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Tom, I was 053.10 Rad. T.T. Operator. That was back when the radios still had tubes. Don't think they use those anymore. LOL.

L.W.

Ft. Ord,calif. basic training, 1960. cold, wet, home sick.dont remember what they fed us. rio7

I think I was on a 96 after FMSS, or in clinicals. It was the only one I spent that didn't suck.

MCRD, San Diego, 1957, Basic Training. Ate at the mess hall, turkey, dressing, all the trimmings.

1973. Ft Sam Houston, 1st Med mess hall. I had worked the night shift and got off at 0730. I caught some sleep and got up in the afternoon. I walked the 1/2 block to the mess hall to have a couple of slices of compressed turkey loaf, something resembling mashed potatoes and watery gravy and some canned cranberry sauce. Because of the 1973 oil embargo it was probably one of the last semi good meals I got from Uncle Sam for a long time. kwg

AV(Aviation Electronics) School Millington Tn. Navy 1981

I was in my basic training Co. in Ft. Polk LA. 1965 The food was actually very good.

When I read the thread title, I was trying to remember, but reading your post I recalled I was also in Basic, but at Ft McClellan Alabama.

Had a more Christmas like dinner with the troops a couple years back...



...much more fun.

From all the posts its obvious we have lots of members on the Fire that served their country. Congratulations to all.

I was there in 1972 in tech school. We had the worst chow hall on base. Thanksgiving meal was a fine meal. We were sitting around that evening and thought let's go back and get some left overs. Nope, back to the same disgusting chow. The other chow halls had good food all the time.

Field Medical Service School at Camp Pendleton
USN

Thanksgiving 1987 I ate dinner at Denny's in Knoxville, KY on my way from Oklahoma City to Officer's Basic Course at Fort Eustis, VA. Thanksgiving dinner 1988 was in dress blues at the dining facility as a platoon leader in 53rd Transportation Battalion.

Expat

Thanksgiving 1984, AIT@ Ft Gordon Georgia. Just got there from basic @Ft Jackson. Good early meal then GI party well into the night in our dumpy Brehms Barracks, basically sheet metal calf barns.

Thanksgiving 1968 was at NAS Pensacola Florida.

Thanksgiving 1980 was at Ft. Devens, Ma. in AIT.

MP school. D-10-4, August to October 1973. The wooden barracks used during Viet Nam (Splinter city) had just closed up and all the MP's for the free world were getting trained at Brehm's barracks. 2 battalions (8 companies)was all the Army and the Marines had. PFC Brehm was murdered at one of the remote guard shacks on Ft. Gordon. That's the origin of the name. I can't tell you if the murder was ever solved. kwg

Trying to stay warm in West Germany.

1971

On an SSBN (a submarine) doing a FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missle) Deterrent Patrol somewhere in the North Atlantic. I could have been mess-cranking or doing Helms-Planes watches, I don't recall that particular Thanksgiving Day ---> "... just another day at sea ..."

We were out for Christmas too, and New Year's and about every holiday other than Groundhog Day it seemed...

The SOB's on the Blue Crew had the good cycle... (If there were such a thing!)

Aircraft weapons school "The Black Shack" Lowry AFB Colorado Nov'68..Had dinner off base at my great uncle's home in Aurora.

it was 1983 , Ihad been on the island of Grenada for about a month after we invaded it , it was a hot thanksgiving ,after growing up in W.Va, was not use to that ....lol