FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 27 June 2024

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

Marines Save The World & Eat Food!

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Caden Lloyd, left, the food service officer for MCAS Iwakuni, and a Florida native, left, and Sgt. Maj. Jody Armentrout, right, the sergeant major of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, and a Texas native, pose for a group photo during the Food Pantry cooking competition held by Matthew C. Perry High School at MCAS Iwakuni Japan, April 18, 2024.The students of M.C. Perry High School were tasked with creating unique dishes with non-perishable items such as spam, canned black beans, and rice, which were provided by the Iwakuni Food Pantry, to show creative ways to make tasty dishes with common, shelf-stable ingredients. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Micah Taylor)

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.

Go Ahead---Make My Day!

Philippine Marines with Marine Battalion Landing Team 10 conduct urban operations training during Balikatan 24 at Paredes Air Station, Philippines, April 27, 2024. The training was conducted alongside U.S. Marines with 3rd Littoral Combat Team, 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. BK24 is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades of shared experiences. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Malia Sparks)

We Are Watching You!

A U.S. Air Force Pararescue Specialist assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Wing communicates with his team during a mass casualty scenario as part of Exercise Balikatan 24, Subic, Philippines, April 25, 2024. Balikatan 24 is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades of shared experiences. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ernesto Lagunes)

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[PROCON]

Hiya Kathy, thanks for tonight’s Canteen and for remembering and honoring our Troops!

[lightman]

Thank those serving.
Honor those who served.
NEVER forget the fallen!

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Remembering Our Troops! ~

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Honoring those who have served before.

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...any change in the heat?

Kinda warm here, but a nice breeze and clouds coming and going all day.

[The Mayor]

June 27

Life’s Pilgrimage

Bible in a Year :

• Job 8-10
• Acts 8:26-40

Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.

Hebrews 11:16

More than two hundred million people from a variety of faiths undertake a pilgrimage each year. For many throughout the ages, a pilgrim’s task has been to journey to a sacred place to receive some kind of blessing. It’s been all about reaching the temple, cathedral, shrine, or other destination where a blessing can be received.

Britain’s Celtic Christians, however, saw pilgrimage differently. They set out directionless into the wild or let their boats drift wherever the oceans took them—pilgrimage for them being about trusting God in unfamiliar territory. Any blessing was found not at the destination but along the journey.

Hebrews 11 was an important passage for the Celts. Since the life in Christ is about leaving the world’s ways behind and trekking like foreigners to the city of God (vv. 13-16), a pilgrimage echoed their life’s journey. By trusting God to provide along their difficult, untrodden path, the pilgrim grew the kind of faith lived by the heroes of old (vv. 1-12).

What a lesson to learn, whether we physically trek or not: for those who have trusted Jesus, life is a pilgrimage to God’s heavenly country, full of dark forests, dead ends, and trials. As we journey through, may we not miss the blessing of experiencing God’s provision along the way.

Reflect & Pray

How can you be open today to receiving God’s gifts along life’s path? How can you remind yourself that this world, as it is now, isn’t your real home?

Dear God, thank You for showing me that life’s trials are opportunities for me to grow a deeper faith in You.

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...is summer here? Hot?

We are bouncing between mid 60s and low 70s, Wish it would rain.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Today was the hottest yet - - 98 degrees and muggy, muggy, muggy.
Then some rain came through a couple of hours ago and the temp dropped to 78 in a hurry. Still sprinkling a little. We’ll take every drop we can get.

I’ve seen it’s been another pretty day up there but that weird fog bank has been over the inlet again. Not sure if it’s still there now because the last cam op left the cam parked, aimed at the mountains, instead of putting it on auto so it’ll pan back and forth.

Hump Day is finally here! I hope you’ll have an early bedtime tonight. You probably need that big time.

Back in a bit. I have a strong craving for a milkshake and am off to satisfy the need. LOL

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Kathy!

[lightman]

The suspense is incredible: For the first time in three weeks it looks as though some serious, truly measurable rain might reach me in less than an hour!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lightman...we will NEVER forget.

Have you done any better in the rain department? We have not.

[lightman]

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued less than five minutes ago...I’ll put up with the wind to get the rain!

[lightman]

FOUR times over the past five days I have offered the petition:

“For favorable weather, for an abundance of the fruits of the earth, and for peaceful times; let us pray to the Lord...”

The answer is coming in approaching thunder.

[radu]

Keeping all appendages crossed you get lucky. Maybe get more than we did. We got almost .3 of an inch earlier this evening. Not nearly enough but anything’s better than nothing after 2 and a half weeks with none.

[luvie]

Howdy, Night Owls!
What a great thread honoring our troops.
They deserve our respect and love so much!
Thanks, Kathy!

[PROCON]

Hey Kathy, we’re into typical summer temps, 80’s, creeping into the 90’s, nothing unusual.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Hope you are feeling well, and thankfully we made it thru hump day.

[lightman]

0.2 inches so far...looks like more is on the way before or after midnight but irrespective that is the most I’ve had in THREE weeks!