FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota ~ 20 NOV 2012

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota

Ellsworth Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base near Rapid City in Meade County and Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is home to the 28th Bomb Wing of the Air Combat Command (ACC), operating the B-1B Lancer.

As host wing, the 28th Bomb Wing includes an operations group, a maintenance group, a mission support group, and a medical group. The base controls all air space 40 miles (64 km) around its area, including all landings at nearby Rapid City Regional Airport, Rapid City, South Dakota.

The mission of the 28th Bomb Wing is to put bombs on target. Every Airman in this Wing, whether its maintaining its people, equipment, pulling a trigger or aiming crosshairs, puts bombs on target.

Ellsworth Air Force Base is home to the 28th Bomb Wing, which flies B-1B Lancers and serves as the host unit, providing all essential base operating support services for Ellsworth and combat support services for an Air Expeditionary Wing.

The wing consists of four groups: the 28th Operations Group, 28th Mission Support Group, 28th Maintenance Group and 28th Medical Group.

Air Combat Command is the primary force provider of combat airpower to America's warfighting commands. To support global implementation of national security strategy, ACC operates fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, battle-management and electronic-combat aircraft. It also provides command, control, communications and intelligence systems, and conducts global information operations.

As a force provider, ACC organizes, trains, equips and maintains combat-ready forces for rapid deployment and employment while ensuring strategic air defense forces are ready to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime air defense.

ACC numbered air forces provide the air component to U.S. Central and Southern Commands with Headquarters ACC serving as the air component to U.S. Northern and Joint Forces Commands. ACC also augments forces to U.S. European, Pacific and Strategic Commands.

Learn More About Ellsworth Air Force Base HERE!

The South Dakota Air and Space Museum, part of the museum system of the National Museum of the US Air Force, is located in Box Elder, South Dakota, just outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB. The South Dakota Air and Space Museum serves to educate and entertain the public. Not only does it give information about the history of US Air Force aviation, it promotes South Dakota aviation history.

The museum contains a number of interior and exterior exhibits, including:

25 aircraft ranging from World War Two bomber and transport aircraft to the contemporary B-1B Lancer

4 different missiles, including a Minuteman II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

The South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame

A Missile Procedures Trainer Exhibit

An F-106 interactive aircraft cockpit

A B-1B Cockpit and Offensive/Defensive System Operators Simulator

An exhibit of the Stratosphere Balloon Launch from the early 1930s.

Visit The South Dakota Air And Space Museum 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

 

 

[darkwing104]

Good evening, dduck....love those planes!!

I was there during the transition from B-52s to the B-1 before I retained into F-15, and later to Intel. Right know I enjoy seeing the F-35s, CV-22s and F-22s in the Florida Panhandle.

A little colder than Florida?

Just a little colder, Snowbird weather.

How are you today?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Aloha and good afternoon, Hawaii...((HUGS))...it’s getting chilly here. I went out and started my car...it was not happy.

Did you have some sun?

I am off for an appointment. Back in a bit.

[Rushmore Rocks]

I didn’t mean to mislead anyone. My only service was as a daughter,granddaughter, great-grandaughter, wife and mother (ad infinitem) of all the men in my family who actually did serve. I spent many years waiting on news from afar and worry about those I loved......some who gave all. Dating way back to the Remolutionary War.

Thank you so much for your wonderful Canteen threads. I always read them. It is a great service and honor that you do.

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[willibeaux]

I was stationed there May 1952 - January 1954,

We had RB 36 Peacemakers

[Kathy in Alaska]

Awe, but our families serve as well. No misleading. We thank you for that, that job of waiting at home....not an easy job.

Tonight, just a few miles south of Elmendorf, it is 4F....I just got home from work and I’m trying to get warm.

[Kathy in Alaska]

And in first....Nana Hope grabs the gold!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And a close second....Hawaii snags the silver!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top three....The Mayor bags the bronze!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! Finally...only one. Did you have a good day?

It just dropped to 3F here....I’m gonna have to find a long sleeved something. I’m cold. d:o)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, Mayor, and thanks for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[cherry]

stopped there this summer on my travels....always enjoy Rapid City and the area.....stayed in Deadwood too...we make it a point on the way back to Washington to stay one night in Buffalo,wy....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Connie, and thanks for the Tribute to Our Troops. *hugs*

Hope you are feeling better today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, South Dakota....quite a plane.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, Janey...((HUGS))

Welcome home for the holidays.

Too cute baby. Did you get to hold him?

Thanks for the great pictures. Thanks, Dad, and friends.

[Kathy in Alaska]

AMERICA –
LAND OF THE FREE . . .

BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!!!!

SEMPER FI AND OORAH!!!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Jabba...thanks for sharing your experience.

What a thrill, and probably shock, to have a B-1 fly so low over your car.

[Kathy in Alaska]

BAND OF BROTHERS

WORLD WAR II

Members of the 101st Airborne, June 7, 1944 at Ste.Marie du Mont, France

"This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian."
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say, "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."

KOREA

Members of the "Chosin Few", 1st Marine Division, December 1950


"Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered."

VIETNAM

FMF Corpsman D. R. Howe treats the wounds of Pfc. D. A. Crum, "H" Company, 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, during Operation Hue City.


"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

AFGHANISTAN

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in action, Afghanistan, 2011


"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let it pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as does a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean."

(Henry V, Act IV, Scene iii)


THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNY GOES ON,
AS IT HAS FROM TIMES IMMEMORIAL.
THE BAND OF BROTHERS STILL STANDS FAST IN THE BREACH!

They have our six!

Honor them for their Service and Sacrifice!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, ML...((HUGS))...just finished my homework. Falling asleep at the computer.

You and Linda have a great Tuesday.

[Kathy in Alaska]