All non-active duty personnel must have a current passport to get on NSGB. You must obtain passports for the entire family , before arriving. This must be completed, signed, and approved at NSGB before you can board the plane. Car repair and maintenance is available, but parts are very limited.
Also, repair facilities are limited and lack the proper equipment for models and newer. Only unleaded octane gas and diesel fuel is sold here. This NFCU is a non-cash facility. Community bank is also located in the NEX atrium and is a cash banking facility.
Mail takes weeks to be transported between the installation and the Continental U. Mailing fragile items is risky. You should receive either a message or letter which will contain specific reporting instructions for your flight. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay is the forward, ready, and irreplaceable U. We host and enable all branches of the U.
We also provide an exceptional quality of life for our residents: Benefits for Naval Station Guantanamo Bay servicemembers, civilian employees, and their families include no-cost housing and utilities, plus access to most amenities and conveniences you would find on other military installations, including a Commissary, Navy Exchange, furniture store, gas station, hospital, dry cleaners, bowling alley, library, and sports complex.
We have college courses available and a combined school for pre-K through 12th grade, as well as two Child Development Centers and a Youth Center. If accepting an accompanied tour, pets with some restrictions may accompany employees, and employees may ship most household goods and a personal vehicle to NSGB at no costs to themselves.
Living and working at NSGB is not, however, for everyone. There is no access to the rest of Cuba, and transiting on and off base via air only may be difficult at certain times, and getting a seat on a particular flight is not always guaranteed.
The weather is hot or warm all year long, with little change in seasons. While there is an on-base hospital, those with medical conditions requiring frequent visits or treatment may not find their particular services available. From time to time reports of alarming human rights violations, inhuman living conditions, and news of torture of the detainees have surfaced. The US has faced much flak due to the maintenance of this detention and interrogation facility, but it is yet to shut down.
Over hundreds of detainees were released and transferred to other countries during the Bush administration; and several others during the Obama administration. Click me. Only 16 were ever charged with criminal offences, according to Human Rights Watch. The youngest detainee was year-old Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen who was released in after 13 years locked away. In , the Canadian government paid Khadr a The oldest prisoner still being held is year-old Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani national who has spent the last 17 years in detention without charge.
Paracha could be returned home in the next several months according to his lawyer. Since , Guantanamo detainees have been sent home or to other countries through prisoner transfer agreements.
There are 39 still held. Nine died in custody. Of the 39 detainees remaining, 17 are being held indefinitely with no recommendation for transfer, 10 are eligible for transfer if security conditions are met, 10 have been charged by the US military, and two have been convicted.
Several international human rights groups, including HRW, Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross have repeatedly condemned the alleged human rights violations, including harsh interrogation methods that critics say amounted to torture. During his presidency, George W Bush said he would like to see Guantanamo Bay closed but that it would not be easy.
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