USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Supporting the Military Help Wanted ~ February 19 2003

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

USO Canteen FReeper Style looking for people to
help post threads, graphics, links, prayers, jokes etc each day.
Full or Part time help needed.
Pay = Knowing that you helped someone in the military know that they are not forgotten.

Credit to HiJinx for this quote.

"Each day we take some time to pass on a message of support
to our active duty personnel, their families and veterans.
Some of us spend hours on end in the Canteen, and others just post once.
Whichever you doesn't matter, it's getting the message out to those we support that matters!"

[Dubya]

AMERICA'S 13 PERCENT

Secretary of State Colin Powell recently was approached by an Iraqi
newspaper reporter and accusingly asked "Isn't it true that only 13
percent
of young Americans can locate Iraq on a map?"

Secretary Powell stopped, turned, and stated "Yes, it's true. But unfortunately for you, all 13 percent are United States Marines!

[Radix]

1986 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty outlawing genocide. The pact had been submitted 37 years earlier for ratification.

Prior to this treaty, genocide was completely legal according to the United States Senate!

[Radix]

1963 - In Baghdad, the Kurds who were fighting for autonomy and the Iraqis began peace talks.

That went over very well. Years later Iraq's new Leader used poison gas that they longer possess on the Kurds.

[Radix]

Lee Marvin 1924

[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, HMS Furious

Courageous class large light cruiser/aircraft carrier
Displacement. 19,100 t.
Lenght. 786'3"
Beam. 88'
Draft. 21'6"
Speed. 31.5 kt.
Complement. 880
Armament. 1 18", 11 5.5", 4 3", 4 3 pdr. (as originally completed)

HMS Furious, a 19,513-ton aircraft carrier, was built at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Begun as a light battle cruiser (or "large light cruiser") of modified Courageous class (called the "Outrageous" class by the sailors of the day), she was modified in the latter stages of construction and completed in July 1917 with a single 18-inch gun aft and an aircraft launching platform forward. After several months' experience with the Grand Fleet, she was further modified, receiving an aircraft landing deck and hangar aft. With the completion of that work in March 1919, Furious returned to the North Sea, providing important experience in the operation of combat landplanes at sea. On 19 July 1918, she launched a historic air strike that destroyed two enemy airships and their support facilities at Tondern, in northern Germany. A month earlier, in another historic incident, she had used both anti-aircraft guns and fighter aircraft to thwart an attack by German seaplanes. Following the end of World War I, the carrier operated in the Baltic Sea.

Her wartime aircraft landing arrangements having proved very unsatisfactory (understandable, seeing as how the "island" was in the very center of the flight deck, with 11 foot wide ramps on each side of the funnel and bridgework to connect the aft flight deck with the forward flight deck), Furious was laid up in reserve in late 1919. After futher experience with other aircraft carriers, she was massively reconstructed, emerging in August 1925 as a 22,450-ton ship with upper and lower hangars, topped by a long flight deck clear of obstructions, with a shorter aircraft launching deck at the bow. This configuration established a pattern for other British and Japanese aircraft carriers of that era.

Furious operated actively through the inter-war years, continuing her pioneering work as a platform for developing seagoing aviation techniques and combat doctrine, as those applied to the situations confronting the Royal Navy. In the later 1930s, her small forward aircraft flying-off deck was converted to a gun platorm and she was refitted with a small "island" superstructure amidships on the starboard side of the upper flight deck.

Through the first five years of World War II, Furious served with the Home Fleet in the Atlantic area. By mid-war, she was quite elderly, limited in capabilities, and required continual maintenance. She took part in an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944, but was placed in reserve later in that year. After post-war employment in target trials, HMS Furious was sold for scrapping in January 1948.

[Radix]

Smokey Robinson (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) 1940

Here is some of Smokey Robinson's music!

[Radix]

Hey there Tomkow, do you think that this image is too risque`?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please make sure that a certain 2LT knows how much he means to us. God bless him and his buddies for the jobs they are doing to keep America free. Prayers for their safe and soon return.

2LT RJR

[tomkow6]

Hey there Tomkow, do you think that this image is too risque`?

Naw! They got TOO much on to be risky!

[tomkow6]

Wanna see a picture of his tombstone at Arlington?

[Trikebuilder]

Now old son that is a picture any trooper would love! this will soon be printed and taped up across the entire middle-east and on every ship in the navy! Talk about a moral hyper boost! And just for the boys in 2Lt Radix Jr.s happy little gang of Marine Hell-raisers, I add my own!

And the boots are nice too

If they go to my website at
http://triker9.tripod.com/trikebuilder/
theres a whole bunch of biker babes they can download and print. (strictly for inspiration, remembering home, Mom, and apple pie.)

[tomkow6]

I LIKE that, um, "uniform"!?

[Kathy in Alaska]

1943 Mama Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas - Monday Monday)

[Kathy in Alaska]

"1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box"

[Radix]

Is that the same stone that is right next to the one for Joe Loius?

[Kathy in Alaska]

"1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts"

[fatima]

Kathy ,I learned how to post a bird but mine is mixed up.Only kidding:)

[tomkow6]

Don't know.........I only took a picture that I'm franticly looking for now, of Sgt. Lee Marvin's headstone.......

[Kathy in Alaska]

"...and some mornings I just let her sleep........."

LOL!! I'm sure she appreciates such a kindness.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cable is great! Hurrah for you!! Glad you are feeling better.