FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California ~ 28 MAY 2024

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[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[lightman]

A blessed and somber Memorial Day to all!

[null and void]

I’d heard the ‘quake they had in 2019 pretty much shut it down.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening left that other site!

FIRST!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Thanks for being here lightman!

SECOND!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy null and void!

THIRD!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Kathy!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!

[wjcsux]

TEN!

[CottonBall]

I worked at China Lake, so I had to click on this thread.

What is the road trip about?

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you wjcsux!

ELEVEN!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...hope you and Blue got out and about.

Did you and Tippy see the sunrise?

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening CottonBall!

Thanks for stopping in.

Every Monday in the Canteen we have a virtual Road Trip to bases all over the Country. Right now we are visiting California!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California.

[sasquatch]

I worked on a pressure test facility at the Navel Postgraduate School in Monterey while employed by MBARI in the ‘90s. They had a shell from a 16 inch gun (USS Iowa type) It had ‘China Lake’ stenciled on the side. The pointy end had been replaced with a plug. Curt Collins ran Oceanography at NPS and was on the board at MBARI and said that if I refurbished the equipment, we could use it. We both won. The chamber was about 9 1/2” in dia and about 4 feet long. Got it up to around 4000 psi. The PhD candidates I mentored also got privileges on the golf course. The end.

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*
Are you as ready as I am for the upcoming break in wild weather? Man, May has been a rough month.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening sasquatch, great story thank you!