FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington ~ 25 JUNE 2019

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Road Trip: Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington

Joint Base Lewis–McChord (JBLM) is a U.S. military installation home to I Corps and 62d Airlift Wing located 9.1 miles south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Headquarters, Joint Base Lewis–McChord.

The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Army's Fort Lewis and the United States Air Force's McChord Air Force Base which merged on 1 February 2010 into a Joint Base as a result of Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations of 2005.

Joint Base Lewis–McChord is a training and mobilization center for all services and is the only Army power projection base west of the Rocky Mountains in the Continental United States. Its geographic location provides rapid access to the deep water ports of Tacoma, Olympia, and Seattle for deploying equipment.

Units can be deployed from McChord Field, and individuals and small groups can also use nearby Sea-Tac Airport. The strategic location of the base provides Air Force units with the ability to conduct combat and humanitarian airlift with the C-17 Globemaster III.

JBLM has two Senior Service Component Commanders, one Army (Commander, I Corps) and one Air Force (Commander, 62d Airlift Wing), and has more than 45,000 service members and civilian workers. The post supports over 120,000 military retirees and more than 29,000 family members living both on and off post.

The base has a total active population of nearly 210,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest military installment worldwide by population.

Learn More About Joint Base Lews-McChord HERE!!

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Hi Everybody!

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[Publius]

I was stationed at Fort Lewis from 12/71 to 9/73 with the 58th Signal Battalion, a cable construction outfit. I was a 2nd and 1st lieutenant serving in two captain's slots: Battalion Motor Officer and Battalion Adjutant.

Not a bad tour of duty.

[SkyDancer]

Hai laurenmarlowe (((HUGS)))!

[Bonemaker]

Hasn’t the puke Inslee asked them to leave yet?

[PROCON]

Thanks Lauren!

I was at Fort Lewis for Basic Training in June '69 and then there again in '79-'80.

[The Mayor]

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June 25

Vanity on Fire

Bible in a Year: Job 3–4; Acts 7:44–60

Create in me a pure heart, O God. Psalm 51:10

In February 1497, a Monk named Girolamo Savonarola started a fire. Leading up to this, he and his followers spent several months collecting items that they thought might entice people to sin or neglect their religious duties—including artwork, cosmetics, instruments, and dresses. On the appointed day, thousands of vanity items were gathered at a public square in Florence, Italy, and set on fire. The event has come to be known as the Bonfire of the Vanities.

Savonarola might have found inspiration for his extreme actions in some shocking statements from the Sermon on the Mount. “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away,” said Jesus. “And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away” (Matthew 5:29–30). But if we interpret Jesus’s words literally, we miss the point of the message. The entire sermon is a lesson on going deeper than the surface, to focus on the state of our hearts rather than blaming our behavior on external distractions and temptations.

The Bonfire of the Vanities made a great show of destroying belongings and works of art, but it is unlikely that the hearts of those involved were changed in the process. Only God can change a heart. That’s why the psalmist prayed, “Create in me a pure heart, O God” (Psalm 51:10). It’s our heart that counts.

By Remi Oyedele

Reflect & Pray

What behaviors or distractions might be on your list of “vanities”? How do you try to “manage” them?

Holy God, please give me the grace to surrender my heart to You and yield my life’s vanities to the purifying fire of the Holy Spirit.

[mountainlion]

I was at Fort Lewis for Basic Training ....

I was there a month waiting to go to Viet Nam. It rained every day and I had to go back to Colorado to see the sun.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[luvie]

Hi, lauren! (((hugs)))

Great road trip to Washington. Hope it’s not in the hot deserty part. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...are you having summer weather yet? Did you and Penny get out for a hike?

It’s just plain hot here.

[Publius]

It’s between Tacoma and Olympia in the rainy part of the state.

[luvie]

Good to know. I like rain. :)

[WayneM]

My daughter is an RN at the base hospital.

I wish we could get her back closer to home, and away from the communist population in Washington.

[hoagy62]

I was at Ft. Lewis from 4/85 till 10/86. I was with the 3/5 Cavalry in the HQ Commo platoon. At current, I live about 3 blocks from one end of JBLM.

[MoochPooch]

Hi everyone. Hi Lauren, Kathy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

We thank you for your service to our country.

[hoagy62]

Not all of us are godless commies. Just our governor, and most of the northwest quadrant of the state.