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A photo of Spc. Joseph Breining smiling and giving a thumbs-up has spurred the creation of memes. (Twitter)
A photo of Spc. Joseph Breining smiling and giving a thumbs-up during a road march in Kosovo last month garnered the attention of hundreds on Twitter and spurred the creation of memes.
The photo drew comparisons of Breining to the Smilinâ Bob character from Enzyte ânatural male enhancementâ tablet commercials of the early 2000s or to Kenneth Ellen Parcell, the bumpkin-like NBC page in the sitcom â30 Rock.â
At least one commenter saw a modern reincarnation of the smiling soldier raising a canteen cup, originally from a 1943 World War II propaganda poster about rationing, but more familiar to social media users as the âhow about a nice cup of shut the [expletive] upâ meme.
18 CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo Kosovo Force military police celebrated National Police Appreciation Week May 10-14. Maryland Army National Guard Soldiers with the 29th Military Police Company, assigned to KFOR’s Regional Command-East, hosted international MP forces from Italy, Poland, Austria and Switzerland at Camp Bondsteel in an unprecedented week of cooperative training.
National Police Appreciation Week was founded by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to celebrate the work of police officers across the country and pay special tribute to those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
“[National Police Appreciation Week] is observed in the U.S. every year during this time period, and I wanted to include our NATO partners in this observation as well,” said Iowa Army National Guard Capt. Nate Hoeger, RC-E provost marshal. “I thought it would be a good opportunity to train with our police officer partners to strengthen the NATO police communi