FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Red River Army Depot, Texas ~ 12 February 2019

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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Road Trip: Red River Army Depot, Texas

The Red River Army Depot (RRAD) is an 15,835-acre facility located 18 miles west of Texarkana, Texas, in Bowie County. The facility has over 3,000,000 square feet of storage capacity. RRAD was activated in 1941 to create an ammunition storage facility.

 The depot was supposed to be deactivated after the findings of the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. However, the depot remained open after the commission changed its mind. The depot was once again slated for closure upon recommendation from the 2005 BRAC commission, but has remained open to provide maintenance support for the army. The depot's primary mission is the maintenance and repair of all tactical wheeled vehicles, which includes repairing MRAPs and HUMVEEs.

RRAD is recognized as the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for Tactical Wheeled Vehicles, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and Multiple Launch Rocket System. The depot has the only Department of Defense capability for the remanufacture of road wheel and tracked vehicle systems. RRAD leads the way in support of the MRAP program as the depot source of repair for the vehicle as well the fabrication of the rollover egress system, the MRAP Egress Trainer.

The depot also continues to support Soldiers in the field with deployments to Southwest Asia to maintain MRAPs and other vehicle systems. RRAD is responsible for over 5,000 civilian deployments to Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq in direct support of the Soldiers in the field.

Learn More About Red River Army Depot HERE!

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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~ Road Trip : Red River Army Depot, Texas ~

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[ColdOne]

Howdy...Fredd says woof woof. God Bless Our Troops. Haven’t been home but nasty weather here. wind snow and my truck bed is full of snow...lol guess it will not be gone until spring!

Haven’t had to shovel snow off my truck for a few years! Hugs.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro....hope all your shoveling is done. I am slammed at work. Be back when I can.

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Woof, woof, Fredd. Good evening, Idaho...((HUGS))

Thanks for the prayer for our troops. Stay warm!!

[luvie]

Thanks for the great road trip, galz!

[mountainlion]

I bet it is warmer there at the Red River Army Depot, Texas than it is for most of us here.

[luvie]

It’s 53 and very windy along I-20 in West Texas and a bit warmer than that in Ft. Worth...not that far from Texarkana.

[mylife]

Thank you Dear, I love the Canteen.

You get the greatest stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=hMY7awCv3kk

Post Commander in Farmersville Tx is concerned a 6 lane highway may take the post through eminent domain.

The hell you say! Audie Murphy’s post?

Stand bye...

[mylife]

Glad we put our post in a cornfield :)

[SkyDancer]

~ Good Evening ~

~ Snow Snow Snow and WX Sez More Snow ~

~ Good Evening ~

~ Welcome To My World ~

I’m Down There Somewhere

[mountainlion]

It’s 53 and very windy ...

27 and about 30 MPH here.

[mylife]

A good friend of mine acquired 2 1911 pistols from an old soldier that had acquired them at that armory.

A Remington Rand, and a Colt?

In the boxes, with the original receipt of $11 circa 1917?

Dennis took care of that old guy

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=ANt6nzPHlB0

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=4zIrxYqnleY

[luvie]

BRRRRRRRR!

[ColdOne]

;)

[PROCON]

Snow was intermittent today but more is expected.

Took lunch to son's place as the school district is closed today.

Fun winter, currently at 17 degrees.