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Posted on 08/21/2004 7:59:47 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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SALUTE!
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Good morning, Tonk! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY! 
TROOPS!
Me for PREZ! VOTE !!!
Today's FEEBLE
YOKE :
HAVE YOU HEARD THE ONE ABOUT...
The All-American tom cat that made forty-seven yards in one night?
The butcher who got a little behind in his work; he backed into the meat slicer?
The careless canary that did it for a lark?
The chickens that ate racing forms and now they're laying odds?
The cow that got a divorce because she got a bum steer?
The drive-in theater manager who decided if business got any better he would start showing movies?
Chicagoland Weather
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| Sunrise | 6:06 AM (CDT) |
| Sunset | 7:44 PM (CDT) |
| Hrs. of Daylight | 13 Hrs., 38 Mins |
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Good morning, Ma!
Good Morning Tomkow.
Did one of your voices buy a new, shiny lawnmower?
Yes! A RED one!
Today's classic warship, USS Dayton (CL-105)
Cleveland class light cruiser
Displacement: 10,000 t.
Length: 610’1”
Beam: 66’6”
Draft: 20’
Speed: 33 k.
Complement: 992
Armament: 12 6”; 12 5”
USS DAYTON (CL-105) was launched 19 March 1944 by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. H. Rueger, and commissioned 7 January 1945, Captain P. W. Steinhagen in command.
DAYTON arrived at Pearl Harbor 15 May for training, and reached San Pedro Bay, Leyte, 16 June to join the 3d Fleet. On 1 July, she sortied with the Fleet for the final strikes along the Japanese coast, screening the fast carrier task groups and conducting shore bombardments. She entered Tokyo Bay 10 September and, except for a brief period of upkeep at Eniwetok, remained on occupation duty until 7 November when she got underway for San Pedro, Calif., arriving 19 November.
DAYTON sailed from San Pedro 24 January 1946 and arrived at Pearl Harbor 6 days later en route to Japan. Her orders were changed and on 7 February she sailed to join the Atlantic Fleet, conducting training at Guantanamo Bay on her way to Norfolk, her assigned home port.
On 3 February 1947, DAYTON sailed from Norfolk for a tour in the Mediterranean, exercising off Malta, and paying calls, including a diplomatic visit to Istanbul, Turkey, then sailed again to the Mediterranean, acting as flagship for Commander, Naval Forces, Mediterranean, for part of this deployment from which she returned to Boston 30 November.
Following local operations from Newport and another cruise to the Mediterranean between 9 February and 26 June 1948, DAYTON was placed out of commission in reserve at Boston 1 March 1949. USS Dayton was part of the Reserve Fleet there and at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the next dozen years. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1961 and sold for scrapping on 6 April 1962.
DAYTON received one battle star for World War II service.
Vey nice Tomkow!! Are you going to put racing stripes on it and try to get Hooters to sponsor you? Heeehhheehee.
A soldier runs past a poster bearing pictures of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his father, Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq, on Thursday.
Candidates for the Army's semi-pro football squad are required to march double time with full gear while the other Volunteers take rest breaks.
A soldier uses a dummy to draw a sniper into view in Najaf, Iraq, on Friday. Militiamen loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf late on Friday as part of an effort to end a two-week-old uprising centered on the holy site.
The Army's recent amateur production of the classic "the Invisible Man' suffered from some very cheesy special effects!
A soldier breaks a window as he searches vehicles during a raid in Najaf, Iraq, on Friday.
Breaking windows can be such a pane!
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A building explodes as the first bomb drops during a U.S. aerial assault on insurgent targets in Najaf, Iraq, on Thursday. High-altitude jet fighters dropped four bombs in the area. The plumbers union is licking their chops at all of the potential new contracts which will likely result after Iraqi Officials erred and let amateurs work on the lines and pipes in government buildings! |
A soldier aims his rifle from a fortified position in Najaf, Iraq, on Friday.
I am an American soldier, and I approve of this fortified position!
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Spc. Jose Hernandez, a member of the 1st Calvary Division’s 2nd Battalion, 7th Calvary Regiment, keeps an eye out as he takes part in a patrol during sporadic fighting between Shiite militia and U.S. troops in Najaf, Iraq, on Friday. The military has not officially approved of Spc. Hernadez's method of taking blood samples! |
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A Najaf resident walks past Spc. Jose Hernandez as he and other members of the 1st Calvary Division’s 2nd Battalion, 7th Calvary Regiment, conduct a patrol in the Iraqi city on Friday. Fashion conscious Iraqi citizens often congregate in the downtown areas in order to demonstrate the latest in Western clothing styles.
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Sgt. Willie Hudgen, left, and Sgt. 1st Class John Urrutia, both members of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Calvary Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, take up positions as they come under sniper fire during fighting between Shiite militia and U.S. troops in Najaf, Iraq, on Friday. Hailing a taxi in Najaf is sometimes even more difficult than it is in Manhatten. |
Soldiers, under sniper fire, guard the entrance to a building during a raid in Najaf, Iraq, on Friday.
Everytime I find myself as a target and under sniper fire in hostile areas my mind turns to Jody and how I should have just kicked his butt after all.
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Sgt. Matthew Thompson, left, from Youngstown, Ohio, gives Indy 500 champion Buddy Rice some hands-on training at the controls of a Bradley fighting vehicle at Fort Carson, Colo., on Thursday. Rice, who will be competing in the Honda Indy 225 at nearby Pikes Peak International Raceway on Sunday, took a tour of the fighting detachment. The Indy 500 is a big challenge, but real heroes drive Bradleys.
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Pvt. David Chisam kisses his son, Deven, as his daughter, Danna, walks away during a deployment ceremony for the Nevada Army National Guard's 1864th Transportation Company at the Henderson Armory in Henderson, Nev., on Thursday. Chisam is one of about 175 soldiers deploying to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Is that a Chicago Cubs logo on that bus TomKow? |
A soldier with the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, based out of Fort Riley, Kan., disembarks a plane at Forbes Field in Topeka, Kan., on Wednesday. About 100 soldiers returned from Iraq after a nearly yearlong deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Mystery Theatre 2005 is getting ready for an exciting new seasons of movie viewing.
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The Navy's newest destroyer, the Momsen, makes its way down the Florida coast on Tuesday as it sails to Panama City, Fla., for its commissioning ceremony on Saturday. Meanwhile the Navy's oldest destroyer was last seen on a secret mission to Cambodia on a covert rescue operation designed to save the Kerry for President campaign.
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Just another day at the office for our Troops!
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