FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado ~ 22 FEB 2011

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado

Schriever Air Force Base (Schriever AFB) is a base of the United States Air Force located approximately 10 miles east of Peterson AFB near Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The base is named in honor of General Bernard Adolph Schriever, who pioneered the development of the nation's ballistic missile programs.

It is home to Air Force Space Command's 50th Space Wing, which provides command and control for more than 170 Department of Defense warning, navigational, and communications satellites. Also housed at Schriever AFB are the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center and the Space Innovation & Development Center. Schriever AFB is the main control point for the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Schriever AFB is the home of the 50th Space Wing, the Space Innovation and Development Center, the Missile Defense Agency's Joint National Integration Center, 310th Space Group and numerous tenant organizations.

The 50th Space Wing's mission provide combat effects to the warfighter, to include precision navigation and timing and secure satellite communication, through command and control of DOD satellite systems. The other units at Schriever also perform space missions. Schriever Air Force Base is unique in that they have no flightline and no aircraft mission.

Some of the services normally provided at most Air Force bases are not available on Schriever; however, Peterson AFB is a full service base, offering base housing and other support functions.

The 50th SW provides integrated combat effects from space, ensures command and control of satellite weapons systems, and conducts expeditionary operations to enable sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests.

The wing operates and supports satellite programs including Global Positioning System, the Defense Satellite Communications System, Wideband Global SATCOM, Milstar, and the worldwide Air Force Satellite Control Network.

The SIDC is composed of the 595th Space Group and these three divisions; the Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities, or AF TENCAP; the Integration Division; and the Plans, Programs and Requirements Division.

The organizations work together to conduct wargaming; integrate space into exercises and experiments; rapidly prototype, field and exploit integrated air, space and cyberspace capabilities; provide advanced space testing, training and range Infrastructure; and execute AFSPC Force Development Evaluation and Operational Test programs.

Learn More About Schriever Air Force Base HERE!!

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[ConorMacNessa]

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SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!

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Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[PROCON]

Woo-Hoo!!

Proudly Supporting Our

U.S. Armed Forces!

[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band ~ National Anthem

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO ConorMacNessa! Permission granted!

FIRST!!

[PROCON]

Evening Lauren and thanks for starting off the road trip!!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Good evening!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy to you PROCON!

SECOND!!

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks very much, Lauren!

*HUGS

And thanks very much for tonight's road trip to Schriever AFB!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[PROCON]

Evening Navy Bro!!

Well, Navy is on a roll, beat my Black Knight's in B-ball too over the weekend.

Beautiful weather today out on the left coast, how's things your direction?

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis!

THIRD!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Road Trip: Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Thank you ConorMacNessa! Hope you’re doing well.

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[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Army Bro! After an unseasonably warm patch we're back in the clutches of Old Man Winter - Tonight we have the dreaded Wintry mix, followed by what is expected to be several inches of snow. Should be an interesting ride in tomorrow.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi MA!

*HUGS*

[SandRat]

The beginning of Star Fleet Academy.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy!

*HUGS*

Great to see you this evening!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lauren!

Great trip.....just about outa this world!

[ConorMacNessa]

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!




Pvt. Lewis Hendry, British Army, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, KIA Afghanistan 9FEB2011






I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

Flowers of the Forest



Black Watch Piper

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke



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Lamh Foistenach Abu!