FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Rucker, Alabama ~ 16 JULY 2013

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Fort Rucker, Alabama

Fort Rucker is a U.S. Army post located mostly in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It was named for a Civil War officer, Confederate General Edmund Rucker. The post is the primary flight training base for Army Aviation and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE) and the United States Army Aviation Museum. Small sections of the post also lie in Coffee, Geneva, and Houston counties.

The main post has entrances from three bordering cities, Daleville, Ozark and Enterprise. In the years before the September 11, 2001 attacks, the main post (except airfields and other restricted areas) was an open post with unmanned gates allowing civilians to drive through.

The U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence is the dominant military facility at Fort Rucker. Training, doctrine, and testing are all key parts of the Center's mission to develop Army Aviation's capabilities. All Army Aviation training has been undertaken at Fort Rucker since 1973, as well as training of US Air Force and ally helicopter pilots.

The Center is home to the US Army Aviation Technical Test Center (ATTC), which conducts developmental aircraft testing for Army Aviation. The United States Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command's Test and Evaluation Coordination Office and TH-67 primary and instrument training are both located at Cairns Army Airfield.

Operational units on the post include the 1st Aviation Brigade and the 110th Aviation Brigade handling Army Aviation training, and the USAF 23d Flying Training Squadron for the training of Air Force helicopter pilots. Additionally, due to the large number of Warrant Officers stationed there, the Warrant Officer Career Center and the Warrant Officer Candidate School are located at Fort Rucker.

Learn More About Fort Rucker HERE!

The United States Army Aviation Museum, located in South-central Alabama at Fort Rucker, maintains a collection of over 160 military aircraft, including one of the largest collections of military helicopters in the world. Public galleries represent the Army's involvement in aviation from the beginning days of the Wright brothers and early combat aircraft from World War I, to the highly technological machines flown by Army Aviators today.

Visit The United States Army Aviation 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

To: Kathy in Alaska

My Alma Mater. Thanks for posting.

21 posted on 07/15/2013 6:17:00 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)

To: laurenmarlowe

Helicopters fly over my house daily. This one may not have come from Rucker as the direction it was going was basically slightly South of due West. Rucker is due North of me. I believe if you look close enough you can barely see "Marines" painted on it. Probably headed to Pensacola or maybe Eglin.

22 posted on 07/15/2013 6:17:13 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)

To: laurenmarlowe

Lauren! ((((hugs))))
Hope it's the best one ever!

23 posted on 07/15/2013 6:17:54 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & all of you!)

To: FlingWingFlyer

And in second....FWF snags the silver!!

24 posted on 07/15/2013 6:21:09 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

And rounding out the top three....Luv bags the bronze!!

25 posted on 07/15/2013 6:22:13 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

Good evening, Hoodat...

Fort Rucker close to home?

26 posted on 07/15/2013 6:37:49 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: FlingWingFlyer

Good evening, Fling...we thank you for your service to our country.

27 posted on 07/15/2013 6:43:31 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: Kathy in Alaska

Good evening. Thanks! I bookmarked the Rucker site. Interesting to see how much it has changed.

28 posted on 07/15/2013 6:44:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Keep your powder dry.)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Woohoo! Thanks for the medal, Kathy! (((hugs)))

Hope you have a great week! :)

29 posted on 07/15/2013 6:45:36 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & all of you!)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Not really. I live north of Atlanta, and am working in Decatur, AL right now. But that puts me in the exact opposite end of the state from Fort Rucker. Atlanta is actually closer.

30 posted on 07/15/2013 6:45:41 PM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)

31 posted on 07/15/2013 6:48:30 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & all of you!)

Good evening to you, yarddog.

It must have been interesting seeing a helicopter mock attack you. Yikes!

32 posted on 07/15/2013 6:50:47 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: laurenmarlowe

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

Hard Way To Strength
July 16, 2013

Diamonds are beautiful and valuable gemstones, but their beginning is common carbon—black, dirty, and combustible. Through years of intense heat and high pressure, they become pure and strong. This makes them a good metaphor for spiritual strength; God uses intense outside forces to rid us of impurities and to perfect His strength in us.

God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness, says the apostle Paul (2 Cor. 12:9). I wish this were not true because I hate being weak. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments taught me more than I ever wanted to know about physical weakness. Then a minor event plunged me into a state of emotional weakness that caught me off guard. After losing 3 feet of hair and being bald for nearly a year, one bad haircut should not have been a big deal. But it was, and I felt silly for being so weak. Some of us are able to create an illusion of strength and self-sufficiency. But sudden loss of health, employment, or a treasured relationship is a startling reminder of our total dependence on God.

When we experience the fiery furnace of suffering—whether physical or emotional, whether persecution from without or humiliation from within—God’s loving purpose is to make us pure and strong.

God uses testing in our lives
To rid us of impurity
And teach us that our strength’s in Him
And not in self-sufficiency. —Sper

Suffering is the fire that God uses to purify and strengthen us.

Read: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

My strength is made perfect in weakness. —2 Corinthians 12:9

Bible in a Year:
Psalms 16-17; Acts 20:1-16

33 posted on 07/15/2013 7:15:15 PM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)

To: AZamericonnie

Good evening, Connie, and thanks for today’s tributes to the troops.

Did you have a good Monday? A cool commute? *hugs*

Long day here...and homework. But it has cooled off. d:o)

34 posted on 07/15/2013 7:23:57 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

Good evening, TADSLOS...great description. “The Land of Rotor Blades.”

35 posted on 07/15/2013 7:29:26 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

Good evening, cll...we thank you for your service to our country.

36 posted on 07/15/2013 7:32:17 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: ConorMacNessa

Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...hope your humidity has come down some. A good commute?

I am off for home with a stop to put gas in my car.

37 posted on 07/15/2013 7:47:10 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: laurenmarlowe

*Laurenmarlowe*

Have A Wonderful Day

38 posted on 07/15/2013 8:01:34 PM PDT by MEG33

To: laurenmarlowe

Happy Birthday, lauren!!

Click

39 posted on 07/15/2013 9:30:10 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: AZamericonnie

awe dear Lauren. as usual late to the party but want to chime in with my very best wishes for love and joy to you in the year ahead. birthdays. extra years. bah humbug! LOL

40 posted on 07/15/2013 9:39:34 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)

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