By way of @meredithdake, great story of the solider responsible for training the horses of the 3d IR, the Old Guard.
ARLINGTON, Va. – Sgt. Ruben Troyer, senior horse trainer, Caisson platoon, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), uses his Amish upbringing to help train horses in the Caisson platoon.
Within the area of Holmes County, Ohio, rests the world’s largest Amish community, a community which taught Sgt. Ruben Troyer, from an early age, the true value of horses.
“There were 20 to 30 horses specific to my family,” said Troyer. “Horses were our transportation and our means to farm. They were our livelihood.”
Thanksgiving 2006 changed one family’s life forever. The knock at the door that every military spouse dreads came a month before Christmas. Major Troy Gilbert was lost when his F-16 crashed during combat operations in Iraq.
29 November 2006: The whereabouts of a Texas Tech graduate remain unknown after the F-16 he was piloting crashed in Iraq. Military officials say Major Troy Gilbert was firing on targets at a low altitude when his jet went down near Falluja in Iraq Monday. The jet was based out of Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico, which is about 100 miles from Lubbock. DNA samples taken from the scene are being tested.
The 34-year-old has been stationed at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona since March 2004. That’s where family and friends made statements today. NewsChannel 11′s Jennifer Vogel shares the story.
Major Troy Gilbert is a well decorated soldier who was selected to become a Presidential Advance Agent. He would often travel to classified locations to meet Air Force One. But the one thing friends, family and colleagues tell NewsChannel 11 he is most proud of is his time as a father and a husband.
“Troy was first and foremost a wonderful husband and father.” That was the first message family members wanted the public to know about their own personal hero, Major Troy L. Gilbert.
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for the sacrifices of Major Gilbert and his family, Captain Giglio, and the 30 soldiers lost one day not so long ago. We are the home of the brave and the land of the free because of people like these.
Dehydrate, from the word ‘hydro’ meaning ‘water.’ Dehydrated is a lack of water. To hydrate is to add water. Seems simple enough.
But apparently in the EU, up is down, left is right, and 2+2=5 because they have ruled that bottled water makers can no longer claim consuming their product prevents dehydration. That is correct. You are no longer allowed to state the obvious. The penalty? Two years in prison.
Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water.
Regardless of what other product (Gatorade, pop, tea, etc) or method (IV fluids) may be available, if drinking this bottle of water accomplishes that which I say it does – namely hydrating the consumer – there is no problem.
I can stay warm by lighting a fire. I can also stay warm by getting under a blanket. The fact that fire warms me does not negate the effectiveness of a blanket, or diminish the blanket’s capacity in any way. It is pure stupidity and big government gone completely out of control to order blanket makers, under penalty of law, they can’t say their product keeps you warm because a fire would accomplish the same result.
This is who the left in America wants us to be more like?
This was the second time #OccupyDenver showed up at #blogcon11 to give us grief. You see the bizarre chanting on the news or various sites and think there is no way these guys are for real. They are.
ARLINGTON, Va. – Sgt. Ruben Troyer, senior horse trainer, Caisson platoon, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), uses his Amish upbringing to help train horses in the Caisson platoon.
