FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Station Lemoore, California ~ 19 MAY 2015

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Air Station Lemoore, California

Naval Air Station Lemoore or NAS Lemoore is a United States Navy base, located in Kings County and Fresno County, California. Lemoore Station, California, a census-designated place, is located inside the base's borders.

NAS Lemoore is the Navy's newest and largest Master Jet Base. Strike Fighter Wing Pacific, along with its associated squadrons, is home ported there.

NAS Lemoore also hosts four Carrier Air Wings: Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2), Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9), Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11), and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17).

With the transfer of NAS Miramar to the United States Marine Corps, NAS Lemoore now hosts the Navy's entire west coast fighter/attack capability. NAS Lemoore was built “from the ground up” as a Master Jet Base, and has several operational advantages, and relatively few constraints, as a result.

Strike Fighter Wing Pacific with its supporting facilities is home ported here. The primary aircraft based at NAS Lemoore is the F/A-18 Hornet Strike Fighter. In November, 1999, NAS Lemoore received its first F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets, which replaced the F-14 Tomcat in fleet service as an air-superiority fighter and has assumed, in a different configuration, the role of older F/A-18 Strike Fighters.

Currently, there are a total of 175 Hornets and Super Hornets home-based at NAS Lemoore operating from one Fleet Replacement [training] Squadron and fifteen Fleet [operational] Squadrons.

Services include air traffic control, flight scheduling, operation and maintenance of navigational aids, ground approach radar, communications equipment, Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS), emergency arresting gear, and optical landing systems. Additionally, Lemoore provides search and rescue (SAR) and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) services utilizing fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Learn More About Naval Air Station Lemoore 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

Good morning, E...((HUGS))...hope you and Bo have been able to go “hunting”. He must be quick!

I am off to get some sleep.

41 posted on 05/19/2015 1:07:00 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))

To: All; laurenmarlowe; Kathy in Alaska; beachn4fun; LUV W; Arrowhead1952; SandRat; PROCON; mylife; ...

~Good Mornng To The Canteen~
Thank you for the Road Trip to Naval Air Station Lemoore, CA, lauren.

~F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet~

Our forecast is once again for scattered thunderstorms. Soggy weather! I Wish Everyone A Great Day

42 posted on 05/19/2015 6:03:29 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops)

To: Kathy in Alaska; 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; Colonel_Flagg; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ...

EEUUWW....Early Bird breakfast is highly overrated! :)
Hope all of YOU Early Birds have a Terrific Tuesday!
I'm off...as you can probably tell by the time!
....so it's a GREAT day for me!
It rained last night and is nice and cool now.
Yay for a wet spring!
((((hugs))))

This (((hug))) is for you, Arrow!

God rest the soul of Fawnn,
who passed away overnight.

43 posted on 05/19/2015 8:49:54 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

Fawnn?

So sad.

Prayers for the family.

44 posted on 05/19/2015 8:51:41 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)

FAWN is with my Mom & Dad & playing with Zeus.

45 posted on 05/19/2015 8:58:51 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)

She is! And is greeting all the ones from here who have gone before us. Maybe creating new “woohoos” like she used to!

46 posted on 05/19/2015 9:16:17 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

To: LUV W; Kathy in Alaska; E.G.C.

47 posted on 05/19/2015 9:17:31 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)

What's interesting is that there probably are more Hornets at the bone-yard next to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ!

48 posted on 05/19/2015 9:39:07 AM PDT by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from my back porch...soon, so will you!)

To: LUV W; SandRat

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W.

Good morning Sandrat.

How's it going?

49 posted on 05/19/2015 9:44:08 AM PDT by E.G.C.

It’s going well. ((HUGS))

In a smaal way it’s getting sweeter; My Arm/Shoulder hurt less.

50 posted on 05/19/2015 9:57:33 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)

To: Fawnn; LUV W; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; Soaring Feather; beachn4fun; StarCMC; MS.BEHAVIN; ...

Fawnn's web site with her beautiful blue roses no longer exists; so I've had to look elsewhere to offer a fitting tribute to her passing. Over 9 years ago, Tonk gave all the women in the Canteen a blue rose from us (the men in the military and Canteen).

Today, I'm reposting Tonk's rose in memory of a wonderful woman who brought dedication, devotion, perseverence, and more than a little sass to our wonderful Canteen family.

Fawnn, m'dear, you will be sorely missed.

51 posted on 05/19/2015 10:00:48 AM PDT by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from my back porch...soon, so will you!)

Thank you HiJinx. She will be missed. R.I.P. Fawn.

52 posted on 05/19/2015 10:17:36 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)

What a lovely tribute, Jinxy! I guess I got here to late for a blue rose. I might post this on her FB page, if I might.

53 posted on 05/19/2015 10:26:38 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))

All is well on a nice cool, cloudy day off. We got another .4 of an inch of rain last night and that makes me very happy!

Hope you and Bo are having a good week so far! :)

54 posted on 05/19/2015 10:35:58 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

By all means, do post it there!

55 posted on 05/19/2015 11:17:09 AM PDT by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from my back porch...soon, so will you!)

Really nice. Thanks Jinxie.

R I P fawnn

56 posted on 05/19/2015 11:21:45 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Raina and Connor ~ the sequel ~ now available.)

To: HiJinx; Fawnn; Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC; radu; bentfeather; AZamericonnie; beachn4fun; LUV W; ...

Beautiful, HiJinx!

Rest in love, Fawnn. You will be sorely missed.

For all the Canteeners and FReepers that I don’t get to see very often, my love to all of you. Take care of yourselves.

57 posted on 05/19/2015 12:12:53 PM PDT by MoJo2001

Yes indeed. Hope the Dems don't do to it what Mary Aquino did t all of our bases in the Philippines.

58 posted on 05/19/2015 12:22:43 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)

Thank you. Done. Thanks for your comment! :)

59 posted on 05/19/2015 12:57:40 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

((HUGS))Good afternoon, MoJo. Long time no see. How’s it going?

60 posted on 05/19/2015 1:18:18 PM PDT by E.G.C.

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