Hurricane Ike hit Joint Task Force Guantanamo with ample force causing massive winds and rain, Sept. 8, 2008. The ocean was rife with waves, keeping JTF Troopers close to home and far from danger during the end of the storm. 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.