FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Beale Air Force Base, California ~ 05 MAY 2015

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Beale Air Force Base, California

Beale AFB is the home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and located outside of Linda, about 10 miles east of the towns of Marysville and Yuba City and about 40 miles north of Sacramento.

Beale is a large base in terms of land and has five gates providing access on all sides of the base. Visitors enter the base through a main gate that local merchants, individuals and the Beale Military Liaison Committee donated $100,000 to construct. The base is home for approximately 4,000 military personnel.

The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is responsible for providing national and theater command authorities with timely, reliable, high-quality, high-altitude reconnaissance products. To accomplish this mission, the wing is equipped with the nation's fleet of U-2, RQ-4 and MC-12 reconnaissance aircraft and associated support equipment.

The wing also maintains a high state of readiness in its expeditionary combat support forces for potential deployment in response to theater contingencies. The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is composed of more than 4,500 personnel in four groups at Beale, one group at Grand Forks AFB, ND, and multiple overseas operating locations.

In the spring of 2011, the Air Force selected the 9th Reconnaissance Wing to become the parent wing for the MC-12W Project Liberty program. In short order, the 9 RW completed the MC-12 program transfer to Beale AFB and became the permanent home for MC-12W aircraft capable of full motion video (FMV), communications intelligence (COMINT), and signals intelligence (SIGINT).

On 26 August 2011, the 489th Reconnaissance Squadron activated at Beale AFB and assumed the Formal Training Unit (FTU) mission to produce combat ready MC-12W aircrew for immediate deployment in support of combatant commanders.

Learn More About Beale Air Force Base HERE!!

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT~Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

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

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

To: Kartographer

21 posted on 05/04/2015 6:49:05 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")

FINALLY!!! I get it. LOL!

22 posted on 05/04/2015 6:49:26 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: The Mayor; ConorMacNessa; SandRat; mountainlion; HiJinx; Jet Jaguar; Publius; PROCON; TMSuchman; ...

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

23 posted on 05/04/2015 6:50:56 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

In first....Pro grabs the gold!!

24 posted on 05/04/2015 6:52:18 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: laurenmarlowe

Evening Lauren, Kathy!

25 posted on 05/04/2015 6:53:02 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Howard Beale has a base named after himself? :)

26 posted on 05/04/2015 6:53:50 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (I love it when we're Cruz'in together)

And in second....Sand snags the silver!!

27 posted on 05/04/2015 6:54:00 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

And rounding out the top three....Mariner bags the bronze!!

28 posted on 05/04/2015 6:55:25 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: left that other site

29 posted on 05/04/2015 6:57:13 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

30 posted on 05/04/2015 6:59:10 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

To: laurenmarlowe

Howdy, Lauren! (((hugs)))

Great road trip tonight!

See ya in a month? :)

31 posted on 05/04/2015 6:59:46 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)

To: Soaring Feather

Good evening, Ms Feather...*hugs*

Grass is turning green. I even got Mom outside in her traveling wheelchair to pull dead stuff out of the area at the side of the driveway.

Finally you are rid of winter!! Woohoo!!

32 posted on 05/04/2015 6:59:56 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: Kartographer

WTG! Great addition, Kartographer! Off we go!!!

33 posted on 05/04/2015 7:03:16 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

Welcome to the Canteen, Sivad....thanks for adding your experience.

34 posted on 05/04/2015 7:05:30 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: Kartographer

OUCH!!!! That is a LOT of holes!!!!!!!

35 posted on 05/04/2015 7:06:04 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

Good evening, Mooch...is it still nice at your house? Nice tomorrow, too?

36 posted on 05/04/2015 7:08:13 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: NonValueAdded

Nope! Sorry, NVA....he doesn’t get his own base. d:o)

37 posted on 05/04/2015 7:09:01 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

I am off for home with a store stop for Mom. Back in a bit.

38 posted on 05/04/2015 7:10:10 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))

To: Kartographer

Nice!

Woo-Hoo, U.S. Air Force!

39 posted on 05/04/2015 7:15:39 PM PDT by PROCON (I AM PAMELA GELLER.............(but in manly guy form :-))

To: Kathy in Alaska

Did you know the pods on the wings are not fuel tanks?

I worked at the U2 depot in Palmdale, CA for a couple of years as the mass properties engineer for the program.

Very versatile, yet, temperamental bird...hence the nick “Dragon Lady”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2

http://www.beale.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123373151

http://sky-flash.com/U2_DragonLady/

40 posted on 05/04/2015 7:19:14 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)

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