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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 [1]) is a United States military base occupying a location on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the ...
Postal code: 95100. Area code +53 21: Guantánamo (UK: / ... and remains the site of a US Navy base, as well as the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. ...
Guantanamo Bay from satellite. Guantánamo Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Guantánamo, [baˈia ðe ɣwãnˈtanamo]) is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba.It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off from its immediate hinterland.
As of Jan. 6, Guantanamo Bay held 15 detainees, housed by the Defense Department. To scale up to anywhere close to 30,000, as President Trump has suggested, will be an enormous drain on the ...
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Guantanamo Bay officials have reported 41 suicide attempts by 25 detainees since the U.S. began taking prisoners to the base in January 2002. [117] Defense lawyers contend the number of suicide attempts is higher. [117] On 10 June 2006 three detainees were found dead, who, according to the DoD, "killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact."
The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) is a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay detention camp within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The GMOC is a distinct facility from the detention blocks used to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants".
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 .