USO Canteen FReeper Style....Submarines "Silent Service"....... June 1,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Mr_Magoo]

Oops! I hope Snow Bunny don't read that one . . .

[cringe]

[Billie]

Colleen,

You're the best, girl. Always cheerful, always thoughtful, always a sweetheart. Thanks. Can I make you an honorary Yellow Rose of Texas? :)

[deadhead]

Big time CRINGE!! Snow Bunny has a wonderful sense of humor, it will be Ok!

[deadhead]

Thank You so much for your kind words Billie :-) This is a beautiful Yellow Rose of Texas!

[Billie]

Good afternoon, it's so nice to see you. :)

[SpookBrat]

Billie, thanks for sharing the good news with us. I'm very proud of Sam. I wish him God speed and safety. I'll be thinking of him and remembering him in my prayers, along with prayers for his wife.

(sorry I'm a little slow. I meant to tell you this all day). God bless.

[deadhead]

" Can I make you an honorary Yellow Rose of Texas"

Absolutely! :)

[Billie]

Hi, T Man - love the old submarine poster. :)

[Billie]

What a wonderful photograph!

[DoughtyOne]

[kneezles]

Not to worry...HARHARHARHARHAHARHAR!!!!!!!

[AFCATMRet]

Thanks for the link, Misty. Lots of interesting, though disturbing, info there. Perhaps the problems were always part of the service (as it is everywhere else...those with the power do tend to misuse said power), but I have to say that during the 80's and 90's it seemed to have become 'commonplace'. Careerism became rampant, and the backlash from such attitudes gave rise to the class LtCol. Hackworth so accurately tags as the 'perfumed princes'.

The saving thought though is that, for the most part, the folks I served with, regardless of what branch they were in, were the finest, most dedicated folks I have ever seen. We may have been a far cry from being 'PC' (there was a tendency to...hmmm..let's see...drink, curse, misuse tobacco products (I think it's in the manual that one must have a dip before touching a mortar tube)...and, well, pursue other...uh....oh heck, to be interested in those of the opposite sex), but when it came to the mission there was a commitment to not letting your camrades down that is virtually without equal in the civilian world. Being miserable wasn't exactly fun, but there was the camaraderie of being part of something so much larger than self.

It's hard to explain, I guess. But my youngest summed it up pretty well after he completed Air Assualt school last month, "It rained almost every day. We were always tired, aching, and worried about measuring up...but I wouldn't have missed it for the world."

[MistyCA]

LOL! It sure is! Isn't that disgusting? Can you imagine trying to keep your balance? Or tie your shoes? Or even see your shoes????? Lordy!

[deadhead]

"Although I do remember one summer when it was soooo hot here that I made a sandwich and by the time I had walked across the room it had literally toasted! Now.....that's a freakin hot day! :)"

LOL!! When we were kids, we would try to fry eggs on the sidewalk on a hot day...what a mess, those eggs never fried.....hahaha

[Billie]

I'll bet someone has an apple pie gif - but in case he likes cherry pie, here's one for him. :)

[MistyCA]

My sister sent that one to me a couple weeks ago and it is even funnier the second time around! LOL!

[Billie]

Hi, dansangel - nice to see you again - don't see you that often anymore. :)

[kneezles]

Gosh, that apple pie sure does look good! :)

Heck, I wasn't even looking at the dang pie, I was checking out the tart!!!!!

[Billie]

Yikes! 6'8" - that's almost NBA height!

Thanks for sending the photo, Severa. :)

[MistyCA]

Well, the politics was rampant in the military, even back in WWII. My uncle says that is exactly the reason Patton was taken out. Thanks to MightyMac for bringing some of this in the open and making sure it was given cyber time! :)