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West Springfield KinderCare is a year-round center in Springfield, VA. We are open from 6:30am until 6:30pm and care for children as young as 16…

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How many KinderCare centers are there in Springfield?

There are 4 KinderCare centers in Springfield, based on CareLuLu data. This includes 0 home-based programs and 4 centers.

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The cost of daycare in Springfield is $847 per month. This is the average price for full-time, based on CareLuLu data, including homes and centers.

How many KinderCare centers accept infants in Springfield?

Based on CareLuLu data, 3 KinderCare centers care for infants (as well as toddlers). This includes 0 home-based programs and 3 centers.

How many KinderCare centers offer part-time care or drop-in care in Springfield?

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  • Welcome to West Springfield KinderCare! We are eager to meet you
    and your family. We are staffed by dedicated teachers who possess
    the training, skills, and passion to create engaging and cheerful
    learning environments that help your child reach his or her
    potential. We are passionate about providing your children with the
    tools they need to be successful in all aspects of their lives. We
    believe in developing the whole child. We put children first!
  • At KinderCare, the safety of our children and the confidence of our
    parents are points of pride. From daily sign-in to strict parent /
    guardian identification and single keypad access, we maintain a
    rigorous standard for safety. Plus our daily cleanliness and
    maintenance schedules leave nothing at all to chance.
  • Hours Of Operation: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F
  • Languages Spoken: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Spanish
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    How the US planned to deal with a nuclear Armageddon

    Among the ever-changing plans of the US government in the event of a full-scale nuclear confrontation were little-known projects for highly modified warships, implemented during one of the most tense periods of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. If the cold war turned hot, the US president would most likely be issuing orders in the face of the ensuing nuclear exchange from one of those amazing “floating White Houses.” These stunning craft are in every sense the forefathers of today’s doomsday air command posts.

    The official name of the program was National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA, pronounced “nekpa”). It resulted in the creation of two ships with special equipment, the first of which, USS Northampton (“Northampton”), began its new task in March 1962.

    USS) Northampton circa 1959, still fitted out as a command light cruiser.

    Northampton was built as a class 9 heavy cruiser0173 Oregon City , four cruisers of the class entered service shortly after World War II. However, Northampton was completed. was a command light cruiser (CLC-1), entered service in 1953 and since then has been mainly used as the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet. Due to its original purpose, the ship already had an additional deck for command and control posts.

    NECPA conversion, Northampton was upgraded to the first command ship (CC-1) and stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, near Washington. He was given the code name “Sea Ruler” (“Lord of the Seas”). In times of crisis, the president and his closest aides were to be flown by US Marine helicopters into the waters off the east coast, aboard Northampton . As Garrett Graff reports in his book Raven Rock: The Story of the U. S. Government’s Secret Plan To Save Itself – While the Rest Of Us Die , dedicated to the plans of the US government in case of Doomsday, the modifications made to prepare the ship for its mission in the conditions of a potential Armageddon were quite serious: messages per day (considered a great achievement at the time), and the Navy’s powerful communications system, which allowed the ship to set the record for the fastest round-the-world message transmission – in just eight tenths of a second.

    A year after the start of the use of Northampton in NECPA tasks, the Navy supplemented the fleet with a second “floating White House” – USS Wright (“Wright”), codenamed “Zenith”, also stationed in Norfolk.

    This warship was built as the Saipan class light aircraft carrier and was commissioned in 1947 and retired for the first time in 1956. Although it was originally intended as an auxiliary aircraft carrier, later Wright was converted at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard into a second command ship (CC-2).

    Its equipment was even more complex than that of Northampton . Graff reports that Wright is “the most sophisticated communications platform ever at sea” (as of 1963 at least). The flight deck of the ship was filled with antennas, the highest of which was a group of 156-foot (47.5 meters) masts with tropospheric radio antennas installed on them.

    USS Wright in 1967: the deck is not yet full of antennas, but a huge communication dish is visible on it.

    A Navy press release issued shortly after the ship’s commissioning enthusiastically announced:

    Wright has the most powerful communications capability ever built on a ship. The commands of his “voice” can be heard by ships, aircraft and stations around the world. Command posts Wright have installations for creating theater presentations similar to those of ground posts, including projection equipment and huge screens. The ship has spaces for combat operations, data and graph output, emergency operations, briefings and conferences. The antenna deck houses the largest and most powerful antenna ever installed on a marine vessel. An entire compartment is dedicated to the ship’s teletype machines, each of which is capable of receiving incoming messages at a rate of 100 words per minute. Wright is capable of handling as many messages per day as many ground communication stations.

