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To: gitmo
Lol can relate to all. Was the CPO club an extension of the FRA up on hill by BEQ? Yes they showed movies there outdoors and opened it up all hands as a matter of fact.

There was another outdoor movie place down past NAV lodge mostly fleeters went to. There was also a small bar not open when I was there that is (was) famous to the left of NAVEXCHANGE on same side of rd.

WATCONDITION CHARLIE LOL!!!!!! When I was there there were set strict hrs. of watering lawns.

Oh and do you know what hydroids and the hot tub are? LOL!!!Were the NAVDIVERS/SEAL there at SIMA at R-7?

Could you rent boats at MWR while there? Was too cool. There was a point going down a canal that looked like Vietnam with alligators sharks in it that there was a sign that if you floated past a nano second you were shot at taken by NEGate castros. Many divers also ventured and were greeted by gun boats.

101 posted on 06/09/2002 11:38:14 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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104 posted on 06/09/2002 12:04:16 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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WATCONDITION CHARLIE LOL!!!!!! When I was there there were set strict hrs. of watering lawns.

I was there when Castro cut the water pipe. We were limited to a gallon of water per day (family of 4) for months. Everyone took their families to the beach for bathing.

Oh and do you know what hydroids and the hot tub are?

I was either too young to be in on that, or it didn't exist back then.

The Seals were there in the 60's. There were rumors that they would slip over the fence into Guantanamo City for R&R. Don't know if that was true or not.

I got together with my brother the other day, and we were reminiscing about the 'good old days' when we were growing up in Gitmo. I wish my boys could experience some of the carefree atmosphere we had there. It was a closed community and we, as boys, could roam pretty free. As long as we avoided the fenceline area, the barracudas, the mine fields and the occasional scorpion we were safe and sound. Things were pretty tense when we returned to base after the missile crisis (I found a campsite for some spies right about then), but that was fairly short lived.

TV was pathetic. WGBY radio was ok for a young teenager.

The schools have changed a lot based on the links you supplied. We went to school in stand-alone wooden buildings. They resembled cabanas.

Now I'm homesick again.

106 posted on 06/09/2002 12:53:32 PM PDT by gitmo
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