The Provisional
Peoples'
Democratic Republic of Diego Garcia
a.k.a. PROPEOPDEMREPDG;
a.k.a.
PPDRDG
Diego
Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia,
British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago

Don't Worry
About the
World
Ending
Today... It's Already Tomorrow on
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EXAAAAAAAGGERATIONS

And Some Things That Aren't...
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- 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!
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HISTORY
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- 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.
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MAPS, CHARTS,
& DIAGRAMS

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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
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- 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.
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NATURE STUDY
MERIT BADGE

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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!
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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.
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SPECIAL REQUESTS:
- If anybody out there gets the Tropical Times, please send
me a copy!
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THE PRESIDENT
FOR LIFE'S
ESOTERICISMS

(that's right, I fly jets...)
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WAR

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YOUR WARSTORIES
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- 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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