FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona ~ 30 DEC 2014

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma or MCAS Yuma is a United States Marine Corps air station which is the home to multiple squadrons of AV-8B Harrier IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS-1) and Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401), an air combat adversary squadron of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing of the Marine Corps Reserve.

The station is located 2 miles from the city of Yuma, Arizona. A joint civilian-military airport, MCAS Yuma shares facilities with Yuma International Airport and occupies approximately 3,000 acres, most of which is flat desert.

MCAS Yuma is currently the busiest air station in the Marine Corps, offering excellent year-round flying conditions and thousands of acres of open terrain for air-to-ground weapons ranges and associated restricted airspace for military flight operations.

Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS-1) is a major aviation command at MCAS Yuma, conducting training for all Marine Corps tactical aviation units, most notably the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course.

Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401) is a Marine Air Reserve squadron also based at MCAS Yuma, containing both active duty and Selected Marine Corps Reservists, providing aerial adversary/aggressor services and dissimilar air combat training (DACT) for all US military services and selected NATO, Allied and Coalition partners.

MCAS Yuma is currently programmed to become the Marine Corps' initial operating base for the F-35B variant of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the first of which arrived on 16 November 2012.

Learn More About MCAS Yuma HERE!!

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[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks very much Kathy!

*HUGS*

Coming aboard as we speak - rendering hand salutes to our National Colors and the Officer of the Deck!

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)

[PROCON]

Hiya Lauren!

[rlmorel]

I went on a detachment out there in late July 1978, and when the door to the C130 we flew out on opened up, it was as if someone had turned on a giant hair dryer and was pointing it right up the ramp.

My best friend (buddy system) who got sent to California, came out on his motorcycle to visit me while I was out there, and it was so hot, all we did was stay in his motel room, drink, and just catch up with what was going on.

At one point, I wanted to run across the street to a Taco Bell (IIRC) so I opened the door, ran out into the road, got about a quarter way across, and my bare feet felt like they had burst into flames! Talk about stupid, I didn’t even think about it, but I can tell you, I ran back to my room and put my feet in the bathtub!

It sure does get hot out there in July!

[SkyDancer]

~ Good Evening! ~

[lulu16]

I don’t know if this appropriate, but when we go to Yuma, we go to Das Bratwurst Haus, ( I think that is the one) in old downtown. Their schnitzel is amazingly tender. It’s better than at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s restaurant that was in Santa Monica.

Yesterday, I was filling up my gas tank ( $25. 78 to fill!) and I saw a woman with a Toyota 4X4 filling up six gas cars. I asked her if she was going off roading. She said she was and in Yuma. Such beautiful sand dunes around there coming into town.

There’s a story about how Arizona split up three institutions. Phoenix and Yuma won the first draws: they got the state seat and the prison. Tucson lost, and we ended up with the university.

Happy New Year’s all!

[SandRat]

It’s even worse in August.

[lulu16]

gas cars= gas cans

[TMSuchman]

My old stompin grounds!

As Crash Fire Rescue [crew] we had a crash response area from the Mexican border to 75 miles North,East & West of the base, we also had the most heavy duty rescue gear in Yuma County & would get a lot of calls to assist the other fire dept.’s in the county & would help train other fire dept.’s in the manner of dealing with an aircraft crash & fire.

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!


Missing Man Setting

"Träumerei"
Robert Schumann
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Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who
Gave Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

[rlmorel]

I cannot imagine what it is like for our troops over in the ME to wear full combat gear in that weather.

It is incomprehensible to me!

[luvie]

....till they all come home.....

[Fiji Hill]

On August 9, 1963, we visited the base at the conclusion of a trip by kayak from Blythe, Calif. to Imperial Oasis, Ariz., which is nearby. I recall eating in the mess hall where a sign read, “take all you want, but eat all you take.” In the weather station, a spokesman noted the progress of Hurricane Arlene in the western Atlantic Ocean.

[Fiji Hill]

I'll have to try Das Bratwurst Haus next time I'm in Yuma. Over the decades, I have always eaten at Chretin's, a Mexican restaurant located in a residential area, but since they changed owners and moved into the business district, they have gotten mixed reviews on social media.

By the way, it used to be that when you crossed the Colorado River from California and stopped to eat at a Mexican restaurant, you would discover that burritos were called burros. From my experience, if you find a Mexican restaurant in Arizona that still refers to burritos as burros, the food should be good.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Luv!

*HUGS*

So glad to see you this evening! Much as it pains me to leave, I must retire for the evening. Will chat with you on the morrow!

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 -

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:
Generations of American Patriots!



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!

[luvie]

Always good to see you, too, Conor! (((hugs)))

Nighty-night! Have a good week!

[lulu16]

Hello! So nice to talk to you. Once you’ve tried Das Bratwurst Haus, you’ll wish they had a chain near you. There is something about doing things well and consistently, that I would say about them. I have never been to Germany or lived with a German community, but this time of year to February, I really want good German cooking with potatoes that are just right.

Off the top of my head, I know several restaurants in my beautiful AZ that have “burros” on the menu. One is in the old mining town of Globe and I get the green chile burro served enchilada style. I didn’t know, until you told me, that their was a language difference between the two states about burros and burritos, because I have been to restaurants in the Mexican side of town, where they have “burros, “ but wondered why they weren’t bigger than a burritos. In California, I like eating in the Mexican grocery stores that have a taqueria inside and having the tortillas fresh off the conveyer belt.

But the best homestyle Mexican food is Rigo’s on Oracle in NW Tucson. Their buffet has all these soft and deeply flavored stew-like dishes you won’t find anywhere else. It’s where we take out of towners.

Have a wonderful New Year, Fiji Hill, filled with warm hearts around your abundant table.

[PROCON]

(((HUGS))) Ma, hope all is well with you and yours!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday 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?

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, Kathy.