USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Adopt a Military Unit ~ November 20 2002

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on a flag to "Adopt a Military Unit"

Army	Navy	Marines	Air Force	Coast Guard

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Ms Feather!

[Soaring Feather]

Good Morning tomkow!!

How are you today? It's a wonderful new day!

[tomkow6]

Answers to yesterday's POP TRIVA QUIZ:
1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Billy Graham; the award was given for "enduring
contributions toward faith, morality, and charity."
3. Ohau, at Pearl Harbor
4. New York
5. "Casey at the Bat" ("There is no joy in Mudville /
Mighty Casey has struck out.")

[tomkow6]

I feel great, but my eyes ar giving me trouble today

[Soaring Feather]

Thank you Canteen Gents and Troops for the lovely flowers.

[Johnny Gage]

AIR POWER
Lockheed C-141

The Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) C-141 was the first jet aircraft designed to meet military standards as a troop and cargo carrier. It was also the first military aircraft to be developed with a requirement for FAA type certification in the contract. The Starlifter is the workhorse of the Air Mobility Command. It fulfills a vast spectrum of airlift requirements through its ability to airlift combat forces over long distances, place those forces and their equipment either by conventional landings or airdrops, resupply employed forces, and extract the sick and wounded from a hostile area.

President John F. Kennedy's first official act after his inauguration was to order the development of an all-jet transport to extend the reach of the nation's military forces. Lockheed's C-141 StarLifter was the result. The C-141 Starlifter was the workhorse of the Air Mobility Command during the Cold War. The Starlifter fulfilled the vast spectrum of airlift requirements through its ability to airlift combat forces over long distances, inject those forces and their equipment either by airland or airdrop, re-supply employed forces, and extract the sick and wounded from the hostile area to advanced medical facilities.

The current C-141B is a stretched version of the original C-141A with in-flight refueling capability. The C-141B is about 23 ft longer than the C-141A, with cargo capacity increased by about one-third. The C-141 force, nearing seven million flying hours, has a proven reliability and long-range capability.

To slow aircraft aging of the active duty fleet, 56 PAI aircraft were transferred to the UE Guard and Reserve as of FY95. Additionally, the process of retiring high flight hour equivalent aircraft will culminate with the retirement of the entire AMC active duty fleet by FY03. The Air Force plans to retire Unit Equipped (UE) ARC C-141C aircraft by FY06. There were a total of 99 C-141's in service worldwide as of the end of 2001. The Air Force did not use the C-141 in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, relying instead on the newer and larger C-17.


Primary Function: Long-range troop and cargo airlift.
Length: 168 feet, 4 inches (51 meters).
Height: 39 feet, 3 inches (11.9 meters).
Wingspan: 160 feet (48.5 meters).
Operating Weight: 144,492 lb
Max Takeoff Weight: 343,000 lb
Max Takeoff Weight: 323,100 lb (145,395 kilograms)
Max Payload: 94,508 lb
Total Fuel Capacity: 23,592 US gal
Power Plant: Four Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-7 turbofan engines.
Thrust: 20,250 pounds (9,112.5 kilograms), each engine.
Speed: 500 mph (Mach 0.66).
Cruise: Speed 489 kt
Ceiling: 41,000 feet (12,424 meters).
Max Payload Range: 2,500 miles (2,174 nautical miles).
Ferry Range: 5,550 NM
Takeoff Distance: (MGW) 6,800 ft
Landing Distance: (DLW) 3,750 ft
Unit Cost: $8.1 million (1992 dollars).
Crew: Six (pilot, co-pilot, two loadmasters, and two flight engineers).

[Soaring Feather]

Have you tried eye drops for the problem?

[Mudboy Slim]

"The Perfect Woman"

Once upon a time, a perfect man and a perfect woman met. After a perfect courtship, they had a perfect wedding. Their life together was, of course, perfect.

One snowy, stormy Christmas Eve, this perfect couple were driving their perfect car (a Grand Caravan) along a winding road, when they notice someone at the side of the road in distress. Being the perfect couple, they stopped to help. There stood Santa Claus with a huge bundle of toys.

Not wanting to disappoint any children on the eve of Christmas, the perfect couple loaded Santa and his toys into their vehicle. Soon they were driving along delivering the toys. Unfortunately, the driving conditions deteriorated and the perfect couple and Santa Claus had an accident.

