FReeper Canteen - Remembering Our Troops - Thursday, May 8, 2025

For the best troops and veterans in the world | Kathy In Alaska

[luvie]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

The Message: Don’t Mess With Me!

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Camron Wilson, a native of Silsbee, Texas, and motor vehicle operator with Ground Distribution Company, 1st Distribution Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, carries an ammunition belt on his shoulders before participating in a static mounted machine gun range at Camp Pendleton, California, March 22, 2024. The range consisted of vehicle maneuvers and machine gun training, increasing the Marines’ proficiency when operating truck mounted heavy and medium machine guns. (U.S Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kiana Rose Orinion)

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our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

How Many Males Do You Need For This Job?

James Rogala, left, Charles Martin, center, and Charles Ronie, right, contractors working with Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Environmental Compliance and Protection Division, test a fire-prevention water cannon, MCBH, April 3, 2024. The water cannons, on MCBH’s Crater Range, are a series of remote-controlled devices designed to protect the Ulupa’u Head Wildlife Management Area from potential spot fires. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Carlos Daniel Chavez-Flores)

The Real Beauty Queen!

Second Lieutenant Madison Marsh welcomes the crowd to kickoff the SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, FL, on April 9, 2024. Marsh celebrated SUN 'n FUN's 50th anniversary by chatting with visitors about service both in and out of uniform. (U.S. Air Force photo by Miriam Thurber)

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KEYWORDS: canteen; military; troopsupport

[luvie]

~ Remembering Our Troops ~

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[PROCON]

Thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops tonight!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))
❤️

[luvie]

#1...PRO!
Thank YOU for your service!

[luvie]

#2....radu!
Hope you had a good day!

[luvie]

#3...ML!
Get a ride today?

[left that other site]

No...I actually ook the cover off the bike, and got ready for a little spin, but then it clouded up!

I had two guitar lessons to teach so I had to take th car to work with my gear.

[luvie]

Well, what a bummer! But don’t want to take a chance on rain beginning when out on the bike! Ugh!

[radu]

Hwdy, luvie.

It’s been a decent day, I reckon. Dreary, chilly, and breezy but I got errands run in the dry. Tomorrow is a Tullahoma run and that looks to be a wet one. *sigh*

Has it stayed comfortable down there so far after the other night’s rain?

[luvie]

Sounds like the kind of day I love. Heat will come all too soon. But, I wouldn’t want to get out in the wet to go shopping either. Ugh.

It’s been really nice, and it will be till after the weekend. Then it begins to warm up to the low 90s again. *sigh* NOT ready.

[radu]

Shopping was done today. Tomorrow is just a few things I have to do, picking up one of Isis’s meds being one thing. Stuff like that. Still have to get out of the car though. They’re talking strong storms and I hope it doesn’t get too bad while I’m out.

Enjoy your comfy temps while you have them! You have a few more days.

[luvie]

Oh, good. No soggy paper bags of groceries then. It would be nice if you could just stay home, but maybe the bad stuff will stay away. We can sure hope so. Is this leftovers from what Texas had the other night?

I am enjoying every moment that I can. I can’t believe how much better I sleep when it’s cooler. That’s the best part! That and not sweating. LOL!

[radu]

Paper bags? Haven’t seen those in stores around here in a long time. Kind of a shame because the cats loved playing in them. LOL

No, the leftovers from your rain came across early this morning and I got just a slight dampening from it. The heavier rain stayed well south. The system coming through tomorrow is now over IL, MO, and AR. Storms starting to blow up in AR but it’s just rain farther north.

I have to get out tomorrow because the med I need for Isis is the one she takes every night. I have tonight’s dose on hand but that’s it.

[luvie]

Well, I hope you have no problems getting there and back.

I thought you said once or twice that you hated it when your paper grocery bags got soggy when you had to shop in the rain. Ok. I’m officially brain dead. LOL!

[radu]

I said I don’t like hauling wet grocery bags. They get the car wet inside and the kitchen counters wet. They don’t absorb any of the water so it all runs off wherever they’re set down. That’s why I don’t like shopping when it rains.
Bad enough I get the seat wet when I sit down with wet clothes.

With luck, there’ll be a break between storms and I can scoot out then. Just have to wait and see.

[luvie]

I guess my brain just went to soggy paper bags. LOL! I don’t like going out in the rain either. I love it to rain...when I’m indoors and dry. I understand how cats hate being wet. LOL!

I hope you catch a break, but your girly will need her meds no matter what. Maybe it won’t be too bad. Maybe.

Oh, heck. I forgot to post this when I first wrote it. Now it’s an hour later. Oops. LOL!

Guess I’d better finish up and head out. I didn’t get much of a nap today. See ya tomorrow! Hope the weather doesn’t become violent there.

[radu]

I guess if stores there use paper bags, it would be an easy assumption to make. :-) There could be a couple here that do but not the stores where I shop.

The front doesn’t look real impressive right now but once the sun comes up, more rain will crank up. I hope it’ll wait til late afternoon to arrive here so I can get through the last stop in the dry. If not, oh well.

Sleep late! Catch ya tomorrow.

[left that other site]

I’m capable of riding in the rain, but it isn’t fun.