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15 Messages Since 11-24-01
Posted 1-13-02
Stellazella
stella@inetworld.net
Looking for my son Lance Corporal D.N. Hazel. would greatly appreciate an address to send letters from family or even a " Everything is Okay". Semper Fi
Posted 6-14-02
James Traylor, 90 - 91
Tamtre33@aol.com
My name is James Traylor. I served in GITMO from July 90 to July 91. I was a lance corporal and worked in the S1 shop. Just looking for marines stationed there around the same time.
Posted 7-6-02
Fritzroy S. Allen, 92 – 93
RSC, Winward, 0331
fallen@gavindebecker.com
Just like to hear from any of the hard chargers that I served with.
Posted 8-13-02
L/Cpl Ted Whitcomb, Aug 1971 to Sept 1972
updeck@bellsouth.net
This is the first web site that I have ran across to even mention the Marine Barracks at Gitmo. Thanks!
Posted 11-11-02
Jeremy E. Jansen, E3, 1996 - 1998
wizzer-v@webtv.net
Trying to find a friend when I lived in Guantanamo while my husband was stationed there. His name is Michael Garcia, Marine. My name is Joanne Jansen.
Posted
11-29-02
Cpl. Van Perley, 1969 - 1970
vperl@comcast.net (updated 12-5-05)
Stationed with Guard Company I noticed the boots have posted a couple of messages.
Posted
10-28-03
Chris Matarese, Corporal,
1987 - 1988
Rifle Security Company
Windward Marine Barracks Armory
chrismatar@cox.net
GITMO was a strange place.....I got there in April 1987 just after the "A Few Good Men Incident". The investigation by NIS and the Marine Corps resulted in many being relieved of command and many others shipped off to other duty stations. There were a few old timers left who knew what happened and passed the info along. My first night on the fenceline was the 1900 - 0100 shift on the post one tower back from the one overlooking the beach. That night while walking to the relief vehicle, I stepped on something weird, I thought something fell out of my pack so I asked for some light, I had stepped on a 6 foot long cuban boa.....not poisonous but the bite would have hurt......saw some Army guy get bit by one down there. Land Crab killing sprees were lots of fun.....and the duty drivers would always try for max body count when a family of bananna rats was crossing the fenceline road. I was a squad leader for a 106mm Recoilless Rifle mounted on a mule. Cool weapon....not terribly accurate....but fun to shoot. We used to have target practice against floating metal balls in the ocean off of "Radio Range". Sometimes the 106mm rounds would skip on the ocean and explode way the hell out there. There were some tense, near combat moments down there. No defectors while I was there, the cubans had discovered the defection routes and had them well guarded. While standing a night shift on the watergate post, we would see all kinds of fish, sharks, dolphins, swim up to the light to see what was going on. Shortly after I left is when the set up the prison camps for the Haitian Refugees. The Marine Barracks had a decent gym and many cool guys to work out with. Some of the Marines I served with/for SgtMaj. Chatman, Sgt Tuell, Cpl. Canfield, Ssgt Gross, Lcpl Gottschalk, Lcpl Parris, Pfc Macveigh. Send me an e-mail if you were there during that time.
Posted 11-29-03
Rod Emmons, Sgt., 2nd PLT RSC, 1982 - 1985
reemmons@bop.gov
Looking for anyone that served in Gitmo from 82-85 on that lovely fence line!! Also, my son Jake was born in Gitmo, he is currently a Lcpl getting ready for his second tour in Iraq. You guys rubbed off on him!!
Posted 12-18-03
John Reny, 1960 - 1962
trmlvelocty@email.msn.com
I severd at gitmo from 1960 thru 1962 during the revelotion. A very difficult time. A station i will never forget. Looking for fellow Marines who served with me. I went on to serve in Veit Nam.
