FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona ~ 16 JAN 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona

Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) is a United States Army series of environmentally specific test centers with its Yuma Test Center (YTC) being one of the largest military installations in the world. It is subordinate to the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command.

YPG's headquarters is located at its YTC in southwestern La Paz County and western Yuma County in southwest Arizona, United States, approximately 30 miles north of the city of Yuma.

Of the four extreme natural environments recognized as critical in the testing of military equipment, three fall under the management authority of YPG. Realistic natural environment testing ensures that American military equipment performs as advertised, wherever deployed around the world.

YPG manages military equipment and munitions testing at three locations: The Cold Regions Test Center at Fort Greely, Alaska; the Tropic Regions Test Center operating in Panama, Honduras, Suriname, and Hawaii; and at YTC. The common link between these test centers is "environmental testing," which makes the proving ground the Army's environmental test expert.

YTC encompasses 1,307.8 square miles of the northwestern Sonoran Desert and conducts tests on nearly every weapon in the ground combat arsenal. Nearly all the long-range artillery testing for U.S. ground forces takes place at the YTC in an area almost completely removed from urban encroachment and noise concerns.

Restricted airspace controlled by the test center amounts to over 2,000 square miles. YTC has the longest overland artillery range (40 miles or 64 kilometres) in the nation, the most highly instrumented helicopter armament test range in the Department of Defense, over 200 miles of improved road courses for testing tracked and wheeled military vehicles, over 600 miles of fiber-optic cable linking test locations, and the most modern mine and demolitions test facility in the western hemisphere.

YTC offers the following for testing, evaluation, and training purposes:

Ground weapons systems from small arms to long range artillery

Helicopter armament and target acquisition systems

Artillery and tank munitions

Cargo and personnel parachutes, including guided systems technologies

Land mines and mine-removal systems

Tracked and wheeled vehicles in a desert environment

Vibration and interference-free tests of smart weapon systems

Laguna Army Airfield complex, featuring two runways – 6,000 feet and 5,150 feet

12 drop zones and multiple airstrips for Unmanned Aerial Systems

A 55-mile overland artillery range, the longest in the nation

Over 200 miles of improved road courses for tracked and wheeled vehicles

State-of-the-art fiber optics systems to acquire, reduce and transmit data in real time

Specialized facilities for testing countermeasures for the defeat of roadside bombs, such as the National

Counterterrorism/Counterinsurgency Integrated Test and Evaluation site

Learn More About Yuma Proving Ground HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening, and thank you radu!

Hope you’re doing well.

my cat WILL NOT get off my keyboard tonight, he’s being extra wacky this evening. Not sure how much keyboard time I’m getting as Louie is hogging it all, LOL!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*

Did you escape nasty weather?
Sure wish I had. Snow’s pretty to look at but only if it’s video or pics of it somewhere else! LOL

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again, thanks Lauren!

[laurenmarlowe]

I saw that you are getting the wintry weather, it’s very cold, and did snow a bit overnight.

Just waiting this out another day and it should warm up a bit on Wednesday.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you PROCON!

[Kathy in Alaska]

A bear of a day...been on the phone, 2 of us, searching for a back up timesheet. We can’t find it. *sigh* Continue tomorrow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona ~

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[radu]

Oooooooh, I wish we would warm up so soon. We’ll barely get above Freezing Thursday, then back into the deep freeze through the weekend. We’ll finally get up into the 40s next Monday.

I’m glad you got snow rather than ice! Ice is more dangerous.

[radu]

Dang, I’d hoped things wouldn’t be too crazy this week. I wish you luck finding that timesheet.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

Sorry I'm late...lots of phone calls for problems today.

[radu]

At least Louie is just hogging your keyboard, aggravating as that is.
Arabelle, Lessa, Lorien, and Willow have been hogging the heat by lying on the vents in the floor. I finally laid out an electric blanket and turned it on for them. That’s helped a lot but I still have to run cat body off a vent occasionally. And it isn’t cold in here.

[The Mayor]

January 16

Learning from Mistakes

Bible in a Year :

• Genesis 39–40
• Matthew 11

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us.

1 Corinthians 10:11

To help avoid future financial mistakes, such as those in 1929 and 2008 that brought down the world’s economy, the Library of Mistakes was founded in Edinburgh, Scotland. It features a collection of more than two thousand books that can help educate the next generation of economists. And it serves as a perfect example of how, according to the library’s curators, “smart people keep doing stupid things.” The curators believe that the only way to build a strong economy is to learn from prior mistakes.

Paul reminded the Corinthians that one way to avoid yielding to temptation and to have a strong spiritual life is to learn from the mistakes of God’s people in the past. So to make sure they wouldn’t become overconfident with their spiritual privilege, the apostle used ancient Israel’s failures as an example from which to gain wisdom. The Israelites engaged in idolatry, chose to “commit sexual immorality,” grumbled about the plans and purposes of God, and rebelled against His leaders. Due to their sin, they experienced His discipline (1 Corinthians 10:7–10). Paul presented these historical “examples” from Scripture to help believers in Jesus avoid repeating Israel’s mistakes (v. 11).

As God helps us, let’s learn from our mistakes and those made by others so that we might gain a heart of obedience for Him. .

Reflect & Pray

What warning should we recall when tempted to sin? How can we learn from our mistakes as well as the mistakes of others?

Dear God, please help me learn from failures so that I might be more obedient to You.

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Lauren, Kathy!

[luvie]

Great Road Trip to Yuma, lauren!
Thanks for your hard work!
We didn't go there...did we? 😂

[radu]

Howdy,luvie.

Did all the kitties venture out for supper or did they stay holed up in their warm spots. It’s not fit for man nor beast tonight. BRRRRRRRRRR

[luvie]

They were all there, but have disappeared now. I did put a mug warmer under their water dish to see if the water stays thawed. It’s an experiment. Shadow came inside a couple of times, but wanted back out after a bit.

It is indeed bitter tonight. 16 and windy already with a “feel-like” of -3. I HOPE the kitties are in a warm spot....but they will do what they will do. I was just so relieved that they all showed up for breakfast this morning! I was worried.

How are things there? Right now we have about the same temperature. Is it still snowing? That would add insult to injury.

[radu]

I figured they would stick around long if they even bothered to slip out to eat.

Your wind must blowing pretty hard for that wind chill. There’s a little breeze here but it doesn’t feel too bad if bundled up enough. I was just outside a few minutes ago to measure the snow. Got 7 inches today. It’s still spitting a few teeny pellets but the main event passed off to the east about three hours ago.

[E.G.C.]

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.

We had chicken for supper yesterday.

And we did a ride in the country yesterday. This was Giz after we got back.

We're forecast to today be at 28 for a high. The Wind Chill Advisory expires at noon today. If all goes as plan, we should resume our daily walking exercises tomorrow.

How's everyone doing this morning?