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FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama ~ 16 SEP 2014
Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!!
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Posted on 09/15/2014 6:00:55 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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To: LUV W; Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
09/16/2014 1:31:43 PM PDT
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SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: SandRat
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09/16/2014 2:45:59 PM PDT
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luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
To: LUV W; Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
09/16/2014 4:40:35 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: SandRat; Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; mylife; TMSuchman; PROCON; ...
GOOD EVENING To Our Valiant Troops, To Our Vets, To Our Families, To Our FRiends, To Our Allies And To All Canteen Denizens!
GODSPEED OUR TROOPS around the Globe, especially those in combat!
Evening Colors - Fort Hood, Texas 27 March 2014
Evening Colors U.S. Army Bugler (Click)
MAY THE LORD Protect And Uphold Our Troops In Their Performance Of Their Vital Mission!
MAY HE KEEP Their Families Secure During Their Time Of Separation!
MAY HE PRESERVE And Uphold The American Nation In This Time Of Crisis!
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
09/16/2014 5:03:48 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: laurenmarlowe
I was at Redstone Arsenal for nine months, in late ‘66 and early ‘67, learning how to keep Continuous Wave Radar of the HAWK missile system functioning. Trained in repair from component level up. Werner von Braun was there at the time, some distance from my lowly quarters, working on the Saturn V engine. When that big boy was lit up, nothing on the Arsenal stayed still. You could feel it reverberate through your chest, even at a great distance.
Beside the Saturn V, the most outstanding memories I have is the hardest rainstorm I have ever experienced was there, and the biggest, most arrogant and self-assured cockroaches on planet earth call it home. We lived in big quonset huts, a set was two of them joined by a long corridor at one end with bathroom facilities off the corridor. Had nice beds, bunk beds with big thick mattresses. They were chained to the walls with six foot long chains. In the morning, all the beds would be out of place, at the end of their chains. Every morning, they had to be put back in place and lined up again. Took a while to figure it out, but what was happening was four of those ‘roaches would grab a bed, one at each leg and try to carry us off in it. They couldn’t quite break the chains, though.
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posted on
09/16/2014 6:28:14 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
To: ConorMacNessa
img src="http://localtvwhnt.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/assembly-line1.jpg?w=370&h=204&crop=1">
My mother is somewhere on this assembly line packing shells at Redstone during WWII.
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posted on
09/16/2014 6:45:27 PM PDT
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WVNan
To: WVNan
Drat, have I forgotten my HTML cause I’ve been away so long? Sorry about that
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posted on
09/16/2014 6:47:18 PM PDT
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WVNan
To: WVNan
Hi, Nan!
*HUGS*
It's great to see you - been a long time!
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posted on
09/17/2014 5:15:16 PM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; SandRat; mylife; TMSuchman; PROCON; ...
GOOD EVENING To Our Valiant Troops, To Our Vets, To Our Families, To Our FRiends, To Our Allies And To All Canteen Denizens!
GODSPEED OUR TROOPS around the Globe, especially those in combat!
Evening Colors - Fort Hood, Texas 27 March 2014
Evening Colors U.S. Army Bugler (Click)
MAY THE LORD Protect And Uphold Our Troops In Their Performance Of Their Vital Mission!
MAY HE KEEP Their Families Secure During Their Time Of Separation!
MAY HE PRESERVE And Uphold The American Nation In This Time Of Crisis!
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
09/17/2014 5:16:57 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: ConorMacNessa
Hi Conor, thank you for rescuing my picture. My Mom worked on that line packing shells. I considered her (God rest her soul) a wounded warrior after that building blew to kingdom come. Most didn’t make it out. She crawled out over the remains.
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09/17/2014 5:48:29 PM PDT
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WVNan
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