FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~ 06 MAR 2012

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility
Barking Sands, Hawaii

Pacific Missile Range Facility is the world's largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously.

There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace. This makes PMRF a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to large scale, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.

The mission of the Pacific Missile Range Facility is to facilitate Training, Tactics Development, and Test & Evaluations for air, surface, and sub-surface weapons systems and Advanced Technology Systems.

PMRF provides the full spectrum of instrument range support, including; radar, underwater instrumentation, telemetry, electronic warfare, target remote command & control, communications, target launching facilities, data display, data processing and target/weapon launching and recovery facilities.

The headquarters and primary operation center of PMRF occupies approximately 1800 acres and is located on the western shore of the island of Kauai. The nearest town, Kekaha, is eight miles to the south and east. Supporting instrumentation sites at Makaha Ridge and Kokee Park overlook the vast ocean range areas to the west and north Kauai.

The range encompasses 42,000 sq. miles of sea and air space and has minimal encroachments. The underwater tracking range extends over a 1000 sq. miles areas. PMRF features a state of the art instrumentation suite & communication network.

Lead range in the Pacific for Aegis Combat System Ship Qualification Training, PMRF puts new Aegis platforms through extensive testing & training prior to initial deployment. Collocated with the Sandia National Laboratory Kauai Test Facility, PMRF is the lead range for launching the Strategic Target System. No other range has the unencroached geographic expanse necessary to support wide area defense sensor and cooperative engagement capability testing.

The Navy is currently using PMRF to test hit to kill technology using direct collision of the anti-ballistic missile with its target. This destroys the target by using only kinetic energy from the force of the collision. The two Missile Defense Agency programs that currently utilize the range at PMRF are the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD. The THAAD program relocated their testing operations from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and conducted its first demonstration at PMRF on 26 January 2007.

On 27 April 2007, the U.S. military's sea-based missile defense system, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, showed it could intercept two targets simultaneously when it destroyed a cruise missile and a short-range ballistic missile during a test off the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The test marked eight out of ten times the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy's Aegis missile defense system successfully intercepted its target, but was the first time the system knocked out two targets at the same time.

Learn More About Barking Sands HERE!

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We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a donut?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. Thanks for this morning's thread, Lauren. How's it going?

Today is primary Election Day here in Oklahoma. Get out and vote today, Oklahoma Freepers.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[left that other site]

I’ve Been to Barking Sands! }:-)

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.
Good morning to our

military, our allies, and their families

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.
Boy it must be a real hardship to work on that base.

~ Today...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph...
Becoming south in the afternoon.

~ Tonight... Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Chilly this morning. No frost on the windshield but
around 30 degrees.
At least it's going to be sunny today.

Yesterday was kind of crazy around here,
which is a little unusual for a Monday.
Hopefully, today will be much better.
I'll try to be around more this morning. (fingers crossed)

My youngest son is driving me crazy.
He is on the hunt for his old truck - a Pewter Chevy S-10 ZR-2
so I'm getting all kinds of emails or phone calls
mainly, because he's going to want to borrow money
if he doesn't have enough, if and when he finds it. UGH!

But, right now, I need to make my rounds.
Please stick around.
And, remember – I’ll be watching!

The FR Canteen is ALWAYS

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea,
pancakes,
conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM

DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above Honoring those who have served before.

[beachn4fun]

WOW! What a great story and accomplishment.

Thank you and G’day SkyDancer

[beachn4fun]

today I visited Social Secriity, then I went to the Marine recruiter's office.

Now that's sorta funny...
first you go to Social Security...
then you go to join the Marines? hehe

Aloha, BIGLOOK

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Linda Frances

Thanks for joining us and sharing that great story about your husband’s adventures. From now on, every time I eat Mahi Mahi, I’ll remember your husband.

What happened after he got stung by scorpion? Was he sick? Did someone have to suck out the poison?

[beachn4fun]

#50 Ma
((HUGS))
I heard you're still getting snow up there.
Time for a short vacation in the lower 48?

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach. How’s it going?

[ConorMacNessa]

Good morning, Beachy!

*HUGS*

Happy Tuesday! Definitely on the chilly side this morning!



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Linda Frances]

No, they drove him in to the dispensary where they gave a shot and kept him for 1 day; he slept almost 3 days. I don’t know if was from the meds or bite. Since we were considered isolated duty, the nearest hospital was Reno which was about 70 miles from the base, so they chose to keep him at the base.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning beachy and (((HUGS))).

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, EG ((HUGS))

All is well.

Howz it going with you?

[E.G.C.]

Well, not much went on yesterday. I did take Bo to the lake. Had a great time out there.

Went out and voted in today's election. Today is Primary Election Day here in Oklahoma. Everyone get out and vote today.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, CMN ((HUGS))

Chilly for sure. I had to put my winter coat back on.

How are you this morning?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, dear ((HUGS))

How does your garden grow?

[beachn4fun]

A scary thing. Was he as mean as a scorpion after that?

[Linda Frances]

He was a scary sailor before that. We were both 19 yrs old at the time and everything was scary.