"The mission of the U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia is “To provide logistic support to operational forces forward deployed to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf AORs in support of national policy objectives.” NAVSUPPFAC Diego Garcia occupies a critical part on the “tip of the spear” for U.S. military forces by supporting a multitude of unique and challenging mission requirements. Our motto and mission focus is “ONE ISLAND, ONE TEAM, ONE MISSION.”
I find it really ironic that even as the US invades other countries and uses other people's land as military bases, they still use their basic recruitment slogan of "An Army of One". The slogan "ONE ISLAND, ONE TEAM, ONE MISSION.” has essentially the same message, and communicates the same idea of a group or team mentality within the US Military. I would assume that when the US Army takes over a part of a country and forces the residents of the area to either vacate or to significantly decrease their standard of living, that the US Army would try to detach themselves from this and hide what they are doing. Instead, they flaunt it by encouraging other people to take on their slogans and messages and rally behind the US Army. At first when I read these websites and the readings on Okinawa, I was angered at the US Army for what they were doing to the residents of Okinawa and Diego Garcia. But the fact that they pretend not to be aware of any negative consequences, and even worse, expect residents to support them, is disgusting. How can the US Army be so arrogant as to think that when they come in to Okinawa and Diego Garcia and ruin people's way of living, that these people should be thankful to the US Army and show their support? these residents are not part of our Army, and are not part of the "One Team" of the US Army. It is really sickening to see how the military even incorporates the island itself into their slogan: "One Island". The islands that are taken over by the US Military are not volunteering to be part of the US's expansion of military bases, so to include them in the US's slogan and suggest that they are part of the US's mission is even more insulting to the residents of the islands.
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I agree with you, the arrogance is amazing. When you see the officials in the video we watched who decided that money would better be spent elsewhere, and that the British government had no responsibility to these people, it makes you wonder if they have a limited understanding of the history or whether they are simply lying to themselves or others. Clearly resettling the Chaggosians would take money, but it wouldn't take much, and the British government has a definite responsibility since it displaced these people.
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