FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Beale Air Force Base, California ~ 05 MAY 2015

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Beale Air Force Base, California

Beale AFB is the home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and located outside of Linda, about 10 miles east of the towns of Marysville and Yuba City and about 40 miles north of Sacramento.

Beale is a large base in terms of land and has five gates providing access on all sides of the base. Visitors enter the base through a main gate that local merchants, individuals and the Beale Military Liaison Committee donated $100,000 to construct. The base is home for approximately 4,000 military personnel.

The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is responsible for providing national and theater command authorities with timely, reliable, high-quality, high-altitude reconnaissance products. To accomplish this mission, the wing is equipped with the nation's fleet of U-2, RQ-4 and MC-12 reconnaissance aircraft and associated support equipment.

The wing also maintains a high state of readiness in its expeditionary combat support forces for potential deployment in response to theater contingencies. The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is composed of more than 4,500 personnel in four groups at Beale, one group at Grand Forks AFB, ND, and multiple overseas operating locations.

In the spring of 2011, the Air Force selected the 9th Reconnaissance Wing to become the parent wing for the MC-12W Project Liberty program. In short order, the 9 RW completed the MC-12 program transfer to Beale AFB and became the permanent home for MC-12W aircraft capable of full motion video (FMV), communications intelligence (COMINT), and signals intelligence (SIGINT).

On 26 August 2011, the 489th Reconnaissance Squadron activated at Beale AFB and assumed the Formal Training Unit (FTU) mission to produce combat ready MC-12W aircrew for immediate deployment in support of combatant commanders.

Learn More About Beale Air Force Base HERE!!

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[PROCON]

Hiya Lauren!!

[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band ~ National Anthem

[SandRat]

HiYa.

[Mariner]

Oh, and it's located in the prettiest country on God's green earth.

The northern Sierra foothills are truly perfect.

[SandRat]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sending out prayers for Arrowhead1952 as he recovers from his horrible fall.

~ Road Trip: Beale Air Force Base, California ~

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[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

((((HUGS))))

Late Nite.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Cool. I lived in Live Oak back in the 80’s Beale was a part of the area with the U2’s flying and personel in town both Yuba City and Marysville.
Glad to see they brought some new stuff since the “blackbirds” that flew from there no longer fly
Thanks for posting!
Freegards
LEX

[Kathy in Alaska]

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

[Soaring Feather]

Hi Ms. Sweet Lauren!

How be ya lady??

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...was it a Marvelous Monday?

[Soaring Feather]

Howdy Ma!

Got snow or grass? We have grass and it is humid outside.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...((HUGS))...did you work today?

We’ve had a pretty nice day out.

[PROCON]

Hi Ma, no work today, Zach was off too so we had lunch together.

Beautiful weather here too.

[left that other site]

Well...it was BUSY. :-)

that is always good.

[Kartographer]

You need to start off this thread right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHOq6Sl9u38

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren...*HUGS*...are you getting to relax a little yet?

Hope you aren’t anywhere near Garland!

Do you get to vacation anytime soon?

[Sivad]

Thanks for this thread! I reside east of
Beale AFB in a community that Hwy 20 passes
through. Whenever I drive to Marysville or
Yuba City I have the option of taking a
detour road which passes by the north
boundary of Beale and right under the
flight path. Whenever possible I travel
Hammondton Rd just to watch the U2s
practice touch and goes. Awesome!

[Kartographer]

Captain Kim Campbell viewing her damaged A-10