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

 

 

[GoldStarBrother]

Tunes For The Troops

 

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Nightwish - Once (Platinum Edition)
 

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[yorkie]

I’m so glad I don’t have to chop wood or shovel snow anymore. (Of course Algore’s global warming may come to the high desert, and I would have to get busy.)

My friend is going to have to have major surgery (twice) and I will be her principle care giver. She will be fine - I have promised her! I’m already digging all the necessities out of storage - (like shower seat, raised potty seat, walker, porta-potty.) I don’t want to forget the mega-phone! It has a siren on it. LOL!

[yorkie]

This one? Good ol' Rodney knows how I feel.

[SandRat]

Yep!

[yorkie]

Ahem. I don’t look like Rodney, though. LOL!

[SandRat]

Rodney said it all for each of us at one time past and even now.

[TASMANIANRED]

Night Randy.

[SandRat]

#350?

[SandRat]

#350?

[SandRat]

#350?

[TASMANIANRED]

I will send prayers for full recovery...

You sound prepared. Already have all the stuff.

[TASMANIANRED]

That’s a blessing.

[yorkie]

Well, there’s always tomorrow. Maybe I’ll post #300 before (ahem) anyone else. ;-)

(Your tag-line prompted me to change mine. Thanks!)

[yorkie]

Oh, I have all the stuff, alright. But it’s all under boxes that will have to be moved. Guess it’s time to build up the bi’s. LOL!

And, thank you for the prayers. She doesn’t want me to make a prayer thread - she’s too modest. But, she is also very scared. I am trying to keep a positive attitude for her. (I know you understand, Taz.) Hugs!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Home safe and sound...no moosies today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, swmo...glad that your hubby is going so well. Back to work...good for him.

[swmobuffalo]

“glad that your hubby is going so well”

Me too! I’m truly amazed that he’s up and round so fast. I keep a close eye on him though!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Randy...((HUGS))...your new heating/AC all in place and functioning? All read up on the generator?

[Kathy in Alaska]

yorkie.....#303!

[Kathy in Alaska]

We are having spring weather, but no one will suggest that winter might be over early.