonso stands ready at the microphone to entertain Guantanamo as the co-host of "The Blitz Morning Show" on 103.1 The Blitz. Navy Chief Petty Officer Joe Clark, the officer in char... More

Gitmo Idol, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Gitmo Idol, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Just like Simon, Paula and Randy, the judges for Gitmo Idol Round II prepare to dish out some 'constructive criticism' to one of the show's contestants, April 18, 2008. The three judges work with the U.S. Naval... More

Army-Navy Softball Game, operation Enduring Freedom

Army-Navy Softball Game, operation Enduring Freedom

A member of the Army softball team, comprised of Soldiers from the Joint Task Force, awaits the pitch during an Army-Navy softball game Friday, April 18 at Zaiser Field in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Navy beat Army, ... More

Joint Civilian Orientation Conference guests hear first-hand

Joint Civilian Orientation Conference guests hear first-hand

Joint Civilian Orientation Conference guests hear first-hand about the high level of medial care offered to detainees in Camp Delta. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of deta... More

Joint Task Force Post Office, operation Enduring Freedom

Joint Task Force Post Office, operation Enduring Freedom

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Allen sorts mail for troopers at the Joint Task Force Post Office, April 21, 2008. Postal workers here sort an estimated 6,000 pounds of mail per week. JTF Guantanamo conducts ... More

Joint Task Force IG, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Joint Task Force IG, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Navy Cmdr. Richard Boehm, Joint Task Force Guantanamo inspector general, and Army Sgt. Maj. Fatima Berry, assistant IG, interview a JTF Trooper during a training session in the IG office, Camp America, April 23... More

Recycling Center, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Recycling Center, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

A BREMCOR employee at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay's Recycling Center sorts through aluminum cans, April 24, 2008, the day before the base's observance of Earth Day. Earth Day celebrations included a base ... More

Fuel Point, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Fuel Point, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Army Spc. Carlos Mantano, Puerto Rico Army National Guard, pumps gas into his light medium tactical vehicle during Joint Task Force Guantanamo drivers training April 24, 2008. Drivers are trained by the JTF on ... More

Earth Day Cleanup, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Earth Day Cleanup, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Tom Jordon, the information technology department manager with Moral, Welfare and Recreation's, picks up trash at the Downtown Lyceum theater as part of the base-wide Earth Day cleanup effort April 25. The clea... More

Military Police Training, operation Enduring Freedom

Military Police Training, operation Enduring Freedom

Army Spc. Katie Cairns, of the 525th Military Police Battalion, performs a series of elbow strikes during a four-station obstacle course, assisted by Army Sgt. Jon Newlands, as part of an OC Pepper certificatio... More

Guantanamo Basketball Tournament

Guantanamo Basketball Tournament

Ryan Dixon (left) makes a jumpshot to put his team further in the lead at the 3-on-3 basketball tournament on April 26 at Denich Gym; the team places third overall. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and... More

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Patrol

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Patrol

Members of the 2/162nd Field Artillery Maverick Division patrol in and around the Joint Task Force Guantanamo, April 28, 2008. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained e... More

(From the left) Air Force 1st Sgt. Scott Clarkson,

(From the left) Air Force 1st Sgt. Scott Clarkson,

(From the left) Air Force 1st Sgt. Scott Clarkson, Lt. Col. Frederick Olson and Maj. Kevin McKinney from the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron examine blueprints in Camp Justice April 28. The 474th... More

Exemplary Artillery Battery Has Exemplary 1st Sergeant

Exemplary Artillery Battery Has Exemplary 1st Sergeant

Army Master Sgt. Jorge Diaz looks over a binder in his office here in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained enemy combatants. The JTF conducts i... More

North East Gate Reenlistment, operation Enduring Freedom

North East Gate Reenlistment, operation Enduring Freedom

Petty Officer 1st Class Armando Sedano, a member of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, reenlists for service in the Navy outside the North East Gate at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, April 30, 2008. The North Eas... More

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric Walker receives the

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric Walker receives the

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric Walker receives the first Joint Task Force Safety Incentive Award from Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti for his quick reaction to a fire that broke out between two trailers at Cuzco ... More

Kathy Einhorn lights a candle during a Holocaust remembrance

Kathy Einhorn lights a candle during a Holocaust remembrance

Kathy Einhorn lights a candle during a Holocaust remembrance service in the base chapel on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, May 2, 2008. The service included readings by base and Joint Task Force Guantanamo c... More

Inobe, Guantanamo bay, Cuba, operation Enduring Freedom

Inobe, Guantanamo bay, Cuba, operation Enduring Freedom

Inobe entertains Joint Task Force Guantanamo Troopers May 2, 2008. As part of a USO tour, the singer performed May 1st

Actor Bradley Cooper chats with some Marines during

Actor Bradley Cooper chats with some Marines during

Actor Bradley Cooper chats with some Marines during a bus tour of Guantanamo Bay as part of his visit May 2-4. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained enemy combatants.... More

Run for Your Life, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Run for Your Life, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Army Capt. Marguerite Mogul finishes strong as she completes a 12-mile run which took her from her house, out to Cable Beach and back. Mogul, an avid runner and marathon enthusiast, makes running a priority and... More

