Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Lest We Forget
Fort Wainwright continues Iraq troop deployment
(12/31/08 14:52:29)
It may be a small unit, but the assignment in Iraq will be big.
This Fort Wainwright aviation unit will be tasked with security of U.S. and Iraqi leaders during its 12-month assignment.
Fort Wainwright’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment will be the third and last aviation company from […]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
My Hope for the New Year
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Today in Anchorage
Today: Abundant sunshine. Very cold. High 1F. Winds light and variable.
Tonight: Bitterly cold. Mainly clear. Low near -10F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Intervals of clouds and sunshine in the morning with more clouds for later in the day. Very cold. High 1F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow night: Mostly cloudy. Low -2F. Winds N at 5 […]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
It’s Pay Raise Time for Troops
Stars and Stripes | Leo Shane III | December 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Troops worldwide will receive a 3.9 percent pay raise starting on Thursday, but Defense Department civilian employees working overseas will see only a 2.9 percent bump in their paychecks.
Under rules outlined by the White House two weeks ago, all stateside civilian federal workers […]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Feast of Marius, bishop
No Comments » - Posted in Faith and Religion "Stuff" by dad
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Feast of Basil the Great, bishop [of Caesarea], confessor
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Omisoka Shinto
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Feast of John Wycliffe
WYCLIFFE
Of Wycliffe, ‘the morning star of the Reformation,’ very little is with certainty known beyond what is gathered from his writings; hence he has been compared to ‘the voice of one crying in the wilderness ‘—a voice and nothing more—a mighty agency manifest only in its effects. A portrait of the reformer is preserved at […]