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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: AZamericonnie

That is too true. There ain’t no smokin’ goin’ on what with all those no-burn days!!

I’m afraid I can’t help with dives anymore - we’ve been gone from that scene for far too long.

I wonder if the Flyboy knows of any good places?


81 posted on 01/04/2010 8:38:29 PM PST by HiJinx ("Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. In a Republic, the sheep is armed")
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To: AZamericonnie

I was talking about one of my fave Dives in Honolulu today.

Bryons http://onokinegrindz.typepad.com/ono_kine_grindz/2005/02/byrons_drivein.html

Anyhow, what brought up the subject was I told one of the gals at work that I spent the holidays in Hawaii.

She said really? Thats expensive!

I said it wasnt that bad, I used to work there in the navy and still have friends there who I stayed with, so it was just airfare and pocket money for me.

She said, Did you see Rush Limbaugh?

And I said, No, But, I did see President Obama at the Maukapoa island store..he was having a shaved ice.

She said really?

And I said yes, I even spoke to him. I said Hey Mr president, (as I offered him the yellow snow) Try this one... Its Peena Colada!


82 posted on 01/04/2010 8:38:39 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I hadnt been pinged in a few days ;)


83 posted on 01/04/2010 8:40:10 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: AZamericonnie

We dont use BBQ sauce LoL. Some places wont even let you add it yourself!


84 posted on 01/04/2010 8:42:31 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: mylife
Try this one... Its Peena Colada!

Mylife Mister Man! Now that was just bad!

In all the best ways!:) LOLOL

85 posted on 01/04/2010 8:43:57 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: mylife

That means the home list and I just confirmed that you are on it......hmmmmmmm.


86 posted on 01/04/2010 8:44:40 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: AZamericonnie

Ive been telling that darn joke all day LoL


87 posted on 01/04/2010 8:46:45 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Weird.


88 posted on 01/04/2010 8:47:49 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: mylife
I heard that....I even saw that!

At first I thought it was pinapple and lemon, then I discovered it came from a Bubblehead let loose on Libery.

Aloha My!
89 posted on 01/04/2010 8:49:38 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: AZamericonnie; HiJinx

90 posted on 01/04/2010 8:50:36 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
Good evening and Happy Monday, Kathy & Canteeners! All is well here on the home front ... and my wonderful DH has already been instructing and flying in the wilds of .... Florida. (The funny thing is that it's colder in Florida than it is here!)


91 posted on 01/04/2010 8:50:36 PM PST by PERKY2004 (Proud military wife of a pilot ~ Praying for him and for all our troops!)
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To: BIGLOOK

Just trying to do my bit, to make the world a better place LoL


92 posted on 01/04/2010 8:51:12 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: AZamericonnie
Did someone say LEFTOVER cornbread!?!?!? (yum!)


93 posted on 01/04/2010 8:52:10 PM PST by PERKY2004 (Proud military wife of a pilot ~ Praying for him and for all our troops!)
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To: BIGLOOK
Barack Hussein Obama: "Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmm..."


94 posted on 01/04/2010 8:53:29 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: AZamericonnie

Very cool!


95 posted on 01/04/2010 8:54:32 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: mylife

Roger that.....but no more Waikiki Wi Wi.


96 posted on 01/04/2010 8:55:19 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: SevenofNine

When you want it done right...just call the Chinese! LOL!


97 posted on 01/04/2010 8:55:41 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: BIGLOOK

LOL!!!!!


98 posted on 01/04/2010 8:56:07 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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Ok Gang I gotta sign out.


99 posted on 01/04/2010 8:57:38 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: AZamericonnie; HiJinx; mylife; NYTexan; laurenmarlowe; MS.BEHAVIN

I think you guys need to come to Texas AND MY needs to
do the BBQ duty with plenty of pecan....and good Texas beef!

I’ve never had BBQ made with pecan as far as I know. We
use mesquite out here....we have plenty of it! LOL!


100 posted on 01/04/2010 8:57:43 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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