FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 6 Apr 2004

Canteen Crew ~ Radix

[txradioguy]

Mine?

[txradioguy]

HEY Sarge! Don't you know you're supposed to let the enlisted go first! LOL!

As if we needed any more reminder about why it's so important to vote this year, I give you this little reminder courtesy of the WSJ.


Great Orators of the Democratic Party

"One man with courage makes a majority."--Andrew Jackson


"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."--Franklin Roosevelt


"The buck stops here."--Harry Truman


"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."--John Kennedy


"If the president can find time to throw out the first ball of the season, he can find the time to throw out the first efforts for real peace in the region, and I think it's long since overdue."--John Kerry

[StarCMC]

I was hoping you two would run into each other... He he he!!

[Old Sarge]

PICS! Ya done good, Star!

Kalen, to my eye, looked weary, and home is where he should be.

I'm glad you helped arrange a lot for their homecoming. Don't Canteeners rock, y'all?

[Old Sarge]

HEY Sarge! Don't you know you're supposed to let the enlisted go first! LOL!

And what am I, chopped liver? :^D

And what's this about "enlisted", anyway? What happened to you and the promotion board?!?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome home, 969th Transportation Detachment!!

God bless you all for helping keep all of us free and safe.

[fatima]

Well this guy is local and I think his name is Ken,Ken and Karen-4ID,WOW,What stories they have.

[StarCMC]

OMG - it was AWESOME -- I was very impressed with them all. Gunny (the older ex-Marine) said "I told you I'd bring 'em home!" He did -- he's a good man. I introduced myself to all of them as Kalens sister -- when I talked to "Goody" (Goodman - another ex-Marine I think and Kalen's driver) he said "MY TUNA GIRL!!" Apparently when I sent tuna to Kalen they would share it on Fridays....he he he! Just what I always wanted to be known as -- a tuna girl! < Big Grin! >

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOW WOW WOW! fatima, Karen fell in love in Iraq? Pretty exciting for her, and now both of them are home. Thank you, God!!

Now, I am going home. Be back in a little bit.

[Fawnn]

kjfine!!!
Welcome Home!!!

[mylife]

I meant insomnia....but i forgot! LOL

Blessings to all that are home with their familys after this long mission

[txradioguy]

Yeah and the thing is neither one of us realized it at the time

[Fawnn]

Great news about Karen's new love as well!!! (I think I forgot to mention that earlier. Preoccupied tonight.) ;)

[Fawnn]

Old Sarge!!! #400!!!

[fatima]

Kathy in Alaska,Glad your home,WoW me too,Love in the 4 ID.

[Old Sarge]

Just what I always wanted to be known as -- a tuna girl!

I sense puns on the horizon....

WAR STORY:

Back in the days before Desert Storm, Missus was known to our tank battalion as "The Cookie Lady". She would rally the other girls to a baking fest during deployments, and while we were out there, this MASSIVE crate - couldn't call it a box - of baked goods would show up, wrapped in the local paper: about three weeks' worth of back issues, there was that much food.

One time was, our TOC got seperated from the supply trucks, and we started to get low on food. We got a radio call from the 1SG: there was a CRATE waiting back there.

I was immediately detailed a Jeep (that's how long ago this story goes), a driver, and a shotgun rider, to fetch the crate UNDER ARMED GUARD, to bring it back to the TOC! Everyone knew what was in that crate by now, and there were vultures circling when I got back.

[TexasCowboy]

"You going on a trip, packing your suitcase??"

No, I just decided that three months was long enough to wear the same clothes, and I haven't washed the sheets since I bought the bed back in '98 so it was time.

Whoever made fitted sheets did NOT mean for anyone to EVER fold the darn things!
I've had them down on the floor wrestling with them for an hour!
They are now wadded up and stuffed in the armoir!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Oh STAR!!!!!!! Thanks for the pictures!!!

Way to go KALEN!!!

Fawnn, thank you for the link.

[StarCMC]

That's hilarious!! I can just picture that -- under ARMED GUARD! He he he! "Sir, we have priorities here!!"

[fatima]

Fawnn,Fair Funkle Queen,Yes she fell in love with a nice guy in the 4 th ID in Iraq.