FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Chaffee, Arkansas ~ 13 Feb 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Fort Chaffee, Arkansas

Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center is an Army National Guard installation in western Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Fort Smith. Established as Camp Chaffee in 1941, renamed to Fort Chaffee in 1956, Fort Chaffee has served as a United States Army base, training camp, prisoner-of-war camp, and refugee camp.

The base was closed following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission round. Since that time, the Arkansas National Guard has been using 66,000 acres as a training facility.

Fort Chaffee is utilized by all Department of Defense components and a variety of local, state, and federal agencies for maneuver training, live fire exercises, river crossing operations, and urban combat training. FCJMTC is one of nine National Guard Regional Collective Training Capability sites in the nation capable of conducting Company Level Maneuver and Platoon Live Fire training.

Fort Chaffee operates one of twelve National Guard Training Support Centers with a variety of Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations (TADSS) allowing Soldiers and military units to train personnel at full spectrum operations using simulation devices in a training environment.

The convoy live fire range offers units the capability of platoon-level live fire exercises along a 2,500 meter course including stationary and moving targets. Shortly, the center will also be able to provide units-capability to conduct platoon-level training.

Learn More About Fort Chaffee HERE!!

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Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[PROCON]

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

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you left that other site!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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for your service!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy PROCON!

Hope you have a terrific Tuesday!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thank you radu!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Finishing up work this evening, will pop back in shortly!

*HUGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Fort Chaffee, Arkansas ~

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[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*

Did you get through all the crazy weather that’s been rolling across the country in good shape?

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Battening Down The hatches for Tomorrow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Looks like you have a dreary, windy day up there. Same here, though I have wet along with it. One more round of rain to get through tonight and we’ll be in the clear for a few days. Good! Sunshine is desired! LOL

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

How was your weekend? Still enjoying warmish weather?

[PROCON]

Hiya radu!

Didn't really do much over the weekend, son came for a visit and the weather has continued mild but snow may be in the forecast.

How are things your way?

[The Mayor]

February 13

Jesus’ Blood

Bible in a Year :

• Leviticus 14
• Matthew 26:51–75

Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

Isaiah 1:18 The color red doesn’t always naturally occur in the things we make. How do you put the vibrant color of an apple into a T-shirt or lipstick? In early times, the red pigment was made from clay or red rocks. In the 1400s, the Aztecs invented a way of using cochineal insects to make red dye. Today, those same tiny insects supply the world with red.

In the Bible, red denotes royalty, and it also signifies sin and shame. Further, it’s the color of blood. When soldiers “stripped [Jesus] and put a scarlet robe on him” (Matthew 27:28), these three symbolisms merged into one heartbreaking image of red: Jesus was ridiculed as would-be royalty, He was cloaked in shame, and He was robed in the color of the blood He would soon shed. But Isaiah’s words foretell the promise of this crimsoned Jesus to deliver us from the red that stains us: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (1:18).

One other thing about those cochineal insects used for red dye—they are actually milky white on the outside. Only when they are crushed do they release their red blood. That little fact echoes for us other words from Isaiah: “[Jesus] was crushed for our iniquities” (Isaiah 53:5).

Jesus, who knew no sin, is here to save us who are red with sin. You see, in His crushing death, Jesus endured a whole lot of red so you could be white as snow. .

Reflect & Pray

How do “sins . . . like scarlet” stain your life? How might Jesus restore you and make you clean again?

Dear God, thank You for Your Son, Jesus, and the saving grace of His shed blood.

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[luvie]

Thanks, lauren, for a great Road Trip!

[radu]

Sounds like a nice relaxing weekend.
Pretty much the same here though it was a sloppy one. We needed this rain though!
There’s snow in west TN now but we aren’t supposed to get any here, so they say. It we do get some, it won’t stick. Mild temps all week so it’s good.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

I imagine your kitties are happy it warmed back up a little. Gets boring staying holed up all the time. :-)

Soupy here and I wish this front would hurry up and move on through! Feelin’ it in my bones and not enjoying the aches. This gettin’ old thing sux. LOL

[ExTexasRedhead]

What’s Up With That Knocked Out Tank in Bastogne??? | History Traveler Episode 335

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One of the most prominent features in the main square of Bastogne is a knocked out tank nicknamed, “Barracuda”. But what is the story behind this tank? We’re taking a look at a few lesser known stories about this tank, showing some things hidden in plain sight and visiting the exact location where this tank was knocked out in December of 1944.