NH Gitmo Bay Awarded Meritorious Unit Commendation. (No one killed yet)

[JohnOneillsMemory]

http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=12335
By Lt. Rachelle McPherson, Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay Public Affairs

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (NNS) -- Military and civilian personnel from the Naval Hospital (NH) here were awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation during a ceremony Feb. 5.

Capt. John S. Edmondson, NH commanding officer, presented the award to the staff on behalf of Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England.

“For over a year, the hospital staff has worked hard to accomplish our mission,” said Edmondson. “The staff, without interrupting the routine operations of the hospital, did an outstanding job.”

The Naval Hospital was recognized for being the vital link in providing medical care and logistics support for Operation Enduring Freedom. Although faced with frequently changing requirements, the staff provided the highest quality of medical and surgical care to Joint Task Force personnel, and Taliban and Al Queda detainees without loss of a single life.

The hospital staff stood up the first secure Detainee Advanced Care Unit in a military medical treatment facility, which proved to be a monumental asset in providing medical and surgical care to the detainees.

“The staff showed a high level of professionalism, resourcefulness and total dedication to duty. They represent what makes Naval Medicine a world class health care provider,” said Edmondson. “Congratulations to all officers, enlisted personnel, and civilian employees for a job well done!”
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Unbelievable!!! I was lurking over at Free Republic (a bunch of reports from that place have been posted recently and I got curious) when I found this piece of counter-propaganda to the reports of torture endured at Gitmo Bay by the five British citizens just sent home by Rumsfeld. Some freeper put up the article with many huge photos of medical training exercises on us troops with no cages and torture showing.

One freeper even posted:
"It takes a very special sort of person to do what these outstanding Americans are doing. May God bless them."


Unbelievable!!!
I had to register (in outrage) to post over at freeperville and put this up in response to this abomination:

"I'm proud to see the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, as crafted by our great nation's Founding Fathers against an abusive tyrant that arbitrarily imprisoned his political enemies with no legal rights (King George), observed diligently every day right there in Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

As an American who knows the meaning of the US Constitution that hundereds of thousands of Americans have died for over the last 225 years and that George W. Bush and our troops took an oath to protect, it brings tears to my eyes."

on edit- Wow. It only took the FR moderators about 15 minutes to scrub my posting and boot me from the site. Guess they find the Bill of Rights to be too threatening to their beliefs. I must admit I was hoping for better than that. Very sad.

[Disturbed]

1. Good Timing

Just when reports of cruelty and torture are surfacing about Getmo.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. The Guantanamo project is very popular

Exapnsion should be underway soon.

[tlcandie]

3. There is already an expanded area very little known about

from this article posted here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x420735


<snip>
The existence of a secret super-maximum security facility outside the main part of Guantanamo's Camp Delta known as Camp Echo, where prisoners are held in tiny cells in solitary confinement 24-hours a day, with a military police officer permanently stationed outside each cell door. The handful of inmates of Camp Echo include two of the four remaining British detainees, Moazzem Begg and Feroz Abbasi, and the Australian, David Hicks...
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Story Link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1169147,00.html

NOTE: Bold-faced type is mine!

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. I was referring to facilities to be located within the 48 contiguous

states. The US currently also maintains facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan that we know of.

I think there may have been some early concerns about domestic opposition, but such fears have since proved to be unfounded.

[tlcandie]

5. Sorry DuctabpeFatwa...

Yes, I agree with you and thoroughly appreciate your insight and knowledge BTW! Just one of several who I almost always support here in DU!

:hi:

If people think things can't change and revert BACKWARDS look at Poland's abortion laws...ten years ago it was legal now because of the church's rule and far right leanings (left there I believe) it is illegal with few exceptions.