FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Los Angeles Air Force Base, California ~ 26 MAR 2024

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Los Angeles Air Force Base, California

Los Angeles Air Force Base is a United States Space Force base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Space Systems Command field command of the United States Space Force. The center manages research, development and acquisition of military space systems.

The Space Base Delta 3 provides medical, civil engineering, communications, chaplain, security, logistics, personnel, readiness, and quality-of-life services to the Space and Missile Systems Center and other Department of Defense units in the Los Angeles basin. It consists of five squadrons and six staff agencies, totaling more than 790 personnel with $608 million in plant assets and an annual budget of $60 million.

The Space Systems Command (SSC) is a USSF field command that works in the areas involving military space acquisition and specific space-based operations by the Department of Defense. In summer 2021, the center was re-designated as Space Systems Command, one of the three major commands under the United States Space Force. It oversees the development, acquisition, launching, and sustaining of military space systems.

The Global Positioning Systems Directorate, formerly the Global Positioning Systems Wing, is a joint-service, multinational, civil/military systems directorate with more than 700 DoD/contractor personnel responsible for the development, launch and sustainment of the Global Positioning System.

The directorate is responsible for the development and procurement of over 250,000 receiver systems and the United States' nuclear detonation detection system. Annual funding is $1 billion and the total program value is $32 billion.

The Advanced Systems and Development Directorate is an organization for systems and development planning for future Space capabilities. Serves as primary provider of launch, spaceflight, hosted payloads and on-orbit operations for the entire DoD space research and development community.

Responsible for acquiring, integrating, launching, and operating R&D spacecraft, prototype operational systems, boosters, and ballistic missiles supporting national security objectives/missile defense programs.

Learn More About Los Angeles Air Force Base HERE!!

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT~Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. 

Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

[luvie]

Yeah, snow on your birthday is NOT a good thing!

AgendaFree is on the air with a bridge collapse in Baltimore. I guess I’ll concentrate on that till I bug out and go to bed. In about an hour probably. I wasn’t planning on this...this late!

[E.G.C.]

He sure did. Later today pickup permitting we will do Chisolm Trail Park.

[Bruce Kurtz]

I was there from 83-85 at the MILSTAR SPO. I was amazed that most of the AF personnel had 4 year stabilized tours there. In fact many would rotate between 3 bases in California and retire without ever leaving the state of CA. Those bases were LAAFS, Norton AFB and Vandenburg AFB.

[ExTexasRedhead]

National Vietnam War Veterans Day

Join us on 29 March,
National Vietnam War Veterans Day, as Americans unite to thank and honor Vietnam veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice.

The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 was signed into law by 45th U.S. President Donald J. Trump, designating every March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day.

https://www.vietnamwar50th.com/

SHOT DOWN And TORTURED For SIX YEARS in the ‘Hanoi Hilton’ | Eugene “Red” McDaniel - American Veterans Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KspfkAfenh0

On May 19, 1967, During McDaniel’s 81st combat mission, his A-6 Intruder was hit by a rocket forcing him and his bombardier-navigator to eject over North Vietnam. McDaniels was captured and interrogated on the ground and ultimately transferred to Hoa Lo Prison, infamously known as the “Hanoi Hilton”.

For three years, McDaniel was listed as Missing in Action while his wife, Dorothy, and three children, Michael, David and Leslie, did not know if he was dead or alive. In 1970, the Hanoi government finally acknowledged that McDaniel was being held prisoner. After six years in captivity as a POW, he was released on March 4, 1973.

[luvie]

HeyHeyHey, Early Birds!
Well! It's early to me! LOL!
What a fun Road Trip. Thanks, lauren!
Hope everyone has a Terrific Tuesday!
It's cool [50°] here. Nice with the sun shining.
((((hugs))))

[ExTexasRedhead]

Tomb Guard Earns Badge After His Final Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXfgdcy1lo4

Conducting a final walk at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a high honor for a Tomb Guard of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), as is earning the Tomb Guard Identification Badge. However, to do both on the same day is a rare event. That’s just what happened to Staff Sgt. Thomas Tavenner on March 11, 2024.