FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California ~ 05 MAR 2024

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Road Trip: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

Vandenberg Space Force Base, previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. Established in 1941, Vandenberg Space Force Base is a space launch base, launching spacecraft from the Western Range, and also performs missile testing. The United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 30 serves as the host delta for the base.

In addition to its military space launch mission, Vandenberg Space Force Base also hosts space launches for civil and commercial space entities, such as NASA and SpaceX.

Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, is headquarters for the 30th Space Wing. The 30th Space Wing manages Department of Defense space and missile testing, and places satellites into polar orbit from the West Coast, using expendable boosters (Delta II, Pegasus, Taurus, Minotaur, Atlas V and Delta IV). Wing personnel also support the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force Development Evaluation program.

Space Operations Command is responsible for the organization, training, equipping, command and control, and employment of space forces to support operational plans and missions for U.S. combatant commanders and air component commanders. Space Operations Center serves as the headquarters and staff for United States Space Force's (USSF) Combined Force Space Component Command.

The command element for the 21st Space Operations Squadron is located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California within the Ellison Onizuka Satellite Operations Facility.

The 21 SOPS conducts Air Force Satellite Control Network operations, launch support as augmentation to the Western Range, manages Global Positioning System ground infrastructure, provides AFSCN communications segment monitoring, delivers satellite communications in support of the AFSCN and a small group of other users and is the lead for 24/7 AFSCN cyber vulnerability management scanning and risk mitigation.

Learn More About Vandenberg Space Force Base HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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[PROCON]

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

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening, and thank you radu!

Hope you’re having a pleasant evening!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy to you PROCON!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi MA!

*HUGS*

Hope your day has been a good one!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*

It’s a very-much-do-nothing evening here. LOL I can’t move after busting butt at the military museum today.

Did you have another busy weekend?

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

How was your weekend? Did you head over for entertainment by those silly pups? :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California ~

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[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I see you’ve had more snow today. At least it’s been light snow and it isn’t accumulating more than a dusting.

Good luck this week!

[PROCON]

Hi radu, good weekend, son was over last night for dinner and hanging out, good times. Rest of the weekend was just relaxing.

How wuz your weekend? When does your museum open?

[laurenmarlowe]

Rest is good, get plenty!

Bless you for your work at the Museum, that’s so awesome.

Nice relaxing weekend here, thank goodness. Except I dumped all my socks from my sock drawers onto the closet floor, now I gotta go clean it all up, and that’s no joke!

Two drawers full of socks is way too much.

Have a terrific Tuesday!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren...steady all day, but it continues.

Overcast most all day, mid 20s, and the radio said posible snow showers this evening.

[radu]

Sounds like a pretty good weekend you had. Are you and your son still “saving the world” every now and then? :-)

It was a good weekend here. Busted butt at the museum Saturday, did nothing yesterday because I couldn’t move - LOL - and busted butt again today. I hope I can move enough tomorrow to head to the poll to vote. Then I’ll do nothing for the rest of the day. :-)

From what I heard today, it looks like the museum will reopen the 3rd weekend next month.

[radu]

Two drawers full of socks??? Yep, that’s a wee bit overboard. LOL!! Pick out the pairs you like the most and take the rest to a thrift store. That’s what I do when t’s time to clean out a drawer or the closet.

I LOVE being a part of the museum. They decided to rearrange everything and that’s what we’re working on now. And they made a dusty mess when they filled in the mechanics pit with concrete and that’s what I’ve been cleaning up. Everything in the building was coated in dust but it isn’t now. And the ol’ bum back is cranky from all the bending and reaching.

But it was fun simply because it was so good to be back there after a long, boring winter.

It’s Super Tuesday tomorrow and we’re part of it. So it’ll definitely be a terrific day. :-)

[The Mayor]

March 5

God’s Greater Power

Bible in a Year :

• Numbers 34–36
• Mark 9:30–50

The Lord said, . . . I have given you victory over them!

Judges 7:9 nlt

In March 1945, the “Ghost Army” helped US forces achieve the Rhine River crossing—giving the allies a vital base to operate from on World War II’s Western Front. The soldiers were most definitely human, not apparitions, all part of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. On this occasion, the 1,100-man team imitated 30,000 men by using inflatable decoy tanks, blasting troop and vehicle sound effects over speakers, and more. The relatively small number of Ghost Army members led the enemy to fear what appeared to be a far greater force.

The Midianites and their allies also trembled before a tiny army that loomed large in the night (Judges 7:8–22). Gideon, a judge and military leader of Israel, was used by God to make his puny army a source of terror for the enemy. They also used sound effects (blown trumpets, smashed clay jars, human voices) and visible objects (blazing torches) to make the vast enemy—as “thick as locusts” (v. 12)—believe they were facing a colossal foe. Israel defeated their enemy that night with an army whittled down from 32,000 men to just 300 by God’s command (vv. 2–8). Why? Because that made it clear who truly won the battle. As God told Gideon, “I have given you victory over them!” (v. 9 nlt).

When we feel weak and inferior, let’s seek God and rest in His strength alone. For His “power is made perfect in [our] weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). .

Reflect & Pray

What big foes or challenges are you facing? How can you rest in God’s power as you confront them?

Dear Jesus, let me find Your strength in my weakness.

[luvie]

Hey there, lauren and Night Owls!
My son was stationed at Vandenburg
....before it was the SPACE FORCE.
I visited there and we toured the rocket launch sites.
Well, we drove around them.
He lived in Lompoc, which is such a nice town.
Anyhoooo...y'all have a good evening!
(((hugs)))

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Did you have all your windows and doors open today? You had perfect temps for it.

Not quite as warm here but it did break 70, though it only made it to 68 up on the mountain.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Yes, when I got up, hubby already had the doors open! It was just a perfect day. Warm...not hot...and NO wind. Well, maybe a tiny breeze.

I have a sad heart, though. Sunday morning, I discovered a black cat lying in the middle of the back yard. I thought it was one of mine just chilling, but he never moved when I called. When I walked out there, I discovered that the kitty was not alive. My heart sank. I checked closer, and it didn’t have a notched ear, though, so we figured out that it was sweet Pirate. I have NO idea what happened to him. He just looked asleep. No injuries, etc., and he seemed healthy. I am wondering now if that was why there were no cats that came for dinner the night before. [was it the night before...Saturday? I can’t remember] They have all been skittish ever since then.

Also, Tux was back tonight after a 2-week absense. Of all the kitties I thought would pass, I’d have guessed him. He just always looks so rough.