Posted 1-30-04
John Martin, SSgt Retired, Jan70 - Dec71
Lart35@yahoo.com
(updated 10-29-06)
Served at MB Gtmo Jan70-Dec71 in Adjutant's Office with MSgt Jim Denny, Cpl Cannon, Steele, Capt Bobby J Parrish. GySgt F X McHale who passed away in May 2001 was a close friend. Played a lot of softball with the SNCO Club Team. Had the Cuban bartender "Vic" as our firstbaseman. GySgts Bill Turner and Miranda were team members. SgtMaj Frank Terrlizzi was the pitcher. Gunny McHale's wife Shelia was the official score keeper. She also assessed fines for those who committed an error during the games... We had a sailor, John Hills who played the game in the same fashion as Pete Rose...he was always sporting brushburns... Anyone that remembers some of this, sent me an e-mail....Semper Fi
Posted 8-23-04
Sgt Lopez,
1965 - 1966
Skiperkie@aol.com
I was a PFC stationed at Marine Barracks, GTMO, from November 1965 to Nov 1966. I was one of three brothers stationed there. My name is Angel Lopez. If anyone remembers please e-mail me. Thanks. Has anything changed since the sixties? I'm sure the wooded barracks are gone by now.
Posted 8-23-04
Brian Willnigham Lcpl, RSC
Leeward, Nov 1993-Nov 1994
bwillingham@comcast.net
I was stationed at Gitmo at pretty interesting time. We had Hatian and Cuban refugee camps. There were riots in both camps and we were called on to break them up. We watched the Army Rangers and Airborn stage for their invasion of Hati which didn't happen that time. We had a Cuban Mig defect (the pilot stayed and the plane went back I think) and plenty of assylum seekers by land and by sea. Standing post on that fenceline was some of the most boring, most lonely time I have ever spent. I would love to go back and see what camp X-Ray looks like and would love to see the rest of Cuba. If you are reading this you should post a message and pass the word, this is a great idea for those of us who remember fondly our time in the Corps.
Posted 6-28-05
Cpl. J.L. Hartley, 1977 - 1978
JHARTLEY@ci.watsonville.ca.us
GITMO was an experience. Met some of the best people in my life there. R.J. Martin, Kurt Jacob, Rodney Stafford, Scott Osborn, Jowers, Wintworth, Shakey, 'Beef' , McGovern and all the crazies I served with. Semper Fi! Do you remember 'Luck the Gook' ?
Posted 6-28-05
Terry Knopff
dknopff@socal.rr.com
My brother Terry Knopff was based at GITMO in the late 1970s. Anyone know him then? Thanks, Don Knopff
Posted 6-28-05
Mark Colli, Dec79 - Dec80
ColSadey@aol.com
I just found this site by accident. I spend alot of time watching the news reports of my fellow devil dogs serving in Iraq. OOO-RAH SEMPER FI. My name is Mark Colli and I was station at gitmo bay Marine Barracks from dec79-dec80. I was in foodservice and left a lance corporal. Just days before, i think its the 15th of may,in 1980, the whole Marine Barracks was put on high alert. You see, back then in 1980, Castrol, during the Muriel harbor sea flotilla days,had threatened to release thousands of prisoners and mentally ill persons from their cells and had suggested to the U.S., that they would be released and be directed [forced] to hop the fence line onto the Naval Base. We all were quickly trained in the rights and wrongs of crowd control. Also, to demonstrate just how concerned our government was, we all were allowed to bring our m-16's back to our quad's, which was a very unusual situation. Anyways, at around 230am, I was awaked by the sound of a helicopters blades. The quad I lived in was on the end by the dining facility. I looked out my window of the quad and almost completely shit my pants. The copter was so close, i could see the pilot and what really scared me was the red star on the front side of the copter. Needless to say, Marine Barracks went apeshit. We all fell out with our combat gear, where formation was held each am. The only problem was not one jarhead on that hill had a round to be able to lock and load. Within minutes, the lights on the hill had gone dark. If you stood in front between headquarters and the px you could see where the MBCO lived. We watched as that russian made copter swept back and forth over our co's residence. We all ended going out to the area just a few hundred yards from the northern fence line for a few days. short of it, Castrol never released those people and life on Gitmo went back to usual. Semper Fi devil dogs
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