FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Base San Diego, California ~ 23 APR 2013

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe

[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Base San Diego, California

Naval Base San Diego is the largest base of the United States Navy on the west coast of the United States, in San Diego, California. Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the Pacific Fleet, consisting of 60 ships and an additional 50 tenant commands. The base is comprised of 14 piers stretched over 977 acres of land and 326 acres of water. The total on base population is 35,000 military personnel and 7,000 civilians.

A thoroughly modern, state-of-the-art naval facility, Naval Base San Diego is now homeport to approximately 50 ships, including 37 U.S. Navy ships, two U.S. Coast Guard cutters and various ships of the Military Sealift Command, as well as research and auxiliary vessels. Now, the base welcomes the Navy’s newest and most advanced 21st century fleet platforms known as Littoral Combat Ships.

Ashore, Naval Base San Diego is also home to approximately 100 separate tenant commands and other Navy support facilities, each having specific and specialized fleet support missions.

Naval Base San Diego today is a city within a city, providing the same services as any metropolitan district, not just to its inhabitants – the Sailors and other personnel who call the base its workplace or home – but the pier-side needs of the ships as well.

Direct services include power, water and steam; hard and wireless communication lines, repair and training facilities. Support services includes less direct and indirect fleet support: waterfront operations, force protection (security), supply, Navy Exchange and Commissary shopping centers, bachelor quarters, food services, and public affairs.

Other services also supported are administration, transient personnel administration fiscal management, equal employment opportunity, civil engineering, family services, recreation on the base and near various military family housing areas, medical and dental care, religious services, transportation, utilities, legal support, counseling and assistance, facility maintenance, fire protection, educational services, and child care for more than 300 children daily at the base Child Development Center.

Learn More About Naval Base San Diego HERE!

San Diego has one of the richest aviation heritages of any city in the country. Convair, home of such famous aircraft as the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina, was founded here. Ryan Aeronautical, home of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, was located here, and North Island Naval Air Station is the home of naval aviation. Much of that knowledge is captured and conveyed through the San Diego Air & Space Museum, a major institution unique to the region and one of the preeminent aviation museums in the nation.

In 1986 the Museum became the first aero-themed museum to be accredited by the American Association of Museums, and it is now a Smithsonian affiliate. The California Legislature voted to declare the Museum "California's official Air and Space Museum and Education Center. Because of San Diego's contributions to aviation and aerospace history and technology, it is only fitting that the Museum is now recognized as one of the country's premier aerospace museums.

Visit The San Diego Air And Space Museum HERE!

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT~Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. 

Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

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

 

 

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning Kathy and (((HUGS))). Have a good day at work. I have the night shift today.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good afternoon LUV and (((HUGS))). We may have a shower later.

[Arrowhead1952]

How is the retirement job going?

I'm a little disappointed in the hours, having to work until 1130 or midnight some shifts.

[Kathy in Alaska]

It is SNOWING here...it is supposed to get up into the low 40s. This better not stick!!!!!

[left that other site]

SNOW???? Eek!

[beachn4fun]

WOW, just now able to see all the posts past 58.

WOO HOO

[beachn4fun]

Hiya Ma ((HUGS))

Love that graphic!

It’s about time them crazy IT people got that payroll thingymabob fixed!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Woohoo...welcome home!!

And we thank you all, Meg and family, for your service to our country.

Happy Tuesday, Meg...((HUGS))

[Arrowhead1952]

Go to this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3011331/posts and do as instructed in reply 15 when FR acts up.

[luvie]

Good for you....I’m jealous, of course! Enjoy for me! :)

[MEG33]

*HUGS*
52 here..might get a shower.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Speaking of San Diego, this is a time-lapse tour of San Diego – very well done and worth your time. Love the cruise ship docking and the planes around Lindbergh Field.

Enjoy!!

Link

[HiJinx]

National Training Center and Ft. Hood are both very big...Shoot...my Army Green Book isn’t right here where I can look that up...

[HiJinx]

White Sands Missile Range covers 2.2 million acres.
Ft. Bragg is home to over 48,000 military and civilian personnel.

What’s the measure?

[HiJinx]

Once you get to Devens your Field 210 file went in to the file cabinet with cobwebs never to be opened until ETS...

Unless you were just there for school, like me.

[yarddog]

I see what you mean.

I guess White Sands would be larger in one respect.

Eglin is probably the largest AFB in area but maybe not in personnel tho it is a very active base. All kinds of interesting things always going on there.

Also Hurlburt was part of Eglin in the 60s but now it is a separate base. I worked at Lackland back in the early 70s and it and Kelly were in a way the same base as they were separated just by an imaginary line.

[HiJinx]

That imaginary line gives rise to a different measuring standard. To cut some duplication, we have seen the rise of so-called Joint Bases - Lewis/McChord in Washington and Richardson/Elmendorf(?) in Alaska. How do you count those?

It would make for an interesting NCO club discussion over pretzels and beer. For a little while, at least.

[yarddog]

That reminds me of a really strange marriage of bases.

Langley AFB and Fort Eustis. Langley is a beautiful base, it sort of reminded me of a college campus while Ft. Eustis was one of the dirtiest, ugliest bases I ever saw.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good Evening To Our Valiant Troops, To Our Vets, To Our Families, Our FRiends, Our Allies And To All Canteen Denizens!

Godspeed our Troops around the Globe, especially those in combat!



Evening Colors - 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA

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May The Lord Protect And Uphold Our Troops In Their Performance Of Their Vital Mission!

May He Keep Their Families Secure During Their Time Of Separation!

May He Preserve And Uphold The American Nation In This Time Of Crisis!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[laplata]

Howdy and Good evening from Colorado to Conor, Kathy, All