USO Canteen FReeper Style..FReeper FRiday....May 10,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

Please meet Joe Brower

“I had fun hanging out of a Huey at 2,000 feet!”

Pictures were taken when Joe was assigned to the Infantry Training School and 5th MAB on Camp Pendleton, Ca. 1981.

Joe was a USN Corpsman who volunteered for duty with the FMF. He went to Great Lakes for both basic and Hospital Corps school.

"....You guys are the Marine's doctors; There's no better in the business than a Navy Corpsman...."
Chesty
USMC

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Sassy, you look so cute today. I LOVE that smile sooo much.

((((( hug ))))

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Victoria, I love today . I have loved Friday's for always I think. heh heh

Thank you soooo much for being here and your wonderful post.

(( hug )))

[Snow Bunny]

Hi,you and Matt are such a neat couple.America should know about couples like you that love America so much and served our country. I am so proud of both of you.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks for posting the story about Charles Thie!

[Snow Bunny]

Fiddlstix what a beautiful tribute. Thank you so much for your tribute about our FR friends BKO and BCM.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Linda, that is so neat the today in Military. It is really interesting.

Good to see you on this beautiful day.Thanks again so much.

[SAMWolf]

Here are the last more glimpses into the two lives of Oregonian National Guard Members:

Staff Sgt. Chad Lewis Duty: Maintain links with forces of different nations Age: 22 Hometown: Grants Pass Occupation: Full-time Oregon National Guard Family status: Single

Chad Lewis likes being a soldier so much that he decided to be a full-time guardsman with the 186th. If you're full time with the National Guard, you draw active-duty pay and can live near home. In the regular Army, you go where they send you. "I'm pretty excited about this," he said. "This is what I'm supposed to do."

Lewis, who was raised in Cave Junction, keeps up on the news like everybody else. "Yes, it worries me," he said of the tension in the Middle East. "But I consider it an honor to be able to go on this important a mission.

"In a bigger sense, I'm glad this battalion was chosen to go. This is a good change for me right now, and I'm happy to be part of it."

Spc. Semi Bird Duty: Reconnaissance scout and rifleman Age: 41 Hometown: Richland, Wash. Civilian occupation: Chief executive officer of his investment counseling firm Family status: Married, no children

Semi (SEM-ee) Bird had absolutely no trouble stepping away from his investment firm in Richland to go to isolated, and possibly hostile, duty in the Middle East.

He has 241 reasons. Those are the 241 Marines who died in a suicide bombing in Lebanon in 1983.

Bird was a Marine at the time and had left Lebanon just before the disaster. "Every day that I'm in uniform," he said, "I think of those Marines. Every day. I'm not at all nervous. I'm proud to be going back to the Middle East and represent our country."

There's more. Back then, Bird remembers, Americans were at best indifferent to what was going on in the Middle East.

"We did a lot of missions over there," he said, "that nobody read about and nobody cared about. Now we seem to have a lot of that support we didn't have then. And I want to be on a mission where people know about it and care about it -- and support it."

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Coos Bay Coast Guard rescues tangled shrimp boat (Wed night)

The U.S. Coast Guard reported it was towing a shrimp boat to Charleston this morning after its propellor became tangled in a fishing net Wednesday night.
The Charleston Lifeboat Station (aka Coos Bay) sent two motor lifeboats after receiving a call around 11:30 p.m.
The 58-foot vessel was stranded about 10 miles off Cape Blanco.
Aiding the boat was an all-night activity, Coast Guard officials said this morning.
The vessel was being towed past Bandon around 7:30 a.m. Coast Guard officials blamed the slow tow on the ships traveling into the oncoming wind.
Coast Guard officials would not release the name of the boat's owner, and said they might board the shrimp boat when it's moored in Charleston to investigate the incident.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi GG, this is such a perfect day to see you again my friend.