Only one of them survived the accident. Who was the survivor?

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The perfect woman survived. She's the only one who really existed in the first place. Everyone knows there is no Santa Claus and there is no such thing as a perfect man.

****Women: Stop reading here, that is the end of the joke for you.

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So, if there is no perfect man and no Santa Claus, the perfect woman must have been driving. This explains why there was a car accident. By the way, if you're a woman and you're reading this, this illustrates another point:

Women never listen either. You were told to stop scrolling!!

Well, not the funniest joke, but the coffee's just starting to kick in and I laughed...MUD

[Valin]

13-point deer shot by hunter turns out to be doe
Associated Press
Published Nov. 20, 2002

WILLMAR, MINN. -- A Willmar man thought he had a trophy buck when he shot a deer northwest of Willmar on Nov. 9.
But when Tom Schneider flipped it over, he noticed something was amiss.
In fact, it was a doe.

Schneider and his hunting companions saw that the 200-pound animal with the 13-point non-typical rack of antlers was a doe.
He says they took pictures to document their unusual find.
Chris DePerno is deer project leader for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource's Farmland Zone of Minnesota.
He says does with antlers are rare.

DePerno says the deer must have suffered some hormone imbalance to cause the antler development.
He doesn't know if Schneider's kill is a record for an antlered-doe because there doesn't appear to be any current records on the books.


He says he'd have to see the deer's teeth to determine its age.
Schneider says he's having the head mounted.



© Copyright 2002 Star Tribune. All rights reserved

[MissAmericanPie]

Goodmorning all, I would love to post graphics if I knew how. I lost my html school site in my hard drive crash. Goodmorning troops, you are in my thoughts and prayers as always. I hope your morning is glorious and your food delicious.

[tomkow6]

Random ramblings from my "voices":

I do whatever my rice krispies tell me to do.

The major cause of vehicle accidents is a screw loose in the nut
behind the wheel.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a
vegetarian.

Out of my mind - be back in five minutes.

Pride is what we have, vanity is what others have.

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

To ask is a moments shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a
lifelong shame.

Free speech carries with it freedom to listen.

A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking
nonsense not to himself.

Whatever way the corners of your mouth turn is how you can expect
your day to go.

[GeekDejure]

Will you take some time to put a smile on a military lurkers face today?

Oak Hay . . . all ewe mill it airy lur curs. . .

"S M Y L E" . . . Anne That San Ore Dur!!!

I dunno Tonk . . . d'ya think it maybe, kinda, sorta, mighta, prolly worked ???

Hey . . . I LOVE all you Marvelous Military Guys 'n Gals !!!

click...click... Alex (GeekDejure)

[Iowa Granny]

Schneider says he's having the head mounted.

Well, I would hope so. Isn't 13 pts atypical?

As for the "other irregularities", I will reserve comment.

[Valin]

