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FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, Washington ~ 09 July 2019
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe

Posted on 07/08/2019 6:02:43 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska

 
 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, Washington

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The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare.

One of the corporate laboratories of the Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island, and has two major subordinate activities—Division Newport and Division Keyport (in Keyport, Washington).

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NAVSEA has two warfare centers: Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). The warfare centers supply the technical operations, people, technology, engineering services and products needed to equip and support the fleet and meet the warfighter's needs.

In addition, the warfare centers are the Navy's principal research, development, test and evaluation, analysis and assessment activities for ship and submarine platform and machinery technology for surface combat systems, ordnance, mines, and strategic systems products and support.

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Technical Capabilities at NUWC Keyport include:

Pacific Undersea Warfare (USW) Test & Evaluation (T&E) Range and Test Facility Operations
Independent USW Systems T&E and Experimentation
USW Weapons and Vehicles Range and Environmental Test Systems
Torpedo and Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Maintenance and Repair
Obsolescence Management USW Systems
USW Systems Material Depot
Torpedo and UUVs In-Service Engineering (ISE) and Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)
Submarine USW Systems ISE and ILS
Carrier USW Systems
Fleet Training and Training Management Systems
Corporate Logistics Policy, Planning, and Oversight
Central Design Agent for Navy and NAVSEA Corporate Logistics Data Systems
Ships Planned Maintenance System

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Keyport’s technical complexes are recognized national assets and include over 2.3 million square feet of specialized technical facilities and nearly 2000 square nautical miles of undersea ranges. Highly trained and diverse workforce of engineers, scientists, technicians, and industrial craftsmen are developing, maintaining and providing technical solutions to meet Fleet material and operational readiness needs.

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Learn More About Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport HERE!!

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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

 

 

 



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To: The Mayor
And in second....The Mayor snags the silver!!


21 posted on 07/08/2019 11:04:42 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: mountainlion
And rounding out the top three....mountainlion bags the bronze!!


22 posted on 07/08/2019 11:06:43 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; LUV W; radu; beachn4fun; All
A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for this morning's thread.

How's everyone doing this morning?

23 posted on 07/08/2019 11:11:54 PM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Howdy, Kathy.

No rain today and none expected tomorrow. Maybe we’ll get some Wed. and the corn would appreciate it. The half inch yesterday wasn’t enough but was better than nothing.

Keeping all appendages crossed for luck on your heat wave breaking at last. Y’all need a break! And you reeeeeeeally need some rain and I hope you do get some this weekend. The firefighters must be exhausted from fighting wildfires so long.


24 posted on 07/08/2019 11:41:47 PM PDT by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: E.G.C.

Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))

How did things go at the lake yesterday? Nothing and no one to interfere with your and Gizmo’s fun, I hope.


25 posted on 07/08/2019 11:46:16 PM PDT by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: radu

Well, the picnic table row was empty and we got to spend quite a bit of time out in the grass area over by the boat ramp. Gizmo had a lot of fun out there. There were a couple of people of boats but they were out in the lake.


26 posted on 07/09/2019 12:18:51 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: E.G.C.

Isn’t the picnic table area where you first ran into wasps? I gather none bothered you this time.
Nice that y’all had the place to yourselves for a change. More fun for Gizmo because he’s free to roam and sniff. :-)


27 posted on 07/09/2019 12:51:10 AM PDT by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: radu
Thankfully there were no wasps around. Was a little cool yesterday. I have to do some mowing this morning.

We will be doing a ride in the country instead of going to the lake later today because they just issued a Heat Advisory for our area today.

28 posted on 07/09/2019 1:24:52 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: E.G.C.

It was a little cool yesterday? I’m jealous! LOL
We just stay hot and muggy day after day with no breaks in sight right now.

Good idea to just ride around later today since the heat’s going to crank back up.
And you won’t have to keep an eye out for wasps. :-)


29 posted on 07/09/2019 1:42:43 AM PDT by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Hey, my dad worked at Keyport for his whole career life.
Civil service worked on secret squirrel torpedo parts.
Never talked about it.
What was it he said, Something like....
“What you see here does not leave here.”
He could only talk about the sign, and he said that he might still have to kill me because, he had talked about the sign.
30 posted on 07/09/2019 1:53:30 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
We are burning! Lots of burning. And we’ve had high 80s for a couple weeks.

