* * * * * HAPPY 236TH BIRTHDAY, UNITED STATES ARMY ! ! ! * * * * *

**************************** **************************** Basic Combat Training Company "D", Third Battalion, First Brigade Fort Lewis, Washington Winter, 1968 Comrades in Arms: Today is Tuesday 14 June 2011. Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, on 14 June 1775, the Continental Congress authorized George Washington to raise a body of troops for waging a war of independence from Great Britain. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TROOPERS ! ! ! *********************** Go, ARMY ! At Your Service, John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan." 501st Signal Battalion 101st Airborne Division "SCREAMING EAGLES" Hai Vanh Pass, Republic of Viet Nam 1971 **************************** ****************************