FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida ~ 16 FEB 2016

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida

Naval Air Station Jacksonville or NAS Jacksonville is a military airport located four miles south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is one of two naval bases (the other being Naval Station Mayport) located in Duval County.

Today, 23,000 civilian and active-duty personnel are employed on the base. The installation is considered to be one of the hubs for naval activity in the U.S. South.

The NAS Jacksonville Air Operations Department maintains NAS Jacksonville, Naval Outlying Field Whitehouse, the Air Mobility Command Passenger Terminal and detachment hangars and spaces to contribute to the mission of NAS Jax of enabling naval aviation warfighting readiness.

In addition to the many operational active and reserve squadrons aboard, NAS Jacksonville is also home to Patrol Squadron THIRTY (VP-30), the Navy's largest aviation squadron and the only P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon Fleet Replacement Squadron that prepares and trains U.S. and NATO/Allied pilots, air crew and maintenance personnel for further operational assignments in the P-8A, P-3C Orion and EP-3E Aries in the U.S. Navy, and P-3B, P-3C and similar variants in various NATO and Allied navies and air forces.

VP-30 is the first squadron to operate the U.S. Navy's new P-8 Poseidon aircraft, and commenced training flight crews and maintainers in this replacement for the P-3C in 2012. All U.S. Navy patrol squadrons eventually transition to this new platform.

NAS Jacksonville is also an Aviation Maintenance training facility for several aviation ratings, facilitated by Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Jacksonville.

Support facilities include an additional outlying field (OLF Whitehouse) for pilot training, a maintenance depot employing more than 150 different trade skills capable of performing maintenance as basic as changing a tire to intricate micro-electronics or total engine disassembly, a Naval Hospital, a Fleet Industrial Supply Center, a Navy Family Service Center, a DeCA commissary, Navy Exchange, and recreational facilities for both single sailors and families of the Active, Reserve and Retired military communities.

Learn More About NAS Jacksonville 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]

Well, I get an employee’s discount, so I don’t feel a bit guilty. LOL!

I would have settled for choklit. Nom-nom! :)

[radu]

You were determined to get it, weren't you?

And that was SNEAKY. Snagged it while I was looking for the herons for you! LOL

Oh, and WOOHOO!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I can imagine HEARing it.

Elmendorf bumps up against Anchorage and when the Blue Angels or Air Force Thunderbirds are here....WOW!!

[radu]

Yeah, I was looking for herons to show her how cute they are when they first hatch and she snuck it in!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Hope you and the family are shaking off the crud.

[radu]

Those are NICE. Discount or not, I wouldn’t have felt guilty. LOL

The chok-lits were yummy but they’re gone. Shoulda gone with something a little more permanent, huh?

[luvie]

A gal’s gotta do what a gal’s gotta do. :)

Thanks for the heron video, too! :) Oh...and the WOOHOO! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Streets are dry, mostly.

Today they told us that payroll can go in the new offices on the weekend. And anyone can take personal stuff Friday afternoon.

I just want to see what our space looks like. I was hoping for individual cubicles, no matter how small, but so far it doesn’t like that will happen.

We just ran into a problem. Back to work for a bit.

[radu]

And ya do-ed good! :-)

Glad you liked that video link. I wish the nest was still there so we could enjoy watching them raise this year’s brood. No telling where they ended up.

I debated on that WOOHOO. LOL! But you rated it. Good job!
I just have to pay closer attention next time. hee!

[radu]

Well, if you can’t have snow, at least you aren’t sliding all over the place these days. That’s a plus.

Sounds like they woke up and realized getting payroll set up first in the new office was a must. Move or not, people want and need to get paid! Y’all need to be up and running right away!
Just too bad you won’t have individual cubicles.

Hope the problem is easily solved!

[luvie]

One of you [or maybe spel...gotta watch that sneaky dude!] will probably get the next one. I have a video to watch....X-Files on Couch Tuner. LOL!

[PROCON]

You two keep using that word....Y'all

What's a Y'all

Sounds Southern to me :-)

[radu]

Yep, can’t leave spel out as far as who to watch out for, can we? ;-)

At least there’ll be one less with you watching X Files. heh! Have fun.

[sockmonkey]

When I was a youngster, I used to chase after the DDT trucks when they fogged around base housing at NAS Jax. Sometimes we’d rollerskate after them.

[radu]

It’s just a southern thang. But you know that. :-)

I type like I talk. What can I say? LOL! It seems LUV does, too.

[PROCON]

That Southern thangy was working when I spent 4th grade in Florida. We’d sing “Dixie” everyday in school :-)

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Shhhhhhh! I am, indeed, hiding and watching!

LOL

[radu]

Whew! I’m trying to think back to 4th grade but nothing’s there! I know we kids sang “Dixie” but couldn’t tell you when or where. Durn CRS!

My parents weren’t from the south and it drove them nuts trying to keep us kids from having southern accents. I kept telling them that if they didn’t like it, they shouldn’t have raised us in the south. HELLO! How hard was that to figure out? LOL

[radu]

Ah HA!!!! We see you now!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good...me, too!