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?
Thanksgiving was at home with my parents on leave
BUT Christmas, flew out of Charleston, SC to Holy Loch, Scotland. SUBLANT had decided that since the BLUE crew had spent Thanksgiving out at sea, that the GOLD crew would fly over a week early to get that crew home for New Years.
I remember like it was yesterday standing on the tender looking down at the JA for the first time....
USS Iwo Jima LPH-2 in Norfolk.
1966 Presidio of Monterrey DLIWC, Christmas at home on leave also got engaged.
1968, C-rats at Khe Sanh.
The pound cake and fruit cocktail were great.
1958 - Utility Squadron One (VU-1) NAS Barbers Point, HI
1966 Uijongbu S. Korea 55th Military Police Co. Award winning Mess Hall. Best damned food I’ve ever eaten. Don’t tell my wife.
Nooooooo
TDay in boot
At Camp Frenzel Jones Bien Hoa Xmas ‘67 in training at the 199th Light Infantry base camp waiting for assignment to a field unit after completing the incountry training. Luckily the time coincided with the Bob Hope USO tour show at Long Binh. Raquel Welch at 27 years old .... Wow !!
AIT. A co. 232 Med Battalion. Ft. Sam Houston, TX.
Basic training Fort Dix NJ 1971, 1/505th 82nd Abn Inf for the second one. My wife is a WAY better cook....but it puts things in perspective though.
I ate some Cs that were older than I was.
Sitting SAC Alert at Andersen AFB, Guam. . .
Amazed all around in USAF boot camp ( 1979 ) by making “sandwiches” out of the meat disks and crackers. I had C-rats years before. Thought people there would figure it out themselves but none did till they saw me doing it. In all cases the C-rats were pre Vietnam war.
Spent my 1st military birdgiving at Lowry AFB, Colorado in aircraft weapons tech school. Was home for Christmas.
Did you ever see the headless major at the alert facility there? I heard stories about him. Was supposedly killed in Vietnam ( Arc Light? ) but still haunted that area. Every time he came up in conversation I would ask if we still had to salute him as he was not wearing a cover. Nobody could answer it.
My education at Harmony Church began in November of 1968. I swear I still have a chigger buried in my left butt cheek from the experience.
Chanute AFB, Illinois. I was going through technical school.
1976. Technical School, Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX. Had a really good dinner.
Interesting thread, proud to be with y’all. 1970 — NAS Corpus Christi (CNAVAVANTRA) mess hall (good stuff); 1971-1972 — aboard DE-1022, homeport Naples, Italy; ASW (chasing Soviet subs from one end of the med to the other); wrote tons of enemy sighting reports. They really did feed us “forward deployed” units quite well. Out to sea 75% (out three weeks,and visited ancient Rome sites about every week ashore).
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