What is the most memorable thanksgiving that you spent while in the military?

Thanksgiving Day, 1974 about 1900L, I arrived at Co B 94th Military Police Bn at Kaiserslautern FRG as a 18 year old Pvt at my first duty assignment. What a ride I had! Wouldn't change a thing!

While in the first gulf war I served as a corpsman with the usmc. We were able to trade some local items to a cook on a gator freighter and proudly procured a fresh turkey. We didn't have a means to cook it so being a corpsman and using our ability to adapt we cooked the Turkey in an autoclave. I don't remember how it tasted but i remember the joy of sharing it w my marines and sailors. Thinking back I'm not sure if I'd cook it in the same way as we did sterilize surgical equipment in the same autoclave.

I was stationed outside of Kuwait in 1990, when my unit was relieved for 3 days and we went to stay in Riyadh at Eskan Village. And at that time they were having families host soldiers for Thanksgiving, but those had been planned out for a while. Just out of luck a family had said they could host a 100 soldiers but for some reason someone had misread it for 10 soldiers and this family had planned for 100, so nonetheless my Unit along with a unit from the Marines were sent over to this compound for our Thanksgiving dinner. And it was totally what we needed, and we shared stories and some strong friendships were created that evening. I speak to a lot of those guys every year at this time and that bond that was created that Thanksgiving make it a memorable if not most memorable thanksgiving not just while in the military but in my lifetime.

Camp Enri, Pleiku, Vietnam Thanksgiving 1969. Shortly after the change of Command, General Abram's visited our microwave site. The food was pretty good I remember.