• Learn all about the PROPEOPDEMREP, and get a Good Government Job.
• Just want to read other peoples' warstories about DG?  Posted by the year of their arrival.
  
• Send in Your Warstory Today - if you are a Diegonian, or just want to pretend you are, tell the world about it!
• Links to other web sites about or related to DG.  Don't forget to check your favorite search engine too!
• Lost and Found.  Looking for someone?  Also Reunion Announcements (if any).
• What Time is it on DG?
• If you have ORDERS to DG, you might want to check these essential sites
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• Skip it all, and go straight to the last page.

• Bar Coasters from Diego Garcia's sleaziest dives.
• Beauty Pagent of the Indian Ocean!
• updated 3 May 08!  Berbera Somalia - a small page with some rare photos & stories of that god-forsaken dependency of Diego Garcia's Fuels team.
• new 17 Apr 04!  Blowing Holes in the reef for fun and profit - 1974.
• updated 30 Apr 07!  Blowing Open the Ship Channel, Shark Fishing Nude, and Learning to Waterski, 1974.
• Bob Hope's 1972 Christmas Show!  Find yourself or your buddy in the crowd!  (Lots of photos, takes a while to load).
• new 17 Dec 06! Bob Hope's 1972 Christmas Show, Page 2.  NMCB 62's Newsletter of the show!
• updated 22 Jan 08! Book Reports - Let the Ministry of Cultural Correctness tell you what to think when scientists and politicians write books about Diego Garcia!
• updated 1 Feb 09! Bottled Beer Banned by US Navy from Diego Garcia in 1982!  No shit. Then in 2008, they run out!
  
• "Brit Club" Page - Photos and stange Royal Navy Rituals.
• updated 20 Nov 06! But Seriously Folks... The Official Gripe Sheet for DG - it isn't all peaches and cream out there!
• updated 12 Jan 07! C-141s In Paradise Page with all the C-141 pictures on DG and Masirah Island, Oman.
• Coconut Diplomacy.  Wherein sailors are employed for agricultural work at less pay than migrant farm workers.
• New 23 Nov 07!  Crab Whacker.  The Brits won't let you whack crabs with your 9 Iron any more?  Well, you can do it here - the wacky new game where you try to zap 40 crabs in less than 50 seconds!
• Cruel Joke played on unsuspecting Sailors, Marines, and Airmen for decades!
• new 16 Jan 07!  Dallas Does Diego Garcia!  The Cheerleaders visit in 1982 & 1983.  Plus some other photos by Paul Soutar.
• Dear Abby "Letters to Any Sailor" for Christmas 2001.
• Desktop Photos from DG you can download!
• Donkey Gate - the true story of the construction of the barrier at the end of the earth!
• Double Digit Midgit Countdown Calendar:  For when it was finally time to leave.  WARNING:  X-Rated!!!
• PDF FILE.  new 20 Mar 08! Drugs:  Were they ever really a problem?  Apparently the Brits though so in 1981...
• updated 30 Mar 05! Earthquake of 1983!  Even Paradise has its Perils!
• new 12 Mar 07!  The EOD Bar - Wherever you find munitions, you'll find EOD.  Wherever you find EOD, you'll find a bar.  Check out DG's own.
• Escape from the People's Paradise Now!  Move to Little Arabia, North Carolina!
• updated 17 Feb 09! Fishy Stories of the rich and infamous.
• updated 23 Apr 09! Flags of the PPDRDG! ( and the real things, too )
• new 30 Mar 05!  Flag Clothing Competition!  Girls!  Girls!  Girls!
• Ghosts of Diego Garcia!  See the Ghost of the Point Marianne Cemetery!
• updated 1 Feb 09! Golfing Diego Garcia - is it more than just a rumor?  Also 2008's Pub Golf Championship Round recounted by a participant.
  
