~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~
~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~
ISOLATED POST
After unloading from several UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, U.S. soldiers make their way to Village Stability Platform Chenar, an isolated post in the Khakrez district, Afghanistan, Jan. 16, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, and 2nd Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Spc. April York
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.
A MEDAL AT 95
Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer Carl E. Clark, 95, offers remarks after Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, behind Clark, presented him with the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with a Combat Distinguishing Device in Mountain View, Calif., Jan. 17, 2012. Mabus presented the medal to Clark for his actions during World War II. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Sam Shavers
FOR ACTIONS IN WORLD WAR II
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus prepares to pin the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with a Combat Distinguishing Device on the chest of retired Navy Chief Petty Officer Carl E. Clark in Mountain View, Calif., Jan. 17, 2012. Mabus presented the medal to the 95-year-old Clark for his actions during World War II. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Sam Shavers
KANDAHAR REST
U.S. soldiers lean against a mud wall during a break from combat operations in Kandahar province's southern Spin Boldak district in Afghanistan, Jan. 9, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to the 504th Battlefield Brigade's 38th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Squadron. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Crystal Davis
DUST OFF
Soldiers participate in wartime operation exercises on Florence Military Reservation in Arizona, Jan. 7, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment. The unit conducted air assault raids as part of their mission to support the battalion's objective to deploy and fight on the battlefield as a light infantry battalion. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Celia Prince
TIGHT SPACE
An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter delivers supplies as the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill pulls next to the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Rainier and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during a replenishment in the Arabian Sea, Jan. 13, 2012. The Seahawk crew is assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 8. The Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are under way on a western Pacific deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Dean M. Cates
FATHER, SON SERVE IN AFGHANISTAN
Army 1st Sgt. Walter Josephs Jr., a field artillery instructor, and Air Force Airman 1st Class Walter Josephs Jr., a 451st Air Expeditionary Wing services journeyman, visit at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 6, 2012. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Heather Skinkle
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OPERATING ROOM
U.S. Navy Lt. Jacob Pletcher induces general anesthesia on a patient about to undergo surgery in the operating room of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean, Jan. 17, 2012. The Lincoln is in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility as part of a deployment to the western Pacific and Indian oceans. U.S. Navy photo by Capt. Jaime A. Quejada
CHARTING A COURSE
U.S. Navy Seaman Roosevelt Feazell charts a course from the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility as part of a deployment to the western Pacific and Indian Ocean. The carrier is en route to support coalition efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Adam Randolph
LAST TRANSPORT
U.S. Marines unload from an MV-22B Osprey in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2012. The Marines are assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. This was the last mission during Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162's six-month deployment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Justin Boling
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