USO Canteen FReeper Style~Ancient Warfare: Part II Ancient Roman Military~August 5, 2003

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Drive carefully! Work hard. LOL!!

[minor49er]

Hey everybody! Sorry I didn't post my usual humor attempt this morning but I had a lot of places to go. So I'll post it now:

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

[Radix]

Interesting!

 

 

 

[Radix]

When I wore a younger man's clothes.

 

[Old Sarge]

Radix, where did you ever find my high school gradusation pic?

[Old Sarge]

Naw, looks too new. My wheels would've been wooden, held on by nails bent to look like cotter pins...

[Old Sarge]

See all the telphone poles in the background of this pic?

Suppose their power's on?

How about their dial-up?

[Old Sarge]

Oh, whaddahell, why not?

[Old Sarge]

Here it comes...

[Old Sarge]

250...

[Radix]

Aviation ordnance specialists on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, maneuvering in the Arabian Sea, watch aircraft launch off the flight deck March 21.

 

Lance Cpl. John McMurrin, 18, of San Diego, with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, guards fellow Marines changing a tire on a 155mm howitzer March 21 in southern Iraq.

 

Lance Cpl. Kevin Coleman, 21, of New Orleans, with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, a powder man for a 155mm howitzer, takes a nap in his sleeping hole at their artillery position in southern Iraq March 22.

 

 

The last of two Air Force B-52 bombers takes off from RAF Fairford in western England March 23 for a mission over Iraq.

 

Soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment watch as a target inside the village of As Samawah, Iraq, goes up in flames March 23. The cavalry is in the process of taking the village and is receiving some resistance from Iraqi fighters.

 

Marines with the 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit fire a shoulder-launched Javelin missile during a battle with Iraqi troops at the port city of Umm Qasr, Iraq, March 23.

A Marine with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force stands guard at a burning oil well in Iraq March 23. Retreating Iraqi troops set several oil wells on fire in the Rumeila area, the second largest offshore oil field in Iraq, near the Kuwaiti border.

 

A Tomahawk missile is launched from the guided missile cruiser Cape St. George in the eastern Mediterranean Sea March 23 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 

The Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force climbs a one-lane road and takes the high ground as air support destroys numerous Iraqi trucks and vehicles at the guard station March 23.

 

Marines with Task Force Tarawa attack the military garrison of the Iraqi 23 infantry brigade March 24 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. The Marines have had running gun battles over the past two days with resistance forces in and around the city.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Thanks for the come back. Curious that we use the rough equivalent today with 80 - 100 men to a company, four companies to a batalion, four batalions to a brigade and four brigades to a division (I think that is right, it has been a while).

Regards,

[tomkow6]

BRATTOldSarge!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Beautiful painting, flowers and butterflys. Thanks, men.

[Fawnn]

Until then, I will be slacking, slacking, slacking! LOL!

LOL indeed!!! (Just how many more years do you expect this "growth" process to take? Hmmmmmmm?) ;)

[Fawnn]

You seem to be fixating lately. (And no, "fixating" does not mean preparing a meal and then consuming it!) ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great pictures of our troops "at work". My favorite: shoulder-launched Javelin missile". Finally I can see both "pieces" of it in the same shot. I've seen each separately, but not seen the accompanying part.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

Very good, minor! Have you sent an email today? Let a soldier, sailor, airman, marine, or coastie know how much we appreciate what they are doing to keep America free and safe?

[Trikebuilder]

The Soldier

He’s marched across the world, with nothing but a sword and pike,
bringing change to nearly every place he went.
He conquered most of it along the way on his little hike.
And did it with stout heart and courage, even when his body was rent.

He’s stood guard on Hadrian’s wall, and kept back the screaming Scots,
and pounded through the surf, and broke the defenses of Normandy.
He has been there in the jungle, and tossed dice with death to win or lose the lot,
its plain to anyone who looks, that the soldier is all the hero he can be.

We weep for those who were lost in the duty they held dear,
doing what had to be done, though the cost was high!
Yet let us count the ones who are free and now living here,
who had the chance, because the heroes did their duty, even as they died!

To those who served and didn’t come home, you are the ones we must not forget,
and those who made it home, you are among the best!
Soldiers through the ages have served with unswerving pride, as history can so vet,
and I for one am thankful for the brotherhood of the gun, who from evil the future wrest.

[Kathy in Alaska]