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The precedent which eventually morphed into the holiday which we know as memorial day began on May 5th 1868. It began as a day of honoring the Civil War dead by placing flowers on their graves. It was began by the head of the Organization of Union Veterans. A national holiday to honor those who have given their lives in the service of this country is totally appropriate. If there is never another American killed in another military conflict anywhere on this earth we still can not give enough honor those who have given all.

Almost every serviceman or woman killed in the service of this country was a young adult with a full life ahead of them. They did not have the opportunity to live and die a quiet death at an old age. they missed many warm summers, special moments with loved ones, hot home cooked meals, and warm embraces in the arms of loved ones because they gave their lives for you and me.

Those who gave their lives all gave it in some foriegn country in the most jacked up conditions that you can imagine. They were hungry, tired, fearful, and dirty. They died in the worst physical and psychological circumstances that you could possibly imagine. Many of them died while suffering the most excruciating pain that you can imagine. The last image which their eyes saw was not their loved ones and family members but the horror and carnage of combat. We honor you our military ring customers both dead and alive and we want you to know it.

This is my own personal thing today. This is my tribute to all of my military ring customers and to all of those serving in the armed forces of this great nation and every other country in the world.

Operation Enduring Hardship goes out to all of the young military wives whose husband had to be deployed to Iraq two weeks after they arrived at a new duty station. You don’t know anyone in the place or where anything is located. The kids are hungry, sick, angry, and crying because they haven’t adapted to their new environment. The car won’t crank and the military has messed up your husbands pay. To top it off you haven’t heard from your husband since he left and the lights were just turned off.

This operation speaks of the young private who just landed out in the middle of nowhere. You just had all night guard duty and you just found out that you will have to work all day. The temperature is around 140 degrees and a sand storm is raging. Your tent was just blown down and you lost your protective goggles. You have had I MRE a day all week long because hot food and mail has not made it out to your part of the boondocks.

The only uniform that you have now is missing pockets and the leg is ripped open. Your boots are worn out and supply doesn’t have any. You are hot, sweaty, thirsty, hungry, scared, tired, dusty, and lonely because you have not been able to talk to your loved ones since you have been here.

This post goes out to all of those military ring customers and others who have served, or are presently serving in operation enduring hardship. It would be good if the world were allowed to walk just a few steps in your shoes.http://www.militaryringexpress.com

In my humble opinion the answer is yes. The United States will have to be the country to deliver the blow to prevent other Arab countries in the region from attacking Israel. The US could pull it off because we are already at war with several countries in the region anyway. I am willing to bet big that there are other Arab countries who are not comfortable of the idea of Iran with nukes but who don’t want to speak out. These countries would turn a blind eye on us more so than they would if the Israeli’s attacked. There would be a lot of rhetoric and anti US talk but their heart wouldn’t be in it.

Any such strike would have to be carefully planned because it would have to be swift. decisive, and devastating. Intelligence would have to be right on the money. You wouldn’t want to swing at Iran and miss because they would immediately retailiate against Israel.

If you were one of our custom military ring customers during Desert Storm you know that Saddam Insane wouldn’t capitulate because he wanted to save face. In this case we have a religous fanatic who doesn’t want to lose face either. That makes him a double threat because Saddam wasn’t a religous fanatic.

I came up with the idea of doing this post this morning after I ran into one of my customers from waaay back. Sergeant Major Kaiser came to me after he had returned from the first Operation Iraqi Freedom to have a military ring made. He, his wife, and I worked on the custom military ring for awhile and I got to know them during the process of us putting it together. He needed his custom military ring to be his military retirement ring also because he was in the process of putting in his retirement papers.

We worked until we got him exactly what he wanted and his wife presented it to him at his retirement that next month. That was back in 2001 if I remember correctly. I just happened to run into him this morning at a convenience store and asked him how the ring was holding up. I was happy as a lark when I found out that his ring was just fine. He had no complaints whatsoever. Now my beloved military ring customers that is what I’m talking about.

This is a true story. We want you to rest assured that when you get your ring from us you will never have a problem that we can’t resolve.

Operation Enduring Seperation has been an ongoing operation which effects every branch of the Armed Forces and touches every family member regardless of age, race, sex, religion, or ethnicity.

Operation Enduring Seperation touches each and every one of my military ring customers, whether they are Army ring customers, Navy ring customers, Air Force ring customers, Marine ring customers, Coast Guard ring customers, etc. It doesn’t matter if they are Navy SEAL ring, customers, Special Forces ring customers, Delta Force, Army Rangers, Force Recon or what have you.

