FReeper Canteen ~ It's Finally Friday!! ~ 17 April 09

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ It’s Finally Friday!! ~

LIGHTNING FIGHTERS

Lightning strikes behind two F/A-18C Hornet strike fighters on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, April 8, 2009. Stennis is on a scheduled six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Elliott Fabrizio

Canteen Mission Statement

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

HARRIER OVERHEAD

An AV-8B Harrier piloted by U.S. Marine Capt. Daniel S. Fiust takes in fuel while training above Fort Hunter Liggett, Atwater, Calif., March 28, 2009. A KC-130J Hercules turboprop aircraft from San Diego-based Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 circled dozens of times, 22,000 feet above the remote Army post, and refueled the Harrier three times, pumping 15,000 pounds of fuel in total. Fiust is assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 513. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn

DEPLOYMENT BRINGS BROTHER, SISTER TOGETHER

Army Sgt. Jordane Lovin, right, shares a joke with her older brother, Army Pfc. Robert Lovin, at Camp Echo, Iraq, April 6, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rodney Foliente

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The Mills Brothers ~ Tiger Rag

Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Who’ll Stop The Rain

Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra ~ By The Light of The Silvery Moon

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown ~ Better Off With The Blues

Hank Snow & The Rainbow Ranch Boys ~ I’m Movin’ On

RETIREMENT!

090414-N-2143T-002 SILVERDALE, Wash. (April 14, 2009) Military Working Dog "Benny" passes through side boys with Master-at-Arms 1st Class Allan Tetreault after his retirement ceremony at Naval Base Kitsap. Bangor. Benny retired after ten years of military service. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maebel Tinoko/Released)

DEPLOYING

090414-N-6692A-026 PHILIPPINE SEA (April 14, 2009) The amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) deploys amphibious assault vehicles from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) for a landing at Gray Beach, Philippines during Balikatan 2009. (BK09). Balikatan 2009 is an annual combined, joint-bilateral exercise involving U.S. Military and Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel as well as subject matter experts from Philippine Civil Defense Agencies. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Geronimo Aquino/Released)

Elvis ~ Aloha Oe

Junior Brown ~ Cagey Bea

Peter Rowan & Tony Rice ~ Walls of Time

Don Henley ~ Sunset Grill

Alaska Button Box Gang ~ Rootie Kazootie

COMING “HOME”

090413-N-0120A-251 SOUTH CHINA SEA (April 13, 2009) A CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to the Air Combat Element of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit lands aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) as a landing craft utility vehicle approaches to enter the well deck. Essex is participating in Balikatan 2009, an annual combined, joint-bilateral exercise involving U.S. Military and Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel as well as subject matter experts from Philippine Civil Defense Agencies. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark R. Alvarez/Released)

MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS VISIT SOLDIERS IN BAGHDAD

Medal of Honor recipients retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Gary Littrell, left, and retired Army Col. Robert Howard, center, sign and hand out copies of their award citations to soldiers serving in Multinational Division Baghdad with the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team on Camp Liberty, Iraq, April 14, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Dustin Roberts

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Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.

[Izzy Dunne]

I was born and raised in the South, and have only been a Mainer since 2000.

Had my first experience of 26 degrees below zero this winter.

I kind of hope it's my last, too.

Although some folks in the county had it REAL cold...

[mylife]

Even we will have another cold snap

[ConorMacNessa]

Looking forward to isolated frost in the People's Republic of Maryland tonite.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Yeah..
Gotta love that 26 below zero stuff.
So cold it pinches yer nose shut!

[Izzy Dunne]

LOL!

Yeah, I've heard variations on that for awhile.

Or maybe the Mainah replied:

"Ayuh, I learned not to drive in mud season!"

[MS.BEHAVIN]

LOL
I was hoping you’d tell that joke, My!

[mylife]

It could happen!

Dont plant them tomaters yet.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

It’s still pretty cold in the evening yet!

[mylife]

All they have in Maine is rocks.
We cornered the market on mud down here L0L

[mylife]

Its a classic L0L

Texans got Bravado, but Mainahs got Moxie LoL

[TASMANIANRED]

Yip, yip, yip, yahoo.

Evening Kathy, Hugs.

Off this weekend.

[Izzy Dunne]

The thing is, you got to embrace it to a certain extent.

I lived 45 years in the South, and I could easily have moved here resentfully, and cringed by the stove, and complained all the time.

But I made up my mind to get into it, and I tried ice skating, and skiing, and snowshoeing.

I'm OK on skates now, and go snowshoeing now and then. Couldn't get the hang of skiing - sliding down a mountain on my butt is just not that much fun. But I tried it, anyway.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Sandy.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Russ.

Thanks for todays inspiration.

[mylife]

My heat/air is going nuts.

Its 40 at night and 85 in the day.

The windows are open at the moment and all is serene.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Schatzi, Smooch.

[ConorMacNessa]

Hate when that happens! Reminds me of the time I had the fence watch in Boot Camp at Camp Moffat, Great Lakes on New Years Eve from 0200 to 0400 - it was twenty below and we had to walk the fence for two hours. My nasal hair froze so hard it hurt to breathe.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Tweeze.

[mylife]

Hey! I was teasing

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Nope, just a dental-floss farmer in Montana. Or at least I might be one soon. :)