USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ A Tribute to the US Navy Seals ~ June 3, 2003

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[Kathy in Alaska]

GREETINGS — Soldiers from the 549th Military Police Company, Ft. Stewart, Ga., maintain area security by ensuring that local civilians are kept back, May 30. The 549th MP Company searched for illegal contraband in Al Tawlra suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeremiah Lancaster

MEDICINE STORAGE — U.S. Army Col. Mohamed Ibraheim of the 354th Medical Detachment of Civil Affairs speaks with the head supervisor of all warehouses that hold medicine for hospitals and private docters, May 31. Col. Ibraheim is in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Matthew Willingham

[tomkow6]

Yaaker?

[knighthawk]

Ping!

[Radix]

 

Tugboats maneuver the aircraft carrier Constellation onto the pier at North Island Naval Station in Coronado, Calif., on Monday after a seven-month deployment during the war with Iraq.

 

 

 

 

Sailor Jeremy Johnston carries his son on his shoulders after the Constellation returned to its homeport in Coronado, Calif., on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

A soldier picks up high caliber ammunitions after they fell while being removed from el-Salaam mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-aircraft weapons, RPGs and explosives were among a modest cache of weapons soldiers found on the roof of el-Salaam mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

Former Iraqi soldiers chant anti-U.S. slogans and demand for payment of their wages for the past three months in Baghdad on Monday.

 

 

 

 

U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division pilot Lt.Col. James Schrote, right, and Gunner Specialist Aaron Hardin, left, prepare a Blackhawk helicopter for a patrol around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

A Blackhawk helicopter tasked with providing security in Baghdad hovers during one of its patrols on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

Soldiers work at a site where several houses were razed in Ramadi, Iraq, on Tuesday.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, Beth!

Good afternoon, Connor!

[Kathy in Alaska]

"Well, theyth sthill feelth a bith tighth."

Oh no, GROAN! Off to email.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Cherokee

Cherokee class gunboat
Displacement. 606 t.
Lenght. 194'6"
Beam. 25'2"
Draft. 11'6"
Speed. 13 k.
Complement. 92
Armament. 2 20-pdr. r., 4 24-pdr. sb.

USS Cherokee, an 606-ton (burden) screw steam gunboat, was built in 1859 at Renfrew, Scotland, for commercial employment. Under the name Thistle she successfully ran through the Federal blockade into Charleston, South Carolina, in late January 1863. She ran aground while attempting to leave port a month later. Salvaged, sold to another owner and renamed Cherokee, she again attempted to an outbound passage, but was captured by USS Canandaigua on 8 May. Prior to delivery to the Boston Prize Court in July, she was used in the search for the Confederate raider Tacony. She was subsequently purchased by the Navy, converted to a warship at Boston Navy Yard, and commissioned 21 April 1864, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant J. F. Nickels in command.

Cherokee sailed from Boston 11 May 1864, bound for duty off the coast of North Carolina with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. In addition to contributing to Union victory by cutting the Confederacy off from overseas sources of supply, this squadron repeatedly bombarded coastal defenses, and cooperated with the Army in amphibious expeditions up the many bays, inlets, and rivers of the serrated coast. Cherokee 's operations included the capture of blockade runner Emma Henry 8 December 1864, and bombardments at Fort Fisher, N.C., in December and January 1865. On 30 January she was ordered close inshore at New Inlet to reconnoiter the Half Moon Battery, where she discovered a large party of Confederates approaching the fortifications recently secured by Union troops. Cherokee threw heavy fire ashore, which drove the Confederates away after three determined rushes at the Union lines.

In February 1865, Cherokee joined the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, and patrolled against blockade runners between Key West and Havana until the close of the war. She was decommissioned at Boston 23 June 1865, and sold there 1 August 1865.

In 1866 she returned to civilian trades. In 1868 the steamer was sold to the Chilean Government. She served Chile's Navy for a decade under the name Ancud and spent another decade as a merchant vessel. The former Cherokee was wrecked at Chiloe, Chile, on 25 August 1889.

[Kathy in Alaska]

"I owe you a dollar then. Mine just sank."

Too funny. More email material.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Beautiful flowers this morning, fellas. Thanks.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good ones, Radix. I love the perspective of the bow on shot of the USS Constellation and the tugs.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good day, ms feather!! How are the mice today?

[Kathy in Alaska]

RAID — Soldiers of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 6 Infantry of the 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany, conduct a May 13 raid of a local marketplace which sold illegal weapons in Fallujah, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Albert Eaddy

DISRUPTING CHAOS — Soldiers from B company, 502nd Infantry Battalion, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), detain an Iraqi citizen that cut in line at a propane distribution point in Mosul, Iraq, May 27, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since the begining of the conflict in Iraq propane has become a precious commodity, therefore chaos insues whenever it is distributed. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Derek Gaines

[Diver Dave]

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[Kathy in Alaska]

We have troops worldwide! I think this picture is neat.

Shadow roll

6/3/2003 - UDON THANI, Thailand (AFPN) -- An MC-130P Combat Shadow from the 17th Special Operations Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan, begins its takeoff roll on the runway here. People from the 353rd Special Operations Group recently deployed to Thailand for Cobra Gold 2003, a multination, multiservice exercise designed to ensure regional peace, strengthen the ability of the Thai armed forces and demonstrate U.S. resolve in the region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Henderson)

MC-130 unplugged

6/3/2003 - UDON THANI, Thailand (AFPN) -- Staff Sgt. Jonathan Rhoads, a communications navigation specialist with the 353rd Maintenance Squadron, unplugs an MC-130H Combat Talon II from external power before a mission here. Rhoads and other members of the 353rd Special Operations Group deployed here for Cobra Gold 2003, a multination, multiservice exercise designed to ensure regional peace, strengthen the ability of the Thai armed forces and demonstrate U.S. resolve in the region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael Farris)

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