FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: U.S. Coast Guard Base Alameda, California ~ 25 JUNE 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Base Alameda, California

Coast Guard Base Alameda also referred to as Coast Guard Island is an artificial island in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda, California. It is home to several major United States Coast Guard commands and cutters, including the Coast Guard Pacific Area.

It is one of the largest Coast Guard bases on the West Coast. From 1942 until 1982, the island was the site of the Coast Guard's recruiting training center (boot camp), enlisting and training hundreds of thousands of Coasties including many of the 214,239 who served in the Pacific and European Theaters of World War II.

Established February 15, 2012, Base Alameda provides a wide variety of services in direct support of Coast Guard activities throughout the West Coast. Personnel Support includes the management of approximately 700 CG-owned Housing units, transportation of household goods, the Child Development Center (CDC), Morale, Recreation and Welfare (MWR), and personnel support services.

The Integrated Support Command provides office and work spaces for permanently based tenant commands and messing and berthing for their personnel. The Integrated Support Command is home to a variety of tenant commands including: Commander, Pacific Area; Commander, Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific; Commander, Joint Interagency Task Force West; Marine Safety Office San Francisco Bay; Training Team One; Naval Engineering Support Unit Alameda; Electronics Support Unit Alameda; and homeport for 4 High Endurance Coast Guard Cutters: CGC SHERMAN, CGC MORGENTHAU, CGC MUNRO, and the CGC BOUTWELL.

Coast Guard Island is in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda. The 68-acre island is situated in the historic Brooklyn Basin, now known as Embarcadero Cove. It is within the Alameda city limits, however, and only accessible via Campbell Boulevard in Oakland.

 The Island supports a number of government facilities, including the Pacific Commander Station (U.S. Coast Guard District Eleven), an industrial service center, the San Francisco Marine Safety Office, a training center for reserve and enlisted coast guard personnel (class-rooms), living quarters, four 378-foot long high-endurance cutters, a medical and dental clinic, and public works facilities to service the island (i.e., sewage treatment, wastewater treatment)

Learn More About Base Alameda HERE!!

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for today's Road Trip: U.S. Coast Guard Base Alameda, California.

[radu]

I can picture you two cutting up and carrying on. LOL You seem to have a great relationship.

Must still be decent weather up there - - - outside this horrid heat dome. You could sit outside to enjoy the gardens and watch those silly pups put on their shows.

No sitting outside here until it starts getting dark. Today wasn’t too bad though. Only 90 degrees and the humidity is down so it wasn’t unbearable outside. That changes tomorrow though. *sigh*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[luvie]

Great Road Trip to honor the Coasties, lauren!

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

LOL! You manage to find owls everywhere. Even on a Coast Guard ship.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

The night owl IS everywhere. LOL! Hope you had a fine day today. It was just hot here. Bah!

[radu]

It wasn’t too bad here. Just a normal late-June day. 90 with low humidity so it wasn’t unbearable to step outside. Tomorrow the heat and humidity will crank back up ahead of the next front that comes through Wed. We’re all praying we’ll get the rain they predict then.

[luvie]

Sounds pretty nice. Is it still good sittin’ outside weather there tonight? Fingers crossed that the front brings some rain to y’all. We wouldn’t mind some ourselves! :)

[radu]

It feels decent enough but I haven’t sat outside yet. I might shortly. Been busy washing wood with Murphy’s, then hitting it with furniture polish tonight and dang, there’s a lot of wood in this house. LOL One of those nit-picky cleaning jobs I do periodically. Everything looks so nice now.

I need to water some of the flowers and will probably sit on the patio for a bit afterwards. More and more katydids are waking up.

I’m not holding my breath too hard for rain. The systems run out of “juice” by the time they get here when they come from the NW. We’ll see.

[luvie]

You have more energy than I do. LOL! I don’t think the wood in my kitchen has ever been hit by anything except maybe a duster.

[pa_dweller]

Base Alameda's site hasn't been updated in a while.  Morganthau, Boutwell, and Sherman are no longer in commission, per Wikipedia.

[radu]

I only do it two, maybe three times a year. Air funk builds up after a while and washing it once in a while makes it look a lot nicer.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for this morning's thread.

We did the early trip to the lake as promised yesterday.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[luvie]

I’m sure it really brightens up the place!

[radu]

Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))

Looks like going out early yesterday was to Gizmo’s liking. He seemed a little friskier.

[radu]

I don’t know about brightening up the place but it does look nicer.

[The Mayor]

And thank you!

[luvie]

Hey there, Early Birds!
Yeah. I slept LATE! It was great.
What a fun Road Trip to see the Coasties.
Thanks, lauren!
Hope everyone has a Terrific Tuesday!
It's heating back up here to 100+.😎
(((hugs)))