Bradley Cooper Comes to Gitmo

Bradley Cooper Comes to Gitmo

Members of the Fleet Anti-Strike Terrorism Company Marines met with Bradley Cooper at the Marine Hill Liberty Center on May 2 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care a... More

Holocaust Remembrance Service, operation Enduring Freedom

Holocaust Remembrance Service, operation Enduring Freedom

Dave DeGroff lights a candle during a Holocaust remembrance service in the base chapel on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, May 2, 2008. The service included readings by base and Joint Task Force Guantanamo ch... More

US COAST GUARD Monthly Cleanup, operation Enduring Freedom

US COAST GUARD Monthly Cleanup, operation Enduring Freedom

Members of the Coast Guard 313 Port Security Unit pick up litter along the road outside Joint Task Force Guantanamo. PSU members take turns doing monthly cleanups around U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. JTF G... More

Mother's Day in Combat Boots, operation Enduring Freedom

Mother's Day in Combat Boots, operation Enduring Freedom

Sgt. Valentina Herrera of the New Mexico Army National Guard reads a book for her son back home. Through the United Through Reading program, Herrera can stay in touch with her son by being videotaped reading a ... More

Run for Your Life, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Run for Your Life, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Army Capt. Marguerite Mogul strides toward success during the Labor of Love Marathon at Lovell Canyon, Las Vegas, Nev., April 26. Mogul beat feet to the finish line, placing first overall. Mogul is currently as... More

This courtroom sketch of Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi

This courtroom sketch of Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi

This courtroom sketch of Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi was drawn by artist Janet Hamlin during al Hawsawi's arraignment in June, 2008. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained enemy ... More

Joint Task Force Guantanamo guards provide a variety

Joint Task Force Guantanamo guards provide a variety

Joint Task Force Guantanamo guards provide a variety of reading material from religious books to leisure at Camp 6. Camp 6 houses enemy combatants detained by the JTF and is modeled after a U.S. prison. JTF Gua... More

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Lail, a religious

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Lail, a religious

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Lail, a religious programs specialist deployed here in support of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, exchanges old prayer beads for a new ones with an enemy combatant, July 29, 2008... More

Light Medium Tactical Vehicle, operation Enduring Freedom

Light Medium Tactical Vehicle, operation Enduring Freedom

Army Sgt. Carlos Manchuca of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard instructs a driver on how to properly secure a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle for Hurricane Gustav which passed near U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo... More

Meals Ready to Eat, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Meals Ready to Eat, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Troopers assigned to Joint Task Force Guantanamo unload Meals Ready to Eat and water that were staged at the Cuzco Barracks here in preparation for Hurricane Gustav here, Sep. 2, 2008. The troopers volunteered ... More

An Air Force C-130 Hercules and a U.S. Coast Guard

An Air Force C-130 Hercules and a U.S. Coast Guard

An Air Force C-130 Hercules and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter stand on the runway at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station Leeward Point, Sept. 3, 2008. The air station supports the air operation needs of U.S. N... More

Air Force Staff Sgt. Wilmer Rodriguez, a Joint Task

Air Force Staff Sgt. Wilmer Rodriguez, a Joint Task

Air Force Staff Sgt. Wilmer Rodriguez, a Joint Task Force trooper working in the logistics office, takes the temperature of detainee food to be served here, Sept. 4, 2008. Sample temperatures are taken four tim... More

September 11th Cook Out, operation Enduring Freedom

September 11th Cook Out, operation Enduring Freedom

Army Sgt. Arthur Pacheco, a trooper deployed in support of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Joint Visitors Bureau, decorates in preparation for a cook out held for junior enlisted Troopers here Sept. 12, 2008. The... More

Joint Task Force Guantanamo's troopers were in for

Joint Task Force Guantanamo's troopers were in for

Joint Task Force Guantanamo's troopers were in for a surprise at Kittery Cafe when they were challenged to give their best pirate impression for a chance to win a T-shirt Sept. 15, 2008. Radio Gitmo, in conjunc... More

Technology Directorate Keeps All Systems Online

Technology Directorate Keeps All Systems Online

Joint Task Force Guantanamo's technologies directorate contractor Elgen Lathan, left, provides technical assistance to Freedom of Information Act manager Randolph Cothran Sept. 16, 2008. The directorate's Help ... More

Gold Chief anchors prior to the Chief pinning ceremony.

Gold Chief anchors prior to the Chief pinning ceremony.

