FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 13 January 2022

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

Ooh Rah! Semper Fi!

U.S. Marine Corps Private First Class Selena Serrano, a Marine with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, poses for a photo with her eagle, globe and anchor on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 5, 2022. Serrano just completed the crucible – a 54-hour event that challenges all the skills a recruit has learned throughout recruit training. Serrano was recruited out of Los Angeles, C with Recruiting Station Montebello. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher A. Madero)

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.

Welcome To The World, Isaac!

Gina and Joshua Steitzer welcomed their new son, Isaac, at 4:34 a.m., Jan. 6, 2022. Isaac was the first baby born in the New Year at Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Northwest Beginnings Family Birth Center to proud parents Gina and Joshua, chief damage controlman assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Isaac weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 20 inches long. (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC public affairs officer)

No Cornhole? No Problem!

Airmen from the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing take part in holiday themed games during the 2021 Ops Town Games at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dec. 25, 2021. The games were created to boost morale for members deployed during the holidays. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christina Graves)

Hold Your Breath! Whatever You Do: Don’t Swallow!

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Ornelas, a squad leader with 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, conducts the endurance course during the 3d Marine Division Squad Competition at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 7, 2022. The week-long competition tests jungle survival skills, basic infantry tactics, and excellence in weapons handling. The competition participants are forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division, as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. Ornelas is a native of Bend, Oregon. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Willcox)

Congrats Marine! Hug Well Earned!

A new U.S. Marine of Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, is welcomed by a loved one following a graduation ceremony at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Jan. 7, 2022. Once Delta Company was dismissed, families and friends met their new Marines on the parade deck. As recruits, their only means of contact was through letters during their 13-week training cycle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MSgt Sheila Brooks)

We Want To Fly!

A 14th Flying Training Wing instructor pilot and student pilot conduct pre-flight checks inside a T-6 Texan II on January 7, 2022, at Columbus Air Force Base, MS. Stepped-tandem seating in the single cockpit places one crewmember in front of the other, with the student and instructor positions being interchangeable. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Davis Donaldson)

The Toilet Bowl Ultimate (Psst...No Toilets Were Harmed)

U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force Defense Information School students complete in ultimate frisbee for the school's Annual event, the Commandant's Cup on Ft. G Meade, Maryland. (Photo by Pvt. Anastasiya Ludchenko)

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and is family friendly.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, redrhino47, and thanks for helping honor our troops.

[Kathy in Alaska]

ML!!

1st!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pro!!

2nd!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Janey!!

3rd!!

[PROCON]

Tell me all the female combat heroes from day one through Vietnam?

I know Bro, I was in Vietnam too and then a later tour in the field artillery. When the Army/military allowed females in the combat arms our readiness went downhill quickly.

Females have their place in the military but only in a support capacity.

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Kathy!

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Was it another cool day or did it warm back up a bit?

Sunny and 52 here so it was a pretty nice day.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

It was pretty nice today and will be again tomorrow, though tomorrow will be cloudy. The chill settles back in Friday.

With all the snow you’ve had, it warming up probably makes the streets a lot of “fun” to drive on. Slushy and slippery.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Gosh that sounds really nice after what you’ve been through! I hope you get a few more of those before the next cold front blows through your area.

lt was nice here, too. It got up to 67. ~~ducking~~ LOL! The coldest day this week will be Saturday at a high of 47. Not hard winter here yet. Maybe it won’t. I just hope we don’t get Deep Freeze redux. Ugh.

[radu]

Just one more nice day. A cold front comes through late tomorrow and drops us back into the 40s for Friday. The weekend’s cold front is the one I’m keeping an eye on. Bella’s month is up Monday for her asthma shot but I’m going to see if they’ll let her get it Friday, just in case I can’t get over there Monday. She’s ready for it now and I’d hate for her to have to wait.
If things don’t get as bad as they think they will, that will be fine with us!

Your 67 sounds really nice. I don’t think we’ll see temps like that for a while.

[luvie]

I hope they can take Bella early. If she’s ready now, she’ll be miserable by next week. It would be even better if you could give her the shots. Although, she’d probably rip your arm off. LOL!

“They” keep saying that something really super cold is coming at the end of the month, similar to last year’s terrible cold with a high of like 2, and I’m hoping whoever is saying that is totally wrong!

[Lumper20]

Add the so called LGBT and who wants to be in a firefight?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pretty much the same here...below zero, up to freezing, and back down again. I hate this roller coaster!

[radu]

I hope they’ll tke her too. She’s miserable right now. I don’t know what’s in the air that has her fired up but it’s bothering me as well. We seem to react to the same airborne whatevers. LOL

I’m a bit too squeamish about needles to be able to give her shots even if they’d let me.

I hope they’re wrong about the super-cold blast at the end of the month but we’re overdue for a winter like that down here.

[luvie]

Yeah, I probably couldn’t do it, either. LOL! And I’m NOT squeamish about needles. I just don’t like being medicated.

I hope you remain overdue for that kind of weather. It sux!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Thursday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[radu]

Getting stuck doesn’t bother me so much. The thought of sticking the cats does though. It’s one of the main reasons I decided being a veterinarian wouldn’t work out well. That and putting animals to sleep.

If we get an arctic winter this year ..... that’s what long johns are for. LOL I’d prefer mine stay folded up in the drawer but they’re ready if needed. If it’s gonna do it, let’s get it over and done with.

Time for me to head out. Republican women’s meeting in the morning and I still have a few things to do before going to bed. Catch ya tomorrow.

[luvie]

Yes, I don’t think I could put an animal to sleep. My son worked for a vet for a short time when he was in college, and I think that’s why he quit. I never asked, but I always just felt it became too hard to think about.

See ya tomorrow. Enjoy the meeting. Find some solutions for this crazy world, ok? :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, lightman...has your weather settled down yet?

I’m getting tired of the up and down here. And I did make it past hump day. Hurrah!

[luvie]

Howwwdyyy Dooo, Early Birds!
Man! Our troops are so hardworking!
And...they do it ALL for US!
Quite amazing when you think about it!
Hope all y'all have a Thank-A-Troop 🇺🇸 Thursday!
The weekend is nearly upon us, folks!
(((hugs)))