FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas ~ 20 FEB 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas

The Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) is a US Army installation located in Jefferson County, Arkansas, just northwest of the city of Pine Bluff. PBA is one of nine Army installations in the United States that stored chemical weapons.

PBA supplies specialized production, storage, maintenance and distribution of readiness products, and delivers technical services to the Armed Forces and Homeland Security. PBA also designs, manufactures and refurbishes smoke, riot control, and incendiary munitions, as well as chemical/biological defense operations items.

It serves as a technology center for illuminating and infrared munitions and is also the only place in the Northern Hemisphere where white phosphorus munitions are filled. Its Homeland Security mission includes first-responder equipment training and surveillance of pre-positioned equipment.

Chemical Agent Identification Set (CAIS) Destruction: Another successful NSCMP mission at PBA included the Rapid Response System (RRS), a transportable treatment technology, which processed more than 5,300 CAIS items once stored at PBA.

The RRS began operations in August 2005, and completed processing in November 2006. For decades the arsenal stored chemical agent rockets (GB55's). During the 1980s, these were defueled and the warheads were destroyed. Mustard agent, VX, G and Sarin were stored in large bunkers on the premises.

Learn More About Pine Bluff Arsenal HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!

[PROCON]

Hi Lauren, thanks for tonight’s Road Trip!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thank you radu!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you PROCON!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren *HUGZ*

Hope all’s well down your way. I hear it’s going to feel more like summer down that way this week. A bit early for that!

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

Starting to feel like your old self again? Colds really suck pond water.

[laurenmarlowe]

Busy week here, so I am happy that it’s nice outside. Got a big RV Show, the pleasant weather will help our attendance, I hope!

Hope you have a great week!

[The Mayor]

February 20

God’s Wise Purposes

Bible in a Year :

• Leviticus 26–27
• Mark 2

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?

Psalm 13:1

The United Kingdom brims with history. Everywhere you go, you see plaques honoring historic figures or commemorating sites where important events occurred. But one such sign exemplifies the droll British sense of humor. On a weathered plaque outside a bed and breakfast in Sandwich, England, a message reads, “On this site, Sept. 5, 1782, nothing happened.”  

Sometimes it seems to us that nothing is happening regarding our prayers. We pray and pray, bringing our petitions to our Father with expectation that He’ll respond—right now. The psalmist David expressed such frustration when he prayed, “How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” (Psalm 13:1). We can easily echo those same thoughts: How long, Lord, before you respond?  

However, our God is not only perfect in His wisdom but also in His timing. David was able to say, “I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation” (v. 5). Ecclesiastes 3:11 reminds us, “[God] has made everything beautiful in its time.” The word beautiful means “appropriate” or “a source of delight.” God may not always respond to our prayers when we’d like Him to, but He’s always working out His wise purposes. We can take heart that when He does answer, it will be right and good and beautiful. .

Reflect & Pray

When have you prayed for something and felt that perhaps God was ignoring your requests? What lesson might you have learned in that time of waiting?

Loving God, please help me to learn a patience in prayer borne of trust in You.

For further study, read Why Doesn’t God Answer Me? 

[PROCON]

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[radu]

Sounds like the timing is good since you have the big show coming up. Hope there’s a huge turnout for it!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thank you Mayor!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Hi Ma!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Thanks bunches!

[radu]

Replied. :-)

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Gettin’ a bit blustery up there this afternoon. The big spruce tree close to the Lake Hood cam is dancing in the wind and the cam is wiggling quite a bit. Once in a while, a rain drop hits the cam housing.
Not the prettiest of days.

Good luck this week!

[radu]

You’re quite welcome!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Easy Company & The Next Generation w/ Chris Langlois of Doc Roe Publishing - The History Underground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyDzaz6Szs

We’re chatting with Chris Langlois, who is the grandson of Easy Company medic Eugene Roe who you no doubt remember from the book and series Band of Brothers. Chris is bringing the history of WWII to the next generation through a series of illustrated books. Super interesting stuff!

[luvie]

Great Road Trip to Pine Bluff, Lauren!
I went there a couple of times to visit friends.
Didn't know about the Arsenal, though.