Posted on 6/14/2008, 10:22:44 PM by Son House
The Seattle SuperSonics Dance Team visited troops deployed to Contingency Operating Base Speicher, located in Tikrit, Iraq, June 11.
The dance team wanted to show their appreciation for the military and decided to partake in their own deployment experiences.
“My passion is dancing and performing,” said Pilita, a first-year dance team member. “This is the least I could do for the Soldiers. It’s a privilege to be here. I’ve learned a lot.”
Not only has this experience been good for the troops, but the dancers have benefited as well in the short amount of time they have spent at COB Speicher.
“Every day, this place and the Soldiers, everyone, has exceeded the expectations that I had,” explained Jillian, one of the Sonics dancers. “I have learned so much [more] by talking with a Soldier for one minute than when I listened to news stations or radio stations.”
The dance team motivated the crowd and invited several servicemembers to participate in dance challenges and games in-between dance routines.
“This is fun,” said Airman 1st Class Alana Fowler, a security forces patrol officer, “You sort of wake up in the same place, doing the same thing every day. It’s good to see something besides everyone in uniforms, military uniforms. It’s different, and it breaks up the daily routine.”
Many dance team members agreed this experience taught them many things about life in general and about why there is still a military presence in Iraq.
“Everything that we see in the United States and everything we learn is completely opposite,” said Sabrina, the dance team coach. “It’s the stories that we see through the eyes of the Soldiers. Seeing how things are done from day to day to seeing how they are actually working with the country to build it up and working with their Soldiers. We never hear those things and so, for us, it’s just been a really growing experience.”
“We don’t want to forget any moment, it’s overwhelming really,” said Sabrina. “I feel like a new person.”
. Obama has no idea what our Troops are doing in Iraq, he is just pursuing being a pacifist because he wants to be loved by pacifist.
bttt
My second tour in South Korea, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders did a show in our tiny gym on Camp Casey: You’d of thought they were giving away free gold bars! The gym might hold 200 people, but several thousand soldiers were squeezed in somehow...
It is a morale booster.
Many dance team members agreed this experience taught them many things about life in general and about why there is still a military presence in Iraq.
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The Democrats and MSM should be mandated to a ‘boot camp’ in Iraq.
“We never hear those things”. Makes you want to put the traitors in the MSM before a firing squad.
Obama is chickening out on a ‘boot camp’ in Iraq Challenge.
So Sabrina, the dance team coach has a better grasp on our mission in the Middle East than the empty suit obama. Go figure.
People shouldn’t have to physically go to Iraq and talk to a soldier to hear any of the good things they are going over there. Just treason on the part of the MSM. Pure treason and a good example of what befalls an honorable nation once the communists seize control of your media. It becomes a propaganda arm and it is downhill for your nation from there.
Good idea...but how's this one...The 'rats and their amplifiers should be mandated to a 'boot camp' in a gulag.
I have the Squier Super-Sonic guitar,
http://www.strat-central.com/supersonic.htm
and although it is used as a tool by Satan,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squier_Super-Sonic
It is alleged that Carducci was a keen Jimi Hendrix fan and that his design of the Super-Sonic was highly influenced by a picture of Hendrix playing a Fender Jaguar ‘upside-down’, or left handed.
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Me again;
Jimi Hendrix and I were both in the 101 Airborne, though I will not claim to playing guitar as good as he, we three served our country in a capacity foreign to Senator Obama.
I am in Mighty Good Company here, and thank you all for a morale booster.
Happened May 22, 2008
Iraqi Boy Scouts have Pinewood Derby http://www.mnf-iraq.com/images/stories/IraqiFreedomMinute/2008/may/ifm08142.jpg
THANK YOU!...for your continued service to this GREAT nation.
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