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

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[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!!

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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Coming home the lake was 3/4 across the intersection. That will be all ice in the morning. My hope is that the city has started steaming open the drains. They will be a while getting here, but they gotta get started.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, Mayor, and thanks for today’s sustenance for body and soul. ((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Newt...thanks for sharing your experience.

We thank you for your service to our country.

[E.G.C.]

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.

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

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.
Good morning to our

military, our allies, and their families

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.
South Carolina?
OH BOY! Packing to go to the beach while we're there.
Who wants to ride with me? hehe

Local DC Metro weather report

~ Today... Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.

~ Tonight... Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Time to make my rounds and then back to work.
Please stay.
Don't touch that dial. And, remember – I’ll be watching!

The FR Canteen is

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee,tea,
pancakes,
conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM

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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.

[beachn4fun]

Please excuse me while I go pay tribute to some of the fallen.

Both yesterday and today.

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[ConorMacNessa]

Good morning, Beachy!

*HUGS*

Nice ride you've got there! Happy Tuesday!



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)

[Cannon6]

Good Choice!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, CMN ((HUGS))

Happy Tuesday.

Thought it’d be nice to go in the convertible. LOL

How are you this morning?

I’ll be back...got to post for the fallen.

[beachn4fun]

R I P
Sgt. Daniel J. Brown, USA,
2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment,
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,
KIA Afghanistan 24Mar2012

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R I P
LCpl. Michael Foley, British Army,
Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support),
KIA Afghanistan 26Mar2012

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R I P
Sgt. Luke Taylor, Royal Marines,
KIA Afghanistan 26Mar2012

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen. We still have a chance for storms today.

[beachn4fun]

LOL

Good morning and welcome, Newt 2012

Thank you for your service