Gold Chief anchors prior to the Chief pinning ceremony. Many rates were included from both Joint Task Force Guantanamo and U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Dressed in their traditional khaki uniform, the new ... More

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Thompson loads

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Thompson loads

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Thompson loads a bag of donated items into a box of goods awaiting transport to the USS Kearsarge which will ferry humanitarian aide to Haitian victims of Hurricane Ike.... More

Army Sgt. Jonathan Vasquez, a light wheeled vehicle

Army Sgt. Jonathan Vasquez, a light wheeled vehicle

Army Sgt. Jonathan Vasquez, a light wheeled vehicle mechanic with the 525th Military Police Battalion, performs routine maintenance on one of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Veh... More

Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Thomas, an engineer with

Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Thomas, an engineer with

Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Thomas, an engineer with the 474th Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force, repairs a hole in the diaphragm of a pump at Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Justice, Sept. 19, 2008. The p... More

Spiritual Troopers, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Spiritual Troopers, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

From left to right: Joint Task Force chaplains, Navy Cmdr. Sal Aguilera, Army Capt. Eric Bay, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Clint Pickett and Army Capt. Scott Brill. "Our mission at JTF, is to ensure the free exercise of reli... More

Army 2nd Lt. Kandi King provides guidance to Army Staff

Army 2nd Lt. Kandi King provides guidance to Army Staff

Army 2nd Lt. Kandi King provides guidance to Army Staff Sgt. Amy Crawford, Sept. 24, 2008, on the budget for the 525th Military Police Battalion. King, a 14-year veteran of the Army, recently sought a commissio... More

Navy and Marine troops parade the colors during the

Navy and Marine troops parade the colors during the

Navy and Marine troops parade the colors during the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Change of Command ceremony, during which Navy Capt. Steven Blaisdell took command of the Naval Station from Navy Capt. Mark ... More

Navy Chaplain Rabbi Seth Phillips arrives at a Shabbat

Navy Chaplain Rabbi Seth Phillips arrives at a Shabbat

Navy Chaplain Rabbi Seth Phillips arrives at a Shabbat dinner at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay residence of Jeff and Kathy Einhorn, Sept. 26, 2008. Phillips, a chaplain stationed at Naples, Italy, is vi... More

Army Cpt. Shane Lauritzen, Joint Task Force Guantanamo's

Army Cpt. Shane Lauritzen, Joint Task Force Guantanamo's

Army Cpt. Shane Lauritzen, Joint Task Force Guantanamo's transportation officer, is promoted to captain rank by Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, deputy commander of the JTF, during Lauritzen's unique underwater prom... More

US COAST GUARD Motor Brace, operation Enduring Freedom

US COAST GUARD Motor Brace, operation Enduring Freedom

Chief Petty Officer Chris Lipke, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve's Port Security Unit 307, tightens a bolt on a wood motor brace at Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Sept. 30, 2008. PSU 307 provides port an... More

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chad LeBlank, a member of the

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chad LeBlank, a member of the

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chad LeBlank, a member of the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, employs a hand held fogger to spray for insects and pests outside a Camp Justice tent, Oct. 3, 2008. The 474th ... More

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Navy Petty Officer 1st Class

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Navy Petty Officer 1st Class

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Will Battleson, deployed here to support Joint Task Force Guantanamo operations, holds his catch as expert-saltwater angler George Poveromo helps him remove t... More

Staff Sgt. Luis Ortiz steps out of the back of a truck

Staff Sgt. Luis Ortiz steps out of the back of a truck

Staff Sgt. Luis Ortiz steps out of the back of a truck outside Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp 4, Oct. 5, 2008. Ortiz is a member of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard deployed here to support the JTF's det... More

Army Spc. James "Jimmie" Villa proudly displays the

Army Spc. James "Jimmie" Villa proudly displays the

Army Spc. James "Jimmie" Villa proudly displays the gold medals he earned while boxing with the All Army and Armed Forces teams, Oct. 12, 2008. Villa, a former Golden Gloves champion, participated in the World ... More

SeaBees at Work, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

SeaBees at Work, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Long and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jamion Thompson, attached to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, tighten bolts on a metal structure being assembled here, Oct. 14, 2... More

Cuba-army Staff Sgt. Difred Pascual, non-commissioned

Cuba-army Staff Sgt. Difred Pascual, non-commissioned

Cuba-army Staff Sgt. Difred Pascual, non-commissioned officer-in-charge of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Chapel Section, talks with a Trooper in Troopers' Chapel, Oct. 15, 2008. Pascual and the chaplain's offic... More

Navy Petty Office 2nd Class Marcus Arnold, a hospital

Navy Petty Office 2nd Class Marcus Arnold, a hospital

Navy Petty Office 2nd Class Marcus Arnold, a hospital corpsman assigned to Joint Task Force Guantanamo, prepares an injection at the Joint Troop Clinic here, Oct. 15, 2008. The JTC provides first line medical c... More

Repair Project, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Repair Project, Guantanamo bay, Cuba

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory Becherer, a Joint Task Force Guantanamo Trooper assigned to the commandants' office, sets up a ladder in preparation to repair a projector, Oct. 24, 2008. The commandants' offi... More

These tracks are from a female hawksbill sea turtle

These tracks are from a female hawksbill sea turtle

These tracks are from a female hawksbill sea turtle crawling back to the ocean after laying a nest of eggs in the pebbled sand at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay's Windmill Beach during the night. Sea turtles... More

Navy Cmdr. Sal Aguilera, command chaplain for U.S.

Navy Cmdr. Sal Aguilera, command chaplain for U.S.

Navy Cmdr. Sal Aguilera, command chaplain for U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay and also the Roman Catholic chaplain for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, celebrates mass, Oct. 26, 2008, at the JTF's Troopers' Chape... More

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