Future of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after closure of its terrorist detention center

Joe Biden picked up where Barack Obama (under whom he served as vice president) had left off when it came efforts to close the detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in eastern Cuba after he returned to the White House for the first time since he handed over the keys of the vice presidency, and he has released six terrorists from the detention center at Gitmo, while hoping to have all Yemeni detainees at Gitmo currently cleared for release sent to a safe location in the Middle East due to Yemen being in a state of civil war. However, if all terrorists are freed from the detention center at Gitmo and the detention center itself is shuttered, the fate of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base remains up in the air. I vividly remember that amid the 1994 Cuban balsero crisis and political turmoil in Haiti, several Cuban and Haitian refugees were detained at the base's McCalla Field airport in the 1990s, and I recently learned that the Clinton administration in the late 1990s floated the idea of using Gitmo as a shelter for Kosovar Albanian refugees from the conflict over Kosovo in the first half of 1999, but decided against doing so. Since the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is the last remaining US base in Cuba, given that three other US bases in Cuba that existed during the first 50 years of the existence of the Republic of Cuba were shut down and turned over to the Cuban government and military, the US Navy might shutdown Leeward Point Field in the event that an earthquake along the northern margin of the Caribbean Plate causes damage to Leeward Point Field, and it could relocate all of its naval assets to the main naval station on the eastern shore of Guantanamo Bay.

a reply to: Potlatch

Simple. All I'm seeing is Clinton, Obama, Biden.

Democrats are evil and thus we hold these truths to be self evident.

Cuba might become 100% Cuba and it was a long running conspiracy to undermine the United States of America's power by the Communist sympathists.

a reply to: Potlatch

Once the prison like aspect of Guantanamo Bay base is retired, it would not surprise me if the base was repurposed for other things.

The airfield in particular might make a good base for drone activities, be they military or perhaps DEA drug interdiction missions etc.

It could be a good place situated in the Caribbean to be used as a base for such activities.

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Specifically, the airport might serve as a useful base for drone operations, such as military or DEA drug interdiction flights, among other uses.