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We got Guantanamo Bay Naval Station from Cuba in return for giving them the rest of Cuba, liberated from Spain, after the Spanish-American war.
Gitmo is key to our fleet operations in the Caribbean, as a training base and as a resupply point.
I can almost see or President doing this to cripple the Navy further, as well as once again thumb his nose at our established policies and protocols which have governed us up until he assumed office.
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