FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island ~ 05 JAN 2010

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island

The Naval Station Newport (NAVSTA Newport) is a United States Navy base located in the towns of Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island. NS Newport is home to the Naval War College. It once was the homeport for Cruiser Destroyer Force Atlantic, and now maintains inactive ships at its pier facilities, along with the United States Coast Guard.

In BRAC 2005 (Base Realignment and Closure), NAVSTA Newport gained over five hundred billets, in addition to receiving, again, Officer Candidate School (OCS), and the Naval Supply Corps School, and several other activities.

Iron steamships first fought one another during the Civil War, during which both Confederate and Union navies also used submarines and steamships. As these new ships and weapons battered one another, a number of important men in uniform saw how naval warfare would evolve. Among those was Adm. Dixon Porter, who realized that in the future of ships would slip beneath the sea to perform silent services, or be covered in metal and fight with huge cannons.

It was under Porter's efforts that the Navy established torpedoes, mines and other explosives as part of naval warfare's "emerging technology." In accordance with his vision, the Navy created the Torpedo Station on Goat Island in 1869, which has since become the Newport Naval Complex, home of the Navy Education and Training Center. This is the only active military base in Rhode Island.

At this time, no postgraduate schools were available to junior officers, and enlisted personnel received their training aboard ship. Commodore Stephen Bleecker Luce is credited with establishing the Navy's first Recruit Training Station and with the founding of the Naval War College. Luce's colorful career covered four tours with the Naval Academy--including its Civil War years at Newport--and he had long expounded the need for better training programs.

 During the naval decline of the 1870s, Luce established and built up the Naval Apprentice Training System, which trained staff for both the Navy and merchant marine. Luce is better known though for his major achievement, the founding of the Naval War College at Newport in 1884.

Learn More About The History Of Naval Station Newport HERE!

Newport is the Navy’s premier site for training officers, officer candidates, senior enlisted personnel and midshipman candidates, as well as conducting advanced undersea warfare and development systems. Naval Station Newport’s mission is to fulfill the diverse requirements of its tenant commands by providing the facilities and infrastructure that are essential to their optimum performance.

Newport is the home of the Navy’s most prestigious educational institution, the Naval War College. As the oldest such institution in continuous existence any-where in the world, the college is organized to pursue and integrate both academic and research endeavors. Each year, over 500 outstanding mid-career level officers of the Navy, all other U.S. services, civilian federal agencies and inter-national naval officers come here to pursue a rigorous 10-month course of post-graduate studies.

Currently, the station is also the home of the USS Forrestal and the Saratoga, both of which are decommissioned. The Forrestal is set to be sunk as an artificial reef at a later date; the fate of the Saratoga has not yet been decided, although there is a movement which wishes to make the ship into a museum ship in nearby North Kingstown.

Learn More About Naval Station Newport HERE!

Patriots Memorial is located in front of McCarty-Little Hall at the Naval War College, Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island. The memorial is dedicated to the three students and ten alumni of the Naval War College who perished in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on The Pentagon. The Naval War College Foundation raised money for the memorial through private donations. It was dedicated in 2002 and contained a piece of limestone removed from the damaged portion of The Pentagon.

Visit The Naval War College Foundation 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]

Good night, Taz, and rest well. Hope you are starting to catch up. ((HUGS)) May prayers of peace find you easier each day.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Coffee is always on........

How about a donut?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[Pusterfuss]

Good morning Kathy. (-10)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Pusterfuss...((HUGS))...you are still very cold. 20 here, but on its way to 30.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Lauren. Thanks for this morning’s thread. How’s it going?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone. Good morning to our AWESOME military, our allies, and their families

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities. That sure is a nice looking base.

~ Today....Considerable cloudiness. A few flurries are possible. High 34F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.

~ Tonight..Mostly cloudy skies this evening will become partly cloudy after midnight. Low 26F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph...

YES! The reports say we'll get near 38 tomorrow

Time for me to make my rounds. But, you stay right where you are. Don't touch that dial. And, remember – I’ll be watching!

Come on in, y'all and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, 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?

[beachn4fun]

150?

[beachn4fun]

[beachn4fun]

Good morning and (((HUGS))) EG. I’m fine. Trying to get some work done in between posting.

Howz things out your way? How did the appointment go yesterday (Chuck)?

[Non-Sequitur]

I met my wife in Newport when I was there for Department Head School. A lot of good memories from that place.

[MEG33]

My Guy....OCS graduate 1953,
Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island
Good Frosty Morning To The Canteen

[E.G.C.]

Well, this was a normal routine deal for Chuck. They use these blood check to adjusst his medications. We haven't heard from them on it yet.

That cold blast you're talking about is due here later this week. We're forecast to drop into the single digits. Not yver confortable weather to be outside very long.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen.

[MEG33]

It’s 20 here! No wind ..thank heavens.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Meg ((HUGS))

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

How was your holiday?

[beachn4fun]

Single digits? OMG!

Come on summer!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, dear ((HUGS))

something must be wrong with the AL weather blinky.....how can it be colder there than MA & MD?