Guantanamo Bay has a McDonalds! This and a Subway, Pizza Hut, A&W, Taco Bell, and a KFC. It even has a fancy place called the Wind Jammer, perhaps because every Caribbean resort should have a bar called the “Wind Jammer”. I dunno about you, but I think the concertina wire really gives it that “little slice of America” look.
Funny though it seems, this is a pretty even spread of fast food joints for an American town. Excluding the some 600 so-called “detainees”, Gitmo is home to some 9000 Americans and they gotta get their fast food somewhere.
As a curious coincidence, a ship I was on once called the Norwegian Sun had a bar called the Windjammer. We went right by Gitmo on our way to Jamaica.
firts off it isn’t Gitmo its GTMO and secondly i worked at that mcdonalds and lived in GTMO for a little over two years and never once was there any concertina wire anywhere near it…so do yourself a favor and update your pics
To the military it might be GTMO, but to the rest of the planet it’s “Gitmo”. The entire Internet could be wrong about this colloquial name, but ya know, the Wall Street Journal calls it “Gitmo”, so I do too.
As for the picture, well of course it’s old. Look at the cars for shitsakes. Do I care to find updated ones? Not really. But here’s a selection of the prison there.
The only thing America needs to do to make me approve of Guantanamo Bay is treat the “detainees” as proper prisoners of war. But you see, they won’t do that because then they couldn’t torture them. And that’s uncool.
If you knew anything about GTMO you would know that most likely the concertina wire was used during an exercise similar to the situation in ’94 when GTMO was full of Cuban and Haitian migrants and also that those care aren’t so old in GTMO – they are called GTMO specials because the cars here last a long time.
Nevertheless it’s still a funny picture of a McDs with concertina wire in front of it. Seriously, does no one living down there have a sense of humour?
We do, but so many people (to include the press) gives this place such bad publicity that it makes all those of us that work the camps look bad. If only you could be in our shoes for one of our shifts. A lot of these detainess get treated better than we do. I used to say, “If you want to know what’s going on in the world, read the newspaper.” Now, I have to think before saying that at all.
I’m in the Coast Guard and have been to GTMO 4 or 5 times. Its not all that bad of a place. The beaches are pretty good, and its nice to have some american food after only eating food from diffrent countries for 2 months at a time… The Wire is not in front of the McD’s anymore.
This is the story behind the concertina wire. I lived in GTMO from 1992 until 2008.
In ’95 the Navy housed 20K cuban migrants on the GTMO golf course, 30K Cuban migrants at Rasio Range(curent location of the prisons) and 25K Hatian migrants on the windward airfield. The cubans on the golf course were pissed because they heard the Hatians were being treated better so they held a protest and broke out of the golf course compound. I watched as all this happened from my pick up truck. The cubans marched across Cooper Field and up to Chapel Hill were they stayed until they were returned to the golf course. During the time that the cubans were on chapel hill (next to McDonalds) the military surrounded McD’s with the consertina wire. It was removed the same day.
This is fact, all other stories a bull****.
I have never seen at McDonalds with a barb wire fence before!
Is the food there any good?
As a former resident of GTMO, and soon to be a returnee, life there is great. Good camaraderie, good people (from the contractor side of the house anyway), and supporting the effort there was a challenge. I dare not say too much about my experiences there lest those who know me figure out who I am, but I do say that yes it is a military base, and yes there is the “rule’s of the road” to live on base.
I know some folks there who’ve been there 25+ years already. I have only lived there 4-1/2 years just prior to 9/11, to 04. It’ll be nice to go back. As for the McDonald’s there, well let me tell you some of my personal McDonald experience stories. Better yet, maybe not.
Scott – I heard you’re leaving. Tony, see you soon…………
my family lived in GTMO from 2005 to 2008. i worked at McDonald’s for over a year until i got pregnant and quit. we loved GTMO. it felt safe and everyone was soo nice. Honestly is was almost like a twisted kinda Mayberry. Everyone knows everyone. and you don’t see the prison unless you work for that part of the military. it’s not like you can just drive past it and wave to the detainees. the razor wire was nowhere near McDonald’s while we were there, and i miss the hell outta the rice and wings that are served at McDonald’s. sometimes i wish my husband was still in the military so maybe we could go back.
I have a fascination with “the places you can’t go”. Guantanamo Bay is one of those places. Another one is Diego Garcia. It’s like this tropical paradise that just so happens to house an airbase and one of the control stations for the GPS. Talk about your plum assignment.
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