A sleeping giant stirs

For two decades, Roosevelt Roads was a ghost with an 11,000-foot runway—too long to forget, too useful to ignore. In September 2025, that changed. F-35 stealth fighters were photographed landing at the former Navy complex in Ceiba, with helicopters, Ospreys, and transports cycling through. Pentagon spokespeople haven’t announced a formal force posture change, but aircraft are operating from the field now . That’s not a rumor ; it’s on camera.

Ignore the hyperbolic text on the video below; it’s actually some really good aviation footage from the former Navy complex.

How we got here

Roosevelt Roads traces its origins to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1919 survey of Puerto Rico and was commissioned during World War II. It grew into one of the lar

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