FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~ 15 June 2021

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii

The Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands is a U.S. naval facility and airport located five nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Kekaha, in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States.

PMRF is the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training missile range. The US military and subcontractors favor its relative isolation, ideal year-round tropical climate and encroachment-free environment.

 Barking Sands is the only range in the world where submarines, surface ships, aircraft and space vehicles can operate and be tracked simultaneously. There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace. The base itself covers roughly 2,385 acres.

The base includes a 6,000-foot runway with operations and maintenance facilities. It has roughly 70 housing units and various recreational facilities for those who can access the base.

The base has support facilities at Port Allen, Makaha Ridge, and Koke'e State Park. The base also uses a portion of the nearby island of Niihau for a remotely operated APS-134 surveillance radar, an 1,100-acre Test Vehicle Recovery Site, the Perch Electronic Warfare site, multiple EW Portable Simulator sites, and a Helicopter Terrain Flight training course.

The Navy is currently working with the State of Hawaii and Kauai County to ensure the long-term viability of PMRF. For many decades, the land adjacent to PMRF was used for sugarcane fields, which was wholly compatible with operations at PMRF.

Since Kekaha Sugar's closure, the Navy has become wary of "encroachment", incompatible developments, that might occur on the land next to the base. In order to ensure that PMRF can continue to safely conduct important research and training operations in the future, the Navy and some citizens of Kauai are seeking to permanently preserve the land adjacent to PMRF for agricultural purposes.

Under the PMRF Agriculture Preservation Initiative the Navy would have the roughly 6,000 acres of land adjacent to PMRF preserved solely for agricultural use. Although the Navy has stated that it would like to lease about 300 acres of land, it has also stated that its main goal is not to purchase more land but to merely ensure the land continues to be used for agricultural purposes.

Learn More About Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands HERE!!

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June 15

Our Father’s Care

Bible in a Year:

• Nehemiah 1–3
• Acts 2:1–21

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.

Matthew 10:29 Thwack! I looked up and craned my ear toward the sound. Spotting a smudge on the windowpane, I peered out onto the deck and discovered the still-beating body of a bird. My heart hurt. I longed to help the fragile feathered being.

In Matthew 10, Jesus described His Father’s care for sparrows in order to comfort the disciples as He warned of upcoming dangers. He offered instructions to the twelve as He “gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness” (v. 1). While the power to do such deeds might have seemed grand to the disciples, many would oppose them, including governing authorities, their own families, and the ensnaring grip of the evil one (vv. 16–28).

Then in 10:29–31, Jesus told them not to fear whatever they faced because they would never be out of their Father’s care. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?” He asked. “Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. . . . So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”

I checked on the bird throughout the day, each time finding it alive but unmoved. Then, late into the evening, it was gone. I prayed it had survived. Surely, if I cared this much about the bird, God cared even more. Imagine how much He cares for you and me!

Reflect & Pray

How have you seen God care for you in the past? How can you gain courage for all you face by understanding that you’re never outside your Father’s care?

Dear Father, thank You for always watching over and caring for me.

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please note that tonight’s thread was authored by laurenmarlowe. Please thank her.
She is on the road.

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[rellic]

Hard to do a “road trip” there from the mainland, or AK. That facility is located at probably one of the most beautiful places on Kauai, that can be driven to.(once you are on-island).
I tried to get a Government job there over twenty years ago, They had openings in my specialties. You would not believe the waiting list. I ended up on the Big Island instead.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Biggirl...hope you had a good Monday.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Hope your Monday worked out just as you planned. And now on to Tuesday!

[luvie]

Thanks for the cool road trip!
Those are some hard-working troops.
Hope all you Night Ow🦉s had a good Monday.
I love Monday.
It's my Saturday....nothing going on. LOL!
Have a Terrific Tuesday!
(((hugs)))

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuxXYkzwHg

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...today was Monday...hope yours went just like you wanted.

Did you get to take Blue today?

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxo7mcr2PMQ

[Kathy in Alaska]

On the road again...Barking Sands, Hawaii.

[luvie]

Howdy, MY! Good to see you. How’re things in your world?

[mylife]

reminiscing about Hawaii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud0IYMG1MCo

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Another Monday of total chaos or one of the rare ones that hasn’t left you with no hair? :-)

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