Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planes; then they dived and continued to fly as low as possible over the Mediterranean to avoid radar detection, approaching Tunis from the south. While the F-16s staged the bombing raid, the F-15s remained in reserve some 500 miles away. Near the island of Malta, an Israeli naval vessel stood ready to launch helicopters to rescue any downed Israeli pilots. After the mission was completed, the F-16s were again refueled in midair by the tankers, which were escorted home...
Nearly a dozen conference participants contacted this week said they were unaware that the CIA had provided funding for the event. But one participant, Daniel Pipes, a former Harvard junior faculty member now teaching at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., said he has been aware of the source of the funding but that it was not of concern...
...succeeding decades the harbor was used as a base for U.S. activities in and around the Caribbean, and for training and recreation. Cuban workers performed the thousands of tasks needed to support a naval base, and American sailors spent many a wild night in Guantanamo City. Next to Havana itself this was probably the most economically dynamic area of Cuba, especially during wartime. Here, and in Subic Bay and Manila in the Philippines, the United States experienced its first and only taste of direct imperialism...
...through the pipeline from the mountains which had served the base since the turn of the century. In response, the Navy severed the pipeline, engineered a 'waterlift' of freshwater tankers for a year, and meanwhile built a desalination plant which still supplies the base with power and freshwater. Guantanamo naval station is completely independent from the Cuban mainland. Food and all supplies are shipped in from the East Coast...
...observation benefits cut both ways, as well. I saw numerous Cuban observation posts around the perimeter of the base. They watch U.S. naval maneuvers and listen to communications, just as we watch and listen to them...