May Your Next Thanksgiving be at Home
JP5 and cranberry sauce...
My last Thanksgiving away from home was also my last Thanksgiving on active duty; Thanksgiving of 2008 in Kabul.
The German run DFAC did their best, but Thanksgiving is not a NATO holiday, so we Americans did our best … even putting up with the Canadians reminding us, “We have a Thanksgiving too!”
OK.
Nothing beats a Thanksgiving at sea, though. From small ships to the big CVNs, I never knew a ship that did not give 110% in the galley. It was still a workday…but no one went hungry.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Few nations, if any, have been as blessed as ours. Ponder that, and make it better for the next generation.
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If you went hungry on a ship at sea, it was your own fault.
You'll need a few eye drops and kleenex for the dust. The system will not let me post the pic directly, alas.
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NATO doesn't recognize the Fourth of July either. July 4, 1978 USS TATTNALL was part of STANAVFORLANT in Rosyth, Scotland and had to get underway that day. As a protest a group dressed up as the Spirit of '76 marched over to the Royal Navy frigate and dumped some teabags over the side.