FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Jackson, South Carolina ~ 21 JULY 2009

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Road Trip: Fort Jackson, South Carolina

Fort Jackson is a United States Army installation, which TRADOC operates on for Basic Combat Training (BCT), and is located in Columbia, South Carolina.

Fort Jackson is the largest and most active Initial Entry Training Center in the U.S. Army, training 34.9 percent of all soldiers and 69 percent of the women entering the Army each year. Providing the Army with new soldiers is the post's primary mission. Accomplishing this mission means training in excess of 45,000 basic training and advanced individual training soldiers annually. The training is provided by the 165th, 171st, and 193rd Infantry Brigades.

In 1916 the civic leaders of Columbia realized that war with the Central Powers in Europe was imminent, and that the country badly needed new, large training camps. The Chamber of Commerce leaders proposed to General Leonard Wood of New York, commander of all Army installations in the East, that the vast Estate of South Carolina great Wade Hampton would be an ideal site for a training camp. General Wood sent Major Charles E. Kilbourne to examine the site.

On 19 May 1917, Major Douglas MacArthur announced that one of the 16 National cantonments would be constructed near Columbia, South Carolina.

The Columbia Chamber of Commerce appointed a Cantonment Commission that solicited funds from town fathers and quickly raised the $59,000 asked by the Hampton Estate to turn the property over to the government. Columbia residents donated 1,192 acres; the Federal Government later acquired by purchase some 19,742 acres more, and by lease still other thousands.

On 2 June 1917, Congressional approval of a plan to place a training center on the site Major Kilbourne had investigated was secured by the War Department. Three days later the men of the nation registered for the draft.

Camp Jackson, South Carolina, was established and named in July 1917 as a World War I training camp pursuant to General Orders No. 95, War Department, 18 July 1917. It was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, Major General of the Army, a hero in the Battle of New Orleans, and the seventh President of the United States (from 1829 to 1837). Prior to this time it was known as the 6th National Army Cantonment, or “The Cantonment.”

Learn More About The History Of Fort Jackson HERE!!

Providing the Army with trained, disciplined, motivated and physically fit warriors who espouse the Army's core values and are focused on teamwork Fort Jackson's primary mission.

The fort includes more than 52,000 acres, including more than 100 ranges and field training sites and 1,160 buildings. Soldiers, civilians, retirees and family members make up the Fort Jackson community that continues to grow in numbers and facilities. More than 3,900 active duty Soldiers and their 14,000 family members are assigned to the installation and make this area their home. Fort Jackson employs almost 5,200 civilians and provides services for more than 36,000 retirees and their family members.

The post has other missions as well. Fort Jackson is home to the U.S. Army Soldier Support Institute, the U.S. Army Chaplains Center and School and the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (formerly the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute).

The fort will continue to grow in the coming years as a result of the recent Base Realignment and Closure Commission’s decision to make Fort Jackson the home of the Army’s only Drill Sergeant School, the Department of Defense Joint Center of Excellence for Military Chaplaincy and one of four new Regional Readiness Sustainment Commands.

Other expansion and improvement projects have been completed or are in progress. Within the last three years new projects included a Post Exchange complex, an Emergency Services Center and a Navy Reserve Center. A $4.5 million family water park opened in the summer of 2004 and a new barracks complex and central energy plant costing $59 million will open soon.

Learn More About Fort Jackson HERE!!

The mission of the Chaplain Center and School is to train chaplains and chaplain assistants who provide religious support to American soldiers and their family members throughout the world.

The U.S. Army Chaplain School was created out of a need to adequately train chaplains to staff the large military force which the United States was creating in 1917, for service in World War I. The plan for the school was developed by Chaplain (MAJ) Aldred A. Pruden. The Army Chaplain Museum is located at the school.

The mission of The U. S. Army Chaplain Museum is to collect, conserve, and display artifacts of the US Army Chaplaincy's past as the foundation of its future.

Visit The U.S. Army Chaplain Museum HERE!!

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July 21, 2009

Eternity In Our Hearts

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He has put eternity in their hearts. —Ecclesiastes 3:11

I once came across a scene of beauty outside Anchorage, Alaska. Against a slate-gray sky, the water of an ocean inlet had a slight greenish cast, interrupted by small whitecaps. Soon I saw these were not whitecaps at all but whales—silvery white beluga whales in a pod feeding no more than 50 feet offshore. I stood with other onlookers, listening to the rhythmic motion of the sea, following the graceful, ghostly crescents of surfacing whales. The crowd was hushed, even reverent. For just a moment, nothing else mattered.

The author of Ecclesiastes would have understood the crowd’s response. He sees with dazzling clarity the beauty in the created world and that God “has put eternity in their hearts” (3:11). Such an elegant phrase applies to much in human experience. Surely it hints at a religious instinct. Our hearts perceive eternity in ways other than the religious.

Ecclesiastes presents both sides of life on this planet: the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. God’s tantalizing world is too big for us. Unless we acknowledge our limits and subject ourselves to God’s rule, unless we trust the Giver of all good gifts, we will end up in despair.

Amid the measured music
What watchful ear can hear
God’s voice amidst the garden?
Yet hush! for He is here! —Charles

To make the most of today, keep eternity in mind.
Bible in One Year: Psalms 29-30; Acts 23:1-15

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United States Marine Corps Band ~ National Anthem

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Lauren!

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Thanks for tonite's road trip!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Road Trip: Fort Jackson, South Carolina

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[brushcop]

YES!! FT. JACKSON SC, where our son is currently stationed, part of the cadre, thanks so much!! How great to read more details on this installation, thanks again. HOO-AH!! ;O)

[laurenmarlowe]

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Jason Condon, a battalion air officer with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, conducts a Civil Affairs Group patrol with Afghan soldiers in the Nawa District of Helmand province, Afghanistan, on July 17, 2009. The Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade - Afghanistan are deployed in support of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and will participate in counter insurgency operations and training and the mentoring of Afghan security forces. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. William Greeson, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)

U.S. Air Force Maj. Nick Zetocha and aircraft mechanic Tech. Sgt. Ken Caldwell, both with the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, prepare to launch an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., during a Red Flag exercise on July 13, 2009. Red Flag exercises are designed to provide the most realistic training environments for United States and allied air forces. DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Beth Holliker, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

A harbor crane lifts a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle from the hull of the U.S. cargo vessel MV Marilyn in the port of Antwerp, Belgium, on July 11, 2009. The U.S. Army 838th Transportation Battalion is monitoring the first major shipment of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles from Kuwait to be part of the Mission Rehearsal Exercise fleet in the Hohenfels and Grafenwoehr training areas in order to increase the pre-deployment readiness of U.S. and allied military. DoD photo by Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie, U.S. Army. (Released)

[ConorMacNessa]

Standing at attention for our National Anthem! Hand Salute!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[laurenmarlowe]

Welcome Aboard ConorMacNessa!

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[Kathy in Alaska]

As of today my main graphic closet is blocked at work, so I’ve tried to reload from other places. Hope I don’t mess stuff up too bad before I get home and can “see” again.

Thanks for the graphics help. *HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy Hope, and Thank You for our Pledge Of Allegiance!

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[mylife]

Nice job on tonight’s thread Lauren

[ConorMacNessa]

First Bn. 5th Marines

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and THANK YOU Mayor!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

It’s good to see you ConorMacNessa, hope you’re doing well!

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[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy!

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How are things in The Last Frontier?

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[Kathy in Alaska]

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