FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio ~ 03 DEC 2013

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Greene and Montgomery counties, eight miles northeast of the central business district of Dayton, Ohio. Part of the base is located along the city limits of Riverside and is also adjacent to Fairborn and Beavercreek.

The base is named after the Wright brothers, who used the Huffman Prairie portion of what became Wright-Patterson as their testing ground, and Frank Stuart Patterson, son and nephew of the co-founders of National Cash Register, who was killed on June 19, 1918, in the crash of his Airco DH.4 at Wilbur Wright Field.

Wright-Patterson AFB is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command, one of the major commands of the Air Force. Wright-Patterson AFB is also the location of a major USAF Medical Center, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force, formerly known as the U.S. Air Force Museum.

With headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) conducts research, development, test and evaluation, and provides acquisition management services and logistics support necessary to keep Air Force weapon systems ready for war.

AFMC delivers war-winning expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter through development and transition of technology, professional acquisition management, exacting test and evaluation.

It is also the home base of the 445th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, an Air Mobility Command-gained unit which flies the C-5 Galaxy heavy airlifter. Wright-Patterson is also the headquarters of the Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Today, as in the early 1900s, Wright-Patterson is where weapons systems are tested and modified. Missions range from logistics management, research and development, education, flight operations, and many other defense related activities. Wright-Patterson AFB is the home to the Air Force Institute of Technology, an educational institution that supports the Air Force and the Department of Defense.

 It also contains the USAF's high-security National Air & Space Intelligence Center, where in the cold-war era captured Soviet MIGs were brought to what was then known as the Foreign Technology Division for disassembly and testing.

Learn More About Wright-Patterson Air Force Base HERE!

The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official National Museum of the United States Air Force and is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside just outside of Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum. More than 400 aircraft and missiles are on display, most of them indoors. The museum draws over 1.3 million visitors per year and one of the single most visited tourist attractions in Ohio.

The museum dates back to 1923 when the Engineering Division at Dayton's McCook Field first collected technical artifacts for preservation. In 1927 it moved to then-Wright Field and was housed in a succession of buildings.

In 1954 as the Air Force Museum it was housed in its first permanent facility, Building 89 of the former Patterson Field in Fairborn, which had been an engine overhaul hangar, and many of its aircraft were parked outside and exposed to the weather. It remained there until 1971 when the current facility was first opened. Not including its annex on Wright Field proper, the museum has more than tripled in square footage since its inception in 1971.

Visit The National Museum Of The United States Air Force HERE!

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[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top three....DuncanWaring!!

[sjm_888]

And to think this museum didn’t get a space shuttle but NY and LA did. A crime.

[luvie]

Great thread, Galz! I’ve always wanted to go to the flight museum there!

[henkster]

I’ll second that. I’ve taken my boys and nephews to the Air Force Museum several times. It’s only two hours away. It’s one of the best places we’ve been.

[MacNaughton]

Been my privilege to visit W-P and the USAF Museum twice - once in the mid 1980s and again around 1994 when I took in the Dayton Air Show. Saw the B-2 Spirit fly over that day for the 1st (and only for me) time. It was on top of me before I heard a faint whistling overhead. The museum is truly impressive, awe-inspiring, and humbling. The picture of the B-70 Valkyrie outside was the position I saw it in the mid-80s. By 1994 she was inside 1 of the main museum hangars. Of course W-P recently celebrated the Doolittle Raiders final roll call - the perfect place to keep their goblets. Godspeed and well done.

World War II Doolittle Raiders Make Final Toast

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!



Missing Man Setting

"Träumerei"
Robert Schumann
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Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

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)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...did you have a good commute? Two of them? Did you have a tasty turkey?

Today has been a day from hades....nothng but problems, and I’m just now getting caught up. Whew!

[Conservinator]

My wife and I got to visit this wonderful place in late June. One of the best museum experiences ever! If I lived anywhere near this place, I would be back often . . . way too much to take in during one visit!

[ConorMacNessa]

Easy commutes today - light traffic inbound - Left early today for a dental appointment.

Our turkey was quite good this year. I was tied up in errands in the morning - Mrs. MacNessa ended up both making the stuffing and cooking the bird. She did a yeoman job - no surprise to me! We polished off th4e last of it this evening - a few scraps for Sir Winston.

We took John-Man back up to school yesterday - surprisingly light traffic. He graduates Saturday the 14th - big party on the way.

I hope you can get out from under.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

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)

[Kathy in Alaska]

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

Back to work...did you have a good commute? Not too much traffic?

Rough day here...non-stop problems, none of my making. I think I finally have most of them fixed. Still not done.

[OftheOhio]

I was gifted to work at the base for almost twenty years including some time near Huffman Prairie. As I was going to and from I never failed to look over at the field where the first Master pilot was born. Wilbur taught himself through trial and error. He made the first 360 degree turns here and I suspect he flew into his own prop wash as I did later in my first hour of flight training. He practiced this over and over again in this small portion of the Prairie until he had mastered it, it seems flight training was born here also.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Duncan...enjoy the trip.

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!


TATTOO
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Must retire for the evening -

For Every Morn' Brings Forth A Noble Chance,
And Every Chance Demands A Noble Knight!

The Bugler, his grim visage replete with an evil sneer,
already mounts the parapet.

Soldiers of the Greatest Generation
Stand The Watch Tonight!



Standing With Them
Old Iron Pants!



Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, USAF

TAPS
U.S. Marine Band
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"Do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes!"

(King Lear, Act III, Scene iv)



All Gave Some – Some Gave All!!!
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Good night, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America!

Godspeed our Troops around the Globe – especially those in harm’s way – by virtue of their service and sacrifice we continue to live in Freedom!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

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)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[j_guru]

I am blessed to live only 2 miles from the base and have been there many many times. I have still not been able to spend the amount of time to properly take in all the exhibits. It really is a 2-day event if you want to do it right. And don’t forget to take in the presidential exhibit!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, stevem....thanks for your observations.

Our thanks to your son for his service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, laplata...enjoy the road trip.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, BRL...thanks for sharing your experiences.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...sounds like a bucket list destination.

[laplata]

Good evening, Kathy. *Hugs*

Great trip, for sure.