FReeper Canteen ~ Finally Friday ~ 29 August 08

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ It's Finally Friday!! ~

Riders, start your hogs!

Nearly 450 motorcycle riders await a B-1B Lancer's takeoff at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Aug. 5. The flyover is the signal to begin the Dakota Thunder Motorcycle Run from Ellsworth to the 68th Annual Sturgis (S.D.) Motorcycle Rally. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Corey Hook)

Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Hancock Wins Olympic Gold Medal

U.S. Army Pfc. Vincent Hancock sets two Olympic records and prevails in a four-shot shoot-out with Norway's Tore Brovold to win the men's skeet competition at the Beijing Shooting Range, Aug. 16, 2008. U. S. Army photo by Tim Hipps

I'm listening

Chaplain (Capt.) Jake Marvel listens to an injured soldier who is awaiting aeromedical evacuation to a medical facility in the United States from Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Chaplain Marvel is with the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing in Scotia, N.Y. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Scott Wagers)

Cab Calloway ~ Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein' Good)

UB40 ~ Red, Red Wine

Amy Grant ~ This Is My Father's World

Buckwheat Zydeco ~ Hey Baby

Johnny & The Hurricanes ~ Reveille Rock

Ready to strike

Rudy, a military working dog, waits for the command to intercept Senior Airman Nathaniel Johnson during controlled aggression training Aug. 13 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Airman Johnson is with the 28th Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marc I. Lane)

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas (WHEC 716)

080827-N-4044H-063 BATUMI, Georgia (Aug. 27, 2008) Local Georgians gather to welcome the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas (WHEC 716). Dallas arrived with more than 76,000 pounds of humanitarian assistance supplies to be given to the people of Georgia. The supplies are in response to the request of the government of the Republic of Georgia. Dallas is part of Combined Task Force 367, the maritime element of the U.S. humanitarian assistance mission to Georgia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Eddie Harrison/Released)

Beach Boys ~ Kokomo

Eva Cassidy & Danny Gatton ~ Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

IZ ~ Margarita

Rory Gallagher ~ A Million Miles Away

Woody Guthrie ~ End Of The Line

Marine in Iraq watches son’s birth in Milwaukee via satellite

Sgt. Nick Jensen, on a video feed from Iraq, checks in on his wife, April, and their son, Parker, who was born Monday at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-St. Joseph in Milwaukee. Photo/Jack Orton

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Army couple has second set of twins

Sgt. David Shores and wife, Kimberly, along with twin sons, Austin, left, and Tyler, proudly display the family’s newest set of twins, Camdyn, left, and Connor, at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center two days after their birth on Aug. 8. Photo by Jon Connor

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and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.

[luvie]

Booooooooo!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening to you, Sand. I took the afternoon off, and ran a bunch of errands.

[luvie]

Happy Army Anniversary!
I salute you for your service!

[SandRat]

and I’m taking tomorrow afternoon off to do the same.

[HiJinx]

I thought sure all the rain we’d gotten would make it a coupla hundred miles to the East and hit LUV’s area.

I was wrong.

Connie, did you see where I-10 in Tucson got flooded because the engineers forgot to put in drains in the construction area? The concrete barriers dammed up the highway.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mooch.

[luvie]

A couple of hundred miles! LOL! Lots more.

...and it has rained all around us, just not ON us! :D

[Kathy in Alaska]

United States Marine Corps Band~National Anthem

[brushcop]

Good evening Kathy, good one as usual.

YES!! USCG Cutter DALLAS, Bravo Zulus!! Fantastic work, Tonk would be proud--IS proud.

Love the Georgians with their beautiful flag and flying the Stars and Stripes too, wonderful, may God bless and protect those folks during this terrible time. May He cause us to help them more.

[luvie]

((((MM))))

How are you doing...hope you have a GREAT weekend!

....and that the Cubbies win. :D

[HiJinx]

I’m sorry you’re still dry...shall I send out a case of skin cream?

[AZamericonnie]

I might have been better off watching the Vikings!:)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the woohoo!

TS.....#50!!

[luvie]

LOL! You just think you’re kidding! My skin is like sandpaper! Blech!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Back...
That was a nice soak.
I think I’ll sleep better tonite.
Yeah it stinks to have to work weekends, period.
I will be the only unit secretary on this weekend, so there will be a lot of computer work and filing and answering phones, but I will not have a motormouth to have to work with!

[Kathy in Alaska]

BOARDING TRADITION

Cool demonstrations of the times. Thanks, Sand, for the great pictures.

[luvie]

Glad you had a few minutes to wind down. Soaking sounds
really good right now.

I get really cranky when I work on Sunday and have to miss
my nap! LOL!

[luvie]

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[luvie]

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[MS.BEHAVIN]

You can’t nap when you get home?
I have to be up at 0700 tomorrow and the weekend..
Talk about cranky!
LOL