FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama ~ 16 SEP 2014

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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army post adjacent to Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama, United States and is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

 The Arsenal is a garrison for a number of tenants including the United States Army Materiel Command, Army's Aviation and Missile Command, the Missile Defense Agency of the Department of Defense, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Originally a chemical weapons manufacturing facility for World War II, the arsenal became the focal point of the Army’s rocket and space projects, including development of the first U.S. ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles in the 1950s.

Redstone Arsenal remains the center of testing, development, and doctrine for the Army's missile programs. Besides the U.S. Army Materiel Command and the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, Redstone houses the Tactical UAV Project Office, Redstone Test Center (RTC), the Missile Defense Agency, the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, and other operations.

After operating as a tenant on Redstone Arsenal for over half a century, the Ordnance Munitions and Maintenance School was moved to Fort Lee, Virginia.

Redstone Arsenal continues to host the Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA's field center for propulsion analysis and development, which developed the Saturn rocket family in the 1960s and propulsion systems for the Space Shuttle in the 1970s and '80s.

Learn More About Redstone Arsenal HERE!!

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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

 

 

[SandRat]

[luvie]

Heehee!

[SandRat]

[ConorMacNessa]

GOOD EVENING To Our Valiant Troops, To Our Vets, To Our Families, To Our FRiends, To Our Allies And To All Canteen Denizens!

GODSPEED OUR TROOPS around the Globe, especially those in combat!



Evening Colors - Fort Hood, Texas – 27 March 2014

Evening Colors
U.S. Army Bugler
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MAY THE LORD Protect And Uphold Our Troops In Their Performance Of Their Vital Mission!

MAY HE KEEP Their Families Secure During Their Time Of Separation!

MAY HE PRESERVE And Uphold The American Nation In This Time Of Crisis!

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)

[RobinOfKingston]

I was at Redstone Arsenal for nine months, in late ‘66 and early ‘67, learning how to keep Continuous Wave Radar of the HAWK missile system functioning. Trained in repair from component level up. Werner von Braun was there at the time, some distance from my lowly quarters, working on the Saturn V engine. When that big boy was lit up, nothing on the Arsenal stayed still. You could feel it reverberate through your chest, even at a great distance.

Beside the Saturn V, the most outstanding memories I have is the hardest rainstorm I have ever experienced was there, and the biggest, most arrogant and self-assured cockroaches on planet earth call it home. We lived in big quonset huts, a set was two of them joined by a long corridor at one end with bathroom facilities off the corridor. Had nice beds, bunk beds with big thick mattresses. They were chained to the walls with six foot long chains. In the morning, all the beds would be out of place, at the end of their chains. Every morning, they had to be put back in place and lined up again. Took a while to figure it out, but what was happening was four of those ‘roaches would grab a bed, one at each leg and try to carry us off in it. They couldn’t quite break the chains, though.

[WVNan]

img src="http://localtvwhnt.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/assembly-line1.jpg?w=370&h=204&crop=1">

My mother is somewhere on this assembly line packing shells at Redstone during WWII.

[WVNan]

Drat, have I forgotten my HTML cause I’ve been away so long? Sorry about that

[ConorMacNessa]

Hi, Nan!

*HUGS*

It's great to see you - been a long time!

Stevens

Woods

Stevens and Smith were sorely pressed, Doherty and Woods fought as men possessed. Obama and Clinton witnessed and lied, American Heroes bled and died!

Doherty

Smith

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command. \

[ConorMacNessa]

GOOD EVENING To Our Valiant Troops, To Our Vets, To Our Families, To Our FRiends, To Our Allies And To All Canteen Denizens!

GODSPEED OUR TROOPS around the Globe, especially those in combat!



Evening Colors - Fort Hood, Texas – 27 March 2014

Evening Colors
U.S. Army Bugler
(Click)



MAY THE LORD Protect And Uphold Our Troops In Their Performance Of Their Vital Mission!

MAY HE KEEP Their Families Secure During Their Time Of Separation!

MAY HE PRESERVE And Uphold The American Nation In This Time Of Crisis!

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)

[WVNan]

Hi Conor, thank you for rescuing my picture. My Mom worked on that line packing shells. I considered her (God rest her soul) a wounded warrior after that building blew to kingdom come. Most didn’t make it out. She crawled out over the remains.