If there is a true “hardship assignment” any more, this has to be it.
Just look at the picture.
Where the heck do you go to “get away from it all?”
Okay, so it’s got prestine beaches and amazingly clear oceans. And, here’s the “downtown” area of the island:
Britain claims sovereignity and leases it to the US.
The UN has now served an eviction notice to the British. Though the ruling is not enforceable, it exerts moral pressure and has placed the future of the base in doubt.
More @ See inside Diego Garcia, a secretive US Navy base on British land at the center of a bitter tug-of-war in the Indian Ocean
