FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma ~ 19 JULY 2022

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma

Altus Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma.

The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The wing's mission is to provide C-17 Globemaster III, KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-46 Pegasus formal initial and advanced specialty training programs for up to 3,000 flight crew and aircraft maintenance students annually.

The 97th Air Mobility Wing plans and executes C-17, KC-135 formal school initial and advanced specialty training programs for up to 3000 students annually, sustains C-17, KC-135 airland, airdrop and air refueling mobility forces providing global reach for combat and contingency operations, and provides air traffic control and weather forecasting for flying operations.

97th Operations Group consists of:

97th Operations Support Squadron
56th Air Refueling Squadron
58th Airlift Squadron
54th Air Refueling Squadron
97th Training Squadron

 On August 30, 2002, the 97th Logistics Group inactivated and the 97th Air Mobility Wing Maintenance Directorate formed along with five subordinate divisions. On November 1, 2017, the 97th Maintenance Group was activated to replace the Maintenance Directorate, aligning the 97th Air Mobility Wing’s aircraft maintenance function with standard Air Force organizational structure.

The 97th Mission Support Group provides mission support for C-17, KC-135 and KC-46 aircraft and base wide infrastructure to include communications, civil engineering, law enforcement, force/fire protection, contracting, disaster response, environmental, lodging, transportation, recreation, supply, education, mobility, food service and family & personnel support.

97th Maintenance Group provides maintenance and support to all assigned aircraft and provides the same maintenance support to transient aircraft, engines and associated ground equipment. The Group provides backshop support to all three aircraft while continuously improving environmental awareness and effectively managing maintenance resources, allowing the 97th Air Mobility Wing to perform its aircrew training mission.

Learn More About Altus Air Force Base HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

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[PROCON]

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

[TigerHawk]

Hey, get any rain today? We got enough here today to make me go looking for my ark plans.

[TigerHawk]

Thanks for the Road Trip. They’re ALWAYS good.

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thank you radu!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO PROCON!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you TigerHawk,
thank you, most kind of you!

THIRD!!

[TigerHawk]

It’s YOU, put in the time and effort, and deserve the THANKS!

So, I’m 3rd. WHAT’S MY PRIZE??? I want one of those hot pink(?) M-4’s.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Take your pick!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi MA!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Nary a drop fell here. There were a few brief small pop-up showers here and there in the area but that was it.
No rain in store the rest of the week and the temps will be close to 100 every day. The mood is pretty bleak.

At least someone is getting rain this summer. Enjoy it while you’ve got it! :-)

[MountainDad]

I spent time at Altus from 1977 to 1979 serving with the 443 OMS.

Was a crew chief and loved the 141"s and got to work on a few C-5'S

Good times.....

[The Mayor]

Our Daily Bread

Tuesday,
July 19, 2022

A Humble Snack

Read: 1 Peter 5:1–6

Clothe yourselves with humility. 1 Peter 5:5

The bag of snack chips was small, but it taught an American missionary a big lesson. Working one evening in the Dominican Republic, she arrived at a church meeting and opened her chips when a woman she hardly knew reached and grabbed a few from the bag. Others helped themselves, too.

How rude, the missionary thought. Then she realized a humbling lesson. She didn’t yet understand the culture where she’d agreed to serve. Rather than emphasizing individualism, as in the United States, she learned that life in the Dominican Republic is lived in community. Sharing one’s food and goods is how people relate to each other. Her way wasn’t better, just different. She confessed, “It was very humbling to discover these things about me.” As she began to recognize her own biases, she also learned that humbly sharing with others helped her serve them better.

Peter taught this lesson to church leaders: treat others with humility. He counseled the elders to resist “lording it over those entrusted to you” (1 Peter 5:3). And those younger? “Submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility” (v. 5). As he declared: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Therefore, “humble yourselves under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time” (v. 6). May He help us humbly live before Him and others today. — Patricia Raybon

What cultural biases do you harbor? How could you let God transform those attitudes so you humbly serve all?

Father, exchange my arrogance regarding others with Your humble love.

Bible in a year: Psalms 23–25; Acts 21:18–40

[pfflier]

My dad retired there and I graduated from high school there. It was our first stateside assignment since I was two years old. We were always stationed overseas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, France, Germany then England, until Altus.

I never really saw this country until I was 16 and it was Altus OK. I went into the USAF from there and lo and behold, went right back there to loadmaster school for C-141s.

It wasn't a bad place, the people were very nice but it was incredibly boring if you didn't have a car.

My mom and dad are buried at the Altus cemetery and their gravesites have a wonderful panoramic view of AAFB.

[radu]

Howdy, lauren!

Always fun to see where you’ll take us each week.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for today's Road Trip: Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I hope this week is off to a decent start.

[mylife]

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