USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Guest Military Chaplain Service and Sunday Liberty ~ August 31 2003

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3rd Battalion
10th Infantry Regiment
"Renegades"

3D Training Brigade conducts Army Basic Combat Training continuously at Fort Leonard Wood, home of the United States Army Maneuver Support Center. We strive to produce values-based soldiers. This is done by our Drill Sergeants demonstrating the 7 Core Army Values throughout the 9-weeks of Army Basic Combat Training. These new soldiers are capable of taking their place in the ranks of the United States Army in the field upon arrival.

3d Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment conducts gender integrated basic combat training to produce values-based, disciplined Soldiers, who are trained in basic combat skills, and are fully prepared to enter their Advanced Individual Training.

For well over 200 years, citizen soldiers in the U.S. Army have been defending freedom for the world. The history of the 3rd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment is rooted deeply in the tradition of the U.S. Army. Our soldiers have served their country in all corners of the globe, performing various types of missions. Today’s soldiers draw strength from the heroic deeds of those who have served before.

The 10^th Infantry's proud history began on March 3, 1855. Citizen soldiers demonstrated their loyalty to the nation by gathering at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania to form the heart of the new 10^th Infantry Regiment. Within months of activation, the soldiers found themselves on the western frontier. Their proud motto “RENEGADES” was first echoed across the battlefields of the Civil War. The 10^th Infantry bravely fought in the battles of the Peninsula, the second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancelorville, Gettysburg, and many others. The union today owes its survival in part to the gallantry and selfless service of the warriors of the 10^th Infantry during the Civil War.

The young Regiment’s lineage grew as the troops moved further west to fight in the Indian Wars. Respect among warriors developed as we learned from the most spirited mounted infantrymen in history- The Indian Warrior.

Leaving American soil in 1898, the 10^th Infantry “Remembered the Maine” as they entered the Spanish-American War. The 10^th Infantry was among the first to see combat in Cuba. For their actions, the regiment was awarded campaign credit for Santiago. The Philippine Insurrection soon followed and again the 10^th Infantry answered the call to duty.

During World War I, the heroes of the 10^th Infantry returned to the United States and was divided into cadres that were used to form the leadership foundations of the new regiments. Soon after, the 10^th Infantry discovered the horrors of trench warfare, in the mud and cold of France. Despite the introduction of tanks, machine guns, and chemical warfare to the battlefield, the personal courage of the 10^thInfantry's soldiers enabled them to return victoriously.

When freedom called again in World War II, the soldiers of the 10^th Infantry found themselves revisiting the once bloodied and familiar terrain of France. On D-Day, the proud colors of the 10^th Infantry Regiment advanced bravely upon the beaches of Normandy. Throughout the extremes of World War II, the heroic deeds of the 10^th Infantry soldiers brought great honor to the Regiment.

Between October 31, 1929 and June 1, 1957 the battle weary but proud colors of the 10^th Infantry Regiment were inactivated and reactivated on five occasions. On June 4 1987, the 10^th Infantry Regiment was reactivated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

During the past two years, over 7,500 proud and ready initial entry soldiers have graduated and entered the ranks of the United States Army. Graduates from 3-10 are serving the nation in all corners of the globe, including Kosovo, Bosnia, Kuwait, Korea, and Afghanistan. 3-10 Infantry has produced a proud history, which is extended everyday as they train values-based soldiers, who are appreciative of the contributions of their predecessors. Like those who have served before, in units all over the world, soldiers will echo the Regiment’s proud motto “RENEGADES!”

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Muscle Failure for the Soul
or
Reflections on the Spiritual Side of Basic Training

Basic training is a tough time for most trainees. Sure the old timers complain that it’s not as tough as it used to be when we road marched in two feet of snow up-hill both ways, but it’s still the biggest challenge most new soldiers have ever faced. It is demanding in nearly every imaginable way: physically, emotionally, mentally, socially and yes, spiritually.

Immediately upon arrival at 3-10 Infantry the soldiers begin to learn about a phenomenon known as "muscle failure." This is what happens when the body is stretched to its absolute limits. The drill sergeants will assist the soldiers in achieving muscle failure by having them do repetitions of a particular exercise--oh, let’s say push-ups for example--until they can no longer do that exercise in any way shape or form. Why do we exercise to the point of muscle failure? Contrary to the popular opinion of basic trainees it is not simply for the sadistic pleasure of the drill sergeants. It is because only by going to the limit can we begin to stretch the limits. Muscle failure makes us stronger the next time we face the challenge.

