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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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Well, I howled reading the thread with all the "purty" pictures (NOT!), then I ran into the picture of tomkow with the flowers....tears were streaming down my cheeks. NOW, FAWNN LINKS TO THIS!!! Oh my sides...oh...oh...oh...
(My daughter just asked me what was so funny....LOL!!)
Keep reading, Gummy, it only gets better!
Good Evening!
Thanks much, mylife!
A pic too, whoop whoop!
Oh, that is the truth!! And you've posted some purty music, uncleshag! Thank you! And thank you, Mud! Uncle, get those other fellers (band members) posting on here! We won't bite. (Well, I won't vouch for tomkow, but we'll get 'em tetanus shots if he does.)
Hey again, Sarmajor!
Camp Shelby, MS. The base to your east. Be here for a stretch of the imagination...
Howdy, Folks! Back again for a bit!
Hidey ho!
Have fun playing in the mud?
Our drummer has been known to take a
bite outta crime, if ya get my drift.
They'll come on in due time.
Prolly to give me grief.
Hey Old Sarge,
Muscled your way in?
Sure - hand 'em over!! :o)
(You sure know how to sweet talk a lady, what with hugs and purple fonts!)
Bumped two senior people, and the CQ, to get here tonight.
My email's been overrun with spam, so I've got pruning to do.
You up to a music challenge, tonight?
SARGE!!!! How's thangs?? Got that wireless hooked up? ;-) I'm glad you got some online time.
Of course, what it is?
Oh goodie! I'd like to see this!
You and me both!
Oh, the suspense....
Staff Sgt. Ramon Batista, of Paterson, N.J., shakes a baby’s hand while the soldiers conduct a demographics survey in the little town of Sowaib, Iraq, on Sunday.
Staff Sgt. Ramon Batista, of Paterson, N.J., with 1st Squadron, C Company, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, talks to a child while sitting on the as child’s bike and entertaining the children during a demographics survey in Sowaib, Iraq, on Sunday.
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles assigned to the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and Expeditionary Strike Group Five (ESG-5) deliver supplies to the citizens in Meulaboh, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday.
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles and Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters assigned the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and Expeditionary Strike Group Five (ESG-5) deliver supplies to the citizens in Meulaboh, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday.
An Acehnese woman walks past Marines on a beach in Meulaboh, Indonesia, on Tuesday. Marines came ashore on a high-tech hovercraft carrying food, water and a forklift to help repair this tsunami-wrecked town.
A Navy crewman prepares a damaged SH-60 Seahawk helicopter for airlifting to the carrier Abraham Lincoln at Banda Aceh airport, Indonesia, on Tuesday.
A Marine Corps helicopter lifts the wreckage of a Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopter to the carrier Abraham Lincoln from Banda Aceh airport Tuesday.
Members of D Battery, 1-278th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division return to their vehicles after conducting a border crossing inspection between Iraq and Iran on Dec. 25.
Loadmasters guide a Spanish Red Cross support vehicle off an MC-130H Combat Talon II in Band Aceh, Indonesia. Dozens of flights have carried relief supplies and equipment into the region.
Senior Airman Nathan V. Jones guards his position with a .50-caliber weapon during required training at a forward-deployed location Jan. 5. Jones is an explosive ordnance disposal technician with the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron.
U.S. Army Spc. Jason Nelson, of Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, uncovers some 125 millimeter artillery shells found in the backyard of an Al Doura home. According 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment officials, the terrorists who lived there planned to use the shells to attack a Christian church in Baghdad.
More Here!
Bomb assembly supplies line the floor of an Al Doura home during a raid there Jan. 9, 2005. U.S. soldiers found enough electronics and explosives to make an estimated 50 improvised explosive devices.
Sgt. 1st Class Robert Bobbitt from the 1st Infantry Division, orders his Soldiers to spread out and move toward an area where shots were fired near Balad Ruz, Iraq.
Sgt. 1st Class W. Thomas, from the 377th Theater Support Command in Kuwait, is taking personal leave to assist in the tsunami relief effort in Bangkok, Thailand.
Medically retired band member recovers, rejoins USAF Band
BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE, D.C. -- Master Sgt. Mitchell Morton performs with the U.S. Air Force Band's Silver Wings. He recently returned to service after battling leukemia.
Head Surgeon of the Combined Support Group-Indonesia, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Loring Issaac Perry, takes a moment to comfort an Indonesian women and her child that lost everything they had during the Tsunami in the city of Meulaboh on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Meulaboh is the site of the first Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) landing of Operation Unified Assistance. Assault Craft Unit Five (ACU-5), assigned to USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), delivered 34,000 pounds of aid to the Tsunami stricken city. The Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand in support of Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian operation effort in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia.
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Hi, Laurita! Welcome to the Canteen!
Wanna buy a burka?
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Thanks Radix - great pictures today.
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this. 
