Posted on May 24, 2014
Duty on Holidays, Family Events, and/or Special Occassions?
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We've all been there, so over the years what were those stand-out situations & memories, maybe it was a deployment during the birth of your first child; Battalion, barracks or some other duty on Christmas or New Year's Eve/Day; or perhaps is was a birthday, maybe you had Happy Birthday sung to you in formation on the way to the rifle range, or by Ms. Virginia while in uniform--who knows, anything can happen and probably has; so, dust off your best sea stories, we want to hear them! So, what are we waiting for, let's get this thing started; thank you all for all that you do, and... see you all in the discussion threads!
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Holidays
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Sir, Here at NTC getting a holiday off is a figment of our imagination, though after each rotation we do get a 4 day weekend, its not really the same. The only actually holidays we get off is Christmas and New Years.
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SSG M, thanks for your reply, I suppose you'll be on duty on Monday, so hopefully you all do something at work then to recognize the day. :)
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Deployed for the past three Memorial Days, 4th of Julys, and missed a few Christmas and Thanksgivings along the way. At least we got to fly and get some good work done while on duty.
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I always went and asked for duty on those days so that my men could get the day off with their family. Once I was married I did the same till kids were at least 5 and could notice daddy was gone.
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SSG Rushlo, outstanding leadership by example, these are exactly the type of traits that define an excellent leader!
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I was at Ft Sill for basic training during Thanksgiving. The chow hall had a full blown Thanksgiving dinner prepared for the trainees. Best part was unlimited use of the pay phones for the night.
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SG Miller, thanks for sharing, it sounds like you got your first holiday on duty out-of-the-way early... and for some reason, I suspect that it wasn't nor will be the last. :)
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My best and worst memory is the birth of my son back in Florida while I was in Korea, just before Christmas 1999. He was not due until about New Year's, but I considered it an early Christmas present. All of us in Korea in that time frame were hunkered down for what we thought was going to be a Y2K crisis (intel suggested North Korea was going to "try something" on New Year's). Lucky for me, my son was born on the last day off I had before New Year's and I was able to hear him being born via telephone 14 time zones away.
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