FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~ 17 MAY 2016

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility
Barking Sands, Hawaii

Pacific Missile Range Facility is the world's largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously.

There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace. This makes PMRF a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to large scale, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.

The mission of the Pacific Missile Range Facility is to facilitate Training, Tactics Development, and Test & Evaluations for air, surface, and sub-surface weapons systems and Advanced Technology Systems.

PMRF provides the full spectrum of instrument range support, including; radar, underwater instrumentation, telemetry, electronic warfare, target remote command & control, communications, target launching facilities, data display, data processing and target/weapon launching and recovery facilities.

The headquarters and primary operation center of PMRF occupies approximately 1800 acres and is located on the western shore of the island of Kauai. The nearest town, Kekaha, is eight miles to the south and east. Supporting instrumentation sites at Makaha Ridge and Kokee Park overlook the vast ocean range areas to the west and north Kauai.

The range encompasses 42,000 sq. miles of sea and air space and has minimal encroachments. The underwater tracking range extends over a 1000 sq. miles areas. PMRF features a state of the art instrumentation suite & communication network.

Lead range in the Pacific for Aegis Combat System Ship Qualification Training, PMRF puts new Aegis platforms through extensive testing & training prior to initial deployment. Collocated with the Sandia National Laboratory Kauai Test Facility, PMRF is the lead range for launching the Strategic Target System. No other range has the unencroached geographic expanse necessary to support wide area defense sensor and cooperative engagement capability testing.

The Navy is currently using PMRF to test hit to kill technology using direct collision of the anti-ballistic missile with its target. This destroys the target by using only kinetic energy from the force of the collision. The two Missile Defense Agency programs that currently utilize the range at PMRF are the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD. The THAAD program relocated their testing operations from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and conducted its first demonstration at PMRF on 26 January 2007.

On 27 April 2007, the U.S. military's sea-based missile defense system, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, showed it could intercept two targets simultaneously when it destroyed a cruise missile and a short-range ballistic missile during a test off the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The test marked eight out of ten times the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy's Aegis missile defense system successfully intercepted its target, but was the first time the system knocked out two targets at the same time.

Learn More About Barking Sands HERE!

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[luvie]

It’s a lovely home, and it sounds like you have an excellent plan in place. You have the patience of a saint. (\ô/)

[radu]

I didn’t realize you had two lift chairs installed but that’s because I’d forgotten the house is a split-level. LOL! Nice setup and I know you were happy to get it installed. A big plus for both your mom and you. That’s a lot of stairs for unhappy knees.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I’m learning...the hardest part is keeping my mouth shut.

Tonight was a 20 minute round and round about someone who contacted her and she couldn’t find the message. There was no email. She doesn’t have her addy. She stumbled over her name oh Facebook. I could not make her understand that the lady had a Facebok page, but no activity. First date early February, last entry late February. “Did she give any indication why she contacted me?” She didn’t contact you, she just has a page. “But what did she want?” There has been no activity since February. “But how do I answer her?” Over and over and over again. I suggested she call a friend who might have the lady’s email addy.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I use the upper lift every now and then. The picture is back to the front door. Getting her out that way...12’ to the door and 6 steps down off the porch would be really iffy. The lifts are on batteries, so a power outage isn’t an immediate problem. Then out thru the garage.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thank you Lauren for this morning's thread.

How's it going for you this morning? It's raining with lightning and thunder here in Comanche OK as I type this message.

[radu]

I imagine the lift comes in real handy on laundry days. You’d mentioned you use it then on days your knees are giving you trouble.

With your mom’s knees giving her so much trouble now, those 6 steps would be iffy indeed.

Bummer she’s going in circles over that person who she thinks contacted her. Not what you need, especially on a Monday night, is it?

[Kathy in Alaska]

I don’t think she understands yet. It’ll come up again.

Just finished the work I brought home tonight, so I’m off to bed.

Sleep well when you get there.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, E...((HUGS))...go Bo...champion turtle hunter!!

Happy hunting today.

[radu]

It’ll probably come up again and again and again. LOL! They get some things in their heads and won’t let go.

Good night and have a great trip to dreamland.
Hope all goes smoothly at work tomorrow.

[left that other site]

Prayers for rain for you!

Lynn-dah has totally recovered from her episode with the mothball, and is her playful old self again, thank God! (I thought I was going to lose her this time)

Ready for Pub Night! :-)

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Don’t we have so much fun? ;-)

[luvie]

Always! ;)

[luvie]

I see what you mean. It’s got to be the hardest thing, having to say the same things over and over and over...to no avail.

I have a friend in CA...who is in a wheel chair herself...who is having to take care of her 92-year old mom who has alzheimers. She has zero patience under normal conditions, but she’s been doing this for 5 years or more. She just wants to scream sometimes, but knows it would only make things worse.

So..yes...patience is THE hardest part. Those stairs have to be next hardest! Yeesh! Nice set-up though!