FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 23 February 2023

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[Kathy in Alaska]

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~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

Birds Eye View!

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 21, 2022) Marines of Marine Wing Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 and sailors of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 133 link up with Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 and Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 136 to conduct integrated training missions to include suppression of enemy air defense. Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability through alliances and partnerships while serving as a ready-response force in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (Navy photo by LT Francis Alvare /Released)

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Military’s Version Of A High Tech Street Sweeper On Land and Water!

A Landing Craft Air Cushion departs the shore during a Type Commander’s Amphibious Training (TCAT) on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Jan. 20, 2022. TCAT is a mobility exercise ashore that allowed Marines with 2d Marine Logistics Group and 2d Marine Division to gain the requisite skills and experience to integrate with the U.S. Navy in follow-on exercises and real-world operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Megan Ozaki)

Most Important Job In The Navy! Get Rid of the Three Musketeers Candy Bar!

PHILIPPINE SEA (Jan. 21, 2022) Retail Specialist 3rd Class Nilson Pena, from Santiago, Dominican Republic, restocks a vending machine aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Operating as part of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Abraham Lincoln is conducting training to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Julia Brockman)

No Time Like Chow Time!

PHILIPPINE SEA (Jan. 20, 2022) Sailors in a working party are served chow during a replenishment-at-sea aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Operating as part of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Abraham Lincoln is conducting training to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Jett Morgan)

Special Forces Has All The Cool Toys!

GRAYLING, MI – U.S. Army Soldiers from the 20th Special Forces Group, Massachusetts National Guard, conduct snowmobile training through northern Michigan’s rough terrain during Northern Strike 22-1 on Jan. 22, 2022. “Winter Strike” is held annually in northern Michigan during the coldest part of the year. Snow, high winds, and single-digit temperatures are commonplace at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center this time of year. Visiting units are able to train in subarctic conditions, so they are better able to meet the objectives laid out in the Department of Defense’s Arctic strategy. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. David Kujawa)

Watch Out Below!

U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen from the 57th Rescue Squadron perform static line jumps over Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 12, 2022. The 57th RQS performs training weekly to ensure that the mission of personnel recovery, combat search and rescue can be accomplished at the highest level. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas S. Keisler IV)

This Would Be Our Type of PT!

Students in the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) Class 22-02 complete skiing orientation and familiarization Jan. 7, 2022, at Whitetail Ridge Ski Area at Fort McCoy, WI. In addition to skiing, CWOC students are trained on a variety of cold-weather subjects, including snowshoe training as well as how to use ahkio sleds and other gear. Training also focuses on terrain and weather analysis, risk management, cold-weather clothing, developing winter fighting positions in the field, camouflage and concealment, and numerous other areas that are important to know in order to survive and operate in a cold-weather environment. The training is coordinated through the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security at Fort McCoy. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, WI.)

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[The Mayor]

February 23

Water of Life

Bible in a Year:

• Numbers 7–8
• Mark 4:21–41

You would have asked him and he would have given you living water.

John 4:10

Andrea’s home life was unstable, and she left at fourteen, finding a job and living with friends. Yearning for love and affirmation, she later moved in with a man who introduced her to drugs, which she added to the alcohol she already drank regularly. But the relationship and the substances didn’t satisfy her longings. She kept searching, and after several years she met some believers in Jesus who reached out to her, offering to pray with her. A few months later, she finally found the One who would quench her thirst for love—Jesus.

The Samaritan woman at the well whom Jesus approached for water found her thirst satisfied too. She was there in the heat of the day (John 4:5–7), probably to avoid the stares and gossip of other women, who would have known her history of multiple husbands and her current adulterous relationship (vv. 17–18). When Jesus approached her and asked her for a drink, He bucked the social conventions of the day, for He, as a Jewish teacher, would not normally have associated with a Samaritan woman. But He wanted to give her the gift of living water that would lead her to eternal life (v. 10). He wanted to satisfy her thirst.

When we receive Jesus as our Savior, we too drink of this living water. We can then share a cup with others as we invite them to follow Him.

Reflect & Pray

How do you think the woman at the well felt when Jesus asked her for some water? What does it mean to you to receive His living water?

Father God, You welcome all who are thirsty to come to the waters and drink. Satisfy my thirst through Your living water.

[PROCON]

Good evening Kathy and thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops!

[The Mayor]

Thank you Kathy!
I have been posting and running and I am sorry.
There’s many things going on and maybe I have to
sen you a message to fill you in.
I’ll do it in a little bit.
Rus

[Kathy in Alaska]

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Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

No worries....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...remembering our troops is important!

[SkyDancer]

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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!

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Kathy! Enjoying the weather while it lasts.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...hope you and Tippy had a good day.

We had some sunshine, but it is threatening to snow again.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

You made it to Hump Day, hopefully with some sanity intact. :-)

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Did the wind persist there like it did here. It was so loud!

Please put that #100 out of its misery, ok? ROFL!

[luvie]

Remember our troops!
They are so brave
....and they do it all for US!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...are you all recertified for another year? Flights planned?

[radu]

The wind’s blown all day but it never got REAL bad. It almost felt good, especially since it was 80 degrees here this afternoon.

It’s out of its misery. :-)

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We had a cool and overcast day, and now it is snowing.

I really hope it doesn’t accumulate.

[luvie]

It’s calmed a bit here tonight, but I could barely open the back door this morning to put a bit of food out for Grey...the only one who showed up to eat a bite. I did put some out front for Li’l Bit and Coal and whoever might wander that way. Midnight and Shadow hardly ever show up in front unless it’s under the cover of darkness.

Glad your wind wasn’t too awful. But...80? Ugh! Although, we were nearly there when the forecast was for cooler.