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Posted on 03/15/2006 5:59:14 PM PST by StarCMC
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A Vodka I happened to like
I just went with Armymarinemom because Armyarmymarinemom would just smack of redundancy.
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Chief Warrant Officer 3 Neil T. LaSala hugs his mother Joann just seconds after arriving here after a seven-month deployment to Iraq. LaSala is among 160 Marines with the 1st and 3rd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Companies that made their homecoming March 13. LaSala is a 44-year-old target acquisition officer from Pasadena, Calif. The 1st and 3rd ANGLICO, I Marine Expeditionary Force are slated to return to Iraq in six months. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Patrick J. Floto)
Cpl. Jeffrey R. Bentley, a 30-year-old from Brooklyn, removes a cover from a broken radio to troubleshoot the communications system. Electronics specialists like Bentley, a communication technician with the Electronics Maintenance Platoon, CLR 15, keep the radios operating so the Marines on the roads of Iraq have this lifeline available. Every day in Iraq, the 1st Marine Logistics Group sends out combat logistics patrols that leave the relative safety of the base to deliver supplies to Marines throughout the Al Anbar Province. From the Marines who order and load the supplies onto 7-ton transportation trucks, to the mechanic that keeps the trucks running - many people play a key role to keep the supply train moving. Photo by: Sgt. Enrique S. Diaz
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Sgt. Robert R. Anderson, infantryman, digs for a suspected weapons cache in a village near Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, March 12th, 2006. Anderson, 25, a native of Gillespie, Ill., and the other soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment, performed a multi-faceted mission during the daylong operation as they carried out weapons cache sweeps, investigated possible improvised explosive devices and conducted route clearance operations. The Illinois-based National Guard took a few moments throughout the day to assist Iraqi villagers in the area, handing out supplies and spending time with the local children. The soldiers were grateful it wasn’t business as usual and could do something a little light hearted. Whether it’s handing out candy or searching for IEDs, the soldiers are proud of what they are doing in Iraq, said Sgt. 1st Class Timothy J. Atteberry, platoon sergeant. “The individual, personal satisfaction of helping another human being really comes from these kinds of humanitarian-aid type missions,” said Atteberry, a 38-year-old native of Champagne, Ill.
The soldiers’ primary mission is to provide base security for the Marines and sailors of the forward-deployed 1st Marine Logistics Group. The 4,200 joint-service members of 1st MLG are part of the 25,000 Marines, airmen, solders and sailors of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force’s forward deployed element. The 1st MLG’s mission is to provide sustained logistics support to I MEF and Iraqi security forces operating in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. First MLG will also support the development of the Iraqi Security Forces' logistic capabilities in order to enable independent ISF led counter insurgency operations.
Its my name, and Im proud of it..!
Welcome to the Canteen and thanks for sharing.
Completely self-explanatory.
Chief Petty Officer
NAS Kingsville
NAS Fallon
1965-1976
It should appear as ExGeeEye :)
NerdDad comes from a Father's Day t-shirt the family gave me. As the song goes, I was a nerd long before nerdiness was cool. The family found a t-shirt that had a filled pocket-protector and "Nerd Dad" screenprinted on it.
My dear darling's screenname CDBear has multiple origins. She is a big teddy-bear collector. We are each other's teddy-bears. The "CD" are her initials. And finally, it is shorthand for "see da bear?", which is what she squeals anytime she sees a cute teddy-bear.
Finally, our oldest son -- the third FReeper in the family -- is Clarinet_King. In his final high school years he was exactly that.
Thank you for your service to our country!!
(Sometimes it doesn't)
1952 was, apparently, a very good year. There was a large earthquake out here in California that year.
GAWD!!
ROFL
Mine is fairly self-explanatory. I haven't filled in my "about" page yet, but I intend to get to it one of these days, which may explain my grumpiness.
Facing forward toward the bow of a ship, starboard side is your right side.
NKP 70-71
Mobile Vulgus is my name
It is Latin for the homeless masses or people without station and property. We would call them the great unwashed or the common man, today. I take the name as a slap to elitists everywhere, claiming the title of common man for myself (Though I DO own property! Ha, ha).
So, when I call myself Mobile Vulgus I am telling the elitists on the Left that I have power, power THEY don't want me to have. That I can move people to VOTE and ruin their day!
It's a big "vulgar" middle finger to the left!!
Cool - thank you for your service to our country!! Welcome to the Canteen!
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