FReeper Canteen ~ Fort Barfoot, Virginia ~ 06 JUNE 2023

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Fort Barfoot, Virginia

Fort Barfoot is a Virginia Army National Guard installation, located near the town of Blackstone, Virginia. Home of the Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center, Fort Barfoot was originally named for the United States Army officer and Confederate General George Pickett. It was one of the U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers that has been renamed by The Naming Commission.

Their recommendation was for the post to be renamed Fort Barfoot, in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Van T. Barfoot. On 5 January 2023, William A. LaPlante, US Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, directed the full implementation of the recommendations of the Naming Commission, DoD-wide. The redesignation ceremony occurred on 24 March 2023.

Fort Barfoot has more than 225 full-time state and federal employees provide support to tenant and training units on approximately 41,000 acres featuring a combination of open and wooded terrain maneuver areas and 21 ranges capable of supporting almost any weapons system in the U.S. Army inventory with barracks to support more than 5,000 personnel as well as an Army airfield operation.

While the facilities at Barfoot are geared to train military personnel and units, non-military organizations use them too. These include the U.S. Department of State, the United States Marshals Service, FBI, ATF, the Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, Virginia State Police and local law enforcement agencies.

Fort Barfoot is also the home of an annual exercise with elements of 36 Canadian Brigade Group, located in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Exercise "Southbound Trooper" is a combined exercise between the Canadian Forces Primary Reserves and Virginia National Guard that helps forge NATO interoperability between the two militaries.

Soldiers from 37 Canadian Brigade, located in New Brunswick and Newfoundland also hold an annual exercise "Maritime Raider", usually shortly after Southbound Trooper.

Learn More About Fort Barfoot HERE!!

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening everyone!

Spending one more week with my kiddos then heading home. It’s been a fantastic trip!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week.

*HUGS*

[lightman]

Good evening everyone, stay safe!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*

So glad you took a nice looooooong vacation with the family. Have a great time this last week of it.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks Lauren!

[Jet Jaguar]

+1

[The Mayor]

June 6

Places of the Heart

Bible in a Year:

• 2 Chronicles 25–27
• John 16

You shall not make for yourself an image.

Exodus 20:4 Here are some vacation tips: The next time you’re traveling through Middleton, Wisconsin, you might want to visit the National Mustard Museum. For those of us who feel that one mustard is plenty, this place amazes, featuring 6,090 different mustards from around the world. In McLean, Texas, you might be surprised to run across the Barbed Wire Museum—or more surprised there is such a passion for, well . . . fencing.

It’s telling what kinds of things we choose to make important. One writer says you could do worse than spend an afternoon at the Banana Museum (though we beg to differ).

We laugh in fun, yet it’s sobering to admit we maintain our own museums—places of the heart where we celebrate certain idols of our own making. God instructs us, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3) and “you shall not bow down to them or worship them” (v. 5). But we do anyway, creating our own graven gods, perhaps of wealth or lust or success—or of some other fill-in-the-blank “treasure” we worship in secret.

It’s easy to read this passage and miss the point. Yes, God holds us accountable for the museums of sin we create. But He also speaks of “showing love to a thousand generations of those who love [Him]” (v. 6). He knows how trivial our “museums” really are. He knows our true satisfaction lies only in our love for Him.

Reflect & Pray

What is an area of sin that you keep secret? How will you give it to God?

Dear God, I want You to be at the center of my life. Help me rid myself of the idols I keep.

[PROCON]

Thanks for tonight’s Road Trip, Lauren!

[jeffersondem]

I thought the military had agreed to rename the post “Fort Drag.”

[radu]

Howdy, JJ! *HUGZ*

Things going well these days? Still staying busy as a beaver or have you learned to slow down a little? LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Fort Barfoot, Virginia ~

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[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I hope you got all of last week’s stuff caught up over the weekend so you only have to deal with this week’s stuff.

More sunshine up there today but it looks mighty windy. Trees are swaying pretty hard.

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOOHOO...glad you are having fun with your kiddos.

Thanks for today's Road Trip: Fort Barfoot, Virginia.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

lightman!!

1st!!

[lightman]

Right place.
Right time.
Right gear.

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

ML!!

2nd!!