FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California ~ 02 June 2020

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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Road Trip: Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California

Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach is a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility located in Seal Beach, California with detachments in Fallbrook, and Norco, both also in California. It also encloses the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge.

The command exists to provide base operating support to the Navy's ordnance mission. Command and tenant personnel provide munitions receipt, segregation, inspection, maintenance, storage, issue, and assessment services to Navy operating forces and other Department of Defense and homeland security entities.

Unique among most naval weapons facilities, Detachment Fallbrook is located 9 miles inland. Ammunition is transferred to and from ships by a process known as Vertical Replenishment, or VERTREP. In this operation, ammunition is taken by truck from a magazine on base to a helicopter pad located inside Camp Pendleton.

From there MH-60S Seahawk helicopters pick up the load and transfer it to the receiving ship waiting several miles off the coast. In this manner, large vessels such as amphibious assault ships can be loaded without leaving their primary Southern California operating and training areas.

The station has an active environmental cleanup program. One-fifth of the facility's land area has been designated as a National Wildlife Refuge (the only such refuge within a five-county area), and is home to many endangered and threatened species. The station is also home to the nation's West Coast WWII Submarine Memorial.

Learn More About Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach HERE!!

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June 2

Chosen to Forgive

Bible in a Year:

• 2 Chronicles 17–18
• John 13:1–20

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Luke 23:34

As a middle-schooler, Patrick Ireland first sensed God had chosen him for something. But what? Later as a survivor of the horrific Columbine (Colorado) High School massacre where thirteen were killed and twenty-four wounded, including Patrick, he began to understand an answer.

Through his long recovery, Patrick learned that clinging to bitterness causes further wounding. God showed Patrick that the key to forgiveness is to stop focusing on what others have done to us and to focus on what Jesus has done for us. Christ’s words on the cross toward His tormenters, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34), fulfilled Zechariah the priest’s prophecy of Jesus’ forgiveness (1:77). Additionally, His example revealed a purpose for Patrick, and twenty years after the tragedy, Patrick shared, “Maybe I was chosen to forgive.”

While most of us will not endure an unimaginable calamity such as the one committed at Columbine, each of us has been wronged in some way. A spouse betrays. A child rebels. An employer abuses. How do we move forward? Maybe we look to the example of our Savior. In the face of rejection and cruelty, He forgave. It is through Jesus’ forgiveness of our sins that we, ourselves, find salvation, which includes the ability to forgive others. And like Patrick, we can choose to let go of our bitterness to open our hearts to forgiveness.

By:  Elisa Morgan

Reflect & Pray

Is your heart open to forgive? How might you experience more of the salvation Jesus died to provide by choosing to move toward forgiving someone who has wronged you?

Dear Father, show me who I’m chosen to forgive today, and give me the strength to offer the forgiveness You died to provide.

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, thanks for tonight's Road Trip!

[cloudmountain]

Six Navy SEALs could take care of ALL the rioters in Minneapolis.

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))

[left that other site]

Blue is at the Shop, and on her way to a complete “total service”.

She ain’t getting any younger, you know.

I know how she feels, and could use a spa vacay myself.

[GreyHoundSailor]

Memorable moment - conning a Cruiser into Seal Beach, couple hundred yards from the pier, going to General Quarters for a major lube oil leak. Never saw forklifts with pallets of ammo move so fast. Folks on the pier were running as fast as their feet could go.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[luvie]

Thanks for a great

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Did you have a good Monday? Supplies starting to arrive?

[wjcsux]

I have been to NWS Seal Beach many times to prepare for missile tests for the fleet. It’s a beautiful place with many dedicated, hard working professionals.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi there, Pro...a good Monday for you? Just relaxing and enjoying retirement?

[wjcsux]

The only thing that unforgiving does is ruin the rest of your life.

[PROCON]

Hi Kathy, yup good Monday, nice weather and a few early morning errands done.

How's your weather?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, cloudmountain...I believe you are right.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...so glad Blue is getting a spa makeover. She will feel much better and so will her Momma.

Hope she comes home soon.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Scatter!! Thanks, GreyHoundSailor, for sharing your experience. We thank you for your service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv...beautiful “territory”. Enjoy the sun and surf if it’s not all locked down still.

[SkyDancer]

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I’m Down There Somewhere

Okay, Got my routes for the month and they’re typical like Denver to Atlanta to Chicago to Kansas City to Cleveland, etc.