Guantanamo plans evacuation for Matthew
Chris sends us a press release from Guantanamo which announces that they’ll be evacuating families and non-essential personnel from the Navy base as Hurricane Matthew bears down on the Caribbean island detention camp. ABC’s Good Morning America reports that Matthew is a Category 4 Hurricane and inching it’s way toward Cuba;
The center was expected to pass about 50 miles east of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, where authorities evacuated about 700 spouses and children of service members on military transport planes to Florida, the Associated Press reported.
The U.S. installation has a population of about 5,500, including 61 men held at the detention center for terrorism suspects. Navy Capt. David Culpepper, the base commander, said emergency shelters had been set up and authorities were bracing for 80 mph winds and storm surge and heavy rain that could threaten some low-lying areas, including around the power plant and water desalination facility.
“We have no choice but to prepare ourselves for to take a frontal assault if you will,” Culpepper told the AP.
UPDATE: Someone sends us an update from Pensacola ;
About 700 military family members from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are riding out Hurricane Matthew at Pensacola Naval Air Station have moved into the base hotel and are being made comfortable with everything from meals to movies, Capt. Christopher Martin, commander of the base, said Monday.
The military dependents arrived Sunday and will stay at the Pensacola base until it is safe for them to return to Cuba, Martin said.
From diapers to dog food, the Pensacola base is making sure the families have what they need to be comfortable during their stay.
Some family pets traveled with the group and the base made an exception to its no pets rule to allow the pets to stay with the families.
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Kadena AB had most of the dorms made of poured cement and rebar. We’d batten down the hatches and hang on during typhoon season.
The Okinawans would be walking around with their umbrellas like it was nothing.
I remember those days on Okinawa…
Well, I think Gitmo needs to leave the mooslimes right where they are, maybe nature will rid us of the slime!!
I went through two typhoons in the first 2 week on island, one the center of the eyewall went right over us. The base evaced 23 times in 4 years, never even lost power.
“We have no choice but to prepare ourselves for to [sic] take a frontal assault if you will.”
–Navy Capt. David Culpepper
I like that tough talk. Thank goodness for the Weather Channel.
““We have no choice but to prepare ourselves for to [sic] take a frontal assault if you will.”
–Navy Capt. David Culpepper”
Guy must have a Filipina wife or GF. They are prepositionally challenged.
Put the “guests” in heavy chains on the beach to pray the storm away.
No chains. They either pray the storm away, or wash away. Insh’allah, bitches!
I didn’t want them to run away. Chain ’em to the low-tide line and let ’em pray to Allah.
The response will be just like the prophets of Baal’s experience:
Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, “O Baal, answer us.” But there was no voice and no one answered. (I Kings 18:27 (NASB))
Good point.
They’re going to be very disappointed when they dial allah and hear “the number you have dialed is out of service”.
Followed by a laugh that would be the envy of Boris Karloff…
Surprised Dear Leader doesn’t use this as a tool to move the religion of peace guests to CONUS.
You know he or it is holding an emergency meeting with the lawyers right now.
We could hope he is off golfing…
At least one location they have talked about moving them is Charleston Naval Brig. That won’t work for this due to the potential storm track.
I was thinking this is a great time to close the prison down for good – load ’em all on a plane with all their possessions and a generous fuel allotment and fly ’em due east. That 200 gallons should let ’em hit in deep water.
1992, Guam. Six typhoons in 7 weeks, including a direct hit from Omar.
That’s how I got my Humanitarian Service Medal, by running a chainsaw for two months.
NH Guam, lived on NAS. Not squat 81-84. You made up for us. Ditto Guam, 70-71, Nada.
Crap .. Ditto Guam 70-71 should read Okinawa, Hansen, 70-71.
HMC Ret: I was at the NH Guam in 70. We caught the trailing edge of a typhoon. I remember because a group of us got silly and took a shower in the heavy rain. It was kind of cold, but when you’re young and stupid…
Wish I could remember the head nurse’s name. One of my buddies was always giving her fits like when he sent a new corpsman on an around-the-hospital trip for a sterile fallopian tube. By chance were you there when the movie “Mash” came to an off-base theater? Half the hospital showed up for it the first night. All of us were pointing out Mash characters who matched the NH personnel. It was hilarious.
Lock them dirtbags in their cells, evacuate everyone else and hope that they get taken by Matthew.
A rather biblical ending for them, which would be fine with me….
Let the rat bastards drown, who cares?
Are the prisoners considered non-essential personnel?
Yes. Next question?
This guy should be on TAH. He needs an FOIA.
Five minutes of this D I Y china cabinet shrink was all I could handle. Actually he lost me when he began including “what was sprayed on some of them” as a partial diagnosis. Where he stepped over the line of presumably knowing what he was talking about was when he said PTSD patients often go to Civil War re-inactments so they could talk with other vets. Total bullshit! Anyone with genuine severe PTSD does NOT care to rehash and discuss what brought them to their illness label. They go out of their way to avoid discussing it simply because it brings back up some really bad memories that are better off left undisturbed in a corner of the brain.
This clown would be better off returning to his hobby of collecting old china. Then let PTSD folks in his house and throw plates at each other. That’s right, he could be the Jerry Springer of PTSD!