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23 Nov 2017 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 11/23/2017 9:46:45 AM PST by US Navy Vet

Where were you on your first Thanksgiving and Christmas in the Military?


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To: US Navy Vet
Thanksgiving at Lackland AFB 1971, end of basic was one week away. The dinner was good but still institutional. It was the first (not the last) time I had nuts and christmas candy from #10 cans.

The real thrill was seeing people, not all dressed in green at the chapel. I incidentally saw my senior MTIs family. Boy did he have a gracious and good looking wife with a most wonderful smile.

21 posted on 11/23/2017 10:01:33 AM PST by pfflier
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To: US Navy Vet

Oh, and my first Christmas I was back at Kelly getting ready for 3 months in Greenland doing a major upgrade of the tropospheric scatter radios up and down the Dew Line (Dye 1 through Dye 4 + Sonderstrom).


22 posted on 11/23/2017 10:03:18 AM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: US Navy Vet

First Thanksgiving I was at Ft Knox in either Motor Officer course or M60A2 Transition course. 1974. First Christmas I was on leave before going to Germany. Next 3 Christmas and Thanksgiving were in Kirch-Gowns with 3AD.


23 posted on 11/23/2017 10:03:21 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: US Navy Vet

The ROK.


24 posted on 11/23/2017 10:04:01 AM PST by ex91B10
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To: US Navy Vet

Just outside of Xuan Loc, RVN with the 9th Inf, 3/5 Cav, ‘67.
Had a great meal, Turkeys delivered by helicopter but the trimmings AND rolls was done by our field cooks who traveled with us 24/7.


25 posted on 11/23/2017 10:05:56 AM PST by Dapper 26
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To: US Navy Vet

Lackland AFB for basic in ‘61.


26 posted on 11/23/2017 10:06:16 AM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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To: US Navy Vet

Keesler AFB, MS RADAR school. The next two were in Berlin and the last one in Fortuna AFS, ND.

I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.


27 posted on 11/23/2017 10:07:29 AM PST by 109ACS (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog - Mark Twain)
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To: US Navy Vet

NAS Dallas


28 posted on 11/23/2017 10:08:49 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was lucky...just finished boot camp and flew straight home for Thanksgiving!

Unknowingly said the”F” word at max volume while relating a boot camp story, and wondered for a second why 30 members of my family were just staring open mouthed at me!


29 posted on 11/23/2017 10:09:57 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Home on leave having just completed Navy boot camp. Timed it that way. Hit my first duty station after on 12/31


30 posted on 11/23/2017 10:11:15 AM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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Lowry AFB, Denver. School was a loooong time and by the time Thanksgiving came around the few of us in school were best of friends and spent it together.


31 posted on 11/23/2017 10:12:39 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Both were at The Basic School, Quantico, in 1968. The next were in I Corps, RVN.


32 posted on 11/23/2017 10:14:55 AM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Az Joe

You were on leave for both Thanksgiving and Christmas?


33 posted on 11/23/2017 10:15:41 AM PST by deport
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To: US Navy Vet

It was in 1968 and I think I was in the middle of Radio “C” school in San Diego. Nothing pops up as memorable so I probably had watch duty. In fact, I have about no memories of any of the four.


34 posted on 11/23/2017 10:16:28 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: US Navy Vet

Do you remember unrepping with USS Mars (AFS 1)? If you did I was on it.


35 posted on 11/23/2017 10:17:04 AM PST by suthener
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1966 - Infantry OCS Ft. Benning, GA for Thanksgiving. I seem to remember having enough time off for Christmas to go home to TX, but that was a long time ago to remember.

1967 - Thanksgiving in II Corps and Christmas in I Corps.


36 posted on 11/23/2017 10:17:33 AM PST by Misplaced Texan (July 4, 2009 - the first day of the 2nd Revolution!)
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To: 11Bush

What year, this could be one heck of a coincidence.


37 posted on 11/23/2017 10:18:01 AM PST by ElevenB
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To: US Navy Vet

Uhwarrie National Forest doing Robin Sage.

Think I got a C Ration that day.


38 posted on 11/23/2017 10:18:27 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Actually, I was in boot camp. I went Oct 12, and that first Thanksgiving, I was still in RTC Orlando. A week or so later, mail call had letter(s) and pictures from my mom. Of course, the ham, turkey, dressing et al. were prominent in the Polaroid pictures. Made me so mad, since we had crap to eat (I mean, it WAS boot camp).

Still have the picture, and love it.


39 posted on 11/23/2017 10:19:03 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: US Navy Vet

Thanksgiving was Mosul, Christmas was Baghdad (2007).

Had patrols to do on Thanksgiving, but the food was amazing. No mission on Christmas, but we moved from the airport FOBs to an East Baghdad FOB for a mission the next day just south of Sadr City. The food was amazing there, too, but the FOB got hit by mortar fire regularly, so we had to eat in our body armor.

I do remember driving through Baghdad early in the morning and seeing a group of Iraqi Christians lining up to go into a church downtown at about 0500. It was pretty amazing—those people could easily have been killed for that act by any number of terrorist groups.


40 posted on 11/23/2017 10:20:22 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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