Vice president visits base in Ohio

Air Force Link ^ | March 27, 2004 | Brett Turner

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Vice president visits base in Ohio

by Brett Turner
88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

3/26/2004 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney expressed his appreciation for the Airmen and community here during a visit March 26.

A throng of enthusiastic people from the base community waved flags and cheered loudly for the vice president during a ceremony. Gen. Greg Martin, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, introduced Vice President Cheney, who wore a brown leather flight jacket.

"I never got that response when I was secretary of defense," the vice president said jokingly in his opening remarks.

"I'm here to express the appreciation of your fellow citizens and President George W. Bush," he said to more cheers and applause.

Vice President Cheney said Air Force people and those who work here helped win the war in Iraq. He cited such innovations as the RQ-1 Predator and RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles that were developed here and played an instrumental role in the war. He also spoke about the importance of family to servicemembers, and he talked about how the military will carry on in keeping America safe.

"This nation has confidence in your abilities," he said.

Following the speech amidst the cheers of the crowd and music by the Air Force Band of Flight, the vice president shook hands and greeted people before leaving.

"It's nice to know they have confidence in our abilities and that we have the confidence of our commander in chief," said Staff Sgt. Fermin Garcia of the 88th Mission Support Squadron.

Sergeant Garcia attended the event with several of his active-duty co-workers who expressed similar feelings.

"I was glad (he) would take the time to come here to see us," said Diana Doseck, a civilian for the Air Force Security Assistance Center here. "It means a lot."

Ms. Doseck said the program was a bit short, but she liked the visit and having the opportunity to attend.

One of the youngest audience members was 9-year-old Lance Adkins, who attended with his mother, Ellen Doerres, who works in the civilian personnel office. Lance said he was excited to be there; however, this was not his first experience of this nature, Ms. Doerres said. He has seen President Bush as well as attended congressional hearings and other similar events.

His mother said it is an important part of giving Lance an appreciation of his country.

"I do this to instill pride in him and hearing it inspires confidence," said Ms. Doerres.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Cheney visits Ohio base WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Gen. Greg Martin, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, greets Vice President Dick Cheney and introduces him to other base officials March 26 on the flightline here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sue Murphy)   Download Full Image     WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Vice President Dick Cheney gestures March 26 during a speech to servicemembers and Air Force civilians here. The vice president expressed his and the president's appreciation for Air Force people during his brief stop here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Spencer P. Lane)   Download Full Image

A little belated Saturday night welcome home celebration for our Airmen, and their joint forces brothers (and sisters) in arms.

WELCOME HOME BRAVE HEROES!

To not bog down the thread, please click on the link
provided for some festive patriotic and inspiring songs
for our heroes and their families!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA and OUR HEROES!!

All American Soldier

Dog-Faced Soldier

Anchors Aweigh

Armed Forces Medley

Dixie

Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Lee Greenwood

Stars and Stripes Forever

Wild Blue Yonder And Halls Of Montezuma

Who's Next (by our very own Freeper Vetnet! Woohoo!)

Yankee Doodle

USMC Cadence Rock

God Bless America (Kate Smith version)

America The Beautiful (Ray Charles Version)

The Star Spangled Banner

Hail To The Chief

Courtesy Of The Red, White, and Blue (An Angry American)

Have You Forgotten

Enjoy the music!!

~* courtesy of MoJo2001 *~

 

 'Night, all!

God bless our troops and allies, everyone!

[MJY1288]

Our brave men and women in uniform love & respect President Bush because of his strong leadership and his love for them. No one can deny that President Bush has a strong bond with our troops and all this nonsense about not finding WMD's is a joke to any of them who have seen what Saddam did to his people.

Many of our troops saw Iraq's WMD's being destroyed after the Gulf War and they also know that they lost hundreds of their fellow soldiers in the 1991 Gulf War, and just the simple fact that Saddam Hussein violated the cease fire agreement that ended Operation Desert Storm, is all the reason they needed to take out Saddam.

It's the Liberals and the European Socialist who are condemning our actions in Iraq because we haven't found the WMD's. I am quite sure if it wasn't WMD's the left was all bent out of shape about, it would be something else that these spineless worms on the left would be crying about.

Now that we are seeing the United Nation's "Oil for Food" program being brought out into the light of day, we are seeing why France,Germany and Russia were against removing Saddam, they were on his payroll. The Democrats are going to regret the day when they decided to side with the Europeans and our enemies on removing that psychopath Saddam Hussein

[MJY1288]

Good Night Ragtime Cowgirl, Thanks for all you do

Mike

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good night, Mike. ((Hugs))

[radu]

Thank you for this Feel Good post, RC! Vice President Cheney, and President Bush, both care deeply for the men and women in our military. It's always great to read articles about their visits to the different bases to personally thank the troops and their families for their efforts.

Thanks for the addition of music for the welcome home celebration, MoJo!

Now, RC, you get a good night's sleep! Thank you for all you do in getting the word out each day about the accomplishments of our troops 'round the world.

[bogdanPolska12]

VP rocks!!!!! I am so happy to see him with troops and I know they are happy. How great to see this. Thank you Ragtime.

[bogdanPolska12]

Good night my friend.

God Bless

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[windchime]

Bump!

[blackie]

Dick Cheney ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~