FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip ~ Cape May, New Jersey ~ 11MAR 2008

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Cape May, New Jersey

Coast Guard Training Center Cape May is the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps - it is the U. S. Coast Guard enlisted accession point and recruit training center. The finest young men and women in service to the United States of America pass through the gates each year. The goal at Cape May is to graduate apprentices with the pride, commitment and basic skills to serve the American Public in the U.S. Coast Guard.

United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May is the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps and is the Coast Guard's only enlisted accession point and recruit training center.

Sewell Point, the area occupied by the Training Center, has a long history of naval presence. During the American Revolutionary War and throughout the nineteenth century, Cape May Sound was used as a harbor of refuge. In 1917, the Navy established a "section base" in Cape May, to provide training, vessel support and communication facilities for coastal defense.

Initially, the Navy converted an abandoned amusement center, built along the oceanfront, for military use. The old skating rink became the mess hall and sleeping quarters, the stage was made into a galley, the "human roulette wheel" -- a scrub table and the "barrel of fun" became a brig. When the old wooden structure burned down in 1918, the Navy built standard military facilities along the harbor front (some of these buildings still stand today).

Read More About the Cape May Training School!

The Cape May Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in New Jersey at the tip of Cape May, in the town of Cape May Point. It was built in 1859, was automated in 1946, and continues operation to this day. There are 199 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. The view from the top extends to Cape May City and Wildwood to the north, Cape May Point to the south, and, on a clear day, Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to the west.

The lighthouse is owned by the United States Coast Guard, which maintains it as an active aid to maritime navigation. The Coast Guard leases the structure and the grounds (but not the navigation equipment) to the State of New Jersey which, in turn, sub-leases the structure and grounds to the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC).

MAC raises funds for the restoration and upkeep of the structure and allows visitors to climb to the top. On the way, MAC has placed interpretive exhibits about the lighthouse's history, the lives of the former keepers, and other maritime history of the Jersey Cape.

Learn More About the Cape May Lighthouse 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

 

 

[Tanniker Smith]

You are going to Jersey....Why for goodness sakes?

???

Did you read the title of tonight's thread?
Don't go all "blonde" on me now . . .

ooooo boy, I'm in trouble now....

[luvie]

I understand. You see every evening how hard it is for me
to leave when I need to! LOL!

You should, though, so you’ll be rested!

Nite!

[TASMANIANRED]

I promise ,no coconut cakes.

[tongue-tied]

LOL...yeeehaaa! Travelin’ Reese’s Man. He sure did like Dubai...

[swmobuffalo]

“I should be back by end of Sept”

Good to hear tongue-tied. My son should end up in Iraq around July.

[TASMANIANRED]

Rest well Schatzi..

[gpapa]

This Day in U.S. Military History March 11

1941 - The Lend-Lease Bill becomes law when signed by President Roosevelt.

Important amendments have been made by Congress. A time limit has been placed on the operation of the act -- until June 1943 -- but a motion originally passed in the House forbidding US warships to give convoy protection to foreign ships has been defeated. Also to be allowed are transfers of ships to other countries solely on the presidential authority without reference to Congress. Lend-Lease is not an entirely disinterested act. Britain is compelled to go on paying cash for as long as this is possible (meaning British assets in the US must be sold below their true value) and it is forbidden to export anything containing materials supplied under Lend-Lease, nor can items wholly produced in Britain be exported if equivalent items are being supplied under Lend-Lease.

By early 1941, the Germans had made significant inroads in their campaign to conquer Europe, which put U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in something of a bind. Although he increasingly wanted to aid Great Britain in the war effort against what he perceived as the "unholy alliance" of the Axis powers, Rooseveltýs actions were constrained by public opinion. Sizable pockets of the country considered the nation's involvement in World War I to have been a mistake, and thus hewed to the belief that the U.S. should stay neutral in the face of the mounting crisis in Europe. Roosevelt devised a fiscal and barter-based solution to this problem, which he laid out in a fireside chat in 1940; the U.S. would serve as "the great arsenal of democracy" and thus provide Great Britain with the money and military machinery necessary to battle back the Axis. Roosevelt called on Congress to rapidly pass lend-lease legislation that would sanction this system. Legislators heeded the president's words and shot the bill through the Senate and House.

On March 11, Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law, paving the way for an initial aid package worth roughly $7 billion. Although the U.S. soon chucked its neutral stance and entered the war, the Lend-Lease program kept pumping until 1946. All told, the U.S. funneled $50.6 billion worth of Lend-Lease aid to the Allies during the war, the majority of which went to Britain and the U.S.S.R. After the war, the Lend-Lease program morphed into the Marshall Plan, which allocated funds for the revitalization of "friendly" democratic nations-even if they were former enemies.

Lend-Lease and the Coast Guard: All 10 Lake-class cutters were transferred to the Royal Navy under the program. Two were lost in action against German forces. These 250-foot cutters had been designed by the Coast Guard and featured a slightly raked stem and a cruiser stern. Their innovative turbine-electric drive power plant was developed by Coast Guard Captain Quincy B. Newman. These were the first ships to have alternating current, synchronous motor for propulsion--the whole ship ran off the main turbine. The auxiliary generators were tied into the main generator electrically, after sufficient speed was attained. At that point, no steam was required to drive the turbines on the auxiliary generators. The propulsion plant achieved remarkable efficiency.

USCGC Tahoe: HMS Fishguard

[TASMANIANRED]

So many have given so much.

No greater love....

[PROCON]

Are you going to stay in the sand or does Uncle Sam have other plans for you?!

[TASMANIANRED]

I had drifts 2 foot deep in the driveway..All the snow that would have been on the roofs ended up there.

Blew like fury.

[Tanniker Smith]

I hate to leave, but I really should..

Good evening, Ms. B.
Good night, Ms. B.

[SandRat]

Jhn 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

[Randy Larsen]

I SALUTE you!

Thank You for serving this GREAT NATION!

[MEG33]

(((tongue tied)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Your helo’s return still on schedule? Anybody willing to share yet?

[Randy Larsen]

Did you save the shells?

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I can make you one when you come and visit.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

That is something I would love to do.

Living away from the cities.

[Randy Larsen]

OH MY GOD!

I need that bad!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good morning TT.{{{HUGS}}}