• Gorgo Diecia Tattler... Wit and sarcasm from 1989-1990.
• updated 25 Mar 08! Hector the Hammerhead.  The biggest shark in the Lagoon.  Ever.  Plus the story of the famous photos from the guy who took them!
• new 4 Feb 07!  Hit Parade - Lists of the music you loved during your stay in the Republic!
• HITCH'N POST - THE Place to see and be seen!  [editor's note:  The Hitch'n Post was disbanded in early 2000].
• The Home Grown Bands of Diego Garcia:
• new 26 July 08!  Hector's Revenge - the BAND for the New Century on Diego Garcia!
• updated 19 Oct 06! Seven Degrees South - Yes, they are still there!  The Best Band in the Indian Ocean!
• new 31 Jan 09!  The 1972 SEABEE BAND - Join Larry Duran and his friends playing in the very first home-grown island band!
• Hope Colt bares all - "no restriction on content"!  The world's funniest comedien tears 'em up in November 2001.
• updated 5 Sep 07! Lost and Found - looking for someone?  Try here.  Also any REUNION INFORMATION that anyone sends in.
• Lost Ships of Tuna Hunter Lagoon!  See photos of all the ships captured by Teddy and the Pirates (on film)
• Miss America's 1974 USO Tour of Diego Garcia!
• new 17 Feb 09!  Miss Diego Garcia 1990!  Lisa Lewellyn Severino brings fitness and order to Dodge!
  
• updated 18 Feb 08!  Music of the Republic - Songs and MP3s home-grown on the island and by our fellow travelers.  Download genuine folk art from fellow Diegoians!
• "Official" History of the Provisional People's Democratic Republic.
• updated 21 Mar 09! Patches of Diego Garcia!  From the earliest days until the present.  Caution, it takes a LONG time to load if you are dial-up.
• updated 03 Oct  06! Pirate Radio DG - A very brief look at AFRTS/AFN/NBS entertaining the troops.
• updated 14 Aug 05! Plank Owners' Certificates - Some selections from the very, very, very early days, and recently too.
• updated 31 Jan 09!  The Plantation - Tara in the Indian Ocean!  But where was Scarlet when we needed her?
• new 23 Nov 07!  Pop Quiz!  All the answers are on this website (somewhere).  More quizzies are in the works...
• updated 19 Feb 07! Provisional People's Democratic Republic RECRUITING PAGE!  Meet the members of your government!  Get a Good Government Job for Yourself!
• Recipes of the Republic - Betty Crocker, watch out!  Citizens provide their favorite recipes for you to try at home.
• unfortunately, updated 20 Mar 09... Remembering those who have served, and have now passed on.
• San Miguel - the official beer of the PPDRDG!  Also, politically incorrect humor that is GUARANTEED to offend someone.  I update this page whenever some new irrelevancy comes to my attention.
• Souveniers you can't buy without having been there!  Also an ad from someone who wants to buy sand from DG!
• updated 18 Apr 07! Stump the Dumbies - What's the REAL name of our favorite island?  Riddles.  Alcohol Related Incident Testing.
• Sunset Photo Page with the Photos of the Best Sunsets in the World. Also a Sunrise or two!
• updated 18 Jul 06!  Surfing Diego Garcia.  It HAS been done!
• Temple of Doom - Even Fantasy Island has its darker places!
• Transition Assistance for those leaving the Navy.
• updated 12 Sep 07! Tropical Times - The Official Propaganda Rag!  Read all the news the Navy sees fit to print!
• new 15 Aug 05! Tsunami Tour, 2004.  Why weren't we all drowned in our beds?  Why?
• updated 14 Aug 05!  US Navy and Air Force Outlaw Flip Flops and Tank Tops as off-duty wear on Diego Garcia.  Un-freakin'-believable...  And a new policy applies to all dependents, retirees, contractors, etc.
• updated 03 Oct 06!  Warning Letter - Your wild man is coming home!
• new 8 Sep 08!  What are you afraid of?  Find out.
• updated 4 Feb 09! Yacht Club - and the Marina.  Where the Elite Meet!  Also, info on how to join!
• new 14 Nov 05!  Yacht Club, Page Deux, with lots more photos and info!

• updated 12 Nov 07! The TRUE History of Diego Garcia - A chronological list of historical facts about Diego Garcia & the Chagos Archipelago.  Forget all those DoD propaganda pages, this is the straight skinny.  If you really want to know what happened when, check out this page!
• NEW 1 Sep 08! PDF FILE.  Chagossian Experience Chronology.  Facts from the UK court casesdetailing the time-line of what happened out there regarding the islanders between 1962-2003.
• PDF FILE.  Chagos Mortality Report - population and death reports through the centuries.
• updated 14 Nov 05! First Americans - the fascinating story of a satellite tracking team on DG 1968-1970.
• updated 31 Jan 09!  "KATIE" - The no-shit, true story of the PBY at the Plantation, and Jim Park, her pilot.
• new 2 Sep 08!  PDF file. The Notes between the UK and US - Ever wonder about the agreements that put you on DG for a year?  Read the details of the 1966, 1972, 1976 and 1982 "Exchange of Notes" between the American Ambassador in London and the Foreign Secretary for the UK that spell out the details (except for the secret ones, of course...).
• new 17 Feb 09!  PDF file.  NMCB 40's Commander's article in US Naval "Proceedings" detailing the initial construction of the base.  CDR Dan Urish was the first Island Commander.
  
