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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A new galley, Kittery Café, is scheduled to open the morning of Monday, July 7, near Camp Echo here.
As one of many new pre-engineered buildings set to open shortly across from the Camp 5 and Camp 6 complex, Kittery Café will be a new dining facility for all Joint Task Force Guantanamo personnel around Camp Echo.
Navy Capt. Greg Rismiller, Joint Task Force engineer, said the new facility will have the equipment currently used at Café Caribe, which will close as a result of the move. Kittery Café was built identically to Café Caribe to accommodate the transition.
Café Caribe is currently scheduled to serve its last meal during dinner Friday, July 4, allowing the equipment to make the move over the holiday weekend to Kittery Café.
Rismiller said with the opening of the new facility near the heart of Camp Echo, Joint Detention Group Troopers will save time and distance for their chow breaks.
"It will be easier for (the JDG Troopers)," Rismiller said of the new café. "They won't have to go to Camp Delta; there will be a central galley right (at Camp Echo)."
Most buildings, including the new galley, are a special type of structure called "pre-engineered buildings."
"You got a slab, then you have a steel structure, then you put the skin on," said Rismiller of the buildings. These help cut down construction time from more standard, more permanent buildings.
Some additions may still come to the new galley, such as construction for a scullery and the addition of a separate power generator, said Army Capt. Steve Holder, officer in charge of food service for J-4.
"Troopers will probably be eating off paper plates for a while. The key thing was to get this open as fast as possible to help the Troopers at Camp 5 and 6," said Holder.
The Ad Hoc dining facility at Camp Echo will help offset the closure of Café Caribe by possibly going to four meals per day and extending its current hours Holder said.
JDG leaders are poised to help advertise the new galley to lower levels, encouraging quick meals and push Troopers to use Seaside Galley during the transition.
Kittery Café is just one of many new buildings set to house the JDG as it makes its transition over to near Camp Echo, Rismiller said.
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| Date Taken: | 06.27.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 07.02.2008 12:40 |
| Story ID: | 21115 |
| Location: | GUANTANAMO BAY, CU |
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