FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island ~ 06 FEB 2012

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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.

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 decommissioned USS Saratoga. 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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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

 

 

[wjcsux]

Hi Kathy! Thanks for your wonderful articles! ((Hugs))

[The Mayor]

Thank you!! And Thank you for the thread my FRiend! Is it Spring yet? : )

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...talk to Nate today?

Valentines Day is coming...

[TASMANIANRED]

Glad you are in uneventfully.

[TASMANIANRED]

You guys have had more precip in snow than you have in rain .

I’m hoping the attack of “the dry” doesn’t persist.

[HiJinx]

Close enough to full.
I snapped a pic of the moon hanging just below sunset-lit clouds on my new phone.
Now I gotta figure out how to transfer the pic to someplace I can post it from...

[luvie]

The snow really did help, but there has to be more. I also hope that this year won’t be a repeat of last year. It was nearly unbearable.

I hopr you don’t have floods, so your garden won’t get drowned or washed away!

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Jinxy, Hugs.

[TASMANIANRED]

We have been fortunate so far..

When it has been really cold it has been dry.

Raining when temps are fairly warm.

I was just reading about our blizzard in 78.. I could do without another one...period.

[HiJinx]

{{{HUGS}}} backatchya, Taz!!
All quiet on the Western Front?

[HiJinx]

I took this picture this evening. It was really a spur-of-the-moment thing. I glanced up at the sky while waiting for Nana to get home and saw the full moon hanging just below a bank of sunset-tinged clouds. I'm sure you can see skies like this somewhere else in the world, although I'm not at all sure where that somewhere else might be. Maybe Hawaii, but wouldn't bet on it.

I bought an HTC EVO 4G last month and am still learning how to make it work. Or sing, as the case may be. Hopefully, this will upload to my social media site correctly, and the album share is set so that I can link to it from here. If not, y'all are missing out on a breath-taking picture worthy of an Arizona Highways spread!

[mylife]

Ahh... I miss that Big Western Sky.

[HiJinx]

I know...that’s why I post it ever so often...to give you and a few others a chance to reminisce.

[TASMANIANRED]

Mostly quiet.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening My, hugs.

[HiJinx]

That’s what my day was - mostly quiet.
I think it’s time now to call it a night, though. Tomorrow is liable to be anything but quiet!
See you later.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...ya gots rain? Lots of rain?

How does Linda feel about walking in the rain?

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOW! HJ, you’ve made your phone “sing”.

Beautiful “song”.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh no, Taz...a full moon weekend. The loonies will be out.

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Jinxy!

Seen a lot of moonrises that I wished I'd photographed (same with sunrises and sunsets in different parts of globe). Yours brought back memories the twilight while I was crossing the New Mexico/Texas border many years ago when the colors, both on the mesas and sky made me stop and watch till dark.

Here's a spectacle that as far as I know could only happen in Hawaii. Moon rise in Mauna Kea's shadow at sunset.



(Not one upmanship......just a reminder to take a look around sometimes to see real beauty when it happens.)