May 17th, 2008
Fort Detrick honors armed forces day with events on post
Fort Detrick will mark Armed Forces Day today with music, an air show and fireworks, weather permitting.
Armed Forces Day was first observed in 1950 following a proclamation by then-President Harry S. Truman.
It replaced separate days of recognition for the Army, Navy and Air Force, although the Marine Corps and Coast Guard still each observe their own celebrations in addition to Armed Forces Day, according to the Defense Department.
Parking for Fort Detrick’s Armed Forces Day observance is available at Frederick Community College, with attendees able to access the post through the college gate, said Harry Geesaman, of the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation’s Community Recreation Division, in an e-mail Friday.
Attendees are not allowed to bring alcohol on post, although there will be a beer concession. All bags, boxes and coolers brought on post will be subject to search, Chuck Gordon, the post’s spokesman, wrote in an e-mail Friday.
Events including the air show, military displays and vehicles and a DJ start at the Nallin Pond events complex at 10:30 a.m.
Rain or high winds could affect some of the planned events, such as the air show, but as of Friday morning, everything was still going ahead as planned, Geesaman wrote.
“We are sticking to our schedule — mother nature will control what we have or get accomplished tomorrow,” he wrote.
Today’s weather is expected to be mostly sunny in the daytime with highs in the low 70s and winds up to 15 to 18 miles per hour later in the day, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight brings a 30 percent chance of rain.
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15 Responses to “Fort Detrick honors armed forces day with events on post”
They must have watched The Wire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6tu3Q9Jmo
sighyour response was much funnier than my original joke.
It appears to be a new genre of literature. Pure genius!
The Pentagon has had the full Scientology materials in their posession for decades. You don’t got OT without the permission of the CIA.
Hurray for one commenter who gets it. (Not that the idea is good, but most people seem to be missing the point.)
no one thinks they were sent over with no armor (nor has that been ‘in the media.’) Just bad armor.
not related to this story, but… WTF is wrong with this site! In either browser I use (firefox or safari) after I go to a story on reddit and then hit the previous page arrow to return to the home page, I can only get to the site that was up before I opened reddit. This is totally weird and I don’t know what’s going on, anybody else have a similar problem?
It does sound like spirit checking machine.
Hillary, huh? You mean Clinton? Or did you mean to write “Hillary vs. John”? Just curious.shrugsWho knows if Clinton will manage to get the relevant powers to give her the nomination? I think there’s a chance, although, with Dean in charge of the party I think it’s unlikely, given his own history with the establishment of the democratic party and the FTL which was Kerry. Either way–Obama or Clinton–I don’t think that will change my estimate of who lies more about significant things. My current estimate takes McCain and Clinton into account, and there is a significant enough difference that I sincerely doubt a few months of campaigning between Clinton and McCain will put dems over the top on that score.
Science damn it!
“Ya see honor, all we did was park a hum-vee outside his residence, point several M-18’s in his face, and when we asked him about the WMD’s his heart rate just JUMPED STRAIGHT UPhuh…oh…it was about 3:00am or so “
Maybe on your imaginary planet knowledge is neatly divided in true or false. Out here in the desert of the real we have to make do with incomplete and uncertain information.
I did not say that. I said the armor they were supposed to have.
THIS IS THE “EVERYTHING IS OKAY ALARM.” IT GOES OFF EVERY FIVE SECONDS UNLESS SOMETHING IS NOT OKAY.