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Soldiers replace sailors at Guantánamo prison

  • Army MP speaks to visiting journalists at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • The detention center zone at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, features a fixture on Army bases -- a sign announcing the value of the week from a selection of seven that spells out Leadership like LDRSHIP -- Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage. CAROL ROSENBERG / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • A changing of the soldier guards at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith Jr., commander of detention and intelligence operations at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba makes a point during an interview on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • A sailor and two soldiers, one an Army captain, enter the compound for detainees at Camps 5 and 6 on the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • A soldier enters Camp 6 at the detention center on the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Monday, Aug 6, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • Army Col. John Bogdan is the commander of the guard force at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He makes a point during an interview on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • An Army officer demonstrates a special portable box that can be affixed to the cell door at Camp 5 at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. The box is similar to the way a motorist makes a deposit at a drive-up bank teller, and can be attached to a cell if guards suspect a captive may throw his excrement or other bodily fluids through his cell door. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • An Army officer shows leg shackles that confine a captive as he sits in a recliing chair in the TV watching room for captives during a Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, visit to the maximum-security lockup called Camp 5 at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • Army Capt. Lamar Madison shows the media a "show cell," illustrating the accommodations at the communal Camp 6, where about 100 of the 168 captives are kept at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • An Army guard walks the hallway at Camp 5, for maximum security, low value detainees at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith Jr., commander of detention and intelligence operations at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, poses near the staff's Seaside Galley after an interview on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

  • A bus passes by Camps 5 and 6, two penitentiary style buildings for war on terror detainees, in the early evening at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2012. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF