FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California ~ 07 APR 2020

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Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California

Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow is a United States Marine Corps supply and maintenance installation located in the Mojave Desert east of Barstow, in San Bernardino County, Southern California.

Its mission is to rebuild and repair ground-combat and combat-support equipment and to support installations on the West Coast of the United States. Today, one of MCLB Barstow’s most important facilities is the Marine Corps Logistics Bases’ Maintenance Center. The only other facility of this kind is located at MCLB Barstow’s sister installation, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany.

The Yermo Annex, (Yermo Marine Corps Supply Center) in the town of Yermo, encompasses 1,859 acres and is primarily a storage and industrial complex for the Marine Corps.

The Marines for the Mounted Color Guard are selected for the billet of stablemen due to exuberating the Corps values and ability to present the national ensign in an appropriate manner. Marines come to the stables with little to no experience with ranch operations or horsemanship. However, after many hours working with the civilian horse trainer they develop the ability to ride and maintain a horse as well as operate a ranch effectively.

 The horses in the unit are wild mustangs adopted from the Bureau of Land Management's Adopt a Horse and Burro Program. Initially the stablemen would find wild horses on their own and train them. However, the Bodfish chapter of the 1st Marine Division Association helped with initiating the process of adopting the horses through the Bureau of Land Management which eventually became the official process of acquiring horses. Once adopted, the horses are trained to a standard of performance by the horse trainer and an experienced stablemen.

Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow offers the only Intermediate-advance rail operations class within the Department of Defense. As the Center for Excellence for Rail Operations training within the Marine Corps, our course is designed to provide our students in relating occupational fields with the necessary knowledge, confidence and experience in conducting rail operations for military movements.

The main course offered is the Railhead Operations Group Training Course offered at MCLB Barstow, CA. This course runs approximately two weeks and comprised of classroom and field instruction, as well as support for a real world mission. Each class is designed to place each student in every facet of rail operations, from planning to execution to completion, each student will be trained in their own MOS tasks, as well as the tasks of supporting MOS’s.

Learn More About Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow HERE!!

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April 7

A New Calling

Bible in a Year:

• 1 Samuel 7–9
• Luke 9:18–36

He has saved us and called us to a holy life.

2 Timothy 1:9

Teenage gang leader Casey and his followers broke into homes and cars, robbed convenience stores, and fought other gangs. Eventually, Casey was arrested and sentenced. In prison, he became a “shot caller,” someone who handed out homemade knives during riots.

Sometime later, he was placed in solitary confinement. While daydreaming in his cell, Casey experienced a “movie” of sorts replaying key events of his life—and of Jesus, being led to and nailed to the cross and telling him, “I’m doing this for you.” Casey fell to the floor weeping and confessed his sins. Later, he shared his experience with a chaplain, who explained more about Jesus and gave him a Bible. “That was the start of my journey of faith,” Casey said. Eventually, he was released into the mainline prison population, where he was mistreated for his faith. But he felt at peace, because “[he] had found a new calling: telling other inmates about Jesus.”

In his letter to Timothy, the apostle Paul talks about the power of Christ to change lives: God calls us from lives of wrongdoing to follow and serve Jesus (2 Timothy 1:9). Watch the story of Bernice Lee and Tan Soo-Inn in the devotional video, “Jesus, the Spiritual Leader.” Like Casey, they experienced God’s grace, and now the Holy Spirit empowers them to be living witnesses of Christ’s love. Through the Holy Spirit’s enabling, we too have a new calling to share the good news (v. 8).

By:  Alyson Kieda

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time, thanks Lauren!

[shanover]

I love these posts! I learn so much about our great military.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thank you Mayor!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO PROCON!

SECOND!!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy to you and thank you shanover!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there left that other site!

*HUGS*

[left that other site]

Hi! How are things in your neck of the woods?

[The Mayor]

Thank you

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sorry I'm late....this working from home is tiring and time consuming.
I can't even find the time to walk down the hall to my home computer.

Thanks for today's Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[MoochPooch]

Hi Lauren. Hope you’re staying well. (You too, Kathy!)

My family used to pass through Barstow on our many trips, so this brings back memories.

[luvie]

Howdy, lauren! Thanks for a great 🚙/🚁 trip. Hope you are staying well, safe and sane. :)

[laurenmarlowe]

Good, thank you! And I hope so as well for you.

Very quiet and calm here, I think everyone is just waiting this out so we can get back to life.

Take care of yourself!

*HUGS*

[mylife]

What a town! /s

[laurenmarlowe]

HI MA!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you MoochPooch!