Pentagon Wants to Spend $500 Million on Guantanamo Construction

military.com ^ | 8/21/2017 | Carol Rosenberg

[TheTimeOfMan]

5,000? Why?

This sounds nuts.

[PGR88]

proposed $250 million replacement hospital at Guantanamo Bay would cost $50 million per bed.

My earlier proposal of pushing Muslim terrorists out of helicopters over the Atlantic remains the cheapest option.

[Steely Tom]

...including a Navy request to build a $250 million, five-bed hospital ...

I hope that's a misprint.

[neal1960]

Qanon knows.

[SuperLuminal]

Hopefully looking ahead to thousands of new prisoners after future the “deepstate” coup investigations...

[mrsmith]

Crazy.
Heck, build a private resort hotel with a military discount- and make a profit!

[stylin19a]

OBama spent 744k on 1 soccer field at Gitmo...for a place he was trying to close ?

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-guantanamo-soccer/guantanamo-commander-defends-744000-soccer-field-idUSL2E8E1CC520120301

[Vendome]

$250 million for a five-bed hospital? Uhmmmm Red Lined.

But the Army can build for only $124 million a new barracks for 848 prison troops? That $250 million hospital is looking stupider

The Pentagon proposes to build 52 family homes at a cost of $1.3 million each on the atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Freakin Mansions can be built for that….

[SuperLuminal]

Dang!...the

[Vendome]

My preference is to launch them from the tube of a submarine...

[ryderann]

Hillary is going to need that hospital.

[Trumpnado2016]

Only the best for the Clinton crew.

[kjam22]

I can build a prison there for a heck of a lot less than 500 million.

[TheTimeOfMan]

Meh - muslims or Clintons - I saw drop them ALL out of a chopper - waaay out in the Atlantic.

Hitlary doesn’t need a hospital. She needs a change of venue. Some place warmer.

[Yo-Yo]

My earlier proposal of pushing Muslim terrorists out of helicopters over the Atlantic remains the cheapest option.

[Joe Bfstplk]

High price tag. How much do waterboards cost?

[plain talk]

Navy request to build a $250 million, five-bed hospital

I hope there is a big "Hell No" to that assinine request.

[John S Mosby]

Guantanamo is NOT remote— it is isolated because of the Cuban regime, the double fence and Cuban laid mine field that surrounds it, that’s true. A very short flight from Miami, and/or Key West. The housing is 1950’s cement block, there’s a Mcdonalds and KFC and a whole lot else. It ain’t Kwajalein, nor is it Diego Garcia.

Friend was military hospital commander at Gitmo, a US Navy Captain back in the 60’s. They started a bank on base for the Cuban nationals day laborers and every night, when they went back into Cuba they were searched and had what ever money they had on them stolen. Hence the bank and the referral for emigration. Was a while ago. And the labor was cheaper, and really pissed off Castro. Cuban govt. still takes 50% of any fisherman’s catch.

[WayneS]

If all they need is a five bed hospital, why can't they us a surplus MASH tent?