FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia ~ 10 JUNE 2025

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany is a United States Marine Corps base located just outside Albany, Georgia. The primary mission of the units on the base is to rebuild and repair ground combat and combat support equipment and to support installations on the East Coast of the United States. Today one of MCLB Albany’s most important facilities is the Marine Corps Logistics Command's Maintenance Center.

Albany was chosen as the site for the logistics base after a two-year search in the early 1950s for a level area convenient to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean and serviced by road and rail. Albany was also attractive for its inland location, well away from the possibility of saltwater corrosion of the stored equipment, and its adequate workforce.

In a landmark ceremony, Sept. 23, 2011, base and local officials flipped the switch on a $20 million generator plant that produces 1.9 megawatts of renewable electric power and steam by burning landfill gas collected from a nearby landfill.

The new green technology is the first of its kind within the Department of the Navy. The process recovers methane gas from the neighboring landfill and converts it into energy and steam to help power the Marine Depot Maintenance Command.

Preserving the environment and the wildlife in and around the base has been a priority since the early planning phases of the facility. Colonel A.E. Dubber, the officer who chose the Albany site, insisted early on that he wanted no wildlife disturbed unnecessarily and that as many trees as possible should be saved. Because of his policies the base is lined with pecan orchards and rows of oaks. The so-called Dubber Oak, upon which the base was aligned during construction, still stands near the main gate.

In 1973 more than 200 Indian artifacts were discovered on the base. Arrowheads, flint knives, scrapers, and other ancient tools estimated to be more than 8,000 years old were unearthed by archaeologists. Their presence suggests that the area may have been a trading or supply post for Native Americans.

Learn More About Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany HERE!!

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[radu]

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[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*

Still hangin’ with the family or has vacation ended?

[PROCON]

Thanks for tonight’s Road Trip, Lauren!

[luvie]

~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Logistics Base
Albany, Georgia ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

I’m home, got home Friday. I’m still unpacking, LOL!

It was a fantastic trip, and hope to get to go again in December for Christmas.

Hope you’ve been doing well, and hope you have a terrific Tuesday!

*HUGS

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you PROCON!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you luvie!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Home in time for the yeeha! Since you’re unpacking, I assume your house wasn’t blown apart by the storms last night. It was mighty wild in your neck o’ da woods for a bit!

Glad you had a great time while you were there, and you were there for quite a while. December will be here before you know it and I hope nothing gets in the way of you getting to go back.

Doing well enough. Getting tired of all the storms but at least everything is still standing.

[radu]

Howdy, PRO!

Have a good weekend? Was it comfy enough to hang out in the back yard with Robin and the pups or has the heat already cranked up too much for that?

[real saxophonist]

MCLB Albany used to have the only Drum & Bugle Corps in the Fleet. For some reason, they transitioned to a regular band, and later that band was deactivated. So now there's no musical group there at all.

About that same time, the band at 29 Palms was also deactivated. "Budget cuts."

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Still windy over there or did that calm down? Y’all don’t need the air filled with dust and sand. GACK

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[luvie]

Good evening, lauren. Are you worn out by all the fun you’ve been having? I saw that you got home on Friday. Hope you have a chance to decompress before having to go back to work.

[real saxophonist]

Also, if there’s a hurricane bad enough, MCRD Parris Island evacuates to MCLB Albany. I think that’s happened twice.

[luvie]

Hi there, radu!

No, it’s not windy now. It stopped a long time ago. I think it was our little mini-cool front coming in. It was “only” 90 today. However, it’s 87 now, and it feels pretty good.

How were things there? I didn’t see rain clouds there on radar, so hope you and Champ had a chance to get out and mow a bit.

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there real saxophonist!

Thanks for all the great info!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening dear one!

*HUGS*

[luvie]

Dude....

[PROCON]

Hiya radu, good weekend, son's over tonight for dinner and hanging.

It was 103 here today, one more HOT day tomorrow and then back to 'normal' temps.

I hope you and the kittehs are behavin' yourselves.