FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops ~ 13 November 2025

November 12, 2025 | KathyInAlaska

[beachn4fun]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

Can You See Me Now?”

Sgt. Trevor Nicholas Tate, 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, provides roadside security during exercise Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center-Alaska 23-02 in the Yukon Training Area, Alaska. (Army photo/John Pennell)

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.

This is how you handle terrorists!

Students with the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program from Tolleson High School, Arizona, participate in a training exercise at the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The purpose of the visit was to give Marine Corps Junior ROTC students the opportunity to learn and experience different jobs or career paths they may choose in the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Clayton Baker)

Picture of Food Being Served! Exciting, huh?!!

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Martin Ramirez, food service specialist, Combat Logistics Company 33, 3d Marine Logistics Group, prepares lobster during the Chef of the Quarter cook-off at Anderson Chow Hall, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Chef of the Quarter competitions allow food service specialists to hone their craft, while fostering competition and esprit de corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Terry Stennett III)

They tell us this is for assisting and not for getting better TV reception!

U.S. Marines assigned to 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, set up ground equipment to assist a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) training mission in support of Freedom Shield 23 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. Ground teams provide crucial support for the HIMAR, allowing advanced targeting and communication capabilities in assistance with planning and execution of combat mission requirements. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier)

Family Planning: A way to rid the Earth of Terrorists!

Airman 1st Class Morgan Nguyen, a weapons loader assigned to the 149th Fighter Wing, Air National Guard, loads 20 millimeter ammunition into the F-16 Fighting Falcon during Coronet Cactus at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Coronet Cactus is an annual training event that takes members of the 149th Fighter Wing, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, to Phoenix to participate in a simulated deployment exercise. (Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Derek Davis)

Until Every American is brought home, our search continues…

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Anthonie Deyo, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Army senior enlisted advisor, is given a brief by U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Richard Soto, a DPAA recovery team sergeant, during a mission in Quang Binh Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. There are currently 1,579 missing Americans from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michael O'Neal)

A moment of silence requested…

U.S. flags sit on a table during a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii. Approximately 63 individuals were disinterred as part of the Enoura Maru project: an on-going effort by DPAA to disinter, transport, and identify missing POWs from World War II. The remains were taken to the DPAA laboratory on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for further scientific analysis and possible identification. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Blake Gonzales)

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canteen; military; music; news

[beachn4fun]

Remembering Our Troops

Posting for Kathy.
Come in and check out the Canteen.

Turning it over to Luvie for the evening.

Enjoy!
Good night.

[PROCON]

Thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops this evening, ladies!

[luvie]

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

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[luvie]

We’re on it! Nighty-night, Early Bird!!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[luvie]

#1--PRO!!

[luvie]

#2...ML!!

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I Like The Little Airplanes

TheyRemind Me Of This One (That's Me In the Front Seat)

ML/LTOS

[luvie]

Ohhhhh, that is soooo cool. I’d LOVE to ride in one of those babies! 🤎

[left that other site]

They made me wear a parachute. LOL...The plane was older than I was.

It’s a T-6 Trainer.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

[luvie]

#3....radu!!

[luvie]

It’s awesome! I’ve never worn a parachute, and I wouldn’t even have the first clue on how to use it, but I’d do it just so I could go up. LOL!

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

Have you and your son headed out to the shooting range yet?

[PROCON]

Hiya radu!

Today was the day son & I went out to the range and it was a sunny & warmish day too, lots of fun!

As a cool bonus, some of our city's police department in full tactical gear were on adjacent firing lanes doing their training too when we arrived so we waved at them and they smiled & waved back!

We got Wendy's for lunch on the way out there.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Glad you had a nice day down there. It wasn’t too shabby here - - sunny and 65 degrees while I was out and about this afternoon.

[radu]

Sounds like a banner day y’all had! Glad nothing came up to postpone your plans.
Picking today to go was perfect timing!

Not nearly as exciting here but I did get out to run some errands. Nice sunny day with 65 degrees to enjoy. A LOT better than yesterday’s windy 42 and Monday’s windy 39!

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

It was a great day. Not too warm...not to frigid. It got up to 78. I only wore a 3/4 sleeve t-shirt with my leggings tonight to class. Sunflower leggings...I couldn’t resist them. LOL!

Glad it was warmer there, too. You finally got to get some of your errands run. Yay!

[whitney69]

“I’ve never worn a parachute, and I wouldn’t even have the first clue on how to use it, but I’d do it just so I could go up. LOL!”

Every year when I was a flagger for the crop dusters in my early teens we had a instructor pilot that would take us up once a year in a souped up Stearman two seater. With most of the flaggers he was nice. But he was an instructor pilot who flew fighters in WW II and Korea and had taught both my father and mother to fly and he always did a number on me. He even took me through a lomcovák. It’s like going straight up in a car and then losing lift and direction when the thing falls in any direction it wants to. It was fun but disorienting.

wy69