FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas ~ 27 NOV 2018

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Road Trip: Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas

Goodfellow Air Force Base is a nonflying United States Air Force base located in San Angelo, Texas, United States. As part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Goodfellow's main mission is cryptologic and intelligence training for the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Military firefighters are also trained here as part of the 312th Training Squadron. It is the home of the 17th Training Wing (17 TRW). The base is named for World War I aviator First Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, Jr.

Goodfellow's history traces to the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, but its name registered the valor and sacrifice of an earlier conflict. On 14 September 1918, 1st Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, Jr., of San Angelo, Texas, boarded his Salmson 2A2 observation plane at Gondreville Airfield in France to conduct visual reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

The mission was part of a larger undertaking just underway, a major American offensive intended to reduce the German salient near St. Mihiel. Unfortunately, adverse weather permitted observation only at a low altitude that exposed the lumbering Salmson to enemy pursuit. Three days later, the offensive a success, the young pilot's remains were recovered from his ruined craft and interred at the St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial near Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle.

The host unit at Goodfellow AFB is the Air Force's 17th Training Wing, part of Second Air Force (2 AF) of AETC.
 

There are also tenant units of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
There is a Texas Air National Guard unit, the 217th Training Squadron (217 TRS).
 

The US Army 169th Firefighter Detachment is based at Goodfellow AFB with the battalion headquarters at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
 

The Army's 344th Military Intelligence Battalion is headquartered at Goodfellow AFB with separate companies at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and Corry Station, Florida.

On 1 July 1993, the 17th Training Wing was activated on Goodfellow AFB. With the change in name came a marked diversification and increase in Goodfellow's mission. Rounds one and two of the BRAC process transferred special instruments training from the former Lowry AFB and fire protection training from the former Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, to Goodfellow.

To support the increased training load, Goodfellow underwent extensive modernization and growth. With new training facilities, dormitories, dining halls, a commissary, a youth center, and a physical fitness center.

Learn More About Goodfellow Air Force Base HERE!!

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[radu]

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

You and Gizmo still cooped up by the cold? If it’s as bad there as it’s been here, it isn’t fit for man nor beast.

[Kathy in Alaska]

JJ!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

mountainlion!!

[E.G.C.]

Well, it’s not as cold this morning as it was yesterday but we’re between 30 and 34 degrees right now.

[luvie]

Yeah....we go through a lot of it too. Buy it in bulk from Sam’s Club. :)

Guess I’d better go for tonight. I think I have Peaches for the night. He hasn’t left my side since I turned on the computer in the bedroom. Bless his heart.

See ya tomorrow night for another fun quiz. :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Mayor!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Doc91678, and we thank you for your service to our country.

[radu]

Must have been pretty cold yesterday. That’s over here now I reckon. 30 now but is supposed to dip into the mid 20s by sunrise. Supposed to be even colder by tomorrow morning, THEN start slowly warming up.
I hope you have a little warm-up ahead too.

[radu]

Sounds like we could make each other rich. LOL

Oh, how lucky you are! Peaches tonight. I hope he behaves himself and lets you sleep.

See ya tomorrow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E...((HUGS))...warm enough for you and Gizmo to get out?

You guys have a great Tuesday!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a cupcake?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[Kathy in Alaska]

[E.G.C.]

I think we have a little bit of a warm up coming. It was nice out there yesterday when we went out to Waurika Lake. More nice weather later today.

[Colonelbuzzsaw]

I’m a 1976 grad of the Crypto School there. My first assignment was NSA.

[radu]

At the time you posted all the temp graphics, it’s 2 degrees colder here than it is in Anchorage. Sumpin’s just wrong wit dat. LOL

[radu]

You need to huff and puff and send some of the “nice” over here. LOL! It was frigid here and will be again today.
It’ll finally be comfortable here Thursday but there’s rain with it in the forecast. Oh well, better than snow! :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[mountainlion]

Are you part of the group that tried to tip Guam over?

There are a couple guys that look like me causing all sorts of trouble.

Two days above freezing then it ratchets down to 9 degrees and 20s for a high. OUCH!!

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks.