FReeper Canteen ~ Marine Barracks Washington ~ 16 SEPT 2008

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Marine Barracks Washington

Marine Barracks Washington, also known as "8th & I," is the oldest active post in the Marine Corps. Located on the corners of 8th & I streets in southeast Washington, D.C., the Barracks supports both ceremonial and security missions in the nation's capital.

The selection of the location of Marine Barracks Washington was of national and strategic interest. President Thomas Jefferson accompanied by the second commandant of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant Colonel William Ward Burrows, searched for a suitable location to station the Marines within proximity to the Washington Navy Yard and within "an easy marching distance of the Capitol."

The Body Bearer Section is a unit within Bravo Company, one of the ceremonial drill companies at Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. The section is comprised of 15 Marine infantrymen whose primary mission is to conduct funerals for Marines, former Marines and Marine family members at Arlington National Cemetery and the surrounding cemeteries in the Washington, D.C., area.

The road to becoming a body bearer is not an easy one and has great physical requirements. A typical day for a body bearer includes ceremonial burial practice and hours of weight training and conditioning. The remainder of the day is spent attending infantry proficiency training classes.

The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps performs martial and popular music for hundreds of thousands of spectators each year. The Corps of more than 80 Marine musicians, dressed in ceremonial red and white uniforms, is known world-wide as a premier musical marching unit.

Throughout the summer months the unit performs in the traditional Friday Evening Parades held at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C., and in Sunset Parades at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Monument) near Arlington, Virginia, every Tuesday evening.

These "Parades" are not street parades but are dramatic military ceremonies which are a symbol of the professionalism and discipline of the United States Marines. The Drum and Bugle Corps travels more than 50,000 miles annually, performing in excess of 400 events across the nation and abroad.

Learn More About Marine Barracks Washington HERE!

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. 

Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

[MS.BEHAVIN]

ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
*HUH?*
LOL
Good night!
*HUG*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, MM...((HUGS))...still raining? Tying to start here.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, TS...how is school going? Students working hard?

[BIGLOOK]

Ahhh.....actually I meant the Stock Market and Wall Street.

We did have an Obama rally with his half sister Maya this past weekend and it drew nearly 100 people. The rest of 158,400 population were working, shopping or at the beach. Well.....just another day in paradise.

[luvie]

Hee-hee!

Go ta bed...just what you told me last night!

It was very good advice, too. :D

[HiJinx]

Okay, so you snagged the first two...just watch and see who gets the third!

G’night, LUV, sweet dreams.

[HiJinx]

G’night, Ms. B!
See you tomorrow, ‘kay?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Ah....point missed the first time. Mark Levin was really ragging on the dims whose hands are deep in the cookie jar to the tune of millions upon millions.

There was an anti-Sarah rally up here....bottom line is the single issue of abortion. Our wonderful bird cage liner and tv station of the same bent made it sound very lop sided. The truth was the numbers were close to equal of supporters.

GO, SARAH!!!

Are the plovers settling in? Leaves are turning and dropping.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and rest well, ms b...*HUGS*
Thanks for all you do for our troops.

[Randy Larsen]

Ma!

Are we delving into politics now?

GOOD FOR YOU!

I Love Sarah and her whole fam damily!!!

Especially Little Piper!

[BIGLOOK]

The plovers are as happy as tourists! As a matter of fact they’re our only tourists at the moment. Don’t be surprised if our state legislature initiates a bill to charge them landing fees.

[luvie]

Nite, Jinxy. I will be asleep when BEACHY or GB gets it in the
morning! LOL!

Take care. ((((hugs)))) for you and Nana!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Kept to a minimum, per policy...and no arguing among us. There are other threads for that elsewhere. LOL!!

I’m getting no sleep trying to keep up on so many other threads...so many lies, so little time. d:o)

[HiJinx]

Thanks, LUV, backatchya!

[Kathy in Alaska]

So cool that the Deptula, father and son, got to fly together.

[SevenofNine]

Breaking news from Xinurea news wire report that they busted in China the mine owner who 25 people died in his mine last Thursday

Also breaking news from Kydto news wire China may be cutting interest reate Japanese market is suffering meltdown of 650 point minus they fear that they haven’t seen Nikkei Market this bad since Godzilla lay smackdown on the building few years back

They always blame Godzilla WHY IS THAT????

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, FortWorthPatriot...what a sharp looking Marine you are. Thank you for your service to our country.

[SevenofNine]

BL I got question since you are main Aloha State resident here how many sibling Magic Barry that question it seem that Barek had so many silbing we don’t know where to began

BOY Barry daddy was Rolling stone like Tempation song said Papa was Rollin Stone

[Kathy in Alaska]

Mining in China has to be the worst job in the world.

[SevenofNine]

Yeah Kathy they don’t pay that much

HEY KATHY I am impress with your state FIRST dude Todd Palin everybody talking about that dude and his interview with Greta van Scientlogist