FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island ~ 10 NOV 2026

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island

The Naval Station Newport (NAVSTA Newport) is a United States Navy base located in the city of Newport and the town of Middletown, Rhode Island. Naval Station Newport is home to the Naval War College and the Naval Justice School.

Newport now maintains inactive ships at its pier facilities, along with the United States Coast Guard. In BRAC 2005 (Base Realignment and Closure), NAVSTA Newport gained over five hundred billets, in addition to receiving the Officer Candidate School (OCS), the Naval Supply Corps School, and several other activities, to include a few Army Reserve units.

As of 2022 Naval Station Newport, encompasses 1,063 acres on the west coast of Aquidneck Island in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Middletown, Rhode Island, and Newport, Rhode Island. The Base also encompasses the northern third of Gould Island (Rhode Island) in the Town of Jamestown, RI.

NAVSTA Newport is home to nearly 50 U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Army Reserve commands and federal activities. It remains a U.S. Navy premier site for training officers, officer candidates, senior enlisted leaders and midshipman candidates, as well as supporting training for several enlisted personnel rates.

NAVSTA is also the home to Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport which is one of two Navy full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support centers for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace.

 In July 2008, the Naval Station Newport Vision 2035 Master Plan was published, outlining the future direction for the Navy’s organization and infrastructure needs. Naval Station Newport is the Navy’s world-class Center of Learning Excellence.

Learn More About Naval Station Newport HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening everyone!

Stuck at work with a small crisis to solve, hope to get back shortly.

Everyone have a terrific Tuesday!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*

How’s it goin’ down your way? The new boss still keeping you going in circles?

[luvie]

~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island ~

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[luvie]

Hope it doesn’t take to long to solve the crisis. Are you enjoying this wonderful cool weather?

(((hugs)))

[PROCON]

Hiya Lauren and thanks for taking us on tonight’s Road Trip!

[Robert A Cook PE]

My brother graduated from the OCS (NUPOC Nuclear Officer program) at Newport RI back in 77, one year before I was commissioned out of NROTC Texas A&M. So I know it fondly for training my brother.

But.

I can never forgive the Newport Torpedo Development (and Testing) Command for their stubborn bureaucratic REFUSAL to test and improve their Mk 13 and MK 14 torpedoes before and during WWII. Their deliberate REFUSAL to consider that their torpedo design, their torpedo controls, their torpedo fuzes, and their torpedo magnetic fuses were failing in practice.

We lost dozens of torpedoes, lost the sinking of hundreds of targets to mis-firing, mis-directed torpedo. Lost hundreds of submariners and aviator pilots and gunners to the Japanese while trying to use the Newport-designed, Newport-maintained, (non) Newport-tested torpedoes.

[radu]

Ruh roh! Doesn’t sound like a good start to the week. Hope the crisis can be resolved quickly.

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

Fun times with your son over the weekend?

I’ve been trying to stay warm, waiting for my heat to be fixed. Maybe tomorrow.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Was it a doors-open day there?

Turned out pretty nice here this afternoon.

[PROCON]

Hiya radu, good times with son over the weekend, I use portable heaters when needed, so you have no heat at all? Electric or propane?

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

No. Not really. I would have, but hubby was baking rolls and needed heat to get them to rise correctly. I imagine I will have them open tomorrow, though.

Glad it was nice there. I’m guessin’ that meant some sunshine for you. LOL!

[radu]

Glad y’all had a good time.

I have a small space heater here in the bedroom. The larger one in the closet turned out to be a 220v and there’s no 220v outlet in the living room, where I planned to put it.

It’s a propane HVAC. The repair guy came out today and discovered the gas regulator valve conked out. They’ve ordered a new one and with luck, it’ll be in their hands early enough tomorrow to be installed. Otherwise, I’ll have to wait until Wednesday.

The sun’s been warming the house up fairly well during the daytime but it gets nippy at night. I just dress in layers and I’m good enough. Still ready to have the whole house comfy.

[radu]

Darn the luck. But fresh-baked rolls is a good reason to keep the doors closed. Yum!!

Yes, it was sunny today and got up to 72. The attic got so warm, the little vent fan up there came on while the repair guy was here.

[luvie]

Yeah, baking those rolls make the house smell soooo good. Wish I could bottle it. LOL!

Wow. You got up to 72 and we got up to 62. No rain today, the the damp cool weather kept yesterday’s from evaporating so fast. The grass looks better now than it did all summer....and the plants and trees.

[radu]

The aroma of baking bread is wonderful!

I didn’t expect it to get quite as warm as it did today but was definitely pleased. The next two days will be about the same, then a cold front comes through Thursday.

I noticed your rain had moved on today. Glad you got light rain instead of the heavy stuff around places like Alice. Ryan Hall posted a pic taken in that area of some serious flooding yesterday. I know you needed more but not THAT much!