• new 14 Nov 05! NMCB 62's History of the Island.  A GIF of their handout.
• updated 30 Jul 07!  OPERATION EARNEST WILL Airlift Directive (a MAC Mission Directive, for the War We Should Have Had with Iran in 1987).
• OPERATION EARNEST WILL Airflift Schedule for those interested in technical, historical detail.
• OPERATION EARNEST WILL Photos C-5s load up the Marines.  The first operational deployment of B-52s to DG.
• new 14 Nov 05! REAL Official Histories of the Island.  US & UK governmental propaganda.
• updated 17 Feb 08!  SEABEES!  The Boys Who Built the Seahuts: The early SEABEE years - 1971-1973 - It takes a long time to load this one (lots of photos) but it is well worth it if you want to see what Dodge looked like in the "old days".
• new 28 Jun 07!  SEGA PARTY!  Party down with the islanders, circa 1969!  Unbelievable!  Unique!  The songs and speeches from a lost civilization!
• new 2 Sep 06!  Steve Forsberg's Master's Thesis on the History of DG.  Also a short paper about Capt. Thompson and "Only the Sun Remembers."
• TDY in 1982 to Fantasy Island (a journal with some photos of the period).  By the future President for Life.
• new 14 Jun 06! "Under Two Flags" - David Melville's 1976 History, which includes a lot of original source documents.
• USS GRAHAM COUNTY, LST 1176 docks at DG in 1971!  Lots of photos, takes a while to load.  Don't forget to check out Page 2.

• updated 8 Sep 08! Aerial Photos - show your loved ones exactly where you passed out on the beach!
• updated 18 Sep 06!  Historical Maps of the IO and DG!  Serious historical s&!%, man!
• Map of Downtown - amaze your friends by knowing exactly where the Pay and Pay and Pay Phone Company is!
• Map of the Island - this is definitely not the one from the CIA's Country Book!
• Photo Tour of DG, 1999-2000 Got some pictures of your favorite places on DG you want included?  Send them to me!

NATIVES

"However elegant and memorable, brevity can never do justice to all the facts of a complex situation.
But life is short and information endless; nobody has time for everything."  - Aldous Huxley

• updated 17 Sep 08! Chagossians - Who are they and what do they want?  Have you ever wondered what happened to the people who used to live and work at the Plantation?  They got kicked out of the Chagos in the early 70's.  Read the true, sordid story.  Also on this page are links to Pilger's "Stealing a Nation", the Howell Report, the CCT's evaluation of the Howell Report, and the various groups that are contesting ownership of the Chagos, DG, and the Chagossian people.  This is all some heavy shit, man, but if you are interested at all in the political, social, and environmental issues of the Chagos today and over the last 45 years, you ought to read it all.
• new 18 Mar 09!  After you read the history of the Chagossians, you will probably want to help them out in some way.  You have a choice of groups, but after all these years of pondering the situation, I've finally decided that one particular group deserves my endorsement - The Diego Garcian Society, headed by Dr. Allen Vincatassin.  Contact Dr. Vincatassin directly if you are serious in helping out.  Click here for a photo of Allen and me in London in March 2009.
  
• SEGA PARTY!  Party down with the islanders, circa 1969!  Unbelievable!  Unique!  The songs and speeches from a lost civilization!
• new 18 Feb 08!  Johnny B's Music.  John Bridiane, a Chagossian who worked on Diego Garcia in the late 1990s has an cut a couple albums!  It's on My Space, and takes a while to download, but it's worth hearing, and you should buy it!
• EMAILS between me and Michael Tigar and his team of US lawyers, and with some Chagossians and their supporters.
• RELATED SOMEHOW:  "Cry Freedom -  Rodrigues Island: Case for Self-Determination"  An interesting critique of Mauritian policy and practice that may have implications for Diego Garcia and the Chagossians.

