FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii ~ 10 SEPT 2013

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility
Barking Sands, Hawaii

Pacific Missile Range Facility is the world's largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously.

There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace. This makes PMRF a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to large scale, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.

The mission of the Pacific Missile Range Facility is to facilitate Training, Tactics Development, and Test & Evaluations for air, surface, and sub-surface weapons systems and Advanced Technology Systems.

PMRF provides the full spectrum of instrument range support, including; radar, underwater instrumentation, telemetry, electronic warfare, target remote command & control, communications, target launching facilities, data display, data processing and target/weapon launching and recovery facilities.

The headquarters and primary operation center of PMRF occupies approximately 1800 acres and is located on the western shore of the island of Kauai. The nearest town, Kekaha, is eight miles to the south and east. Supporting instrumentation sites at Makaha Ridge and Kokee Park overlook the vast ocean range areas to the west and north Kauai.

The range encompasses 42,000 sq. miles of sea and air space and has minimal encroachments. The underwater tracking range extends over a 1000 sq. miles areas. PMRF features a state of the art instrumentation suite & communication network.

Lead range in the Pacific for Aegis Combat System Ship Qualification Training, PMRF puts new Aegis platforms through extensive testing & training prior to initial deployment. Collocated with the Sandia National Laboratory Kauai Test Facility, PMRF is the lead range for launching the Strategic Target System. No other range has the unencroached geographic expanse necessary to support wide area defense sensor and cooperative engagement capability testing.

The Navy is currently using PMRF to test hit to kill technology using direct collision of the anti-ballistic missile with its target. This destroys the target by using only kinetic energy from the force of the collision. The two Missile Defense Agency programs that currently utilize the range at PMRF are the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD. The THAAD program relocated their testing operations from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and conducted its first demonstration at PMRF on 26 January 2007.

On 27 April 2007, the U.S. military's sea-based missile defense system, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, showed it could intercept two targets simultaneously when it destroyed a cruise missile and a short-range ballistic missile during a test off the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The test marked eight out of ten times the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy's Aegis missile defense system successfully intercepted its target, but was the first time the system knocked out two targets at the same time.

Learn More About Barking Sands HERE!

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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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, penelopesire...lauren is knee deep in company at one of her son’s house. Dinner guests this evening.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, bunkerhill7? That’s an interesting piece of information.

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!



Missing Man Setting

"Träumerei"
Robert Schumann
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Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

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)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...did I miss your Biker Ministry solo report?

Did you have good lessons today? Tomorrow is the dreaded one.

[luvie]

Yay!!...who knew! :)

Thanks, Kathy!

[left that other site]

The Guitar player showed up just prior to the service and we ran through 2 songs (As the Deer pants for the Water, and The Old Rugged Cross) so he played those with me. Amazing Grace I did myself, and it went well!

Yes....tomorrow is Terrible Tuesday.

[luvie]

Well, I guess a high of 87 is sort of fallish out here in the desert! It was only 69 this morning....really pleasant!

[The Mayor]

Thank You Kathy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

G’day, Janey...((HUGS))...you are sure having computer issues. Glad to see you’ve made it this far.

Did you have some fun on the weekend?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Very cool that you were both a solo and a duet.

You can do it, the Terrible Tuesday...you can do it!!

[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.

[left that other site]

Well, just like the Mayor said in ODB...all we all need is a little affirmation!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great affirmation!! And you look like you are having quite the good time.

Play those hymns!!

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the heads up!

[left that other site]

Oh yeah...havin’ a GREAT time! :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Had to reboot...I’m going home. Back in a biit.

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Lauren.

I visited Hawaii when I was a kid (won’t say how long ago). Nice to see its importance here.

[wjcsux]

I would love to go there sometime. I have built several test articles that have been flown there through the years.

[BykrBayb]

Kathy, I just saw the most beautiful song performed on the Joey+Rory Show on RFD-TV. I can’t find it on You Tube, but I’m sure it will turn up there soon. It’s from their new album, Inspired, and it’s called I See Him. Here’s the Amazon listing for the album, with samples of all the tracks. http://www.amazon.com/Joey-Rory-Inspired/dp/B00CS9NKQW

My Grandma loved good gospel music, and used to lament that so many performers make the happy news of God’s love sound like the saddest thing in the world. Her favorite was Amazing Grace, which really is a happy song when it’s sung right. They have a version of it on this album, and the short sample sounds good. Grandma would have loved I See Him.

Anyway, take a listen. I think you’ll love it too.

[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?