Editing Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (section)

==== McCalla Field ====
McCalla Field was established in 1931<ref name="USNNAN" /> and remained operational until 1970. The airfield was named for [[Bowman H. McCalla]], who was a [[United States Navy]] [[admiral]] in charge of the [[Battle of Guantánamo Bay]]. The current field was expanded in 1941 when the original grass runway was replaced.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guantanamo Bay Forts|url=http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/gb.html|website=www.northamericanforts.com}}</ref> Naval Air Station Guantanamo Bay was officially established 1 February 1941. Aircraft routinely operating out of McCalla included [[JRF-5]], [[N3N]], [[J2F]], [[C-1 Trader]],<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qMZ64JzqlkC&pg=PA246|title=Sea Legs|chapter=35 McCalla Field|first=Paul|last=Gillcrest|date=2000|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4697-9797-7}}</ref> and dirigibles. 

The airfield was deactivated in the 1970s and was used to house Cuban and Haitian refugees beginning in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guantánamo Public Memory Project – Repurposing Gitmo|url=http://blog.gitmomemory.org/2012/10/15/repurposing-gitmo/|website=blog.gitmomemory.org}}</ref> Sometime between 1996 and 2001, the refugee camps were dismantled and the area became a collection of abandoned buildings.<ref name="Greenberg">{{cite book |last1=Greenberg |first1=Karen |title=The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days |date=27 September 2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-983209-5 |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INuhojMA20sC&pg=PT48 |access-date=8 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> McCalla Field is now listed as a closed airfield. The USN aviation assets are now located across the bay at [[Leeward Point Field]], about 1.5 miles to the west.

After the events of [[September 11 attacks|September 11]], the area was reevaluated as a possible location for a detention facility.<ref name="Greenberg" /> [[Camp Justice (Guantanamo)|Camp Justice]] is now located on the grounds of the former airfield.

The area formerly consisted of three runways, all now closed: 1/19 at {{convert|4500|ft|abbr=on}}, 14/32 at {{convert|2210|ft|abbr=on}}, and 10/28 at {{convert|1850|ft|abbr=on}}. 

The former airfield resides at an [[elevation]] of {{convert|60|ft|abbr=on}} above [[mean sea level]].