FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California ~ 21 MAY 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California

Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach is a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility located in Seal Beach, California with detachments in Fallbrook, and Norco, both also in California. It also encloses the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge.

The command exists to provide base operating support to the Navy's ordnance mission. Command and tenant personnel provide munitions receipt, segregation, inspection, maintenance, storage, issue, and assessment services to Navy operating forces and other Department of Defense and homeland security entities.

Unique among most naval weapons facilities, Detachment Fallbrook is located 9 miles inland. Ammunition is transferred to and from ships by a process known as Vertical Replenishment, or VERTREP. In this operation, ammunition is taken by truck from a magazine on base to a helicopter pad located inside Camp Pendleton.

From there MH-60S Seahawk helicopters pick up the load and transfer it to the receiving ship waiting several miles off the coast. In this manner, large vessels such as amphibious assault ships can be loaded without leaving their primary Southern California operating and training areas.

The station has an active environmental cleanup program. One-fifth of the facility's land area has been designated as a National Wildlife Refuge (the only such refuge within a five-county area), and is home to many endangered and threatened species. The station is also home to the nation's West Coast WWII Submarine Memorial.

Learn More About Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach HERE!!

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[PROCON]

Good evening, Lauren and thanks for tonight’s Road Trip!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[lightman]

Happy Monday motoring!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening PROCON!

FIRST!!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy left that other site!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you lightman!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *HUGZ*

Are you enjoying the reprieve from wild weather? There IS the heat to contend with but that’s better than roaring winds and flooding rains. :-)

[laurenmarlowe]

Yep, thank you!

Very warm, but sunny and pleasant for a change.

How about you, things calm your way?

[ExTexasRedhead]

Message from Nam (1993) - full movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5DgkzXrr4A

Inspired by her father, whom she lost at a young age, Paxton Andrews shuns a traditional Southern upbringing to follow her own path. Embarking on a career which will eventually change her entire life, she attends college at Berkeley. Whilst majoring in journalism, Paxton meets Peter Wilson, a young law student and against her family’s wishes they become inseparable. When Peter is drafted and subsequently killed in Vietnam, Paxton is bereft and feels she must go to Vietnam and find out for herself why the war is happening and try to make some sense of it all - not only for herself, but for the people at home too. After an intense affair with an army captain and her search for a lover lost in action, Paxton’s story culminates with the fall of Saigon and her realisation that she must put the past behind her and look toward her future.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sorry I'm late...on a project with the boss....

~ Road Trip: Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California ~

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[radu]

For now, it’s calm and toasty. Rain coming back in the second half of the week, and possible some nasty storms to start it all off on Wednesday. We’ll see how it goes.

We have to enjoy the nice weather while we have it. :-)

[ExTexasRedhead]

This is an awesome tribute; please share.

Memorial Day - Glenn Beck (Vietnam)

They Carried the Weight of the World (Vietnam War)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PmnF8dms1A

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Oh boy, a project! I know you’re thrilled. LOL

I hope you managed to make a little time for a lunch break on the deck today. A rather pretty day up there for a change.

[luvie]

Thanks for the great Road Trip, lauren!
Weapons are VERY important for our troops! ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Lauren!

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Still roasting down there? It was mighty toasty here. Ugh.

[lewislynn]

OMG! I can’t imagine how awful it would be to have duty at Seal Beach...Those poor, poor souls </ sarcasm>.