Christmas in the field

[Beachbumbob]

You have to love your mother. They worry about the most insignificant things.

RVN Xmas Tree fro&#1.jpg

I hope everyone who is deployed now has such a loving mother and family as I did.

Merry Christmas

[Griff Murphey]

When I was with 3rd MarDiv on Okinawa, Christmas '74, my mom and dad sent me a big Christmas package. I opened it up and it had a can of Wolf Brand Chili, some Old El Paso canned tamales and canned refried beans, chips, and hot sauce. I cooked it on my hot plate in my Q and had a great taste of home. It was one of my most memorable Christmas Presents, ever.

[Oyaji]

Christmas Eve 1968 onboard the USS Hancock (CVA-19), Gulf of Tonkin

Had a USO tour come aboard and did some entertaining. You just might recognize some of these folks.....

[Oyaji]

Had a USO tour come aboard and did some entertaining. You just might recognize some of these folks.....

Another photo of Ann-Margaret from the 1968 USO tour.

[joem]

Christmas 1968 RVN. No USO, nothing special, just another day in the bunker on watch.

[Michaelp]

Xmas eve 68 I sat up all night waiting to ambush a local VC unit.
They apparently stayed home-lucky for them.

1969 observed XMAS cease fire by watching some ARVNs send a whole bunch of 105's into Cambodia.
Me and the team medic helped by shooting a bunch of leftover 2.75 rockets with claymore clackers guided by a length of angle iron.

[cwartyman]

Christmas morning 1990 in Bahrain in a tower on the Persian Gulf side of the base.