FReeper Canteen ~ It's The Soldier ~ August 28, 2006

8-28-06

[StarCMC]

 

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT
Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

           

It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,

And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.

-  Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army   

Thank you to all the heroes out there in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and National Guard who ensure that the freedoms we enjoy today will continue to future generations.  You are not forgotten.

[Lady Jag]

LOL! You're way ahead of me, LUV!!

[SandRat]

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by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock

June 21, 2006

An Iraqi girl walks alongside a Soldier from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team during a patrol of Badush, a town to the west of Mosul. This photo appeared on www.army.mil.

 

Images on the Army Web site are cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given as "Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army" and credit to individual photographer whenever possible.

[StarCMC]

6-4 Cards over Cubs in the top of the 6th....

[SandRat]

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by Petty Officer 2nd Class Katrina Beeler

June 29, 2006

Soldiers at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq, learn hand-to-hand combat from Marine Corps martial arts experts. This photo appeared on www.army.mil.

 

Images on the Army Web site are cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given as "Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army" and credit to individual photographer whenever possible.

[luvie]

Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!

God bless them...and God bless America

U.S. Air Force Band~Battle Hymn of the Republic

Thank you seasoned traditionalist
for your love of our troops!
...and for remembering my name! :D

*** Please ping our DJs to any song requests
made on the thread. Thank you! ***

[BIGLOOK]

Soldier?

Sailor!

A comes before O.......except after sea.

[SandRat]

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by Spc. Christopher S. Barnhart

May 10, 2006

1st Lt. Stacie Ogg (left) and Sgt. Lashanda Baham, from the 14th Combat Support Hospital, give a drink to an Afghan boy at Bagram Airfield Hospital. The boy is en route to the United States to receive specialized medical treatment for his heart. This photo appeared on www.army.mil.

 

Images on the Army Web site are cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given as "Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army" and credit to individual photographer whenever possible.

[tongue-tied]

Thanks for the thread...

[luvie]

Thanks for all these great pictures of our troops doing what they do best! What heroes they are!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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The Words:

http://www.Freerepublic.com/~ALOHARONNIE


The Pictures:

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

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[luvie]

Not really. Your graphics always pleasantly surprise me! :D

[Gucho]

Bump! Good evening, and thanks for the ping and a great thread.

[Radix]

 

Master Gunnery Sgt. Anthony O'Neal of Valdosta, Ga., operations and training chief for Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), illustrates his motivation during a tug-o-war match against the officers at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, on Aug. 12.

O'Neal's first name is Do N'

Yea Dude, Go ahead and finish those curls, I got all day to wait!

 

Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith, an ordnance-disposal technician, oversees the detonation of explosives on a range adjacent to Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, on Aug. 18.

Army Game Boy...It's not just for kids!

 

A sailor from the weapons department of the carrier Kitty Hawk fires a .50-caliber Browning machine gun at a floating target during a gunnery exercise on board the ship in the western Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.

Just another Sailor, at the office.

A plane captain from Carrier Air Wing 5 inpsects rivets on the wing of an F/A-18 Hornet before flight operations on the flight deck of the carrier Kitty Hawk in the western Pacific Ocean on Thursday.

Just a plain old captain, out of the office, doiging a regular inpsection.

 

Flight deck sailors watch as a C-2A Greyhound from Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 30 prepares for flight operations on carrier Kitty Hawk in the western Pacific Ocean on Thursday.

The Kitty Hawk Goalee team is ready to tend to business.

 

Sailors from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 115 replace the port control assembly on a rotor of an E-2C Hawkeye on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk (CV 63) in the western Pacific Ocean on Thursday.

Meanwhile, members of the Airborne Later Warning Squadron had a great sleep, and a late bountiful breakfast that included, scrambled eggs with Italian Goat Milk Cheese, Belgian Waffles, and lemon tainted Salmon.

 

Capt. Colin Fleming of Burnsville, Minn., 40 (right), of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Minnesota National Guard, talks with Sheik Chiad Hamood Al-Guam in the southern Iraqi village of Abu Tubar about reconstruction needs on Tuesday. In the relative quiet of southern Iraq, soldiers wiht the unit are moving forward with a year-long $15 million reconstruction effort to bring water to the parched region.

If I were to equate this image with the character Fleming Pickering, ..I wonder how many would  "get it."

 

Sgt. Stephen Mattson of Juneau, Alaska (front) and fellow Alaska National Guard soldiers and airmen attached to the 3rd Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, fire Mongolian AK-47 rifles during weapons-familiarization training at Five Hills Training Center near Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, during the United Nations peacekeeping exercise called Khaan Quest 2006 on Aug. 11.

A shooting site in Mongolia is definitely what I would call "Up and Down Range!"

 

Alaska National Guardsmen Pvt. Jimmy Bates (left) and Sgt. Brenda Lutz of Anchorage, Alaska, climb to the top of a mountain overlooking Five Hills Training Center near Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, during the United Nations peacekeeping exercise called Khaan Quest 2006 earlier this month.

Which one is Brenda? Or, are my eyes bad?

 

Capt. Shelia Jenkins comforts her daughter Khadyajah, 7, while holding the hand of her husband, Chief Warrant Officer Claude Jenkins, one of about 250 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade, as he departs Fort Bragg, N.C., for a deployment to Iraq on Wednesday.

 

Darryann Venable (right) holds her boyfriend, Pvt. Brenon Osby of the 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade at Funk Physical Fitness Center on Fort Bragg, N.C., on Wednesday. Osby is one of about 250 paratroopers in the unit who deploying to Iraq.

 

Spc. Ryan Suggs of the 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade spends time with his wife Amanda, and two children Tatum, 3 (center), and Tyler, 9 months, on Wednesday, before deploying with his unit to Iraq.

[MeekMom]

Another awesome thread, Star! Thanks!

[StarCMC]

Thank YOU for what you do!

[AZamericonnie]

Laundry? You had to mention laundry? I have two loads left to do. LOL

that the summit of Kilauea has been inflating rapidly. We can expect an eruption in the the nest decade or so.

Well, I sure hope that happens after Jinx & Nana visit...and when you are here as well!

[Lady Jag]

Thank you!

[luvie]

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