FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: US Coast Guard Yard, Maryland ~ 26 June 2018

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Coast Guard Yard, Maryland

The United States Coast Guard Yard or just Coast Guard Yard is a United States Coast Guard operated shipyard located on Curtis Bay in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Baltimore city limits. It is the Coast Guard's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility, and part of the Coast Guard's core industrial base and fleet support operations. Its annual budget is $88 million.

For over a century, the United States Coast Guard Yard has built, repaired and renovated ships in Baltimore, Maryland, for the U. S. Coast Guard. It is the service's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility.

The Coast Guard Yard celebrated its centennial in 1999 and recognized the shipyard's outstanding "Service to the Fleet" since being founded on the shores of south Baltimore in April, 1899. The yard's centennial focused customer attention on the shipyard's commitment to maritime excellence, honored the yard's past and present work force and sought public recognition of the accomplishment and goals of the Coast Guard's only shipyard.

The yard is the sole source for major repair of naval weapons systems used by the Coast Guard. Topping the list is the repair of the MK 75 76 mm guns and includes a contract with the Naval Sea Systems Command for the overhaul of the Saudi Arabian MK 75 weapons systems. The yard expanded its market base in the mid-1990s to include the overhaul of the Paxman engine, the main propulsion engine in the 110' patrol boat.

The work is considered a primary example of core work for the shipyard. The yard has excelled in its capability to bring its expertise to the customer rather than the customer coming into the yard for service. The yard has built a celebrated reputation for taking its skills "on-the-road" to the coast guard fleet worldwide. The yard became the first organization in the United States government to achieve ISO 9001 certification in 1995 and ISO 9001 recertification in 1998. ISO 9001 is a set of internationally recognized standards for quality management systems.

Learn More About The United States Coast Guard Yard 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

 

 

[radu]

ROFLMAO!!!!!

What did you do to FR???????

[Kathy in Alaska]

Man...FR is still wonky. My computer shows that the last posted reply is #500!

And it’s very slow and I’m getting errors when trying to post.

Oh well,,,just keep trying.

[radu]

Wonky is an understatement! That post just kept posting and posting! You get a lot of WOOHOOs tonight, that’s for sure! LOL!!!!

It’s been behaving pretty well for me so far. Not slow and no errors as of yet but I’ve been popping in and out.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A few years before your time, but.....

[luvie]

Oy! That heat with humidity sounds even worse than ours. Even the AC doesn’t do much good with the sauna going!

I’ll bet she’s a cutie all right. These wild Indians in my back yard are growing like crazy. I’ll be glad when their mom boots ‘em out so I can have her fixed. As it is, they still depend on her. They’re cute to watch through the glass. If I go out, they scatter.

The full moon is on the 28th, so you’re right. It’s getting them all riled up early. :)

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service too our country.((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. Thanks for this morning’s thread, Lauren. How’s it going?

[radu]

Oy, is right. It sux when it’s so hot and so humid. Makes it hard to go anywhere and I have to do the grocery shopping tomorrow since I’ll be at the museum Wed.

Suvi is a dollbaby. It doesn’t seem like she’s growing at all but she is. She’s just so tiny compared to the others. That makes it even funnier to see the others’ reactions to her tiny attacks. LOL

I wouldn’t count on LBK giving her kittens the boot any time soon. They’ll all stick together unless the kittens are taken away by someone. Pixie still loves on her girlies and heck, Isis still loves on her kids, and they’re almost 9 years old.

I took a peek at the calendar a little while ago and saw the full moon is almost upon us. Haven’t seen much of it lately due to the cloudy weather we’ve had. The timing of the cats’ behavior is about right. They usually get fired up a couple of days before, the night of, and a couple nights after the full moon.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, MrZippy2k...thanks for sharing your adventure.

God Bless the Coast Guard.

[Kathy in Alaska]

So many have a last minute need. LOL!

[radu]

Every one of those folks need to spend just one day working in your office on that stuff to find out what it’s like. That just might teach them a lesson.

Then again, maybe not. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am more than ready, but my plan is maybe 18 more months...pushing 70 1/2 and have to start taking from IRAs now. Finally got signed up for Social Security and Medicare A earlier this month.

[Kathy in Alaska]

OMG!!! All those posts are mine...one click, a 502 error, and hundreds of repeat posts. *sigh*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E...(HUGS))...did your storms come? Everyone good?

You and Gizmo have a wonderful Tuesday.

[radu]

They certainly are all yours! That’s why I asked what you did to FR. I LMAO when I saw all those times your one comment posted. Funniest thing I’ve seen happen here.
Wait until the early birds show up in the morning. You’ll hear more about them. :-)

[E.G.C.]

The storms came and gone. Everyone slept OK last night.

[Delta 21]

I did a LORAN-C tour in the New Mexico desert in the 90’s. Right after my tour on the Cherokee. I never got outside of Halifax proper while we were in port. It was a much better port ‘O call than any of us imagined. The Canuks invited us to our sister ship and the Canadians still had drinking on board. We closed down the Chiefs club then went to a local bar that just happened to be Bachman Turner Overdrive’s hometown bar and they let us all in for free and we jammed to BTO till the wee hours of the morning. Next morning it was choppy in the Halifax channel heading out for patrol. As soon as we broke around the jetty it was 30 ft seas and within a half an hour there were 5 of us still alive enough to keep our ship running. Everyone else was down hard or puking their guts out for the next 2 days.

BTO was great!

[Delta 21]

That was a good ship! The keel was 7 layers thick riveted American steel hull plates from Bethlehem, NY. and the engineroom had 14" steel I beams running vertical thru the space. She won awards for towing wounded battleships out of range of shore artillery in North Africa. 3"-50 on the front and two gun tubs on the back with twin Ma-Deuces. Classic Naval salvage ship but stripped of most of its usefull gear and turned into a Coast Guard cutter.

They decommed her and she became a target down in Rosie Roads naval gun range. She soaked up friendly fire up into this century then was sunk with 2 torpedoes.

One tough ship!

Delta-21 in the lower left corner with his hand on throttle!

[Delta 21]

Wow! Did you pass out with your forhead on the ‘post’ button?

[left that other site]

The weather has been glorious...and so Hiking and Biking is what’s Happenin’!

[SkyDancer]

Good Morning! (((HUGS))) - actually it was baked hog belly and absolutely super!! - on a chibata(sp?) bun with fixins’