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Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Camp America, was constructed to house Joint Task Force 160 personnel. Located halfway between Windmill and Kittery beaches the camp consists of 15' by 32' plywood shelters, called seahuts, each of which is equipped with air conditioning and state-of-the-art insulation. The seahuts replace the GP Medium tents the soldiers had previously been living in at Freedom Heights. A total of 105 seahuts were built over the span of three months by Navy seabees with each building housing up to 10 people.

Unlike Freedom Heights, both Camp America and Camp Bulkeley (another camp in which other troops assigned to Camp Delta also reside), the facilities feature hot showers, laundry, and workout facilities.

Each weather-resistant seahut is equipped with two doors at either end and allows for amenities not available at Freedom Heights, such as a fully operating, local area networked communications seahut with phones and fast Internet access available 24 hours a day. The camp also possesses a basketball court, a library, and a hut offering a big-screen television, movies with seating for 20. Each morale welfare and recreation seahut is grouped with two other MWR seahuts with a common porch around them. There are three groups of three MWR seahuts throughout the camp including a chaplain's area and a medical aid station to treat residents.

In addition to the seahuts, there are three tension frame systems (TFSs) at Camp America, supporting a gym complete with free weights, Nautilus-type machines and rubber-matted floors for exercise. The second TFS is the Seaside Galley; an air-conditioned mess hall capable of feeding a battalion-sized element, and which provides 4,000 hot meals a day. The last TSF is a general assembly area. The camp also supports command post operations by centralizing platoon headquarter seahuts among the living seahuts the same way Freedom Heights was set up at Camp X-Ray.

Both camps also feature MWR SEAhuts where troops have access to the internet and are able to relax during off-duty periods. Additionally, troops have also access to more phone lines and are allowed to make three 15-minute morale calls each week.

Family housing facilities of Tierra Kay at Guantanamo Bay have also been refurbished, allowing many troops to move into those living quarters, and thus freeing up some of the SEAhuts at Camp America and Bulkeley for storage and office space.

Camp America North-I The camp houses JTF GTMO personel. The facility is equipped with hard roofs and indoor latrines. It also contains a Joint First Aid Station. The clinic is equipped with air conditioning, telephones and computers linked directly to the Navy Hospital and serves both Camp America North-I and Camp Buckeley.

Club Survivor, two unused SEAhuts, previously used as temporary housing, were reconverted at the camp (North-I) into a club. The facility was comprised of a bar in one building, and of and indoor, air-conditioned lounge in the other.

Mini-Mart, a 3,000 square foot structure consist of five pre-fabricated foul-weather resistant buildings located in the Seaside Galley parking lot.

Camp America North-II A mirror image of Camp America North-I. The camp contained housing units for an additional 400 JTF troops. Both Camp America North I/II were upgraded with kitchenettes and other creature comforts. Each house is to accommodate six soldiers and contain a washroom with a toilet and sink. The housing area is to include two male and two female toilet-shower combinations, a kitchenette, barbecue area, and basketball court.

The camp will include six administrative offices, four MWR buildings, two classrooms and a chapel office. A medical clinic will also function at the new camp. The Camp America North-I Joint Aid Station will move to Camp America North-II, expanding into a full clinic.

Edited from GlobalSecurity.com

 
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