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.