The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the 57th. Bomb Wing & Operation Bingo (11-1944/4-1945)-Dec. 31st, 2003

http://members.tripod.com/jkoppie/brenner.htm ^ | Frank B. Dean

[colorado tanker]

Nah, I'm staying in. The amateurs are out tonight. Way too dangerous. We'll probably watch old movies until the ball drops at midnight. I got a CD of the Gunney's first season on the History Channel for Christmas. That could be fun!

Have a safe and happy New Year!

[radu]

Howdy everyone. Since we won't be home when 2004 is rung in tonight, I wanted to get an early

in to y'all! Have a fun and safe New Years Eve and a happy and prosperous 2004!
*HUGZ*

[SAMWolf]

I got a CD of the Gunney's first season on the History Channel for Christmas

I didn't know they had that avaialble!!!!!:-(

[SAMWolf]

Happy New Year to you Radu.

[SAMWolf]

Our Military Today
Happy New Year

U. S. Army Sgt. Carlos Llanes, left, and Spc. Koki Lane celebrate New Year's Eve dancing to salsa music during a party thrown for soldiers of the 101st Airborne division Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at their base in Mosul, Iraq. Llanes is from Miami, Fla. and Lane is from Gresham, Ore. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)


Required to have his weapon with him at all times except during physical training, U. S. Army Pvt. First Class Michael Varga waits, with his M-4 rifle, for the clock to strike midnight and the new year while attending a party for the soldiers of the 101st Airborne division Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at their base in Mosul, Iraq. Varga, from Chicago, is with the 18th Airborne long range surveillance corps. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)


An M-4 rifle belonging to a soldier with the 101st Airborne division rests on a table amidst New Year's Eve celebration party favors during a party thrown Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at the division's base in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)


U.S. Army Sgt. Ben Press of Traverse City, Mich., right, blows a horn while celebrating New Year's Eve with Sgt. Karl McCarn, left, and Spc. Terry Ludwick, center in green hat, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at their base in Mosul, Iraq. The three soldiers are with the 1438 Engineer unit of the 101st Airborne division. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)


U.S. Army soldier plays pool in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, now converted into a recreation center, at a military base during a New Year's Eve party, in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)


U.S. Army soldiers dance inside one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, now converted into a recreation center, at a military base during a New Year's Eve party, in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)


U.S. soldiers dance during the New Year's Eve party at the recreation center of the main U.S. army barracks in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, some 250 km north of Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk


A U.S. Army soldier holds a baby on top of a Humvee during a New Year's Eve party for orphans and poor children in a suburb of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra


A young boy feeds a U.S. Army soldier during a New Year's Eve party for orphans and poor children, in a suburb of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra


A U.S. Army soldier fits a wool hat on a boy during a New Year's Eve party for orphans and poor children, in a suburb of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

[Soaring Feather]

Happy New Year to you Matthew Paul!!!!!!!

[SAMWolf]

Happy New Year Matt!!

[snippy_about_it]

Happy New Year Matt. Happy New Year Poland. We still have a way to go before it reaches us. 5 hours for me, 8 hours for Sam.

[Soaring Feather]

[snippy_about_it]

These pictures of our troops are great Sam, thanks!

[SAMWolf]

Hey! You still have 5 hours!!

[Soaring Feather]

I might not last that long! LOL

[bulldogs]

Happy new year to you both Sam and snippy. Thanks for keeping our military in our thoughts and prayers.

[SAMWolf]

Happy New Year bulldogs.

[JustAmy]

Amy's Place wishes You, The FReeper Foxhole and our Veterans a VERY Happy New Year.
Thank you for keeping the Foxhole open for them.

[SAMWolf]

Happy New Year Amy! Like the graphic.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Amy. Cute graphic!

[snippy_about_it]

[PhilDragoo]

1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy

Bill Gertz, Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11, Regnery, 2002, page 63:

Turner, who had no professional experience with intelligence, decided to cut 830 positions within the CIA Operations Directorate. The cuts were announced in impersonal notices sent out on Halloween--October 31, 1977. "It has been decided that your services are no longer needed," the termination notes stated. For the Clandestine Service, the cuts were a blow from which it never recovered. Every director of Central Intelligence since then has tried in vain to "rebuild" the operational capability of the CIA.

Comrade, you have gutted the American intelligence services. Here is a big donation for your Habitat for Humanity. Normally I have to torture men to betray their cause, but you, you do it naturally, and even throw in your wife.