FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center, Massachusetts ~ 04 December, 2012

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: United States Army Soldier Systems Center, Natick, Massachusetts

The United States Army Soldier Systems Center (SSC) is a military research complex and installation in Natick, Massachusetts charged by the U.S. Department of Defense with the research and development (including fielding and sustainment) of food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and other service member support items for the U.S. military.

The installation includes facilities from all the military services, not just the Army, and is so configured to allow cross-service cooperation and collaboration both within the facility and with the many academic, industrial and governmental institutions in the Greater Boston Area.

The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (SSC) is the Army’s one-stop Soldier-support organization. SSC is responsible for researching, developing, fielding, and managing food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and Soldier support items.

NSSC’s goal is simple: Provide America’s Soldiers with the best equipment in the world. To achieve this goal, the Natick team has consolidated full life-cycle management of Soldier items into a one-stop, Soldier support organization.

NSSC conducts research, development, acquisition and sustainment to maximize combat effectiveness and survivability of freedom's defenders.

Natick Labs has developed or is developing the following items or systems:

The MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat)
Irradiated food
The "instant chapel"
Bulletproof clothing
Land Warrior
Future Soldier
Future Force Warrior
Collective Protection Shelters
Interceptor Body Armor
Quarpel, a water-repellent, water and stain resistant textile treatment

In an effort to develop a warrior system to meet the Army's transformation goals for the Objective Force, the US Army Soldier Systems Center (Natick) was leading a new Army-wide research effort called Objective Force Warrior. The proposed concept for OFW would upgrade Land Warrior and enhance warfighter lethality and survivability by bringing many of the ideas of the Future Warrior concept to reality in the 2010-2012 timeframe.

Learn More About NSSC HERE!

The Museum of World War II, Inc., with 10,000 square feet of display area, is described by London’s Imperial War Museum as “a fully staffed private collection containing the most comprehensive display of original World War II artifacts on exhibit anywhere in the world”. The museum is located a few miles west of Boston, at the junction of two major highways.

Formed over a period of more than 40 years, the collection documents and illustrates the period from the Versailles Treaty, ending World War I, to the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials, ending World War II. All of the more than 6,000 artifacts on display, as well as 100 mannequins with complete uniforms and equipment, are original and from the Second World War.

The presentation of the exhibits is a major reason that the Museum is private and not open to the general public--although visits are regularly scheduled several days a week for those who will appreciate and understand the era and the collection. Most of the artifacts are not behind glass.

Visit The Museum Of World War II HERE!

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[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, everybody. Thanks for this morning’s thread, Lauren. How’s it going?

[beachn4fun]

Are you ready for the Tuesday

Road Trip?

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

military, our allies, and their families

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.
Baby, we've come a long way in military equipment!

DC Metroland Weather

~ Today... Areas of patchy fog early.
Partly cloudy. High around 70F.
Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

~ Tonight...Mostly cloudy
with some showers after midnight.
Low 53F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40%.

Some rain would be welcomed.
Got a sinus headache this morning.
I guess it must be mold.
Our neighbors on both sides of us have a large oak trees
and our yard seems to get all their leaves.

I'll be around for a bit this morning.
But if the boss shows up I'll have to disappear.
Gotta make a cyber-trip to AK
to find out what happened, if anything.
(((MA)))

Please stay.

Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.

The FR Canteen is ALWAYS

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea,
pancakes,
conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM ~ DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

ARMITSTEAD, STEVEN RAY
3/17/1969
Laos
Presumptive Finding of Death

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above Honoring those who have served before.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen. It's another 65º morning here.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning dear ((HUGS))

How goes it this morning?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

Heading out for my walk.

Have a great day.

[beachn4fun]

LOL

Good morning Meg ((HUGS))

[beachn4fun]

good morning Ma ((HUGS))
Did you have any troubles from the earthquake?

[beachn4fun]

off for my walk

[beachn4fun]

off for my walk

[beachn4fun]

off for my walk

[luvie]

Hope there were no injuries! Must have been a very weird feeling with all that stuff jumping around! :)

[MEG33]

*Grin*
(((HUGS)))

[luvie]

It's Tuesday! Good mornin' to stay in bed!
Unfortunately, all the Early Birds are up 'n' at 'em!
...that includes this Night Owl. *yawn*
It's cooler here...49...and it feels good!
Hope you all have a GREAT day!
((((hugs))))

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning beachy and (((HUGS))). Was getting ready to walk the dog and we a shower just hit here.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning LUV and (((HUGS))). We have a few showers in the area.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning night owl ((HUGS))

Just got back from morning walk and it’s warming up out there.

Hope your Tuesday goes extremely well.

[beachn4fun]

send rain!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Tuesday, beachy...((HUGS))...nothing at home fell down.
It rolled a little at work as I was returning to my desk. Just as I sat down my monitors really started dancing around and everything really started moving around, but nothing fell in my area. It was close to quitting time and some just got their coats and left the building. It was different, but that is always a possibility. It was not a loud, sharp jolt that recent ones have been.

Have a great day.

[Kathy in Alaska]

It was a different kind of quake than the last few. They were kind of a loud “boom”...one big shock.

This was rolling, and it is kinda weird looking at the things on your desk dancing around and feel the floor under your feet moving sort of up and down and side to side.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

"This was rolling, and it is kinda weird looking at the things on your desk dancing around and feel the floor under your feet moving sort of up and down and side to side."

Uh, hold on a minute. I think that I am going to be seasick! :-)

No, I have never gotten seasick and won't start now. :-)