Thanksgiving 1969 walking foot patrol just outside of the Korean DMZ Fence...... Dinner consisted of Meatball and Spagetti C_Ration heated by burning the card board box.... 5th / 38th FA / 2nd Infantry division / Camp Sabre...................... drill sgt.

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Embarked troops on USS Ogden off the coast of Viet Nam. First time I ever had Baked Alaska, 1968.

I worked every Thanksgiving for my 4 years of active duty as I was a 94B Army cook. We put quite the spread on that day at the consolidated Dining Facility on post; rather than each Battalion or Brigade having their own mess hall like the old days, I served in a big one that serviced the 5 units on post.

Standing guard outside a nuke loaded B-52 at K.I. Sawyer AFB, Thanksgiving 1974. 20 degree weather.

In 1966 I did Thanksgiving Day in Basic Training in Ft. Lewis Washington State.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I worked every Thanksgiving for my 4 years of active duty as I was a 94B Army cook. We put quite the spread on that day at the consolidated Dining Facility on post ...

Just a few days ago I was telling my son that during my 6 years in the Army, the chow was always pretty damn good. So, thanks and well done.

2011 at FOB Airborne, Afghanistan. We get hit by RPGs in the morning, local truck driver was killed by shrapnel. Landed close enough to shake the building I was in. Squadron CDR comes into the fires cell, points at the screen and says, "I want 2 rounds of 155 laid on there at my command!" We ended up firing the rounds, didn't kill the fuckers, though.

2013 in Kuwait. Didn't do much that day, it was a slow and quiet day.

I was in Vietnam during Thanksgiving Day. They stood us down for the day, so no flying into NVN. It seems as though we might have had a drink or two to say thank you for a quiet peaceful day.

1965 Vietnam USMC.

1967 - Senior Candidate Infantry OCS, Ft Benning, GA
1968 - I do not remember
1969 - Ft Bragg, 18th Airborne, 30 days until REFRAD

1969?

ET"A" school, GLAKES. Whatever they served at the chow hall.

Food was not memorable either way.

I think it was my time in the military and pretty much always being away from family (other than my wife and kids) but neither the wife or I have ever made a production of the holidays.

Except Christmas when the kids were little of course.

Holidays on the farm were a HUGE deal. Either Thanksgiving or Christmas, and frequently both, were celebrated with all 5 of my brothers and their families being present at the farm along with my Great Aunt Ida (Grandmother Fox's sister, the only survivor of that generation when I was a kid). More food than any reasonable person could eat, discussions of long passed (and past...) relatives, food comas and mass naps after dinner.

1971

24th Evac Hospital, Long Binh

A fairly quiet day and the chow was better

Thanksgiving day 1952, Korea, battle of White Horse Mountain,lost an FO that day. CO C Battery39th FA 3d ID

1969? Not too far from you, drill sgt. I was at Camp Casey.

November 1969, Cape May, New Jersey. USCG boot camp waiting for a new Company Commander who didn't arrive until mid January 1970. I don't think I have ever been as cold as I was that winter.

1962 at Ft. Gordon Ga.in basic.Day before Tgiving went thru grenade,infiltration course and it rained off and on all day.Cold all day Tgiving,but meal was great,even with Shrimp cocktails.

Thanksgiving
1985 fort Sam Houston Texas
2004 Taji / camp cooke Iraq
2008 camp Phoenix Afghanistan

Today called in to assist in emergency surgery, but got home in time to enjoy dinner with friends.
Hoping no one needs surgery tomorrow !

'68 Boot Camp, Great Lakes.
'69 -'70 USS Nereus AS17.
'71 USS Sperry AS12.
'72 Home

1970 - USMC Boot Camp
1972 - Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (but dinner was pretty good)

2005: Iraq
2006: Iraq
2007: Iraq
2010: Afghanistan
2011: Afghanistan
2012: East Africa
2013: Afghanistan
2014: Arabian Peninsula
2018: Afghanistan
2020: Afghanistan