FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Los Angeles Air Force Base, California ~ 26 MAR 2024

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Los Angeles Air Force Base, California

Los Angeles Air Force Base is a United States Space Force base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Space Systems Command field command of the United States Space Force. The center manages research, development and acquisition of military space systems.

The Space Base Delta 3 provides medical, civil engineering, communications, chaplain, security, logistics, personnel, readiness, and quality-of-life services to the Space and Missile Systems Center and other Department of Defense units in the Los Angeles basin. It consists of five squadrons and six staff agencies, totaling more than 790 personnel with $608 million in plant assets and an annual budget of $60 million.

The Space Systems Command (SSC) is a USSF field command that works in the areas involving military space acquisition and specific space-based operations by the Department of Defense. In summer 2021, the center was re-designated as Space Systems Command, one of the three major commands under the United States Space Force. It oversees the development, acquisition, launching, and sustaining of military space systems.

The Global Positioning Systems Directorate, formerly the Global Positioning Systems Wing, is a joint-service, multinational, civil/military systems directorate with more than 700 DoD/contractor personnel responsible for the development, launch and sustainment of the Global Positioning System.

The directorate is responsible for the development and procurement of over 250,000 receiver systems and the United States' nuclear detonation detection system. Annual funding is $1 billion and the total program value is $32 billion.

The Advanced Systems and Development Directorate is an organization for systems and development planning for future Space capabilities. Serves as primary provider of launch, spaceflight, hosted payloads and on-orbit operations for the entire DoD space research and development community.

Responsible for acquiring, integrating, launching, and operating R&D spacecraft, prototype operational systems, boosters, and ballistic missiles supporting national security objectives/missile defense programs.

Learn More About Los Angeles Air Force Base HERE!!

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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

 

 

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I see melting continues up there, even without sunshine. It would be great if those clouds would move out because there should be a good aurora “dance” tonight. I’ve seen a couple of decent ones recently over Anchorage but tonight should be better. GO AWAY, CLOUDS!

[Fish Speaker]

I spent 3.5 years there from ‘90 to ‘93. Lived in Manhattan Beach and enjoyed it immensely. Best assignment of my career.

[radu]

It sounds like you got through the front in good shape, at least. No damage and no power outages. I hope I’m that lucky tonight. The wind’s rattling the windows as I type.

Let’s not talk about yards. LOL I’m doing my best to ignore mine but can’t for much longer. The rain we’ve had has the grass and weeds growing like crazy. I’m not ready to mow so soon!

[radu]

Since you enjoy mowing, you need to move down here! You’re more than welcome to mow my yard and Champ is a fun mower to operate. LOL The yard’s just lumpy and it beats my back to death.
But yep, it’s that time of year again.

I’m doing ok. Just ready for the next few weeks to slide by so we’ll be back in gear at the military museum. It’s been a loooooong winter.

[luvie]

Thanks for a great road trip, lauren!
I didn't even know there WAS an AFB in LA.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Masters Of The Air Ending Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M4Iwa-0Q_A

Tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpGOx-YFU4

Soar (Main Title Theme from ‘Masters of the Air’)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MrRkgdEWg

[353FMG]

Joined the USAF in 1957 at recruiting station on Hollywood boulevard. I was never stationed anywhere near LA. during my 4 years. So fortunate.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Are you wearing earplugs so you can’t hear the wind? :-)

[luvie]

IN HONOR OF THE BEAUTIFUL FULL MOON
IT'S THE WORM MOON OF MARCH

Keiko Matsui~Moon Over Gotham

Vaughn Monroe~Racing With The Moon

Tom Grant~Mambo To The Moon

Starbuck~Moonlight Feels Right

Butch Helemano~Lover's Moon

Miner~Paper Moon

Sting/Herbie Hancock~Sister Moon

[The Mayor]

March 26

Missing the Basics

Bible in a Year :

• Joshua 22–24
• Luke 3

You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Matthew 22:29

For decades, McDonald’s ruled fast food with their Quarter Pounder burger. In the 1980s, a rival chain cooked up an idea to dethrone the company with the golden arches. A&W offered the Third Pound Burger—larger than McDonald’s—and sold it for the same price. Even more, A&W’s burger won numerous blind taste tests. But the burger bombed. Nobody bought it. Eventually, they dropped it from the menu. Research revealed that consumers misunderstood the math and thought the Third Pound Burger was smaller than the Quarter Pounder. A grand idea failed because people missed the basics.

Jesus warned of how easy it is to miss the basics. Religious leaders, scheming to trap and discredit Him during the week He was crucified, posed a strange, hypothetical scenario about a woman who was widowed seven times (Matthew 22:23–28). Jesus responded, insisting that this knotty dilemma wasn’t a problem at all. Rather, their problem was how they didn’t “know the Scriptures or the power of God” (v. 29). The Scriptures, Jesus insisted, aren’t first intended to answer logical or philosophical puzzles. Rather, their primary aim is to lead us to know and love Jesus and to “have eternal life” in Him (John 5:39). These are the basics the leaders missed.

We often miss the basics too. The Bible’s main aim is an encounter with the living Jesus. It would be heartbreaking to miss it. .

Reflect & Pray

How do you miss Scripture’s basics? How can you return to the basics . . . to Jesus?

Dear God, sometimes I get lost even amid good things. Please help me.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

It FINALLY stopped. It’s so quiet out there, and it feels so good. The sky is clear, and that moon is stunning!

Has that wind invaded your part of the world now? Hope it doesn’t last as long as it did here. I was ready to scream! LOL! Literally.

[radu]

Yay! A big relief for you and the kittehs.

The wind’s roaring here and rattling the windows tonight, keeping the cats in a twitch. The sound doesn’t bother me that much. I just keep wondering how much is going to be blown out of trees THIS time.

[luvie]

It has been a relief for them. I didn’t see much of them all day, but they seemed less twitchy [LOL] tonight when I fed them.

It was cooler all day today, and right now it’s “only” 51. That’s chilly for the last part of March, but this gal isn’t complaining. It’ll be hot too soon as it is.

[radu]

Cats don’t seem to care much for wind. Mine didn’t when they were allowed outside. Now that your wind has died down, your cats can spend the night roaming in the bright moonlight, checking their territories.

We’ll cool off Wed. once the cold front’s completely through. But the weekend will be nice and warm again. We have a couple of nights in the 30s to get through before then though. brrrrr

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for today's road trip.

Yesterday at Comanche Lake:

We also had BBQ chicken wings for supper.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[radu]

Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))

Beautiful day y’all had yesterday. Gizmo thoroughly enjoyed his romp.

[luvie]

We'll just get down to the mid-40s, which is about right considering our latitude compared to yours. Friday it's supposed to be 81. Wheeeeeee....🎢

[radu]

At least our lows will be upper 30s this time rather than at the freezing mark. We’ll have mid to upper 70s this weekend and that’s perfect, especially with no rain. Perfect weather for Easter.

[luvie]

That will be great for Easter. One year we had snow for Easter and it was in April. LOL! Not fun when all the little girls wanted to wear their new spring dresses to Sunday School.

It’s supposed to be 87 here. Now, that’s nearly TOO warm! For me.

[radu]

Ugh! 87 IS a bit too warm for this time of year.
There’s a chance we could hit 80 next Monday but we’ll see how that goes.

We had snow on my birthday a few years ago and that’s in the middle of April. I was not amused.

Right now, it’s starting to rain a little and there’s some lightning flashing - - up in the clouds. *sigh* Heavier stuff to the west so maybe I’ll get a decent light show before I go to bed. LOL