USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Thursday Sports Day in the Canteen ~ May 15 2003

MoJo2001, Kathy in Alaska and FRiends of the Canteen

[Kathy in Alaska]

On Oct. 22, 2002, photographer Arthur Grace, a former Marine lance corporal, revisited boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. One picture he captures shows Staff Sgt. Charles A. Joseph providing extra incentive to a focused recruit. Photo by Rudi Williams

Photographer Donald R. Winslow shot Navy recruits at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Ill., after they'd been surprised by a fire drill, which sent them out into the pre-dawn cold. Winslow said from the time the alarm sounded, the women had 90 seconds to form up in the parking lot outside their barracks. Photo by Rudi Williams

[Kathy in Alaska]

Photographer Lauren Greenfield was in Parris Island, S.C., on Oct. 22, 2002, when she captured the image of this woman Marine recruit during boot camp. About 2,000 female recruits pass through the Parris Island boot camp every year. Photo by Rudi Williams

Army Cpl. Eric Wilson photographed 2-year-old Samuel Edwards holding onto to his dad, Sgt. 1st Class Norman Edwards, in Vilseck, Germany. Edwards and his wife, Sgt. 1st Class Benita Edwards, are stationed in Vilseck together. Photo by Rudi Williams

[Kathy in Alaska]

Tom Stoddart went to Grafenwoer, Germany, to take this picture of Army Spc. Carlos Melvin, a combat engineer wearing temporary staff sergeant's stripes as part of a leadership course for noncommissioned officers. Melvin is holding the folded American flag after it was lowered at the end of the work day. Photo by Rudi Williams

Photographer Bruce Dale took this picture of Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Brumbaugh of the USS Crommelin saying goodbye to his wife, Elaina, before the ship set sail for a six-month deployment. Dale quoted Elaina as saying, "I was not ready to face the first of six months' worth of mornings without my husband. Photo by Rudi Williams

"It's wonderful to see what these wonderful men and women look like on an average day as they're doing their jobs," Army Gen. Tommy Franks said after thumbing through the new book, "A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces." Franks, head of U.S. Central Command, led the coalition against Iraqi forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Photo by Rudi Williams

[Radix]

1928 Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi cb. What a bummer of a story for the homeowners.

[RaceBannon]

Here is one more, a Day in the Life shot...1981 style! :)

This is off Korea, the overnight shift, during Team Spirit 81, on board the USS Belleau Wood in the SACC.

[Radix]

 

Army 3rd Infantry Division Sgt. Tawan Marks, of Fort Bragg, N.C., push a car into a gas station Thursday in Baghdad. U.S. soldiers are guarding selected gas stations in the city in an effort to restore order as gas shortages have caused major traffic jams and chaos in the city.

 

 

 

 

Sgt. Tawan Marks, of Fort Bragg, N.C., with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, chats with Iraqi boys at a gas station Thursday in Baghdad. Additional U.S. troops are headed to Baghdad in the coming weeks in an effort to restore security to the city.

 

 

 

 

Army 3rd Infantry Division Staff Sgt. Anthony J. Smith, of East Brunswick, N.J., gives directions to a man at a gas station Thursday in Baghdad.

 

 

 

 

Soldiers with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division soldiers carry gasoline cans at a gas station Thursday in Baghdad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Army 3rd Infantry Division Staff Sgt. Anthony J. Smith, of East Brunswick, N.J., chats with boys at a Baghdad gas station Thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

The Pride of Baltimore II sails along the St. Johns River near the Dames Point Bridge with a Navy Seahawk helicopter flying overhead Wednesday to participate in this weekend’s Tall Ships festival in Jacksonville, Fla.

[Kathy in Alaska]

1918 Eddy Arnold Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)

[tomkow6]

Boy, does THAT picture bring back memories! And that's EXACTLY the way it looked to me! LOL! **sigh**

[tomkow6]

Wanna pull my finger?

[SevenofNine]

Well here headlines at this hour

Reuters ET Wire reporting that Rod Stewart errr I mean Bawa Wawa going score first Hillary Clinton interview for her lamea*** book


Also report off Hareetz wire reporting that IDF is confirm they busted members of Brit Muslum group who had hand in Tel Viv bombing

And they confirm about two French citizen try cross illegally into Gaza strip

NICE GOING DUDES

[Bethbg79]

LMAO!!

[HiJinx]

French citizens, eh? Wonder if they're Muslims from Algeria? That's one among many of the mistakes the French have made...

[Kathy in Alaska]

My kinda ship! Great "people" pics today, Radix. Please, God, let their loved ones see them "at work". And from the looks on the faces of the Iraqi young people, they have found new friends in our soldiers.

[Kathy in Alaska]

BATHS R FUN

[tomkow6]

I hear there's a LUNAR ECLIPSE tonite....

Wanna see MY version of it?....giggle...

[tomkow6]

Wanna buy a fish????

[Kathy in Alaska]

Love my red, white, and blue songs! Thanks, Kiddo. And thanks, Tonkin, for reposting them.

[tomkow6]

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