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FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island ~ 05 JAN 2010
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe

Posted on 01/04/2010 6:00:00 PM PST by 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!

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

 

 



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic; US: Rhode Island
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I’d like to donate my award tonight to a worthy service man/woman who stands between me and the swamp.

They deserve commendation far more than I.


21 posted on 01/04/2010 6:36:25 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I drove down to Newport Naval Station from Portland Maine to attend GPETE (General Purpose Electronic Test Equipment) school in the winter of ‘86.

ONE COLD PLACE!


22 posted on 01/04/2010 6:38:13 PM PST by ryan71 (TERM LIMITS)
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To: HopeandGlory
Thanks, Nana Hope, for today's Pledge. Thanks, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your service to America.


23 posted on 01/04/2010 6:41:57 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: HopeandGlory

Good evening, Nana Hope....are you staying warm?


24 posted on 01/04/2010 6:45:05 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: HopeandGlory
Thanks, Hope - hope you had a great New Year's!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
25 posted on 01/04/2010 6:50:59 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; ConorMacNessa

It’s supposed to get down to 26 tonight . . . but . . . I’m toasty here . . . thermostat is set at 70 and I have an afghan I’m knitting on my lap to keep me cozy and warm . . . smile!


26 posted on 01/04/2010 6:57:55 PM PST by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: Izzy Dunne

MIDNIGHT SEA
Aircraft are on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz under way in the North Arabian Sea at midnight, Jan, 1, 2010. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class William McKibbin

BACKPACK PAL
U.S. Air Force Col. Mark Nichols helps an Afghan girl with her new backpack on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 31, 2009. Students from schools in Kandahar City are visiting the Afghan Expeditionary Air Group. Nichols is commander of the 738th Afghan Expeditionary Air Group. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christine Jones

27 posted on 01/04/2010 7:00:06 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: HopeandGlory
We're at 26 now in the People's Republic of Maryland - looking for a low around 22 or 23 - we have the blast heat on and thank goodness we replaced all the windows last year!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
28 posted on 01/04/2010 7:03:43 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe

Another cool road trip! Never been to Rhode Island but I’ll bet it would be worth seeing this facility! Thanks a bunch, gals!


29 posted on 01/04/2010 7:08:14 PM PST by luvie (When Obama says (over and over) "let me be clear" you can interpret it as "let me lie to you"!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe






Supporting our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
at more than 1,000 places across the U. S. and around the world.

~Tribute to Our Troops~


30 posted on 01/04/2010 7:08:46 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi.


31 posted on 01/04/2010 7:10:30 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Well Izzy....if you WERE here I would wish a good evening & hope you have a lovely new year but since your not....*Crickets Chirping*:)


32 posted on 01/04/2010 7:13:03 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe

Thank you ladies for this evenings road trip! *hugs*


33 posted on 01/04/2010 7:17:44 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie
Good evening, Connie!

*HUGS*

Hope you had a Happy New Year's!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
34 posted on 01/04/2010 7:17:58 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: SandRat

Good evening, Sand...first day back. How’d it go? Mine went fairly well. Almost ready to go home.


35 posted on 01/04/2010 7:20:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Safe drive home, Kathy!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
36 posted on 01/04/2010 7:23:57 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

A very good evening to you Conor!

Had a lovely call from my lil bro so a tad late this evening.

Our New Year was low key....I fell asleep about 10:30 on the eve...such a party animal.;)

Had our blackeye peas for good luck new years day now just hoping sanity, prosperity, good faith & honor prevail in 2010! *hugs*

Of course all are exhibited by our Troops!


37 posted on 01/04/2010 7:25:26 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

Thanks, AZ, for the “white” tribute. It should be red, white, and blue in a half hour or so. d:o)


38 posted on 01/04/2010 7:25:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; La Enchiladita; EsmeraldaA; ...


Greetings To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, Our Veterans, Their Families, FRiends and To Our Allies!





Missing Man Setting

Never Forget Those Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!





39 posted on 01/04/2010 7:29:00 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

We must NEVER forget them!
Thanks, Conor!
(((hugs)))


40 posted on 01/04/2010 7:34:55 PM PST by luvie (When Obama says (over and over) "let me be clear" you can interpret it as "let me lie to you"!)
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