Oct. 6, 2003 (Army & Air Force Hometown News) — Army National Guard Spec. Jendayi K. Albert has arrived at the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to serve as a member of Joint Task Force-GTMO in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Albert is a personnel administrative specialist with five years of military service. A 1998 graduate of St. Croix Educational Complex, she is the daughter of Beatrice McMahon on Upper Love, Frederiksted.
Servicemembers from all branches of the U.S. armed forces are involved in joint-military detention, interrogation and intelligence-gathering operations at various detention camps in Guantanamo. Joint Task Force members are responsible for operating, maintaining and securing detention facilities which confine Al-Qaeda and Taliban operative forces, and other suspected terrorists who come under U.S. control as a result of the ongoing war on global terrorism.
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