FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Creech Air Force Base, Nevada ~ 01 FEB 2022

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Creech Air Force Base, Nevada

Creech Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) command and control facility in Clark County, Nevada used "to engage in daily Overseas Contingency Operations of remotely piloted aircraft systems which fly missions across the globe."

In addition to an airport, the military installation has the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, associated aerial warfare ground equipment, and unmanned aerial vehicles of the type used in Afghanistan and Iraq. Creech is the aerial training site for the USAF Thunderbirds and "is one of two emergency divert airfields" for the Nevada Test and Training Range.

The MQ-9 Reaper is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily against dynamic execution targets and secondarily as an intelligence collection asset. Given its significant loiter time, wide-range sensors, multi-mode communications suite, and precision weapons -- it provides a unique capability to perform strike, coordination, and reconnaissance against high-value, fleeting, and time-sensitive targets.

Present-day Creech AFB serves as the main operating base of the 432d Wing and 432d Air Expeditionary Wing. With a 3,000-strong workforce, it sustains around-the-clock overseas contingency operations against global terrorism.

The Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence (JUAS COE) is a multi service unit of the United States Armed Forces based at Creech Air Force Base.

The Center of Excellence is designed to improve interoperability and use, and examines the use of sensors and intelligence collection assets to meet joint operational requirements of U.S. forces in any combat environment. The COE is an operationally focused organization concentrating on UAV systems technology, joint concepts, training, tactics, and procedural solutions to the warfighters’ needs.

The Army was initially lead the Joint UAV COE with the Air Force as deputy. These positions will rotate among the four military services. The center has representatives from all four military services and other DOD and non-DOD agencies

Learn More About Creech Air Force Base HERE!!

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[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[gundog]

The place is all brown. General Creech would approve.

[PROCON]

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

[The Mayor]

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Tuesday,
February 1, 2022

Love Wherever We Go

Read: Matthew 25:31–40

Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Matthew 25:40

I sat on the pier during a vacation, reading my Bible and watching my husband fish. A young man approached us, suggesting we use different bait. He glanced at me as he fidgeted from one foot to another and said, “I’ve been in jail.” He pointed to my Bible and sighed, “Do you think God really cares about people like me?”

Opening to Matthew 25, I read aloud that Jesus talked about His followers visiting those in prison.

“It says that? About being in prison?” Tears brimmed his eyes when I shared how God considers kindness toward His children a personal act of love toward Himself (vv. 31–40).

“I wish my parents would forgive me too.” He lowered his head. “I’ll be right back.” He returned and handed me his tattered Bible. “Would you show me where to find those words?”

I nodded. My husband and I hugged him as we prayed for him and his parents. We exchanged contact information and have continued praying for him.

At one point or another, we’ll feel unloved, unwelcomed, in need, and even physically or emotionally imprisoned (vv. 35–36). We’ll need reminders of God’s loving compassion and forgiveness. We’ll also have opportunities to support others who struggle with these feelings. We can be a part of God’s redeeming plan as we spread His truth and love wherever we go. — Xochitl Dixon

How can you love God by showing love to others today? In what ways has He showed you love through others?

Father, thank You for loving me, forgiving me, and giving me opportunities to share Your truth as I love You by loving others.

Discover what real love is.

Bible in a year: Exodus 27–28; Matthew 21:1–22

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy left that other site!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you gundog!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO PROCON!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thank you Mayor!

[eyedigress]

LOL!

I know that. LAFB here in the 80’s.

[left that other site]

Even though I ache all over from shoveling snow, my clicking finger is as agile as ever. LOL!

[lightman]

Closest I’ve ever been to Nevada was the Four Corners....looks beautiful!

[radu]

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

Sorry for the lateness...still at work for a while.

~ Road Trip: Creech Air Force Base, Nevada ~

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[Rowdyone]

I used to be assigned traffic/crowd control/security one day a year, 70-72, from Nellis for Firepower Demonstration. You never saw so much braid and medals on Officers from around the world who were there on buying trips. It was called Indian Springs Auxillary Airfield back then.

[MoochPooch]

Evening, all!

[gundog]

When Gen. Creech commanded TAC, there was a favorite color of his, which came to be known as Creech Brown. An awful lot of stuff got painted that color. Also, he was kind of pathological about the color red. I remember a Lt. Col. putting his dictionary in a desk drawer so the general wouldn’t see it.

[luvie]

Thanks for a great stream, lauren!
Lots of AF bases in Nebraska, I see.
Hope you're having a good week.
...and ALL the Night Owls!

[gundog]

From Wikipedia:

The 1982 Diamond Crash was an accident that involved four Northrop T-38 Talon jets in training on 18 January 1982, killing all four pilots. It is the worst operational accident in the history of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Team. When this accident happened, Wilbur Creech was the commanding general of the USAF Tactical Air Command. On 2 April 1984 all copies of the crash videotape were destroyed, with Creech himself erasing the final crash segment of the master tape. He did this to save the families from morbid sensationalism. At the time of the destruction, the families of the pilots and NBC had already demanded access to the tapes as part of a suit against Northrop Corporation and a Freedom of Information Act request, respectively. Creech did not seek JAG guidance prior to destroying the tapes, and asked personnel who had been involved in reviewing the tapes to leave the room prior to his erasure.[4] In 2005, Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, where the accident happened, officially changed its name to Creech Air Force Base in honor of General Wilbur L. "Bill" Creech, who was known as the "father of the Thunderbirds" and who was himself a Thunderbird pilot.[5][6]

[mylife]

tongue-tied , made LTC, retired bought 40 acres in Nevada with wild mustangs and promptly died.. :(