FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi ~ 31 January 2017

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi

Naval Air Station Meridian or NAS Meridian is a military airport located 11 miles northeast of Meridian, Mississippi in Lauderdale County and Kemper County, and is one of the Navy's two jet strike pilot training facilities.

Naval Air Station Meridian trains Sailors and Marines in aviation and technical related fields. It is home to Training Air Wing One, Training Squadron 9, Training Squadron 7, Naval Technical Training Center, Marine Aviation Training Support Squadron One and the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy.

The Air Operations Department employs 230 military and civilian personnel to operate NAS Meridian/McCain Field and Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) Joe Williams.

Their primary mission is to support Commander, Training Air Wing ONE, the wing's subordinate training squadrons and its associated T-45 Goshawk aircraft in the conduct of undergraduate strike pilot training.

Additional services are furnished to support operations for NAS and transient military aircrews. Air Traffic Control Division operates the control tower and radar final control systems.

NAS Meridian maintains a separate runway, Joe Williams Outlying Landing Field (OLF), approximately 25 miles northwest of the main air station. Joe Williams OLF is an 8,000 foot long runway located in a rural area between the communities of Bogue Chitto and De Kalb.

 The field is used to reduced traffic congestion at the main air station, primarily when students are conducting Field Carrier Landing Practice in preparation for initial aircraft carrier qualification.

Learn More About Naval Air Station Meridian 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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

It is blowing like crazy outside and almost 42 degrees. Not good!

Maybe a bit of snow over night, but 34 tomorrow. Well, this is icky!

[Kathy in Alaska]

You got it!!

[radu]

Good grief! You’re almost as warm as we are. Our thermometer is reading 45.

Icky is right. All the snow you’ve had recently is going to be a slushy slippery mess tomorrow. Not going to be fun to drive in.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

Military, our Allies, and their families.

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the
Canteen for today’s activities.

Checking in. And catching up.
And, since we're in Mississippi, I'll zip over to the college
and visit granddaughter.

We got about 1 inch of the white stuff
early Monday morning.

Here's an early morning shot from my front porch.

It was mostly gone by the afternoon.
And, the cold is back.

Starting next Wednesday, Eada and I
will begin some professional training.
Which means, one more "to do" thing.
Beginning to think I need to get
a job outside of home. LOL

Gonna have to post and run.
Please stay.
Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.
Chat with the military and/or the family they left behind.

The FR Canteen is

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea,
pancakes, conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM ~ DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above Honoring those who have served before.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach. How’s it going?

[SandRat]

Pres DJT and MadDog have a lot of Military “DEMMIE cut- backs, Shaftings, socital experiment shafftings” to fix!, Re-Building/Re-Storing our Services.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

It’s going okay. Very busy here. Hoping for an early spring.

Howz it out your way?

[E.G.C.]

It’s going OK. Been enjoying some nice weather. Got into the ow 70’s yesterday. More weather like it today.

[SandRat]

MY DAY YET?

Not Yet!

[HiJinx]

Who knows, he may have! It’s pretty neat to think those guys knew enough and cared enough give us kids a treat.

[beachn4fun]

Sounds nice. Hope some of that warm weather heads this way.

Have a good day.

[beachn4fun]

What an interesting story. Thanks for sharing that.

[left that other site]

I got some sleep alright.

The Jerusalem Thread is almost NEVER late.

Oh well..

[left that other site]

When she stretches out on the couch, she takes the whole thing up. :-)

[beachn4fun]

Thanks for sharing that piece of history.

And welcome to FR Canteen.

[luvie]

I had a female cat named Shadow when I was a kid who never had a kitten. She was mean as a snake, and looking back, we probably should have let her! She hated our neighbor, and when the lady would come over, Shadow would sit on the ironing board [that my mom kept set up all the time] and take swipes at her as she would walk by. LOL!

[luvie]

Beachy! You're posting snow pics
...while it's warm enough here for the AC! LOL!
Crazy weather!
It snowed 4 days ago!
I got out and cleaned up dead stuff yesterday!
You know...stalks and sticks from last year's growth.
The winter yard is really ugly. LOL!
Anyhooooo...all y'all have a Terrific Tuesday!
((((hugs))))

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How’s it going?

[luvie]

Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))

All is well here. Nice and warm!

Hope you and Bo had fun yesterday and that you will today, too! Is he still finding lots of gophers and moles?

[E.G.C.]

He didn’t find them yesterday but maybe he will today. We just had the first of the over warm up suppers Susie brought down yesterday.(My sister from the city)