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~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ WATER RESCUEA U.S. Coast Guardsman is lowered from a HH-65C Dolphin helicopter to assist an airman out of the water during a joint training exercise in Port Republic, NJ, Aug. 9, 2013. The airman is assigned to the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, and the aircrew is assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City. The 177th Fighter Wing and U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City are both based out of the Atlantic City International Airport, NJ. U.S. Air Force photo by...

21.55 During the day, militants fired Lugansk suburbs of multiple rocket launchers BM-21 "Grad". Militants use familiar tactics for Slavic, place the BM-21 on the territory of social facilities: hospitals, schools, kindergartens. According to sources today "Grad" was shooting near the village of prominent suburbs and Lugansk. Missiles aimed at the airport, flying over residential areas. The day before, in the result of the actions of the militants were damaged roofs of apartment buildings. Locals try to resist the placement settings "Grad" near residential neighborhoods. Sources report that documented cases when terrorists opened fire on locals who tried to prevent...

Tuesday on CNN's "The Situation Room," host Wolf Blitzer asked Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, the Israeli Defense Forces spokesman if Hamas stopped their aggressions if further military action could be avoided.

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ATO: SUMMARY OF THE DAY 07/08/14 For the last 24 hours, the terrorists moved to the tactics of guerrilla warfare in the territory of the previously abandoned cities. So today was a shooting in slavyansk, in the village of Moločar, and in Kramatorsk in the terminal area. Also were part of the forces # ATO in Artemivsk. Continued provocations by militants in the Red of the estuary. Judging by the fact that the terrorists were at the approaches to the city Donetsk (mospino, Ilovays'k, Popasnaya), they decided to stay here for a long time and to prepare a position on...

BOISE, Idaho - A U.S. Navy veteran filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday after the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery refused to allow her to be buried with the ashes of her late wife. Seventy-four-year-old Madelynn Taylor filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boise after she tried to make advance arrangements last year to have her ashes interred with Jean Mixner, whom she met on a blind date in 1995 and married in California in 2008 when gay marriage was briefly legal. Though federal veterans cemeteries allow the spouses of gay veterans to be interred with their loved ones,...

…be patient; keep up your courage; for the Lord’s return is near. James 5:8

The challenge for the Marines, and for the Army, is how to open up ground combat jobs to women in January 2016, without lowering standards. And here's where things stand in the Marines. Eighty-five female Marines already made it through an infantry training course last fall at Camp Lejeune, N.C., which included drills such as attacking a mock enemy force, hidden in a pine forest. That course lasted eight weeks, and the men and women all completed the same training. Now the Marines have a more ambitious plan that will take a new group of volunteers from the deserts to...

Fresh back from a trip to the Middle East, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-Ariz., discuss what lessons the U.S. can learn from the violence in Iraq as it prepares to leave Afghanistan.[video]

  Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~   Real Hollywood Heroes Part 9 Info from here.               "Armies do not fight wars; nations fight wars. War is not a military activity conducted by soldiers, but rather a social activity that involves entire nations. . . ." ~ Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, U.S. Army   There...

"Kiev -1" special POLICE battalion-MIA - one of the most distinguished units in the battle of Mykolaivka and Slavonic. In the photo we meet with the guys on the night before the start of the offensive. I told them about the situation before the battle, and the guys listened. Glad I caught them all alive and healthy today! Posmtrite carefully - these are the faces of the future. Bright, beautiful, strong and free! Glory to each of them and Glory to Ukraine!

Vidzvezly goods, police NSU. This section covers the Ukraine-Russia border. There are losses. Many of the wounded. Morale at altitude [high] in spite of real terror attacks despite mortars and loss bojvih comrades. Spoke with nachmedom. Primary needs-that actually saves the life of a soldier on the front lines: tourniquet (200 pcs.), Butorphanol tratrat (syringe/injection tyubik) even though 20 pcs., Individual dressing packet in a sealed airtight cover prorezynyniy (200 pcs.) ) Need stretchers-at least 6 units S battalion commander says There is a need bronikah. Found two options. The one thing need - more overlapping body. Price is about...

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. II Corinthians 12:10

A new warship to be named the USS Detroit will be commissioned in a 2016 ceremony along the Detroit River. The 389-foot long, 7.5-million-pound littoral combat ship, shown here in a June 27 photo, is being built in Marinette, Wis. It will sail after the Detroit ceremony to its home port in San Diego. (Lockheed Martin) (more details and a slideshow at link)

      THE MAN IN THE GLASS I first heard the poem some years ago as a song performed by a former pop musician turned Christian entertainer. Its words had a powerful impact. They were a challenge to self-examination, and a warning about the consequences of life lived without integrity. They were a reminder that each of us must live with his or her self. And that we KNOW what's behind our image, no matter how carefully crafted, or how convincing it may be to others. I wonder if it might also speak to you. It's entitled "The...

21-year-old Victoria from Kiev region, which friends called for fearlessness Wild, half a year has gone from Єvromaydana to participate in the fighting. Now Vick is fighting in the Lugansk region in the battalion "Idar", which was established in May 2014 and is subordinate to the Ministry of Defence. The battalion became famous during the fighting over the northern and central regions of Luhansk oblast, in particular during the liberation of the city of “happiness,” when the battalion destroyed 58 militants. Shortly after the interview, she went back to the war at Donbass,. The girl asked not to call her...

How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended! The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression. All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing. Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down.” The grave below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses...

Over Slavic hoisted National Flag of Ukraine, the security forces started the restoration of city life. According to the press service of the President, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Colonel-General Valery Geletey and Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Viktor Muzhenko reported to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko that the City Council of the Slavic hoisted National Flag of Ukraine. "Mr. President, Supreme Commander, your order for release of Slavic fighters met. At that moment on the City Council before the parade Slavic Ukrainian soldier was hoisted National Flag of Ukraine ", - said Geletey. He also noted...