FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Station Mayport, Florida ~ 12 JAN 2016

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe

[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Station Mayport, Florida

Naval Station Mayport is a United States Navy base in Jacksonville, Florida. It contains a protected harbor that can accommodate aircraft carrier-size vessels, ship's intermediate maintenance activity (SIMA) and a military airfield with one asphalt paved runway.

Since its commissioning in December 1942, NS Mayport has grown to become the third-largest naval surface fleet concentration area in the United States. Mayport's operational composition is unique, with a busy harbor capable of accommodating 34 ships and an 8,001-foot runway capable of handling most aircraft in the Department of Defense inventory.

Naval Station Mayport is also home to the Navy's United States Fourth Fleet, reactivated in 2008 after being deactivated in 1950.

The base has historically served as the homeport to various conventionally powered aircraft carriers of the Atlantic Fleet, including Shangri-La (1960 - 1971), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1956 - 1977), Forrestal (1977 – 1993), Saratoga (1957 - 1994), and, most recently, John F. Kennedy (1995 - 2007).

With the decommissioning of all conventionally powered aircraft carriers by the U.S. Navy, no carriers are presently assigned to Mayport. However, both houses of Congress have passed legislation authorizing about US$75 million for dredging and upgrades at NAVSTA Mayport to accommodate a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

On January 29, 2010, the Quadrennial Defense Review Report stated that a nuclear aircraft carrier would be homeported at NAVSTA Mayport. The action will help protect the fleet against a potential terror attack, accident or natural disaster, because all east coast aircraft carriers are currently based at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, according to the report.

A 2013 report from the Navy revealed that Navy considered basing as many as 14 littoral combat ships at NS Mayport. Littoral Combat Ship Squadron 2 was established at the base on November 7, 2014. USS Little Rock (LCS-9) and USS Sioux City (LCS-11) are among the squadron's ships.

Learn More About Naval Station Mayport 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]

That is just wrong, Kathy! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

I can just imagine if you’d been in the stadium. BRRRRRR!!!!

[ConorMacNessa]

REQUEST PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD



CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather "Old Ironsides" remained open for free public tours. At 210 years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!!!





Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).
(Click for Bosun's Whistle)



USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)

OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I know...I checked! d:o)

I am on the way home, but have to stop for Mom’s chocolate milk. Be back after I get home.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Permission Granted!

[ConorMacNessa]

Good Evening, Kathy!
***HUGS***



Thanks very much to you and Lauren for tonight's Road Trip to Naval Station Mayport, Florida!

Coming aboard as we speak. Rendering Hand Salutes to our National Colors and to the Officer of the Deck!

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!


Missing Man Setting

"Traeumerei"
Robert Schumann
(Click)

Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who
Gave Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

[yarddog]

Yes, I also had a Sister who worked Summers at Hurlburt Field while they were training Cubans for the Bay Of Pigs fiasco. She was attending Florida State at the time.

I think John flew out of Guantanamo and Roosevelt Roads during the Cuban Missile Crises. He told me they flew so low over the Russian ships that some of them threw garbage at them. On the other hand he said some of them would wave to them.

[Abby4116]

My grandson is stationed in Mayport now.

[radu]

I checked, too. LOL!
We match tonight, so far.

I’ll be around when you get home and get Mom settled in with her chok-lit milk. Safe driving!

[PROCON]

Howdy FRiend, you’re getting pretty good at smelling those 50’s :-)

[ColdOne]

Hello from Idaho!!! God Bless our troops past and present. Thank you for your sacrifice for our freedom!!!

Temps....minus 6 overnight. Other than that not anything new. Mild only 32 inches of snow. Fredd has a new nemesis....another squirrel. So nothing new.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!

[luvie]

I think we were too on a few mornings! Weird, huh!

[radu]

Hey there, PROCON.
LOL! I just now noticed I got it and I wasn’t even trying.

How you doin’ tonight?

[radu]

Several years ago, it was colder here than it was in Anchorage almost the entire winter. Kathy kept telling me to send winter back and no matter how hard I huffed and puffed, it just wouldn’t go back. LOL!

Y’all got snow before we did this winter. We’ve just had a couple of flurries so far and it looks like we might get a few tonight.

[PROCON]

I'm doing well. Kathy's hoping for snow and I'm watching my snow melt away, thankfully.

You usually get snow in your neck of America?

[luvie]

I think we’re done with the snow thingy for a while, but the way this year has gone [or rather this winter] anything can happen! LOL!

Our 6-8” snowfall week before last sure as heck surprised us! :O

[radu]

Good to hear you're doing well and getting rid of some of that snow. Kathy needs it so she can drive easier and to brighten things up up there. Too dark when there's no snow.

We don't get much snow here and when we do, it doesn't stick around long. But the cycle's moving back to the way it was when I was a kid and we had lots of snow and it stayed. We spent a lot of time sledding and kids these days don't get to do that.

Bad thing about it is I don't like cold weather any more now that I'm old . LOL

[The Mayor]

No melting, we are in the middle of a cold snap.
17 outside and lake effect snow burying the south towns of Buffalo.
Ski country is happy!

[The Mayor]

Thank you!