FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Base Alameda, California ~ 23 JUNE 2020

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Base Alameda, California

Coast Guard Base Alameda also referred to as Coast Guard Island is an artificial island in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda, California. It is home to several major United States Coast Guard commands and cutters, including the Coast Guard Pacific Area.

It is one of the largest Coast Guard bases on the West Coast. From 1942 until 1982, the island was the site of the Coast Guard's recruiting training center (boot camp), enlisting and training hundreds of thousands of Coasties including many of the 214,239 who served in the Pacific and European Theaters of World War II.

Established February 15, 2012, Base Alameda provides a wide variety of services in direct support of Coast Guard activities throughout the West Coast. Personnel Support includes the management of approximately 700 CG-owned Housing units, transportation of household goods, the Child Development Center (CDC), Morale, Recreation and Welfare (MWR), and personnel support services.

The Integrated Support Command provides office and work spaces for permanently based tenant commands and messing and berthing for their personnel. The Integrated Support Command is home to a variety of tenant commands including: Commander, Pacific Area; Commander, Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific; Commander, Joint Interagency Task Force West; Marine Safety Office San Francisco Bay; Training Team One; Naval Engineering Support Unit Alameda; Electronics Support Unit Alameda; and homeport for 4 High Endurance Coast Guard Cutters: CGC SHERMAN, CGC MORGENTHAU, CGC MUNRO, and the CGC BOUTWELL.

Coast Guard Island is in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda. The 68-acre island is situated in the historic Brooklyn Basin, now known as Embarcadero Cove. It is within the Alameda city limits, however, and only accessible via Campbell Boulevard in Oakland.

 The Island supports a number of government facilities, including the Pacific Commander Station (U.S. Coast Guard District Eleven), an industrial service center, the San Francisco Marine Safety Office, a training center for reserve and enlisted coast guard personnel (class-rooms), living quarters, four 378-foot long high-endurance cutters, a medical and dental clinic, and public works facilities to service the island (i.e., sewage treatment, wastewater treatment)

Learn More About Base Alameda 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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Time for lunch and a little time on the deck watching the two duck families...both mommas very crabby!

Watching the weather lady now...LOTS of rain in the interior, and even flooding. Hopefully the fires received a lot of it. But here...nothing yet at my house, and only possibilities tomorrow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

That looks like a good read. Thanks for the link.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hurrah for more rain, and this time without hail.

We are still waiting.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Me, too. He's the one that made me do my own posting in response to someone.
My first reply on FR.

He LOVED the Coast Guard!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique.

radu.....#50!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E...((HUGS))...looks like a good time yesterday for Gizmo.

Hope you guys can have a terrific time today.

[radu]

I went out a little earlier to look at the beans and wished I’d gone out right after the rain to measure a couple. I swear they’ve jumped noticeably already.

Your poor plants did take a hit by the hail. Thank goodness the hail wasn’t baseball sized like what dropped from the storms last month!

[radu]

Yes, he was.

[radu]

Nice that you were able to relax with lunch on the deck for a bit this afternoon AND be entertained by the crabby duck mommas. LOL The one should have stayed with the food you tossed for her and her babies rather than try to steal the others’ food. Stinker!

I could see there was a lot of rain there but didn’t realize it was enough to cause some flooding. I’m with you in hoping a lot of it hit the areas that are burning.
The radar’s showing rain over Anchorage and I can see it on the cam between the mountains and the airport. I hope some of the showers are at your house.

[radu]

He tried to get me to post at the Canteen but I was so new to the online world, I was afraid to. So he sicced you on me and you convinced me to hop in. LOL!

He sure did love the Coast Guard, didn’t he?

Man, I didn’t realize he’d been gone so long. It doesn’t seem like it. Very cool that his screen name is on his tombstone.

[radu]

I love that little WOOHOO kitty. Thanks.
I fell into it tonight and didn’t even realize it. LOL

[luvie]

I hope you get some soon. I know you’ve already had wildfires.

[luvie]

Gooood mornin', Early Birds!
Hasn't this been a great road trip?
Our Coasties are the BEST!
Hope all y'all have a Terrific Tuesday!
I am...it rained last night!
We got about 1/2".
On top of the over 1/2" last weekend. Yay!
See ya later for a fun quiz!
(((hugs)))

[ExTexasRedhead]

American Veterans Center

Iwo Jima Vet Elwood Hughes, 5th Marine Division, tells his story (Full Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayvbGFA6qSk