FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland ~ 18 October 2016

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, also known as NAS Pax River, is a United States Naval Air Station located in St. Mary's County on Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Patuxent River. It is home to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and serves a center for test and evaluation and systems acquisition relating to Naval Aviation. Commissioned on 1 April 1943 on land largely acquired through eminent domain, the air station grew rapidly in response to World War II.

The base became a center for testing as several facilities were constructed throughout the 1950s and 1960s; including the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (1958), the Weapons Systems Test Division (1960), and the Propulsion System Evaluation Facility.

The Patuxent River Naval Air Station Complex stretches across 25 miles of shoreline at the mouth of the Patuxent River, overlooking the picturesque Chesapeake Bay, 65 miles southeast of Washington DC and 90 miles south of Baltimore. The Complex supports naval aviation operations by researching, developing, testing and evaluating aircraft, aircraft components and related products. NAS Patuxent River’s mission is to support the Navy by providing the warfighter with technologies that deliver dominant combat effects and matchless capabilities.

NAWC Patuxent River continues to serve as the Navy's principal research, development, test, evaluation, engineering and fleet support activity for naval aircraft, engines, avionics, aircraft support systems and ship/shore/air operations.

 In addition the installation hosts the Navy Test Pilot School, and both NAS Patuxent River and the nearby OLF Webster host Unmanned Aerial Vehicle operations, all of which regularly use the installation's airspace complex. An additional mission is the detachment of the very high priority TACAMO mission (VQ-4 Det).

The Patuxent River Complex has been affected by the 1991, 1993, and 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) decisions to relocate Naval Aviation Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) facilities from Warminster, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey and Naval Air Systems headquarters from Arlington, Virginia to the Complex. These realignments and consolidation of their assets positioned NAWCAD to carry out its mission as the Navy's principal RDT&E, engineering, and fleet support activity for Naval fixed and rotary wing aircraft and associated systems from acquisition through all life cycle phases.

Learn More About NAS Patuxent River 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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[radu]

You’re welcome. I had your 12-string in mind when searching. :-)

Hope it’s been a good day!

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, Happy Birthday!

[henkster]

Why thank you all for the birthday wishes! How did you know? I really appreciate it.

You know, I still get carded when I go buy adult beverages. I usually ask the guy behind the counter to guess who was President when I was born. So far, nobody has correctly guessed it was Dwight D. Eisenhower, although I am waiting for some smart alec kid to say Abe Lincoln

[PROCON]

Oh, did I somehow get a #50?

[PROCON]

How did you know?

We keep track of all lawyers for when the purge begins :-)

[henkster]

Nice to know you’re wanted. Like the guys on the wall at the post office.

[Kathy in Alaska]

You are most welcome. Did you get cake and ice cream? Did your students know?

[radu]

ROTFLMAO!!! Those kittehs made me laugh so hard I got choked. Still trying to get my breath.

Yep, ya slipped right into the 50 slot. Accidental counts just as much as deliberate! :-)

[henkster]

Mrs. henkster got me some very nice large cupcakes. And I still met with my students tonight, which is why I arrived late to the forum. I didn’t tell them about the birthday. This is for them, not me.

I’ll get together with my sons & daughter in law on Wednesday at a very nice local Italian restaurant.

[luvie]

It sure isn’t! I’m ready!! :)

Hope your day at HQ went well today! What do you have...6 more times? We are both, as military call it, FIGMO. LOL!

[luvie]

Perfect! You can post it both places if you want to! :)

[luvie]

I totally believe you! LOL!

How are you feeling, Sis! ((((gentle hugs))))

[radu]

Ready? We wouldn’t have guessed. LOL!

Decent day at the HQ. I drove Baby there and it brought a couple of people in who wouldn’t have normally stopped there. Both were from out of town. They stopped to ask about the car and both left with some Trump stuff.

Yep, 6 more days now. This Thursday’s gonna hurt because we have our monthly meeting. I have to go an hour and a half EARLIER for that. UGH!

[luvie]

Yikes! Your normal time is WAY too early for a vampire, but this is gonna be cruel!

[radu]

Been doing it one Thurs. a month since I’ve been with the group so I’m kinda used to it. It DOES hurt, that’s for sure. Wish we could have meetings in the evenings instead but nope. They like mornings so everyone can eat lunch together afterwards.
It sucks being the only vampire in the group. LOL!

[foxfield]

Bump.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[mylife]

Retirement? bring my Uniform!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Really Sis, I am so happy for you!
(and VERY jealous!)

I am better, thank you!
Tummy is still kinda touchy, so have been eating light
until I feel more like me old self.

[radu]

Hmmmmm, another musician in our midst? It isn't your birthday, too, is it? :-)

Oh, and while I'm here .....