"Muscle Failure for the Soul" is what I call the spiritual phenomenon that parallels the physical phenomenon of muscle failure. When we come to the absolute limits of our own personal strength we come to a place where we are forced to look for outside help. In the pressure cooker of Basic Training many soldiers look to God for strength in a way they’ve never done before--many for the fist time ever.

Of course this concept isn’t original with me. It was God Himself who came up with it. The prophet Jeremiah spoke the words of the Lord to the nation of Israel telling them that they were about to face the most difficult time they had ever known. They would be exiled from their homeland and face death, destruction and isolation. But then he added these words of hope and comfort, "‘I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart (Jeremiah 29:11-13, NIV).’" The plan that God had was to allow difficult times to drive his people to their knees, to bring them to a place where they would seek him with all of their hearts.

In the same way I have over and over again seen the Lord use the challenges of Basic Training to cause soldiers to seek him with all their hearts. If you or someone you love is about to face the challenges of Basic training, pray that the Lord will use this time to strengthen the soul as well as the body.

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may become mature and complete, not lacking anything"
James 1:2-3 (NIV)

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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on August 31:
12 Caligula (Gaius Caesar), 3rd Roman emperor (37-41 AD)
0161 Lucius A A Coomodus, emperor of Rome (180-91)
1811 Theophile Gautier Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
1834 Amilcare Ponchielli Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
1870 Maria Montessori Italy, educator (spontaneous response)
1880 Queen Mother Wilhelmina Netherlands (1890-1948)
1885 DuBose Heyward novelist (Porgy)
1889 A Provost Idell father of modern volleyball
1897 Frederic March Wisc, actor (Dr Jeckyll-Acad Awards 1932/1946)
1903 Arthur Godfrey radio, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout)
1903 Sir Bernard Lovell England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank
1905 Dore Schary producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City)
1907 Ram¢n Magsaysay Phillipines, statesman (US Legion of Merit-1952)
1908 William Saroyan US, novelist/playwright (Time of Your Life)
1914 Richard Basehart Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
1916 Daniel Schorr broadcast journalist (CBS)
1918 Alan Jay Lerner lyricist composer (Lerner & Leowe-My Fair Lady)
1919 Richard Basehart actor (Voyage to Bottom of the Sea)
1924 Buddy (Leonard) Hackett Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
1928 James Coburn Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)
1930 Tiny Little Jr Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1931 Dan Rather news anchor (CBS-TV)
1931 Jean Beliveau hockey star (Montreal Canadiens)
1935 Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther turned Republican
1935 Frank Robinson baseball player/manager (MVP 1961-NL 1966-AL)
1937 Warren Berlinger Bkln, actor (Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two)
1940 Alain Calmat France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964)
1942 Carole Wells Shreveport La, actress (Pistols n Petticoats)
1945 Itzhak Perlman Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim
1945 Leonid I Popov cosmonaut (Soyuz 35, 40, T-7)
1945 Van Morrison Belfast, singer (Here Comes the Night)
1949 Richard Gere Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club)
1952 Rudolf Schenker heavy metal rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
1954 Tula [Barry Kenneth Cossey], Engld, transexual (For Your Eyes Only)
1957 Glenn Tilbrook guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1958 Edwin C Moses track star (hurdler, Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 Rachel Dennison Knoxville Tn, actress (Doralee Rhodes-9 to 5)
1961 David Chastain heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland)
1963 Reb Beach heavy metal rocker (Winger-17)
1970 Debbie Gibson Brooklyn NY, singer (Only in My Dreams)
1977 Paul Garber helped establish Air & Space Museum in Washington DC

Deaths which occurred on August 31:
1057 Leofric husband of Lady Godiva, dies
1218 Al-Malik ab-Adil/Saphadin/Saif al-Din), brother of Saladin,
1422 Henry V, King of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1688 John Bunyan preacher/novelist/author of "Pilgrim's Progress,", dies
1879 William Barber 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies
1888 Mary Ann Nicholls a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to death in London, 1st of at least five murders by Jack the Ripper
1963 George F Broque cubist painter, dies at 81 in Paris
1964 Carole Coleman singer (Face the Music), dies at 42
1964 Rocky Marciano former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash
1968 Dennis O'Keefe actor (Suspicion), dies at 60
1990 Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton NY Knick, dies at 65 of a heart attack

Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1967 CAREY DAVID J. JEANNETTE PA.
[03/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 PERRY RICHARD C. CARLIN NV.
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/26/86]
1967 STAFFORD HUGH A. CAMBRIDGE MD.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1968 BARTOCCI JOHN E. NEW YORK NY.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1385 English King Richard the Second invaded Scotland with a force estimated at 80-thousand men.
1521 Cortes captures the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, and sets it on fire.
1535 Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
1802 Captain Merriwether Lewis leaves Pittsburgh to meet up with Captain William Clark and begin their trek to the Pacific Ocean.
1829 The opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
1842 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1850 Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough
1864 At the Democratic convention in Chicago, General George B. McClellan is nominated for president.
1865 Federal government estimates the American Civil War had cost about eight-billion dollars. Human costs have been estimated at more than one-million killed or wounded.
1881 1st US tennis championships (Newport, RI)
1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, SC
1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1887 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
1894 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1895 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
1900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1903 A Packard automobile completed a 52-day journey from San Francisco to New York, becoming the first car to cross the nation under its own power.
1903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of the month
1907 England, Russia & France form the Triple Entente
1915 Chic White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1919 Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago
1919 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1934 1st football all star game-Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago
1935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
1935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz by Nazis dressed as Poles to "provoke" war, excuse for Gerrmany to invade Poland tomorrow to start World War II
1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1949 Six of the 16 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War attend the last-ever encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
1951 The 1st Marine Division begins its attack on Bloody Ridge in Korea. The four-day battle results in 2,700 Marine casualties.
1954 Census Bureau established
1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1955 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
1957 Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1959 Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup
1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame established
1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1965 House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
1968 6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover
1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup
1971 Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on the Moon
1972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1978 Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun
1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1984 Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title
1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
1986 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82
1986 Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel
1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)
1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1991 Kyrgyzstan The Land of "Tien Shan" (Heavenly Mountains) Uzbekistan and Kirghizia declared their independence, raising to 10 the number of republics seeking to secede and leaving only five republics with membership in the Soviet Union.
1992: White separatist Randy Weaver surrenders to authorities in Naples Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents (Weaver's wife & son, and a deputy U.S. marshal, were killed during the seige)
1994: The Irish Republican Army declares a cease-fire
1994: After a half-century, Russia officially ends its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics
1995: At the O.J. Simpson trial, Judge Ito rules that the defense can play only two examples of Mark Fuhrman's racist comments in taped conversations with a screenwriter
1996 Seven people drowned when their vehicle rolled into John D. Long Lake in Union, S.C.; they had gone to see a monument to the sons of Susan Smith, who had drowned the two boys in October 1994.
1997: Diana, the Princess of Wales, is killed in an automobile accident in a tunnel by the Seine in Paris (the accident also killed Emad Mohammed al-Fayed, the Harrod's heir)
1999 One person was killed and 40 more injured in a bomb blast at a Moscow shopping center. The Russian government blamed terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

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

Afghanistan : Pashtunistan Day
England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday ( Monday )
Malaysia : Malaysia Day (1957)
Trinidad & Tobago : Independence Day (1962)
US : Festal Day/Order of the Eastern Star (Robert Morris' birthday)
Hong Kong : Liberation Day (1945) ( Monday )
Mental Health Workers Week Begins (tomkow6 beware!)
National Financial Services Week Begins

Religious Observances
Ang : Commem of Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, monastic founder
RC : Comm of St Raymund Nonnatus, cardinal, ransomer of captives
Luth : Commemoration of John Bunyan, teacher

Religious History
1688 Death of English Puritan clergyman and writer John Bunyan, 69. Imprisoned several times between 1660 and 1672, Bunyan used these periods of isolation to pen his two literary masterpieces, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) and Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
1757 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.'
1824 Birth of Anna B. Warner, American hymnwriter. She never married, but lived with her sister Susan in New York state. In 1860, a novel they co-authored contained a poem which became one of the most beloved of all children's hymns: I Know.'
1861 Birth of Jesse Brown Pounds, American hymnwriter. During her lifetime she published nine books, 50 cantatas and over 400 religious song texts. Three of her hymns remain popular today: "Anywhere With Jesus," "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" and "The Way of the Cross Leads Home."
1870 Birth of Maria Montessori, Italian educator. She developed a theory of teaching which emphasized a reinforcement of initiative, and a freedom of movement for the child. Her theory of elementary education has since been named, appropriately, the "Montessori Method."

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog."

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Murphys Law of the day...(NONRECIPROCAL LAWS OF EXPECTATIONS)
Negative expectations yield negative results...
Positive expectations yield negative results.

Cliff Clavin says, it's a little known fact that...
It's a little known fact that smartest animal is a pig. Scientists say if pigs had thumbs and a language, they could be trained to do simple manual labor. They give you 20-30 years of loyal service and then at their retirement dinner you can eat them

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