Navy Lt. j.g. Douglas Holmes, a chaplain at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, drops off a gift Dec. 21 at the Navy Exchange in support of Operation Christmas Stocking, with intentions of delivering 2,000 Christmas stockings to naval station and Joint Task Force Guantanamo service members and international workers working on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This ministry project, in its tenth year, is also operating this year with a goal to help as many people as possible. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detainees, including those convicted by military commission and those ordered released by a court. The JTF conducts intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination for the protection of detainees and personnel working in JTF Guantanamo facilities and in support of the War on Terror. JTF Guantanamo provides support to the Office of Military Commissions, to law enforcement and to war crimes investigations. The JTF conducts planning for and, on order, responds to Caribbean mass migration operations.
Petty Officer 1st Class Edward Flynn
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