• General Ecological Observations of our favorite island.  See a Strangler Fig strangle a latrine.
• new 17 Mar 07!  Appeal for your help getting photos of wildlife on Diego Garcia!  Please help!  Before they make everything off limits and you can't go looking.
• Brown Tree Snake Invades Paradise... Population flees in terror, then naplams the little sucker.
• New 23 Nov 07!  Crab Whacker.  The Brits won't let you whack crabs with your 9 Iron any more?  Well, you can do it here - the wacky new game where you try to zap 40 crabs in less than 50 seconds!
• new 26 Mar 07!  Birds of Diego Garcia - a whole series of pages about our fine-feathered friends.
• new 26 Mar 07!  Nesting Pelagic Birds - See the pictures of Boobies!
• new 27 Mar 07! (but not quite done)  Herons and Land Birds - The birds you might stumble over.
• new 17 Feb 08! (but not quite done)Terns of Diego Garcia.
• new 17 Feb 08! (but barely done)Shorebirds of Diego Garcia.
• updated 17 Feb 08! Coconut Crabs and other land crabs.  Learn all about the most unique resident of the island.  Race your favorite in the Diego Garcia Downs Handicap!
• new 20 Nov 07!  Commercial Fishing - who is watching the watchers???
• Fauna - the insects, birds, mammals, and reptiles of Diego Garcia.
• updated 12 Mar 07! Marine biology - Meet the denizens of the sea, reefs, and lagoon.
• new 17 Feb 08!  Really great photos by James Cox of various things around DG.
• Really great photos of creatures large and small... Taken by official photographers on DG.
• new 20 Nov 07!  Sea Cucumber pirates raid the Chagos!  Read all about it!
• new 20 Apr 07!  Sea Turtles of Diego Garcia!  Learn how to tell the players with this handy program.
• new 20 Nov 07!  Shark Poaching!  Shame of the Indian Ocean.
• Vaguely natural pages (also linked elsewhere on this page):
• Fishy Stories of the rich and infamous.
• Hector the Hammerhead.  The biggest shark in the Lagoon.  Ever.  Plus the story of the famous photos from the guy who took them!
• new 15 Aug 05! Tsunami Tour, 2004.  Why weren't we all drowned in our beds?  Why?

PDF files well worth reading:

• PDF FILE.  Atoll Research Bulletins - The Smithsonian Institution's official journal of, well, atoll research.
• PDF FILE.  No. 149; the report of Stoddard and Taylor's 1967 expedition to Diego.  Download this critically important 288-page book by going to the University of Hawaii's web site, scrolling down to "No. 149" and click on "Download PDF File".
• PDF FILE.  No. 175, Birds of Diego Garcia as of 1971.
• PDF FILE.  No. 313, Flora of Diego Garcia by John Topp, Brit Rep out there 1984 - 86.
• PDF FILE.  Bioslurping!  The latest craze on and under the airfield!  Learn how to recover fuel from the freshwater lenses!
• PDF FILE.  Chagos Conservation Management Plan; For the BIOT Administration; by Dr. Charles Sheppard and Dr. Mark Spalding; 2003.
• new 17 Feb 09!  PDF FILE.  Ghyben-Herzberg Lenses on Diego Garcia, by CDR Dan Urish, the first Island Commander.  Did you know that when the SEABEEs first got to DG, they didn't think there was any fresh water, and that's why they had those unreliable and deadly desal barges?  We can all thank Dan for finding the water in the lenses!
  
• PDF FILE.  Joint Nature Conservation Commission's profile of the Chagos; from 1999.
• PDF FILE.  NSF's Nomination for Best Natural Resources Management Program in the US Navy; 2001.
• PDF FILE.  "Effects of the Tsunami in the Chagos Archipelago" by Dr. Sheppard, the pre-eminent scientist of DG and the Chagos.
• PDF FILE.  World Atlas of Coral Reefs - BIOT & Diego Garcia.

Here's a special pitch for the helping the environment of our favorite island:

Chagos Conservation Trust - If you are serious about protecting the wonderful environment of our favorite island and the rest of the archipelago, with out going too Greenie-Weenie, go to this site and read all about the CCT! JOIN TODAY!

• Postage Stamps Proving the legitimacy of the PPRRDG government and My Claim To Life-Long Presidency of the Republic!!!
• 1968 - from Kirby Crawford
• 1973 - from Vig Villanueva
• 1973 - from CATFRANKIE (Dave)
• 1990 - from Andrew Young
• Varios Dates - from Francesco Fantozzi
• The REAL Postmaster General of the BIOT - buy your souvenier stamps here!  (It's run by Cable & Wireless)

• Provocative Post Cards from the PPDRDG Ministry of Post-Feminist Arts and Crafts.
• Semi-provocative Post Cards from paradise.
• XXX - French (Naked Women) Post Cards of Diego Garcia - XXX!

