FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Bragg, North Carolina ~ 19 AUG 2014

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Fort Bragg is a major United States Army installation located in Cumberland, Hoke, Harnett and Moore counties, North Carolina, mostly in Fayetteville but also partly in the town of Spring Lake.

The fort is named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg. It covers over 251 square miles. It is the home of the US Army airborne forces and Special Forces, as well as U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command.

Fort Bragg, NC absorbed FORSCOM (Forces Command) and USARC (US Army Reserve Command) from Fort McPherson, GA in 2011 as an outcome of the 2005 BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission).

 Fort Bragg retained its name and increased its population by 25,000. The consolidation made Fort Bragg the largest US Army command for sustained forces capable of worldwide crisis response.

There are 29,183 people, 4,315 households, and 4,215 families residing on the base. The base is the one of the main garrisons for deployments to IRAQ & Afghanistan wars. The units based at the mission have conducted two, three, or even four or more deployments to combat zones in IRAQ & Afghanistan.

Fort Bragg is tasked to maintain America’s Contingency Corps as a strategic crisis response force manned and trained to deploy rapidly by air, sea, and land anywhere in the world with the ability to fight upon arrival. The major units are XVIII Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division, The Golden Knights, FORSCOM and USARC.

Tenant organizations at Fort Bragg include MEDDAC (Medical Command), Womack Army Medical Center, Special Forces, and John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

Learn More About Fort Bragg HERE!!

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren...hope you are having bunches of fun with your grands. *HUGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Publius, for Rachmaninov’s “The Star Spangled Banner”. ((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...did you sally forth today? Good weather?

The day started overcast, but the sun has popped out and is spreading its rays. It’s 66 right now.

[Pelham]

That would be James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart

Early wasn’t alone in that experience. There’s a couple of books about revival that swept through the southern army. This article mentions them at the end of the piece:

http://archive.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/religion/060429/revival.shtml

[Pelham]

“Andrew. I once read that half the South claims some kinship to Andrew Jackson so don’t really know.”

That could be more true than not. The population of British North America was around 2 1/2 million in 1776, and of course just the counting the southern states it would be a lot less.

Southern families tend to have a long history there, and if you can trace your line back to the colonial era you are going to have more cousins that you can count. I have a bunch of Scots Irish ancestors from that era but no Jacksons that I’m aware of. Lee, Carroll, Armstrong, Donald, Yarborough, are some of the old SC families I’m descended from.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy!

*HUGS*

Sorry I've been away this evening - I've been vanquishing the iniquitous on a hostile forum.

It's getting back to August in the Belly of the Beast - rather humid today. As is usual in this time of year, the Office was like a tomb - only the true workers around. I went out late morning for an extended walk - - had I waited until afternoon, it would have been unbearable.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

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)

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!


TATTOO
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Must retire for the evening –

"Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes?
For now I see the true old times are dead,
When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight."

The Bugler, his grim visage replete with an evil sneer,
already mounts the parapet.

Soldiers of the Greatest Generation
Stand The Watch Tonight!





Standing With Them:
My Uncle Jack!



Maj. John T. Dowd, USA
WWII, Korea, Vietnam



TAPS
U.S. Marine Band
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"Do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes!"

(King Lear, Act III, Scene iv)



All Gave Some – Some Gave All!!!
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Good night, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America!

Godspeed our Troops around the Globe – especially those in harm’s way – by virtue of their service and sacrifice we continue to live in Freedom!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

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)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand....my computer guy just left. All is well now.

Did you keep busy while Maddi was in school?

[luvie]

Nite, Conor!

[Kathy in Alaska]

You were able to get out and walk...slow and easy.

Good for you!

[Kathy in Alaska]

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

God Bless you good, Mac. *HUGS* Good night and rest well.
Thanks for helping honor our troops, past and present.
Thank you for your service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, mountainlion...that is some video. Makes me nervous just watching it.

Thanks for posting it.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, Ma!

Did several trips to Pope AFB and Bragg through Active and Reserve exercises and time with the Air Force.

Mostly with C-130s and Snake Eaters jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Though one time in the 1980s. A C-130 tried to LAPES (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System)a Sheridan Fast Recon Vehicle (A light aluminum tank with a big honking cannon) that was released high and tumbled on its Cargo Pallet into a pile of very expensive, unmanned junk.

Bragg is surprisingly large and incredibly well maintained. With LOTS of sand boxes and secluded exercise areas. Since SOCOM gets a large chunk of DoD/Army budget.

Jack.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Jack! ((HUGS)) Sounds like you had some “good” times. d:o)

How are your furry friends doing? Are you completely retired yet?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, ML...((HUGS))...hope all the rain and thunder and lightning have finished making Lynn-Dah miserable.

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good 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 cupcake?

Cookies?

Pancakes?

Treats?

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[Kathy in Alaska]

Homework nights.....I hate Tuesdays, too. LOL!

Love your slippers, Garfield.