FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico ~ 05 FEB 2013

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

White Sands Missile Range is a rocket range of almost 3,200 square miles area, the largest military installation in the United States. WSMR includes the Oscura Range and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range. WSMR and the 600,000-acre Fort Bliss Range Complex to the south form a contiguous swath of territory for military testing.

White Sands Missile Range is a Test and Evaluation Command Installation operated primarily for the support of research, development, test, and evaluation of weapon and space systems, subsystems, and components.

WSMR, established in 1945, is the largest all-overland test range in the Western Hemisphere, and is the Department of the Army's largest installation, covering approximately 2.2 million acres. With the addition of several extension areas, the range can be expanded to nearly four million acres for certain types of testing. WSMR is bordered by Fort Bliss to the south and by Holloman Air Force Base to the west.

White Sands is poised to meet the many challenges that 21st century technological advancements, acquisition reform, and force transformation will present to the Acquisition Test and Evaluation community, private industry, and research laboratories (both domestic and international).

White Sands is leading the way for distributed testing of Joint capabilities. They are focusing on integrating complex Joint capabilities into a cohesive environment that will merge live and simulated operations across many geographically-separated test ranges. White Sands continues to offer a world class Range Control facility, state of the art launch complexes, and extensive environmental test facilities and laboratories.

Learn More About White Sands Missile Range And The Army Garrison HERE!!

White Sands Missile Range Historical Foundation was organized to support the White Sands Missile Range Museum and to raise money for a permanent museum to collect and exhibit the artifacts necessary to memorialize the events, and the participants, both individual and organizational who have contributed to the outstanding achievements at White Sands Missile Range.

At the White Sands Missile Range Museum you can trace the origin of America's missile and space activity, find out how the atomic age began and learn about the accomplishments of scientists like Dr. Wernher von Braun and Dr. Clyde Tombaugh at White Sands. Displays also include the prehistoric cultures and the rip-roaring Old West found in southern New Mexico. Pictured Above is Missile Park.

Visit The White Sands Missile Range Museum HERE!!

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We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Man....I wouldn't want to be hitting one of those.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mac, for the Missing Man Setting as we remember those who have given their all that we may gather safe and secure.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, free...((HUGS))

I’ve seen a couple of those from Vandenburg....they are really cool.

[Cindy]

Great thread.

Thank you, Kathy.

[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, Ladies. Thanks for this morning's thread, Lauren. How's it going?

[beachn4fun]

Are you ready for the Tuesday

Road Trip?

Good morning to our

military, our allies, and their families

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.
That picture of the different missiles is interesting.
We've come a long way baby.

DC Metroland Weather

~ Today...Rain and snow showers this morning.
Then becoming mostly cloudy this afternoon.
High 49F. Winds light and variable.
Chance of rain 30%.

~ Tonight...Partly cloudy skies early
will give way to cloudy skies late.
Low 32F. Winds light and variable.

We lucked out...so far, no snow. AND...
we're warming up a tad.

Still quiet around here so I'd better make my rounds.

Please stay.

Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.

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

BANNON, PAUL WEDLAKE
7/12/1969
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.

[beachn4fun]

what?

it’s waiting for me again?

[beachn4fun]

what?

it’s waiting for me again?

[beachn4fun]

what?

it’s waiting for me again?

[beachn4fun]

what?

it’s waiting for me again?

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach. How’s it going?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

Right now I’m still trying to get my brain in gear, other than that all is well.

Howz it out your way?

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS))))

I think I might be able to go back to work today...I am feeling a little better! :-)

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen. Looks like we are in for a nice day.

[E.G.C.]

Well, it's going OK here. I'm getting ready to head up to Billingsley Ford on Duncan for the install of the new rear view mirror.

Enjoyed watching our Governor Mary Fallin's State Of The State speech yesterday. Looking for good things this year from the Oklahoma Legislature.

Not much else going except Bo and I having a great time out at the lake yesterday.

[luvie]

Howdy, Early Birds!
We're going to have pretty weather today, too.
*yawn*
Hope you that aren't
will stay warm, safe and dry!
....and have a WONDERFUL day!
(((hugs)))

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning ladies and (((HUGS))). The allergies are making my eyes itch again today.

[luvie]

My allergies are worse too. We need more cold weather to kill all that stuff! LOL!

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How’s it going?

[Arrowhead1952]

We need rain to wash the pollen out of the cedar trees here. They are still brown / yellow.