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?
Not great but better than some later ones I spent at sea or in various odd locations.
"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
A school at NAS Millington, Memphis Tn.
USS Ajax 1969 down in the hole.
1976, Eglin AFB, FL
I had a couple of those turkey c-rats. I actually liked them.
I can’t eat turkey to this day because of that.
Thanksgiving & Christmas 1967 at Keesler AFB MS attending ATC Radar Maintenance school. Seemed strange for this Northern boy to go for a walk on the beach after the Thanksgiving meal.
No green sliders for me.
Hmmm...that looks real. Id actually like to know who cans such products.
Monterey, CA. At the Presidio.
My Last year in 1967. USS Hancock CVA 19 Yankee Station.
My Folks left the Christmas tree up until I came home in June the next year. Dead needles all over the floor. Nothing left except dead branches, ornaments, and the stuff under the tree.
I know it was a fire hazard but my Mom wanted me to see Christmas at home.
Pleiku for Thanksgiving. I left Vietnam Christmas eve, 1 week before the Tet Offensive.
First Thanksgiving? School.
Second Thanksgiving? More schooling (Submarine school).
Third Thanksgiving, and several others? “North”.
Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, 18th Engineer Brigade.
On T Day 66 I was out of BCT ( Ft Knox) and in AIT (Ft Dix, NJ),
1955 Ellington AFB, Houston, Texas, Navigator training. Thanksgiving dinner at the Officers’ Club. Very good. Rented a Stinson Voyager and flew home to visit my wife’s family in Oklahoma and my family in Arkansas for Christmas.
Went home to central MA from Governor’s Island NYC as I was in electronics technician “A” school for the Coast Guard in 1971.
Ft Bragg, NC in 1985. The chow hall was closed so a few Platoon Sergeants took us privates living in the barracks to eat with their families. This was one of my first and fondest experiences of “taking care of our own” as I learned during my first year of service.
By far the worst (which included a meal) was Iraq, 2008. Everything had curry in it to include the turkey, mashed potatoes and green beans.
That said, I’ve always been thankful to the Lord for allowing me to serve the greatest nation this world has ever seen.
Regards.
At Ft. Dix BCT. I had KP the day prior man that was crazy. My Mom and Dad came for Thanksgiving at our Mess Hall.
I met a guy at NTC (FT Irwin) from the OPFOR BDE who used to say, “Death before dismount.” At the time we were executing the last 82nd ABN DIV light fighter rotation at NTC before beginning what would become a yearly JRTC torture first in FT Chaffee, AK and later in FT POLK, LA.
Regards.
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