This day in history

Birthdates which occurred on November 20:
1602 Otto von Guericke inventor (air pump)
1620 Peregrine White son of William & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
1726 Oliver Wolcott (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence
1752 Thomas Chatterton English poet (Christabel)
1761 Pius VIII 253rd Roman Catholic pope (1829-30)
1841 Sir Wilfrid Laurier (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911)
1858 Selma Lagerlof Sweden, novelist (Tales of a Manor-Nobel 1909)
1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1869 Clark Griffith Missouri, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
1873 Daniel Gregory Mason Brookline MA, composer (Chanticker)
1884 Norman Thomas Marion Ohio, socialist (presidential candidate 1928-48)
1886 Karl von Frisch zoologist/bee expert (Nobel 1973)
1889 Edwin Hubble astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift)
1891 Leon Cadore pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game)
19-- Conny Bloom rocker (Electric Boys-Funk-o-metal Carpet Ride)
19-- Dan Frazer NYC, actor (Frank-Kojak)
19-- Mark Miller Houston TX, actor (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
19-- Tony Soper Yakima Wash, actor (Kay O'Brien)
1900 Chester Gould cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
1907 Fran Allison LaPorte City Iowa, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1908 Alistair Cooke Manchester England, actor (Masterpiece Theatre)
1909 Alan Bible (Sen-D-NV, 1954-74)
1910 Pauli Murray famous African
1911 Jean Shiley US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932)
1914 Emilio Pucci Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954)
1915 Kon Ichikawa Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks)
1916 Judy Canova Jacksonville FL, comedienne/actress (Cannonball)
1916 Robert A Bruce MD, pioneer (exercise cardiology)
1917 Robert Byrd (D-Sen-WV) majority leader
1918 Dora Ratjen Germany, man posing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
1919 Evelyn Keyes actress (Adventure of Martin Eden)
1920 Douglas Dick Charlestown WV, actor (Carl-Waterfront)
1920 Gene Tierney Brooklyn, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1921 Phyllis Thaxter Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Fort Worth)
1923 Beryl Sprinkel Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
1923 Nadine Gordimer South Africa, actress/writer (Lying Days)
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
1925 Maya Plisetkaya prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet)
1925 Robert Francis Kennedy Brookline MA (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated
1926 Kaye Ballard Cleveland Ohio, actress/comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law)
1927 Estelle Parsons Lynn MA, actress (Rachel Rachel, Bonnie & Clyde)
1928 Franklin Cover Cleveland, actor (Tom-The Jeffersons)
1928 Rex Reason Berlin Germany, actor (Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s)
1929 Dick Clark Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand)
1929 Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn Schenectady NY, conductor (American Ballet)
1932 Richard Dawson Hampshire England, actor (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud)
1934 Valentine J Peter Omaha NB, priest (Boy's Town 1985- )
1937 Eero Muntyranta Finland, nordic ski relay (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 Jack Linkletter San Francisco CA, TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny)
1937 Ruth Laredo (nee Meckler) Detroit MI, concert pianist
1939 Dick Smothers NYC, comedian (Smother Brothers' Show)
1940 Bob Einstein Los Angeles CA, comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne)
1941 Gary Karr Los Angeles CA, double-bassist (Oslo Philharmonic)
1942 Joseph R Biden Jr (D-Sen-Del)
1942 Norman Greenbaum Massachusetts, folk singer (Spirit in the Sky)
1943 Veronica Hamel Philadelphia PA, actress (Joyce-Hill St Blues, 79 Park Ave)
1944 Anthea Stewart Zimbabwe, field hockey coach/player (Olympic-1980)
1946 Duane Allman rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man)
1946 Judy Woodruff newscaster (McNeil Lehrer Report)
1947 Joe Walsh Wichita KS, guitarist/rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1948 Richard Masur NYC, actor (David-One Day at a Time)
1948 Samuel E Wright Camden SC, actor (Enos, Ball Four)
1949 Juha Mieto Finland, 15KM skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
1949 Ray Vitte NYC, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest)
1952 Robert Lipton NYC, actor (Tom-The Survivors, As the World Turns)
1954 Steve Dahl California, Chicago's anti-disco DJ (WLS-FM)
1956 Bo Derek Long Beach Cal, actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man)
1956 Mark Gastineau NFL end (NY Jets, Pro Bowl 1981-85)
1959 Sean Young Louisville KY, actress (Dune, Young Doctor in Love)
1962 Steve Alexander rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1964 Ned Vaughn actor (The Rescuer)
1965 Mike D [Diamond], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
1967 Jeff Cotler Long Beach CA, actor (Brian-Struck by Lightning)
1974 Marisa Ryan actress (Major Dad)

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Deaths which occurred on November 20:
1910 Leo Tolstoy Russia, author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82
1962 Jasper McLevy socialist mayor of Bridgeport CT, dies
1968 Cathy Lewis actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies at 50
1973 Allan Sherman songwriter ("Camp Granada"), dies
1975 Gen Francisco Franco Spain's dictator, dies in Madrid at 82
1983 Marcel Dalio actor (Casablanca), dies at 83
1983 Richard Loo actor, dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1985 Bill Scott cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65
1995 Sergei Grinkov Soviet ice skater (Olympic Gold 1988.1994) dies (heart attack ?) at 28

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On this day...
1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England
1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1789 New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1805 The opera "Fidelio" is produced (Vienna)
1829 Jews are expelled from Russia's Nikolayev & Sevastopol
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1866 1st national convention of Grand Army of the Republic (veterans' organization)
1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
1890 Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in the missions
1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1901 The opera "Gris‚lidis" is produced (Paris)
1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az
1928 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1931 Commercial teletype service begins
1938 1st documented anti-Semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (The New Jersey)
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)
1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights
1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba
1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1981 Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
1981 Ringo releases "Stop & Smell the Roses" album
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war
1983 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1983 NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing
1985 Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Mexico : Revolution Day (1910)
World : Rights of the Child Day
US : National Children's Book Week Begins - - - - - ( Monday )