    The former hangar area below deck was now filled with operations centers that could accommodate 200 communications specialists (the entire crew of the ship was about a thousand people). Also present was a group of 17 officers and 22 enlisted men from the Joint Chiefs of Staff who were to operate the “floating White House” in an emergency. If necessary, the crew of the ship could be increased.

    As for the president, according to Graff, they prepared for him “an exquisite carpeted cabin” equipped with “nearly a dozen color-coded telephones connected to various parts of the country’s military command structure. ” The emergency operations center, usually locked, contained the commander-in-chief’s console and was equipped with a staff that could only get into it together with a guard squad. Considering the possible presence of the President on board, Wright had three “themed” dining rooms with a fireplace, served by experienced chefs.

    President John F. Kennedy cuts a cake while visiting USS Northampton .

    Wright , which had the motto Vox Imperii (“voice of the rulers”) appropriate to its function, could use its antenna systems to communicate with three purpose-built ground installations, which, in turn, were able to exchange information with what is left of the US military. If these three installations were destroyed or communication with them would be lost, then Wright could launch the QH-43 Huskie unmanned helicopter, a unique version of Kaman’s helicopter capable of hoisting a very low frequency antenna over two miles, thus communicating with Navy submarines around the world. There was enough space on deck to load three helicopters. The same very low frequency tail antenna principle is used today on the Navy’s E-6B Mercury.

    Despite poor quality, this photograph of a Navy UH-2B Seaprite multipurpose helicopter visiting USS Wright circa 1966, can also presumably be seen in the background of the unique QH-43 Huskie drone helicopter.

    For operational control in a nuclear war, Wright was equipped with special air filters capable of protecting the crew from radioactive fallout while the decks were washed by the seawater supply system.

    There were plans to convert another -class aircraft carrier Saipan , the lead ship of this class, to the NECPA configuration, marked CC-3, but they were quickly abandoned and this ship became a communications relay platform. The possibility of implementing another, even more invulnerable NECPA platform based on the USS 9 nuclear submarine was also considered. 0173 Triton , but the project did not progress beyond the research phase in the mid-1960s.

    The Doomsday Submarine That Never Appeared: Radar Submarine USS Triton , 1959 photo.

    The NECPA program assumed the following principle of operation: one of the two ships is constantly at sea, and their rotation occurs once every two weeks. Thanks to this, at least one of the ships was provided with greater protection against a surprise attack by the Soviet Union. In such a situation, or in cases of increased tension between the two superpowers, the president and other leaders of the nation were to be transferred to the ship on duty.

    In practice, a NECPA ship at sea patrolled along the eastern US maritime border in the area between Nova Scotia to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south, but was usually at a reasonable distance from the capital. During the president’s trips abroad, one of the NECPA ships often followed him, including during President Lyndon B. Johnson’s visits to Uruguay in 1967 and El Salvador in 1968.

    Letter from President Johnson to the commander of USS Northampton after a visit in 1966.

    According to Graff, today’s little-known NECPA ships were once considered the most invulnerable option for evacuating the president and his staff before a nuclear strike. Indeed, the two ships appear to have been the Pentagon’s first choice for such a scenario from the commissioning of Northampton in 1962 until midway through Nixon’s first term, from 1969 to 1974.

    USS Northampton passes by a fountain decorated with a Polaris missile at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum (Norfolk, Va., approximately 1962 years).

    It is worth remembering here that protected ground structures designed to ensure “continuity of state power” were considered quite invulnerable, especially since the first atomic bombs were much less powerful than those fired in the later years of the Cold War. The situation changed completely with the advent of the first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which were a terrifying combination of speed (reducing the notification time to 15-30 minutes) and accuracy, plus carrying much more destructive thermonuclear weapons.

    While these command and control ships were in operation, other alternatives for evacuating US leadership were fortified structures on land that would be destroyed by a direct hit from thermonuclear ICBMs, or using an airborne command post like the EC-135J Night Watch, which began its mission in 1962 year. However, he was able to spend a limited amount of time in the air. At the same time, the growing vulnerability of existing underground fortifications led the US to consider building super-secure bunkers, including the Kubrick-style Deep Underground Command Center.

