FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ 24 January 2019

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The world !! | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

LINE LAUNCH

Navy Seaman Chance Vaughan tosses a heaving line to a tugboat from the guided-missile destroyer USS Carney as the ship prepares to moor in Brindisi, Italy, Dec. 30, 2017. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James R. Turner

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.

AIR INTAKE

A Marine takes a breath while swimming 100 meters as part of a physical fitness challenge at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 29, 2017. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Bernadette Wildes

SAILOR'S STARE

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eleni Palatou inspects wires on an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf, Dec. 31, 2017. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joseph S. Yu

FITNESS FORMATION

Sailors participate in a physical fitness session during training for future chief petty officers aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego in the Indian Ocean, Dec. 28, 2017. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin A. Schoenberger

PEARL HARBOR ARRIVAL

The USS Wasp arrives for a scheduled port visit at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 28, 2017. The Wasp is transiting to Sasebo, Japan, to conduct a turnover with the USS Bonhomme Richard as the forward-deployed flagship of the amphibious forces in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Corwin M. Colbert

HORNET EFFORT

Sailors move an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Marine Strike Fighter Attack Squadron 312 on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf, Dec. 31, 2017. The aircraft carrier is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security operations in the region. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Victoria Foley

SOLDIER SUPPORT

U.S. soldiers fire an 81 mm mortar to support Afghan soldiers during operation Maiwand 10 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 26, 2017. The soldiers, assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, fired multiple illumination rounds to light the nearby area of Marjah, where Afghan soldiers experienced a nighttime ambush. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...hope your weather is at least thinking about improving.

We are above freezing and going higher. And possible rain. *sigh*

[luvie]

Take heart! At least the link is easy to see. :)

[luvie]

*mega siiiiiiigh*

All you peeps getting tons of rain......we’ve had NONE this month. Everything is so dry and dusty and it doesn’t bode well for a decent lawn if we don’t get some soon. There just ought to be a way to SHARE! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pro!!

[mylife]

Tug boats are amazing, kinda like rodeo clowns

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Mayor!!

[SkyDancer]

Hai Kathy! (((HUGS))) ... over night in Denver and leaving out in the morning for Phoenix, LA, SF, Denver.

[Kathy in Alaska]

lightman!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am off for home....and my lounger and blankie and laptop.

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1vNs3DTcVQ

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeZeRIUmPM

[ExTexasRedhead]

Enjoy this awesome story.

https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-Incredible-Chivalry-War-Torn/dp/0425255735

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNmypZ9lv94

December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger...

What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.”

The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.

[lightman]

That was our situation for 2 solid years, 2016 through 1st half of 2018.

I have a well.

For the first time in three years I’m waiting for the water to warm up before I get into the shower. WOOHOO!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

Hitting the sack early...this weekend really wore me out!

(((HUGS)))

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BLXUmKaL0

[luvie]

It’s good that you have a well. Should be really full by now. Or do they fill up? Don’t know much about wells.

[radu]

Ooooo! Sunny! Must be nice! We had a little yesterday before clouds rolled in, and now we’re drowning again. At least we had temps in the 50s for two days but we’re heading to the deep freeze again.

No, Clara didn’t pass. This is the other house on the farm that was built for her sister when she moved back to TN after her husband passed. It was built in ‘91 so is much newer than the one we live in. A nice house too. We really don’t need to keep it so it’s for sale. Someone’s already interested in it so it needs to be emptied out.
Thank goodness it isn’t cluttered like Clara’s but there’s still a lot of stuff to bag and box up. *sigh*

Have a good supper with your son?

[The Mayor]

Hi Kathy and all.
I have the damn flu, me and Jul. It’s been a long day.
Kathy mixer will be white, I just started it so it’s gonna be a while for it.

[radu]

Hey there, Kathy.

No weather improvement here. It’s been raining like crazy all day and it’s still pouring. The temp will drop like a stone by morning and stay cold through the weekend. *sigh*

So you’re going to get more rain, too, huh? Luverly. Been a splendid winter, hasn’t it?

[radu]

I imagine we’d both love to share some of our “feast” to help with your “famine”. LOL

I thought I’d need a boat to take cats to the vet this afternoon. *glub*

Did your poor kittehs ever leave their warm spots to eat?