FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland ~ 04 OCT 2016

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), the Army's oldest active proving ground, is one of the world's foremost research, development, testing, and training facilities for military weapons and equipment. It is bounded by the Susquehanna and Gunpowder Rivers, the Chesapeake Bay, and the AMTRAK Railroad.

The Installation occupies more than 72,500 acres in Harford County. Notable for its convergence of talents and abilities, APG encompasses more than 60 different tenant activities representing every facet of technology.

Aberdeen Proving Ground is home to 9 major commands and supports 70 tenants, 20 satellite and 17 private activities.  The installation provides facilities to perform research, development, testing and evaluation of Army materiel. Facilities include laboratories for research investigations, state-of-the-art ranges, engineering test courses for wheeled and tracked vehicles and a wide variety of research.

  The installation also supports a wide variety of training, including mechanical maintenance, health promotion and preventive medicine, chemical and biological defense, and chemical casualty care, chemical demilitarization.  APG also is host National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve operations and training.

APG’s facilities include nearly 15 million square feet of building space in more than 2,000 buildings (including offices, administrative and training facilities, and warehouses, barracks and family housing). There are more than 40 miles of track, nearly 200 firing positions, 8 medical research laboratories, 10 chemical laboratories, 2 physics laboratories, 5 human engineering laboratories, a materials research laboratory as well as Phillips Army Airfield and Weide Army Aviation Support Facility.

Learn More About Aberdeen Proving Ground HERE!

The United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, has one of the world's leading collections of military ordnance, ranging from small arms to 240 large armored vehicles, tanks and artillery pieces, some of the last survivors of their type.

The United States Army Ordnance Museum was established in 1919 to exhibit and preserve captured enemy materiel, and also certain United States ordnance materiel which had been shipped to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., for testing purposes. This exhibit served as a reservoir of information for the systematic study of various types of equipment which is always an important part of the program in the design of new weapons.

Visit The United States Ordnance Museum HERE!

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

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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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Are you getting slow time, or is it double time season?

Don’t forget to rest! *HUGS*

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

[left that other site]

I play “Do it Again,” and “Dirty Work”.
Since their songs use some complex chords, it takes me a while to learn them.

I’m never going back to “My Old School”, as they turned both my Jr. High School AND my High School into Housing for the Elderly.

The High school has some really nice apartments with 12 foot windows and exposed brick wall. Tres Chic.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[PROCON]

Hiya Lauren!

I had to crank my heat up the past few mornings here in the high desert, it's getting coooold in the mornings, still nice in the afternoons though.

Still 90ish in your neck of the country?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my...I’m so happy that the doggies found a good home.

Hurrah for a new direction!!

[PROCON]

Hey Janie, you out shopping for your parka, snow boots and mittens yet? :-)

Will you be home for Thanksgiving?

[left that other site]

Big house, lots of land, and other doggies to play with!

It couldn’t have happened a moment too soon. The dogs were getting depressed.

[left that other site]

:-)

[SkyDancer]

I’ll be home for T-Day and ya, checking previous climate data for Denver. I’ve some cold weather stuff that I’ll ship FedEx. Frontier provides transport to classes.

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

How are things going out your way? Have a good weekend?

[PROCON]

You talking to me?

I laid low over the weekend after mowing Saturday and just picked up a few groceries.

Today was pretty much a lazy day too, laundry day tomorrow, (Woo-Hoo, what a boring life, huh?).

How wuz your weekend/Monday?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...it was 34 this morning. Chilly out.

A good day for you?

A pretty laid back Monday...and my number didn’t get called for jury duty. And I already called for Tuesday...not my number again. This is a good thing for me. Sitting still doesn’t work well for the elderly. LOL!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And, I assume, they all get along or you never would have approved.

[radu]

Sounds like we both got bitten by the Lazy Bug over the weekend. LOL
I did absolutely nuthin’ Saturday. Just didn’t feel very good.
So that meant what I’d planned (needed) to do Sat. was done yesterday, on top of what I already had to do yesterday. Still wasn’t feeling all that great so by the time I got everything done, I just zonked out.

What a wasted weekend. *sigh*

Today was HQ day and we and we had one - count ‘em, ONE - person stop by for a Trump sign. Such a waste of time being there and we’ll all be glad when we shut that place down.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am going home....back later.

[cyclotic]

Ain’t ,much of a road trip. I live about two miles from the gate. Get to hear frequent booms.

Mercifully, the blimps are gone after one got away last year. Sadly the Ordnance museum is also gone. They moved everything to South Carolina (I think that’s where it ended up)

Army research Labs is the key sponsor for a high school robotics team that I used to be a coach, so certain times of the year, I spent plenty of time on post. I’ve also learned that when I find out someone works on post, it’s not worth asking them much more cause they won’t tell you.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.
It was downright COLD up there this morning! BRRRR! Did it rain overnight? That was a close call on icy roads if it did.

YAY not getting called for jury duty! You’re right about sitting still not working well. That’s how I got out of even being called last year. I went to the courthouse and talked to some gal and was taken off the list permanently. My bum back doesn’t allow me to sit for very long - - have to get up and move around every half hour or so.
Maybe it’ll work for you next time you get notified. :-)

Not a bad day here, just a boring one at the HQ. At least it was a pretty day and comfy enough to sit outside. Going to warm up a little more this week but it won’t be too hot.
Just wish it would rain.

[kvanbrunt2]

heard plenty of big booms while sailing on the bay.

[PROCON]

Well, good for you for being a loyal volunteer trooper and being at the HQ anyway, just a few more weeks until the most important election in our lifetime!

Hang tough!

Maybe you need to bring a few kittehs to the HQ for some entertainment! :-)