    Former C-135 pilot and War Zone columnist Robert Hopkins says that the EC-135J, despite claims of indefinite air-to-air refueling, began running low on engine oil within 72-96 hours of flight. Those responsible for the planning of nuclear war assumed that the maximum would be 72 hours. Moreover, the availability of a tanker to refuel a jet aircraft during a full-scale nuclear exchange was also considered questionable. “After 48 hours, if not sooner, the crew would run out of food and (especially) water, after which the survival of people would become a difficult task,” says Hopkins.

    An EC-135J Night Watch is refueling in the air.

    By comparison, NECPA ships could stay at sea combat-ready for weeks and ensured a high level of survivability. Moreover, they also provided the crew with sufficient space for national security and combat planning, as well as significant redundancy in communications to maintain the command vertical.

    The specific level of invulnerability of NECPA ships in a real war is still a rather open question. Their ability to survive an exchange of nuclear strikes was mainly due to the fact that they would be able to avoid any collision with the Soviet fleet, which at that moment was still developing its capabilities at sea. However, both ships had rather weak armament. USS Northampton was originally equipped with four 5-inch dual-purpose guns, but later retained only one aft turret, while Wright had a battery of 40-mm Bofors guns providing anti-aircraft protection. Some reports say that they also retained sensors for combat with submarines and other auxiliary systems that provide them with a certain level of situational awareness.

    One of the 5-inch gun turrets aboard USS Northampton , 1962

    An image taken shortly after the decommissioning of USS Northampton in 1970 shows that the ship’s armament was reduced to a single 5-inch aft turret due to the need for more command and control stations.

    On the other hand, if the Soviet Navy were to track unprotected NECPA vessels, they would potentially be easy targets for a cloaking submarine. According to Graff, there were rumors among the crew that the Navy had provided one of its submarines as an escort.

    Fortunately, none of the NECPA ships were used in a full-blown nuclear crisis situation, but at least they were put on full alert at some moments of tension in the Cold War. Northampton was put on full alert during the Caribbean Crisis in 1962, and Wright during Incident Pueblo in 1968, when a US Navy reconnaissance ship was attacked and captured by North Korean forces.

    A US Navy SP-2H Neptune flies over a Soviet freighter with Il-28 jet bombers packed on deck during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Both John F. Kennedy and Johnson spent the night aboard NECPA vessels during exercises, as well as during the above-mentioned overseas trips. Probably the most significant event in the fate of these ships was the return of President Johnson from Uruguay aboard Wright in 1967. On April 17, Strategic Air Command successfully used an EC-135 aircraft to launch an unguided Minuteman II ICBM from a silo launcher. This was achieved for the first time then, and it was a sign that the future for the doomsday command post would be air.

    Moreover, by the end of the decade, Soviet spy satellites appeared – which meant that the clumsy NECPA ships were no longer hidden from prying eyes, their every movement could potentially be tracked, leaving them at the mercy of increasingly powerful ships, submarines and Soviet aircraft. Navy. Even ICBMs could pose a threat. Around 1970, the US Navy abandoned the NECPA program, and in the same year two ships were decommissioned and subsequently sold for scrap: Northampton in 1977, Wright in 1980.

    Three damaged cruisers – USS Newport News (CA-148), USS Springfield (CG-7) and USS Northampton (CC-1) – awaiting disposal at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. October 1978

    Today, the task of these two ships is mainly carried out by the US Air Force fleet of four E-4B aircraft. These “doomsday planes” are a reliable and combat-ready airborne command post that provides a platform for the US president and secretary of defense through a mechanism called the National Command Authority (NCA) to initiate a nuclear strike. However, like the NECPA ships that preceded them, they are also equipped to support a wide range of other major military operations and to respond to other important contingencies such as large-scale natural disasters. However, today the E-4Bs are old aircraft dating back to 1970s, and are in the early stages of being replaced by a new platform, most likely based on the Boeing 747 design. situations, including a nuclear apocalypse. Air Force One has been upgraded to improve communication with any device on the ground and in the air, and to stay in line in the event of fast-paced events. The initiative to turn it into a more effective command post for the president arose after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when President George W. Bush was on board his plane and communication between him and those in charge on the ground was interrupted.