FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Jackson, South Carolina ~ 03 APR 2012

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

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 60 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.

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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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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hope you are doing well the “day after” PT.

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks, Kathy - doing better today than I have in the past. I'm surprised at how well I did last night - I felt so weak most of the day I didn't think I'd be able to do the exercises. As it turns out, I surpassed previous standards.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[luvie]

I do, too..thought the season has just begun. I would have loved some of the rain...without the tornadoes! :)

[luvie]

Mylife...

[luvie]

Hope all you guys are ok where you are. These storms are bouncing around everywhere it seems. Check in when you can, please?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Luv....maybe we’ve heard from all those on the front line now? Al least the ones I “know”.

Prayers for EVERYONE in the “war” zone.

[luvie]

Well, Meg33 and Arrow haven’t “checked in” yet. I imagine they are ok, but would love to know for sure!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks for checking in, my....Pooks was home alone. How’s his reaction? Bet he was glad to see you.

[mylife]

He was happy I am home.
He’s conked out behind my chair.

[luvie]

We are happy you are home...safe...too! :)

[Arrowhead1952]

Safe here in central Texas. We got a few rain drops and that was it. Several counties north and east of us had T’storm warnings.

[Arrowhead1952]

Thanks for checking Linda. We are A OK here. We didn’t even have strong winds and just got a few drops of rain.

[luvie]

Thanks for checking in, Arrow! Glad you are safe and sound.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Dad’s home....now he can relax.

[left that other site]

To see the sheer joy she expresses while leaping into the car and settling into the passenger seat is PRICELESS!

[MEG33]

We had a hail storm and rain..I was asleep and woke up to the noise!
..All is well with my family in the Dallas area.

Scary pictures on The Weatehr Cannel from the Dallas area.

[MEG33]

Weather Channel ..

[luvie]

Thanks, Megs, for checking in....and glad everything and everyone is ok!

I guess that accounts for everyone I was concerned about...unless I have forgotten someone.

[MEG33]

We had a loud hail/thunderstorm..but all is well..

[El Gato]

The Gun range at the river probably took a direct hit.

What would it do, take down a few trees at most? Maybe push those shooting benches into the river. Unless some fool was out there shooting in the middle of a severe thunderstorm, all should be well. Even if someone was there, they could hide up under the bridge, as high and close to the road as they could get. But it would probably skip over the west side dyke and bounce right over the river... but maybe not, I heard on the radio, I was traveling back from Austin, that a very small twister formed right in The Ballpark in Arlington, just tore up the tarps was all.

If a tornado has to hit, that's the place I'd want it to hit. Sucker could head right down the riverbed, although it probably wouldn't, steering currents move them to the North and East.. most of the time.

But glad you're OK. We were I was worried about you as I followed the storms via WBAP, sounds like with good cause.