FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, California ~ 05 MAY 2020

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, California

Joint Forces Training Base - Los Alamitos is a joint base in Los Alamitos, California. Formerly operated as a Naval Air Station, the base contains the Los Alamitos Army Airfield and is sometimes called by that name. The base is also known as JFTB - Los Al or just JFTB. The base is 1,319 acres and "supports 850 full-time employees and more than 6,000 National Guard and Reserve troops.

JFTB has significant training facilities, including an Engagement Skills Trainer, a Virtual Convoy Operations Trainer, a HMMWV Egress Assistance Trainer, a Laser Marksmanship Training System, and a Close Combat Tactical Trainer.

On 16 July 1957, then-Major John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC, set the Transcontinental air speed record, flying a F8U-1P Crusader from NAS Los Alamitos to NAS Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds. Project Bullet, as the mission was called, provided both the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed, and the first continuous transcontinental panoramic photograph of the United States. Glenn was awarded his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross for the mission.

Today there are 87 tenant entities representing military services, federal, state, municipal, public, private and nonprofit organizations. The larger of these agencies are the 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized) of the California Army National Guard, the 63rd Regional Readiness Command (US Army Reserve), Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Southern Region) and Operation Medfly of California’s Department of Food and Agriculture.

Learn More About Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos HERE!!

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[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[lightman]

Be safe and watch your six!

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, thanks for tonight's Road Trip, Lauren!

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Road Trip: Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, California ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you left that other site!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy lightman, and the same to ya!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO PROCON!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening MA!

*HUGS*

[Grimmy]

Sounds like fun.

Try to get them to let you use the HMMWV Egress Assistance Trainer.

Having a certificate that says you know how to get into and out of a vehicle might come in handy someday.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[left that other site]

On the Draw, quick am I.

May the 4th be with you!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...did you and Blue get any time together? Penny able to get out for a good walk?

Overcast all day today, but no rain in sight.

[left that other site]

It was sunny and hot this morning, so I planted 35 tulip bulbs for a neighbor. She was recently hospitalized (NOT COVID) and so I helped her with getting those bulbs in the ground.

Then I made lunch and went for a ride on Blue down to the ocean and back...not far.

Then Penny and I walked over to my sister’s house.

Upon returning, I found some Harley-Davidson paraphernalia on my porch. They were my friend’s...the one who died Thursday (not COVID) and her sister thought I would enjoy having them. I mentioned how much I loved Cora and her sister said Cora always spoke about how much she loved me.

Kind of a bittersweet day all around.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lightman. You staying safe? Anything starting to open up?

All your snow gone? Is it spring now?

My lawn is finally snowless!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...enjoying your full retirement?

[lightman]

Governor Tommie the Commie Wolf is using a red-yellow-green color code county by county for opening up.

The entire People’s Republic of Pennsyltucky is “red” (lockdown) until Thursday.

On Friday 24/67 counties get to move to “yellow”

Whoopdehoo!

Still no haircuts, still no restaurants, still to bars, still no state liquor stores. About the only thing better about “yellow” is that “large groups” are then deinfed as >25 rather than >10.

Oh yeah—my County ISN’T one of the “lucky” 24.

We haven’t had plowable snow since early January.

April was the coldest in my quarter century of record keeping. May is headed the same way—NE PA may see snow on Wednesday and Friday. Definitely too soon for planting garden.

[lightman]

Meet a Pennsyltucky “bitter clinger”!

(Remember the Øbama 2008 campaign?)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for today's Road Trip: Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, California.