~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~
~ It's Finally Friday ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~
SUNSET VIEW
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur is seen underway from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Indian Ocean, July 20, 2011. The George Washington is participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011, a bilateral exercise designed to train Australian and U.S. forces in planning and conducting combined task force operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Juan Pinalez
Canteen Mission Statement
Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
GOING UP
A U.S. Navy sailor climbs from a rigid-hull inflatable boat to the weather deck of USS Curtis Wilbur after a visit, board, search, and seizure drill in the Timor Sea, July 21, 2011. The Curtis Wilbur is participating in Talisman Saber 2011, a bilateral exercise intended to train Australian and U.S. forces in planning and conducting combined task force operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Ryan Smith
BILATERAL TRAINING
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Brown and a German soldier are hoisted up into a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter during rescue hoist training on Camp Marmal, Afghanistan, July 16, 2011. Brown is a flight medic assigned to 1st Cavalry Division's Company C, Task Force Lobos, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade. The German soldiers are part of an extrication team that is training on Camp Marmal to familiarize themselves with usage of the aircraft hoist. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Armas
GALAXY VIEW
A C-5 Galaxy aircraft taxis on the airfield during Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., July 23, 2011. The event is the premier international combat skill and flying operations competition for the U.S. Air Force and Air Mobility Command. It is designed to develop and improve techniques, procedures and interoperability, while optimizing international mobility partnerships and enhancing mobility operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley Moreno
NIGHT WORK
Australian bombardier Recce Osborne and gunner Tim Oke field test and update software on their thermal imager at Camp Rocky in Rockhampton, Australia, July 16, 2011. The kit will be used while in a forward observation position at Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Talisman Sabre 2011, an exercise with U.S. and Australian forces. U.S. Navy photo
HELPING HAND
U.S. Coast Guard Master Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Daly colors with a Salvadoran child at the Escuela Barra de Santiago medical site during Continuing Promise 2011 in Barra De Santiago, El Salvador, July 23, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Daly is a health service chief from Kodiak, Alaska. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Courtney Richardson
COVER FIRE
Spent shell casings pile up next to a Army combat engineer who is manning an M240-B machine gun during a live-fire exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 21, 2011. Machine gunners provided covering fire while other engineers breached a wire obstacle nearby. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. In spite of the 105-degree weather, the soldiers trained all day and into the night. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
WHEELCHAIR SPRINT
Former U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Tim Connor, one of 59 paralympic military athletes, practices sprints in a racing wheelchair on McCool Memorial Track during the 2011 U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Military Sports Camp at Naval Station Newport, R.I., July 16, 2011. U.S. Navy photo by Lisa Rama
POLE VAULTER
Team USA pole vaulter, Air Force 2nd Lt. Nick Frawley of Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., finishes sixth in the pole vault with a jump of 5.10 meters at the 5th CISM Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro, July 23, 2011. Poland's Pawel Wojciechowski won the gold with a record vault of 5.81 meters, followed by silver medalist Lukasz Michalski of Poland and bronze medalist Fabio Gomes da Silva of Brazil. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps
RIDING IMPACTO
U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program Spc. Dennis Bowsher of Fort Carson, Colo., seen here riding Impacto in the show jumping event, finishes fourth in the men's modern pentathlon with 5,740 points at the 5th CISM Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro, July 22, 2011. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps
Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