Oh my goodness. That is hot for AK. It might be related to the fires and earthquakes we've had in the lower 40 and the jet stream, of course. Hope you are keeping cool while at work.

31 posted on 07/09/2019 5:00:50 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Just because you THINK it, doesn't make it so.)
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To: laurenmarlowe; Kathy in Alaska; GodBlessUSA; LUV W; E.G.C.; HiJinx; MEG33; mylife; SandRat; ...

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

Military, our Allies, and their families.

Thank you, Lauren/Ma, for preparing the
Canteen for today’s activities

Just a fly-by post to say hello.

Having hubby home is throwing me off.
We're still dealing with job hunting/unemployment/health insurance.

Some areas in Maryland has had flooding;
not sure about Virginia.
And, still, after years of being told not to,
people drive through standing/rushing water and get stranded. Tsk.

Please stay.
Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.
Chat with the military and/or the family they left behind.

The FR Canteen is

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

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.


32 posted on 07/09/2019 5:05:42 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Just because you THINK it, doesn't make it so.)
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To: beachn4fun; y'all; Arrowhead1952; E.G.C.; GodBlessUSA; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; HiJinx; ...

Gooooood mornin', Early Birds!
Well, guess what?
It's gonna be H🔥T!
Supposed to get up to 104.
I hope it doesn't.
How are y'all doing?
Lots of fun summer things to do?
My fun comes next month.
Going to see my kids in WY!
Y'all have a Terrific Tuesday!
(((hugs)))

33 posted on 07/09/2019 9:02:40 AM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

From the info post - “NAVSEA has two warfare centers: Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC).”

NUWC has two centers - Division Newport and Division Keyport. Division Newport (Rhode Island) - is regarded by some of the Keyport personnel (and I was one -from 1986 to 2000) - as ‘The Borg’. Newport believes it is the real center for technical work, and has made efforts to remove any specialty/technical work from Keyport and move it back to Newport.

Newport has its own reputation regarding torpedo development...one that is not well known, and is not favorable to Newport. Newport does design and testing of torpedoes, and keeps the results ‘closely held’....and has hid problems with a shroud of secrecy. This has led to significant problems. During WWII - the initial submarine efforts in the Pacific against the Japanese were hampered by defective torpedoes. Torpedoes ran too deep (below setting) - and their exploders (magnetic or contact) were severely deficient. Newport typically blamed problems on ‘operator error’ - and minimized reports where submarines got close to a target, fired a spread of torpedoes -and heard on sonar the impact of a torpedo on the side of a target, yet the torpedo contact exploder failed to cause the warhead to detonate. Oops.

Moving forward past WWII - other torpedo problems occurred, and the Newport management kept avoiding responsibility by hiding results or shifting blame. In the book “Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sherry Sonntag, the discussion of the loss of the USS Scorpion included the possibility of a torpedo design deficiency being the root of the problem. The design deficiency was identified by Keyport’s (then - Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station - NUWES) Quality Assurance (QA) Division - but Newport ignored reports. (A copy of a memo from NUWES is in one of the Appendices to the book.)

Keyport has been downsized...and Newport tries to move work away from Keyport, but the people at Keyport have found new projects and new ‘customers’ to bring work to Keyport. Lots of very good people there, and they do lots of innovative work!


34 posted on 07/09/2019 12:28:02 PM PDT by Vineyard
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Wow, ETR....those are some really good looking planes!

Really enjoyed the air show.

Thanks for the links.


35 posted on 07/10/2019 12:28:21 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: ExTexasRedhead
AN EXTRAORDINARY CODE OF HONOUR - A HIGHER CALL

I've heard this story before, but this video fills in a lot of gaps. So happy that they found each other.

Thanks, ETR!

36 posted on 07/11/2019 10:27:31 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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