ALL SORTS OF SOUVENIERS YOU CAN BUY WITHOUT GOING TO DG!
(Including Some Crass Commercial Advertisements)

•   FOR SALE - I've finally given in and joined the bourgeois money-grubbing masses with a CafePress.com store.  On the "FOR SALE" page you'll find a link to that store, plus Tom Lawson's store (DG Class of '79), Dan Urish's artwork, Northwest Embroidery that makes polos and caps for the Yacht Club and others on the island.  Also, links to the official BIOT post office (to buy stamps & stuff) and Larry Bowman's site where you can buy and sell Indian Ocean books, prints and maps.  BTW, I don't get paid to plug these site, damn the luck... I do it because so many people ask where they can get DG stuff.

• If anybody out there gets the Tropical Times, please send me a copy!

• NPR Interview by Scott Simon with the Author of this Web Site- Not officially a page on this web site, but a critical piece of PPDRDG lore - aired on National Public Radio 10/13/01.  You can also listen to the interview right from that page!
• Photos of Brits c. 1988 - Strange People in Foreign Places!
• updated 19 Nov 07! Photos of Det. 1, 374 TAW Personnel.
• Photos of FEBROIDS c. 1988 - Just a few pics of the people who ran the island on behalf of the Navy.
• Photos of Space Commandos c 1988 - People somehow related to Det. 4, 1st Space Wing.
• new 12 Feb 09!  Meet your President For Life.  My life's story, more or less to date.

• updated as messages are received!  Best Wishes Page to the troops that may or may not be deployed to Diego Garcia for which ever Operation we're conducting now...
• Bomber Ops during ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM; 14 Sep '01 - 15 Aug '06 (1 year and 2 months longer than the US was in WWII).
• updated 6 Mar 07! Bomber Ops, Part Deux - USAF planes and crews go about their intended purpose.
• updated 6 Mar 07! B-1 Operations
• updated 6 Mar 07! B-2 Operations
• updated 6 Mar 07! B-52 Operations
• updated 1 May 08! Bombs and Bomb Dumps.
• Geopolitical Lesson #1:  Why are we on Diego Garcia anyway?  More importantly, why did I have to spend a year there?
• updated 15 Apr 08!  Final Flight of B-1 "ICECUBE 44" and the rescue of her crew by the USS RUSSELL.
• new 22 Oct 07!  Interservice Rivalry at work.  B-52 Wing Attack Plan Romeo.  Gilligan promoted to XO.
• updated 6 Mar 07! Leaflets dropped on the Helpless Taliban during OEF.
• NSF earns the MERITORIOUS UNIT CITATION for outstanding support of bomber ops. A .jpg file.
• updated 31 Oct 06! Nuvo-communists criticizing America's use of DG following the WTC attack.
• updated 6 Mar 07! Personal Statements To The Terrorists delivered to the bad guys by airmail.
• R & R on DGAR - Consider the possibilities!
• updated 2 May 07!  Recovering from a Gear-Up Landing.  Ooops, I forgot, you can't recover from a Gear-Up Landing...Until you rebuild the airplane - which they did!
• Stars and Stripes article about DG and this web site on Oct. 10, 2001 (by Ward Sanderson).
• new 13 Mar 07!  Tanker Operations - Crews of KC-135s and KC-10s pass gas on Diego Garcia.
• USNS COMFORT, a hospital ship, puts in for Liberty before steaming north to the war.  A PDF file.
• WAR NEWS (Enduring Freedom) from Diego Garcia - Warning!  Not for the faint of heart!
• updated 21 Mar 09!  Wing and Squadron Emblems of the OEF/OIF Participants.

• WAR STORY ENTRY FORM - (a.k.a. My Guestbook)  Share your story with the world!  DO IT TODAY!
• updated 2 Sep 06!  WAR STORIES - intro page!  Personal Reminiscences by Citizens of the PPDRDG.  This page has entries from as early as 1942, and includes some TCNs who were out there as long as 20 years!  (Called 'Troglodytes' in the table below)
• CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!  Links to Warstory pages by year - Click on the Year in which you have an interest:

Entries are posted by the year the writer arrived, so be sure to check either side of the year you're looking for to find your old buddies, shipmates, and sweethearts!

You can contribute to a book about DG too!  Maggie Mae Clay is writing it, and was pretty far along when, poof, her hard drive crashed.
So she'd like you to contact her again (or for the first time) at margaret.clay@navy.mil, or through her website at: http://web.me.com/maggiemaeclay/MAGGIE_MAE_CLAY/Welcome.html

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