~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~
~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~
TATTOO TWIRL
The U.S. Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team performs during the 2014 Virginia International Tattoo at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, VA, April 26, 2014. The annual festival highlights military bands and performers from around the world to honor Vietnam veterans and their families.
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.
ANTI-TANK MISSILE
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Timothy Antolini provides security with an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile in Afghanistan's Helmand province, May 2, 2014. Antolini, an anti-tank missileman, is assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment.
MOVING OUT
U.S. soldiers move out from their motor pool on Hohenfels Army base as they prepare for Combined Resolve II, a multinational training exercise, in Germany, May 10, 2014. The soldiers are assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment. The exercise includes more than 4,000 participants from the United States and 12 other nations: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
VETERAN SALUTE
C.D. Studyvin, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, salutes the U.S. flag during a Memorial Day ceremony at El Paso Cemetery in Derby, KS, May 26, 2014. Members of the local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations conducted the ceremony, which drew veterans like Studyvin.
EQUIPMENT LIFT
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ryan Roberts watches as U.S. Marines prepare to attach a shipping container to a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter to lift equipment out of Forward Operating Base Sabit Qadam in the Sangin Valley of Afghanistan's Helmand province, May 3, 2014. Roberts is an avionics collateral duty inspector assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466. Marines and sailors are completing a seven-month deployment as the last advisers to support Afghan forces.
ARABIAN DIVE
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Creedon dives into the Arabian Sea during an all-hands swim call aboard the USS Roosevelt, May 15, 2014. Creedon is a fire controlman. The Roosevelt is deployed as a part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
BALTIC AIR DUET
Air Force Maj. Barak Amundson and Air Force 1st Lt. Matthew Scott fly over Lithuania during a training mission with the Lithuanian Air Force, April 23, 2014. Amundson and Scott, pilots, are assigned to the 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, which conducted the Baltic Air Policing mission since January and will be handing over the mission to the Polish Air Force.
TRIDENT JAGUAR
The amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney sits at anchor off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal, May 4, 2014, as a helicopter hovers nearby during Trident Jaguar, a NATO-sponsored exercise.
PIPE WORK
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Demetrius Brown grinds down a drainage pipe on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 17, 2014. Brown is assigned to the 577th Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Squadron.
