FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 28 July 2022

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

RIMPAC 2022!

BELLOWS AIR FORCE STATION, Hawaii (July 18, 2022) Australian Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment take part in a helicopter casting serial during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Royal Australian Navy photo by Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman) LEA

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Military Kids Looking Bored!

USACE-Albuquerque District park ranger Kyle Sisco explains to students how the dam at Trinidad in southern Colorado was built during the the annual water festival held at Trinidad State Junior College, May 17-18, 2022. Albuquerque District staff from the Trinidad Dam project office participated in the festival, presenting on topics such as “Dam Building 101” and water safety, along with Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) outreach.

Softball By The Mountains!

Soldiers assigned to 7th Inf. Div. compete in a softball competition during the Week of the Bayonet July 20, 2022 at the Lewis North Athletic Complex. The Week of the Bayonet is a week-long event that commemorates the 7th Infantry Division lineage, teamwork, cohesion, and fosters Esprit de Corps throughout the Bayonet Division.

Daddy’s Home!

U.S. Soldiers with the 228th Engineer Company, 337th Engineer Battalion, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, arrive home after a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. They arrived at Harrisburg International Airport and were driven to Fort Indiantown Gap where they were reunited with their loved ones. They were also greeted by senior Pennsylvania National Guard leaders including Maj. Gen. Mark McCormack, commander of the 28th Infantry Division, and Brig. Gen. Laura McHugh, Deputy Adjutant General-Army.

Just Looked Cool!

220711-N-VI910-1134 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 11, 2022) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) receives fuel from Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Javier Reyes)

Welcome Fellow Americans!

U.S. service members and civilian personnel stand for the Oath of Allegiance during a virtual naturalization ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, July 25, 2021. The naturalization ceremony was held to acknowledge personnel among the station becoming citizens of the United States. The ceremony included residents from Columbia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Kenya, Thailand, and Mexico. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Calah Thompson)

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[PROCON]

Hi Kathy, thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...quick tonight!! Work has not gone well today. The company internet or connection or whatever died. Just getting to check printing now. Everyone is beat!

[lightman]

Thank those serving.
Honor those who served.
NEVER forget the fallen!

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Quick? As late as I was, I figured I’d be way down the list. LOL

I wonder what’s going on with the internet up there lately. The Lake Hood cam has driven everyone nuts for almost a week and the techs have said the problem is a connectivity issue. Wonder if it’s spreading.
It HAD to pick today to conk out. *sigh*

[Kathy in Alaska]

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Our Daily Bread

Thursday,
July 28, 2022

When the Whole World Sings

Read: Revelation 5:8–14

They sang a new song, saying . . . with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. Revelation 5:9

A commercial jingle of the 1970s inspired a generation. Created as part of Coca Cola’s “The Real Thing” ad campaign, a British group called The New Seekers eventually sang it as a full-length song that climbed to the top of music charts around the world. But many will never forget the original television version sung by young people on a hilltop outside of Rome. Whimsical as it was, with visions of honeybees and fruit trees, we resonated with a songwriter’s desire to teach the world to sing with the heart and harmony of love.

The apostle John describes something like that idealized dream, only vastly greater. He envisioned a song sung by “every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them” (Revelation 5:13). There’s nothing whimsical about this anthem. Nothing could be more realistic than the price paid by the One to whom this song is sung. Neither could there be anything more foreboding than the visions of war, death, and consequence that His sacrifice of love would have to overcome.

Yet this is what it took for the Lamb of God to bear our sin and defeat death, overcome our fear of death, and teach all heaven and earth to sing—in perfect harmony. — Mart DeHaan

What gives you cause to sing? What happens to your heart and mind when you embrace John’s vision of every created being singing in united praise of the Lamb and His love?

Father in heaven, please help me to sense the wonder of what You’ve done to give me a song that can be sung in joy by everyone and every living creature.

Bible in a year: Psalms 46–48; Acts 28

[Kathy in Alaska]

They told us the origin of the problem was the servers in Denver!

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

Were you able to get your yard mowed yesterday before it got too hot? I read y’all have some blistering weather this week. UGH!!

[radu]

Ah, so this is a company internet issue, not a local one? Or maybe Anchorage gets their service via Denver?

[luvie]

We will NEVER forget them!
They leave their familes
To protect ALL of us!

[luvie]

They would tell you that, huh. LOL!

Glad you got payroll done. You’d have more than internet problems. Y’all would have a riot on your hands. :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...we MUST remember them.

Hope some of your heat has gone away so you aren’t stuck in the AC all the time.

[SkyDancer]

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I’m Down There Somewhere

[Kathy in Alaska]

Never, ever, will we forget the fallen.

Good evening, lightman...has some of your garden survived the critters?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Hump day is finally over! The company servers in Denver went down just as we were getting to the check printing stage.

Hope your week is on schedule.

[lightman]

Peppers have survived....totally gave up on the squash section and mowed it off yesterday. Tomatoes are beginning to blossom and there are a few green fruits forming.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Don’t know...I suspect it has at least a little to do with “not all your eggs in one basket”, if Alaska takes a hit...earthquakes, etc.

[PROCON]

Hi radu!

I did mow very early yesterday before it got too hot but I was sweating big time afterwards.

I did a quick visit to the grocery store early today and then laid low in the A/C.

It's triple digits all week, ugh.

'Sup your way?