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Religious Observances
Ang : Commemoration of Edmund
RC : Commemoration of St Felix of Valois, confessor

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Religious History
1541 In Switzerland, French reformer John Calvin, 32, established a theocratic government at Geneva, thereby creating a home base for emergent Protestantism throughout Europe.
1572 The first Presbyterian meeting house in England was established at Wandsworth, Surrey.
1850 Blind Fanny Crosby underwent a dramatic spiritual conversion at age 30. Fifteen years later, she began writing her first of over 8,000 hymns texts. Many of these remain popular today, including "Rescue the Perishing," "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross," "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" and "Tell Me the Story of Jesus."
1872 The hymn penned by Annie Sherwood Hawks, 36 __ "I Need Thee Every Hour" __ was first sung at a National Baptist Sunday School Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1961 The Russian Orthodox Church joined the World Council of Churches.

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Thought for the day :
" Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, however content, will never know. "

[MeekOneGOP]

da nada.

[Soaring Feather]

My goodness those are funny!!

Free speech carries with it freedom to listen. This one is true however!

[MeekOneGOP]

There's good news on the home front from Dad's doctor visit!!

We went to Tyler yesterday to see Dad's doctor about his neck problem from the accident. He had reviewed the CT Scan and they say that the situation in his neck is not so bad. There was a fracture in neck vertebrae #6 or #7, but it has stabilized and that's good. He also said that it revealed that #2 had bone spurs on it, which had been there before the accident. The doctor reasoned that what happened to cause Dad's discomfort initially in the accident was that the jostling around and taking the head bump when he rolled the car had likely caused the neck to compress. This compressing led to the bone spurs to pinch the nerves in the area.

I told the doctor that I had been reluctant to change the neck brace because I didn't want to possibly risk messing up somehow (the hospital in Colorado had given us a spare). The doctor told us that based on the CT Scan taken last Wednesday, he didn't see any need for the neck brace now. Yay !!

We had expected him to have to wear it for at LEAST another 4 weeks, because SMC in Englewood, Colo. told us Dad would be stuck for EIGHT weeks with the brace. Talk about good news. Dad found the brace uncomfortable and quite restricting of course, so this will give him more freedom of movement, etc. He hasn't shaved since the accident because of the neck brace. He said yesterday that he wants to go to his barber today and get a shave and a haircut, LOL ! He was beginning to look like a Santa Claus wannabe lately because of his grey beard, heh heh !

Anyway, I just had to spread the good news.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

kari and MissAmericanPie need help posting graphics.
I have to get ready for work now.
Can someone please help them?
Thanks, see you All tonight.

[tomkow6]

What not to put on your resume...

REASONS FOR LEAVING THE LAST JOB:
--Responsibility makes me nervous.
--They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 every morning. Couldn't work under those conditions.
--Was met with a string of broken promises and lies,
as well as cockroaches.
--I was working for my mom until she decided to move.
--The company made me a scapegoat - just like my three
previous employers.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
--While I am open to the initial nature of an assignment, I
am decidedly disposed that it be so oriented as to at least
partially incorporate the experience enjoyed heretofore and
that it be configured so as to ultimately lead to the
application of more rarefied facets of financial management
as the major sphere of responsibility.

--I was proud to win the Gregg Typting Award.

SPECIAL REQUESTS & JOB OBJECTIVES:
--Please call me after 5:30 because I am self-employed and
my employer does not know I am looking for another job.

--My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I have no
training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock
brokerage.
--I procrastinate - especially when the task is unpleasant.

PHYSICAL DISABILITIES:
--Minor allergies to house cats and Mongolian sheep.

PERSONAL INTERESTS:
--Donating blood. 14 gallons so far.

SMALL TYPOS THAT CAN CHANGE THE MEANING:
--Education: College, August 1880-May 1984.
--Work Experience: Dealing with customers' conflicts that
arouse.
--Develop and recommend an annual operating expense fudget.
--I'm a rabid typist.
--Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain operation.

[firewalk]

Morning everyone