Operation Enduring Seperation speaks for the time when troops are seperated from their loved ones while discharging their sworn duties to their country. It speaks for the time that they have spent sleeping on the ground on top of ice and snow. It speaks for each and every wet and miserable experience that they have ever gone through while serving their country. It speaks for the times they have been caught in dust storms, rainstorms, blizzards, and heat waves.

This operation speaks especially for the times that they have been seperated from their husbands, wives, and children for months at a time. It speaks of the father of that new born who is now a year old and doesn’t even recognize him when he sees him.

It speaks for the mother who has just been moved to a place that she knows nothing about when her husband had to leave as soon as they got there. It speaks of her survival with several small children, a salary too small to even feed them, and a husband who is too far away to be of any help. It speaks further of the time that that husband finds that he will have to stay deployed for an extra six months, he only found out a few days before he was to return back home.

We need the support of every American man, woman, and child for those who have to participate in operation enduring seperation. Support our troops. 

Retirement is a very special time for the person who has made the military a career and should be commemorated with a special piece of military jewelry. Many of the military ring customers that I get are retirees who want to design a custom military retirement ring.

It normally takes them a while to figure out exactly what they want since they have done so much during their time in service. The person in the picture above is one such customer. You can see the joy on his face. He is joyful to be retiring and glad to have his new ring.

There are so many ways that you can design your military ring that I like to listen to the customer tell the parts of the story that he or she wants to tell. Then I like to figure out a way to piece all of it together onto a custom military ring.

Most  of the customers that you see in these pictuers are army ring customers because we were located on an army base. We can design marine corps rings, air force rings, and navy rings also.  

Most of the military ring customers that we have choose celestrium as their metal for very good reason. First of all if you are a younger soldier like the gentleman and his family pictured here you may be on a tight budget. If this is so you can design a celestrium military ring because it looks almost exactly like the gold ring. I know how to tell the difference because I have dealt with all of the metals for quite a while but most people can’t.

The celestrium military ring is more durable than gold and it is a good choice when you plan to wear your military ring every day. Jewelers love this metal because it is so easy to mold and work with, yet it is exceptionally strong. It is good to purchase early in your military career because you may want to design a gold military ring later on. Most of my older customers who are about to make their last military ring purchase will want either the 10 or 14kt gold military ring.

We have shortchanged our transportation corps ring customers because we don’t mention them by name a whole lot but we don’t want you to feel left out. We have just as much customization available to you as any other branch of the military to help you create your custom military ring. You can even choose the transportation colors for your color shield.

The transportation corps is just as vital to our military as any other branch of service. Without your combat service support we would not be able to provide our combat troops the tools that they need to gain victory.

If I remember correctly the first prisoners during Operation Iraqi freedom were transportation corps soldiers. The modern battlefield has changed so much that the transportation ring customer has to be just as ready to face the enemy as the infantry soldier. We salute each and every custom military ring customer who is in the transportation corps whether it be with the army, marine corps, or whoever.  

Military Camoflage is the use of materials, colors, and patterns to make you less visible to enemy soldiers. It works by breaking up the outline of a person, or piece of equipment so that it is not  easily recognizeable against a background. It also uses colors or patterns of colors to make it blend in to the background. This picture shows a combatant with a rifle. Camoflage will make you harder to see but it won’t stop bullets.

Camoflage can be applied to the skin, clothing, your weapon, helmet and other personal equipment, vehicles, ships, and airplanes. Some color patterns are woodland, desert, and now digital camoflage is being used. Digital camoflage uses smaller computer generated patterns. Normally our Special Forces, and Navy SEAL military ring customers are better trained in the use of camoflage. 

Light Infantry units don’t posses the firepower or lethality of heavy mechanized infantry but they do have other distinct advantages. For example they can be inserted behind enemy lines where they can operate for extended periods of time without being detected. They can also operate in conditions or terrain which might bog or hinder heavy units.

One example of a light Infantry unit is the 10th Mountain Division. I remember when we operated with them as a task force. We were the heavy (24th ) Infantry Division and they were the light. The biggest thing that I remember about them is that they were always walking while we spent a lot of time maintaining our equipment.

The Infantry ring customer can use the military ring to distinguish between light and heavy but it is very rare that they do so.