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Skriven 2009-01-08 14:12:50 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 19269 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: apple butter
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Hi Hap,

-> -> Fort Stewart (3rd Infantry Division) is wrapping up its 3rd.  Most of
-> -> the troops are back but a few are still trickling in.

 hn> I don't know if it made the national news
 hn> but it was big news here, our Governor
 hn> just flew to Iraq to visit with our Wash
 hn> Nat Guard troops, and Ft Lewis troops.

Didn't make the excuse of a newspaper in Savannah & we don't watch much
in the line of national news.  BTW, whatever happened with Lt Erin
Watada (?) who refused to deploy several years ago?  His dad was/is a
big name in state government in HI so we heard a lot about it before we
moved.


->  hn> got selected for Major, but is going to turn it down
->  hn> and get out ( met a girl and is getting married) because
->  hn> he is a chopper pilot (chinook) and would be facing another
->  hn> immediate deployment.

-> It happens, especially with a smaller military than we had at one point.
-> There is talk of building it up again, tho not as large as it once was.

 hn> Evidently the fiancee said it was
 hn> ok if he stayed in and accepted
 hn> the promotion...but the wedding
 hn> would not be until he returned.
 hn> He decided marriage was the
 hn> better offer! (grin) He's a real


Under certain circumstances, he can rejoin if he wants to.  He would
probably stay at his current rank a bit longer tho.

 hn> good kid, (I've known him since
 hn> he was 14) and a very good
 hn> officer, who had planned to
 hn> make the army a career, but
 hn> even he's getting tired of the
 hn> continued re-deployment cycle.
 hn> Evidently there's a lot of
 hn> unhappiness in the army about
 hn> who gets sent again and again
 hn> and who's never been yet.

Yes, we hear a lot about it.  But,then, we are connected to Fort Stewart
and a unit that gets a lot of deployments.  Steve never went, not that
he didn't want to but it just wasn't to be. Deborah went.

 hn> LOTS of officers are deciding
 hn> to get out including West
 hn> Pointers, which I found
 hn> surprising!

They're human too. (G)

->  hn> glazes probably...but not for the apple butter!
->  hn> May have to buy a loaf of bread and "butter up"!

-> Mix it with fruit for a fruit salsa.  Good with pork or chicken--use
-> pineapples, oranges, apple, kiwi............

 hn> I'm not the biggest fan of fruit
 hn> salsa's, glazes I can deal with, but
 hn> I like my fruit in it's natural state
 hn> quite well!

OK, it was a FWIW idea. We've had some fresh fruit salsas that have been
quite good.

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Ruth
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