FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 11 April 2024

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

We Are The Champions!

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Logistics Group are presented the Holcomb Trophy for achieving the highest aggregate pistol scores during the Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition West on Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 25, 2024. The award was created in honor of General Thomas Holcomb, the seventeenth Commandant of the Marine Corps, who was a member of the first Marine Corps competitive rifle team. MCMC West is one of four marksmanship competitions in the Marine Corps and provides advanced marksmanship training and competition to regional units in order to enhance proficiency and small arms lethality throughout the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Deja Rogers).

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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.

Go Ahead and Move! Make My Day!

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. John Scariano, a rifleman with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, aims down sight while training with Honduran Marines during exercise CENTAM Guardian 2024at Puerto Castilla, Honduras, 4 April, 2024. The U.S. Marines instructed Honduran Marines in detainment, military operations in urban terrain, and various other infantry tactics and techniques. Marines of Company G are in Honduras participating in exercise CENTAM Guardian 24, a multi-national exercise which facilitates multi-lateral cooperation and training exchange. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Gabriel Durand)

Spectacular!

Air Force Reserve Crews over Southern California with the 370th FLTS from Edwards Air Force Base provide aerial refueling from a KC-135 to a Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 aircraft for the Royal Bahraini Air Force. The F-16 Block 70 is currently in developmental test with the 416th FLTS, Airpower Foundations Combined Test Force at Edwards. A sub-mission of the 416th FLTS is to provide flight test services for Foreign Military Sales customers of the F-16. (Photo by Richard Gonzales)

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[lightman]

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

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hi, Kathy! Thanks for all you do! :)

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Nice to see it didn’t snow again today and there’s even been some sunshine!
Spring needs to remember y’all are up there. LOL

Ready to catch your breath tonight?

[PROCON]

Hi Kathy, thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops tonight!

[The Mayor]

April 11

Singing Meadows

Bible in a Year :

• 1 Samuel 17-18
• Luke 11:1-28

The valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

Psalm 65:13

I’ve often affectionately joked with my mother-in-law about her ability to talk to her dogs. She responds to their barks with loving understanding. Perhaps now she and dog owners everywhere will also listen for their canine pals to laugh. Scientists have discovered that many animals, including dogs, cows, foxes, seals, and parakeets, all have “vocal play signals”—otherwise known as laughter. Identifying these accompanying sounds helps distinguish an animal’s play behaviors from what might otherwise look like fighting to a human observer.

That animals express laughter and joy gives us a delightful glimmer of what it might look like for other parts of creation to praise God in their own way. As King David looked over his surroundings, it seemed to him “the hills [were] clothed with gladness” and the meadows and valleys were “[shouting] for joy” (Psalm 65:12-13). David recognized that God had cared for and enriched the land, providing both beauty and sustenance.

Even though our physical surroundings don’t “sing” in a literal way, they bear witness to God’s active work in His creation and, in turn, invite us to give praise to Him with our voices. May we—as part of the “whole earth”—be “filled with awe at [His] wonders” and respond to Him with “songs of joy” (v. 8). We can trust that He’ll hear and understand them. .

Reflect & Pray

How do your physical surroundings encourage you to praise God? Where have you seen His handiwork elsewhere?

Thank You, God, for Your continued work in creation.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Not ours...but great pic of Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16!

~ Remembering Our Troops! ~

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[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

Your week going well so far? Looks like you’ve at least been able to get outside without an umbrella, unlike us down here. I might need to invest in a kayak. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...hope you are having some dry times.

The sun finally came out here and last night’s snow in melting. I am done with snow!!

[PROCON]

Hi radu!

Weather has been pleasant and dry, so nice that son and I picked-up lunch and spent the afternoon at our gun range.

Grocery shopping tomorrow and who knows what else.

[radu]

Hey there, Kathy.

No eeeeeven into dry times yet. Still have another soggy day ahead, a couple of dry days, then rain chances return. *sigh*

I'm glad yesterday's snow melted. Another large system is moving your direction. :-(

[luvie]

Thanks to all our troops
And remembering them daily!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...any sunshine yet?

Hope you and Tippy got out today for a nice walk.

[radu]

Y’all are making up for missed opportunities at the gun range, aren’t you? LOL There were several times the past year or two that you’d made plans to go but something came up. Glad you’re getting to have some fun this Spring.

Too wet to think about dong anything outside here. I did head up to the museum today for a scheduled tour group. I just tagged along to listen to the spiel. Needed to get a feel for the new arrangement so I can put my own spiel together and be ready to go when we reopen. Only a week and a half to go!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lightman...we will always remember.

Is your stove put to bed for the year?

We are still having intermittent snow storms.

[Kathy in Alaska]

🙂 thank you.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Has the temp gone up and the wind died down today?

We’re under a wind advisory tonight through 5pm tomorrow with rain later tonight into tomorrow. Luverly.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

It was a bit warmer and the wind wasn’t as strong as yesterday. It was still breezy but I actually had the doors open during most of the daylight hours.

Sounds like your week is very much like our last week. Hope the wind calms down there soon.

Did you have fun at the museum today?