He worked in the Navy’s security forces and enlisted on July 16, the Navy said. In early January, Johnson posted on Facebook that he had moved to Guantanamo Bay.

The United States formally established a naval base on the bay in 1903, after leasing 45 square miles of land and water from the newly independent Cuban government, according to the U.S. Navy.

The number of troops being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of migrant detention operations there continues to swell, with approximately 1,100 service members now deployed to the Navy base.

Troops began deploying to Guantanamo Bay in early February to set up migrant detention facilities. President Donald Trump said the base has the capacity to hold as many as 30,000 migrants.

The U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba on Tuesday to observe the Trump administration’s migrant detention operations there, and get a briefing on ...