Military Spouse Appreciation Day and you are a military spouse . I want to thank you GG!!!! It is a special person to be a military spouse and we all thank you sooo much for your serving in such a special way for our country.

((((((((((((((( hug ))))))))))))

I am so glad when we get to see you. God bless you GG and your dear family.

[gwmoore]

Good Afternoon ALL!!!!

I don't have a canteen list, so I replied to the header that Snow Bunny had addressed. If any could be so kind, could you FReepmail me the list for future posts?

I do want to give my heartfelt thanks to all the Military Spouses out there. All of you give 100% 24/7 in what is far rougher than the Serviceperson does (Yep! thats right).

Mrsgwmoore (Who will become the nose art on my 182, I hope, since she is somewhat reluctant to be portrayed as a Vargas Girl (BEG) I figure that I can convince her that a DollZ representation would not be so bad, and I can still use "Isabella Anne" in some decent script underneath), served valiantly, considering we were married in June of 1969, and was instantly introduced to military life, suddenly, not to mention my absence while on deployment to WESTPAC and Vietnam 6 months later. She certainly was "above and beyond". This June, we celebrate #33, so she did put up with me for that long, ;-) (Takes some doing).

Again, thanks to all the spouses, of both genders, who put up with the separation, regulations, privation, and the usual bizarre incomprehensible behavior of the "Mil-Spec Person" (ROTFL Thanks, AFVetGal for the list of said behaviors)..

Thanks for Keeping the Faith for Freedom !

Today, I will omit my usual closing rant ;-)

Greg

[Snow Bunny]

OH Sam I will always remember the 241 Marines who died in that suicide bombing in Lebanon. That was so horrible and Bird is right most Americans seem to want to forget so many things. But at FR , at the Canteen here I pray we never let them.God bless you.

Thanks for these two profiles.

[Snow Bunny]

Thanks Tonkin!

[Diver Dave]

An excellent tribute to mrsgwmoore. Congrats on your upcoming 33rd next month. MrsDD suffered through two WESTPAC tours and one more prior to our marriage (37 next month also).

Salute to the two of you.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Three cheers for the BOne!!!!!

[MistyCA]

That was such a good post. Thanks for sharing about your brother. I know exactly how you feel since I am incredibly proud of my brother and the others who served and feel so much in awe of people who have made it their life's work to recognize our service people. Snow Bunny is a very special person who has used her vision to give so much to all of us.Thanks again. Your posts says it all. :)

[Joe Brower]

Thank You for your service to our country.

And thank you for yours, Tonk. I must say that your service was much greater than mine, since I never did serve in a war zone (almost went to Iran in 1980, but Reagan nipped that in the bud at his inaguration!). I was never shot at in anger, but only by accident. It is indeed true how "friendly fire isn't"... !

Stay safe,

Joe B.

[MistyCA]

So glad you like the doll! they were a lot of fun to do! :)

[gwmoore]

Thanks, Diver, those WESTPACS were always rough on the spouses, especially when one explained the superstitions thoroughly (You can't watch my ship go over the horizon, just turn around and walk away, etc etc (LOL). SALUTE to you and yours for 37. I guess we must have done something right after all..

(The Mrs even puts up with my aircraft driving (I think she is thoroughly happy that I have to wait to get my medical back, though), and the "Officer's Lady" status with the CAP (hey, its a lot more egalitarian than that now, but I rub it in every once in a while), as it is just too good to pass up......

Greg

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Dave, the last few days you said I left you off my flowers posts to the ladies.
So here's a post just for you. lOL

[Mama_Bear]

I do want to give my heartfelt thanks to all the Military Spouses out there.

Ditto to what you said.

I was not a military wife, but I was a military daughter. My mom was a career Navy wife, moving from duty station to duty station for 20 years. It's not an easy life but, as you and your wife know, the military is a family and they support and take care of their own. I know that my mother would not have changed a minute of the 20 years "she" put into the Navy ...... isn't that right, Grammy Bear? :-)