FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota ~ 24 SEP 2013

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

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota

Ellsworth Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base near Rapid City in Meade County and Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is home to the 28th Bomb Wing of the Air Combat Command (ACC), operating the B-1B Lancer.

As host wing, the 28th Bomb Wing includes an operations group, a maintenance group, a mission support group, and a medical group. The base controls all air space 40 miles (64 km) around its area, including all landings at nearby Rapid City Regional Airport, Rapid City, South Dakota.

The mission of the 28th Bomb Wing is to put bombs on target. Every Airman in this Wing, whether its maintaining its people, equipment, pulling a trigger or aiming crosshairs, puts bombs on target.

Ellsworth Air Force Base is home to the 28th Bomb Wing, which flies B-1B Lancers and serves as the host unit, providing all essential base operating support services for Ellsworth and combat support services for an Air Expeditionary Wing.

The wing consists of four groups: the 28th Operations Group, 28th Mission Support Group, 28th Maintenance Group and 28th Medical Group.

Air Combat Command is the primary force provider of combat airpower to America's warfighting commands. To support global implementation of national security strategy, ACC operates fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, battle-management and electronic-combat aircraft. It also provides command, control, communications and intelligence systems, and conducts global information operations.

As a force provider, ACC organizes, trains, equips and maintains combat-ready forces for rapid deployment and employment while ensuring strategic air defense forces are ready to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime air defense.

ACC numbered air forces provide the air component to U.S. Central and Southern Commands with Headquarters ACC serving as the air component to U.S. Northern and Joint Forces Commands. ACC also augments forces to U.S. European, Pacific and Strategic Commands.

Learn More About Ellsworth Air Force Base HERE!

The South Dakota Air and Space Museum, part of the museum system of the National Museum of the US Air Force, is located in Box Elder, South Dakota, just outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB. The South Dakota Air and Space Museum serves to educate and entertain the public. Not only does it give information about the history of US Air Force aviation, it promotes South Dakota aviation history.

The museum contains a number of interior and exterior exhibits, including:

25 aircraft ranging from World War Two bomber and transport aircraft to the contemporary B-1B Lancer

4 different missiles, including a Minuteman II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

The South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame

A Missile Procedures Trainer Exhibit

An F-106 interactive aircraft cockpit

A B-1B Cockpit and Offensive/Defensive System Operators Simulator

An exhibit of the Stratosphere Balloon Launch from the early 1930s.

Visit The South Dakota Air And Space 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]

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

God Bless you good, Mac. Good night and rest well.
Thanks for helping honor our troops, past and present.
Thank you for your service to our country.

[HiJinx]

She’s not too tired anymore; and glad to be back. Have you thought about Advil.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv....lauren is fighting the ugly cold/cough that is going around.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Connie, and thank you for the tributes to our troops.

Did you have a good weekend? Power shopping time?

Spitting snow on the way to work this morning....but it didn’t stick.

Looking at the mountains on my home has snow on the back mountains, but on the front ones too. It’s close!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Just starting to think tonight. Advil might be a good place to start.
Thanks for the idea.

Glad Nana is doing well.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a cupcake?

Cookies?

Pancakes?

Treats?

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[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?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[wita]

It was a SAC base when I was in also. In the museum photo you can see the wing of a SAC B-52 in the background and next to that to the left of the B-52 and not visible in the photo is an EC-135 also SAC vintage and the aircraft I flew many times while on active duty at Ellsworth. Some legacy, yes folks the aircraft I flew last in the USAF now resides in a museum as well as the cold war missions we flew. I believe that was the last war we clearly won without firing a shot.

There is another photo up thread of the B-1 being towed on a road that I believe is the aircraft being taken to the Ellsworth museum.

[beachn4fun]

Road Trip Time!

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

military, our allies, and their families.

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.

S.D? Brrr...I'm cold enough.
Guess I'd better dig out a coat for this trip.

DC Metroland Weather

~ Today...Plentiful sunshine.
High around 75F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.

~ Tonight... Mainly clear skies.
Low around 55F. Winds light and variable.

A quick FYI notice:
FRiday Favorites will be
coming to an end this month.
Starting in October, I will be opening the doors to
FReeper Canteen "Just Hangin' Cafe".
As the name suggests it'll be a place to
grab a cup of coffee, tea, conversation, and hangout.
Share stories, share recipes, talk sports,
kids/grandkids, work/hobbies...
you get the idea.

Hope to see you there.

Second verse, same as the first.
Posting and running.

Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.

The FR Canteen is ALWAYS

O P E N

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

REMEMBER THEM ~ DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

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]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

#50

[left that other site]

Heck Yeah!

You fit the perfect description of the majority of our congregation. Same age, shape, facial hair, Veteran, Believer, Tough-looking Exterior with Incredibly Tender Heart, Patriotic American and Conservative.

AND you can SING!

(What’r Ye Doin’ Sunday? LOL!)

[left that other site]

I can take care of the musical issues, but the “Spiritual” ones, I shall defer to the Pastor.

And I think this was a deeper matter than just stage-fright or the lack of sheet music.

We all have a job in the Body of Christ, and one must be careful not to step on toes!

[MEG33]

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Tuesday To The Canteen
(((HUGS)))
*Thank You To All Who Serve Our Country*

[PROCON]

Woo-Hoo Beachie, Hiya and good for you!

I will be opening the doors to FReeper Canteen "Just Hangin' Cafe".

Sounds like a lot of fun, I appreciate all you and the other Canteen folks do!

It's wet, wet, wet out here...

Have a sunnydocious day!

[luvie]

Goood mornin', Early Birds!
Well, it's back to reality (work) for me today!
I soooo enjoyed visiting my sweet little family!
It's nice and cool this morning...
...my kitties are getting all fluffed up for fall!
All you have a wonderful day!
((((hugs))))

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS)) Good morning Beach.

Well, folks. You're not going to believe this but we once again had another power outage Friday night here in Comanche, OK.

It turned out a faulty breaker at the substation Northwest of town was the cause of the outage.

I'll be so glad when we get the new substation online. Hopefully next month.

We have been enjoying some nice weather Bo and I have been going out to the lake as of late.

I did do some grass cutting work over the weekend with the lawn mower and the weed-eater. I had to have Cousin Dick show me how to take the top off the weed-eater to put a new line in.

Our Comanche Indians are now 1-2 on the season. They beat Walters 39-32 last Friday. Their scheduled opponent, Riverside cancelled their whole season due to not enough players so this week is an unscheduled bye week for us. Our next opponent is Mangum on October 5th.

[E.G.C.]

This is my dog Bo.