FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida ~ 16 FEB 2016

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe

[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida

Naval Air Station Jacksonville or NAS Jacksonville is a military airport located four miles south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is one of two naval bases (the other being Naval Station Mayport) located in Duval County.

Today, 23,000 civilian and active-duty personnel are employed on the base. The installation is considered to be one of the hubs for naval activity in the U.S. South.

The NAS Jacksonville Air Operations Department maintains NAS Jacksonville, Naval Outlying Field Whitehouse, the Air Mobility Command Passenger Terminal and detachment hangars and spaces to contribute to the mission of NAS Jax of enabling naval aviation warfighting readiness.

In addition to the many operational active and reserve squadrons aboard, NAS Jacksonville is also home to Patrol Squadron THIRTY (VP-30), the Navy's largest aviation squadron and the only P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon Fleet Replacement Squadron that prepares and trains U.S. and NATO/Allied pilots, air crew and maintenance personnel for further operational assignments in the P-8A, P-3C Orion and EP-3E Aries in the U.S. Navy, and P-3B, P-3C and similar variants in various NATO and Allied navies and air forces.

VP-30 is the first squadron to operate the U.S. Navy's new P-8 Poseidon aircraft, and commenced training flight crews and maintainers in this replacement for the P-3C in 2012. All U.S. Navy patrol squadrons eventually transition to this new platform.

NAS Jacksonville is also an Aviation Maintenance training facility for several aviation ratings, facilitated by Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Jacksonville.

Support facilities include an additional outlying field (OLF Whitehouse) for pilot training, a maintenance depot employing more than 150 different trade skills capable of performing maintenance as basic as changing a tire to intricate micro-electronics or total engine disassembly, a Naval Hospital, a Fleet Industrial Supply Center, a Navy Family Service Center, a DeCA commissary, Navy Exchange, and recreational facilities for both single sailors and families of the Active, Reserve and Retired military communities.

Learn More About NAS Jacksonville 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

 

 

[luvie]

Thanks! I will. That’s the hazard of working for a fine company like ours....giving back all our salary by buying stuff. LOL!

[DoughtyOne]

I agree.

Hopefully folks grab mine too, to get even. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

OK...I missed the flying part. Double YUCK!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique.

Luv.....#100!!

[radu]

Hooey, sounds like soooooo much fun. NOT! And it messes up your schedule not being able to work on some of that stuff tonight. Gonna make for a rough day tomorrow. :-(

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Ah, I was just tryin’ to scare y’all! I obviously was not watching! ;-)

[radu]

Y’all is the BEST word in the English language!

It was the first one I started using and the one my parents hated the most. LOL! Oh well, that's what they got for having southern children. :-)

[radu]

We have roaches that fly here, too. Nasty, nasty, nasty! Haven’t seen any in the house - WHEW! - but have seen a few outside over the years. If I have the chance to stomp ‘em, they’re squished on sight!

[radu]

WOOHOO!! Got another one! You going for a hat trick tonight? LOL!

I had to make a store run since it's not raining now and will rain again tomorrow afternoon, PRO's off in dreamland, and spel must not have been watching as closely as he thought he was. :-)

[radu]

LOL! There you are. I just said what you said.
Gotta be on your toes to beat LUV.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Can the kids catch them? Bring them to Mom?

[luvie]

Oooo...I love that one! Thanks, Kathy...and unique

[luvie]

Stick around, dude...you and radu can race to the next one. I gotta leave for real now. I’m so...*yaaaawn*....sleeeeepy!

Take care! See Y’ALL tomorrow...new quiz night! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Yes...it adds to a “long already” Tuesday.

[radu]

Oh pleeeeeeeease don’t give them any ideas!! LOL!

We’ve had a couple of them bring grasshoppers as “presents” but thankfully, no roaches.

And then there was poor Morgan, our dumb blonde. She couldn’t catch ANYTHING so she brought us corn cobs from the fields after harvest. And she always looked sooooo proud when she did.

[radu]

You must not have to work tomorrow. I was shocked to see you still here.

Good night and sweet dreams.
Ready to play the new quiz tomorrow evening. :-)

[radu]

Exactly! Tuesday’s already a rough enough day as it is! This was not what you needed. Someone needs to be bopped on the head!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep tight, Luv.

[Kathy in Alaska]

And you, of course, accepted them graciously. LOL!

[radu]

Well, of course I did, and told her what a good lil corn cob killer she was. LOL!

One year, she hauled so many cobs to the deck and back yard, it was dangerous to walk out there.
That poor cat was so stupid.

We lost her to liver failure last summer and I still miss her. But we had 15 years of laughter with the silly girlie.