Air Force Master Sgt. Stephen Hammond, shop manager

Air Force Master Sgt. Stephen Hammond, shop manager for Joint Task Force Guantanamo's 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron structures team, vacuums drywall and sawdust out of the sound booth in U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay's base chapel, Jan. 17. Hammond and his team have completed over 150 projects, big and small, for both the JTF and the Naval Station. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detained enemy combatants, including those convicted by military commission and those ordered released. The JTF conducts intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination for the protection of detainees and personnel working in JTF Guantanamo facilities and in support of the Global War on Terror. JTF Guantanamo provides support to the Office of Military Commissions, to law enforcement and to war crimes investigations. The JTF conducts planning for and, on order, responds to Caribbean mass migration operations.