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Career Path => Navy Nuke => Topic started by: greenbean on Nov 25, 2009, 01:23

Title: Turkey on a Sub
Post by: greenbean on Nov 25, 2009, 01:23
I know a lot of people don't get to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families if they are deployed or are out to sea.

I'm curious where some of you celebrated thanksgiving while under way. Did you have turkeys brought on board? Was there a port visit you remember?

Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Title: Re: Turkey on a Sub
Post by: Mike_Koehler on Nov 25, 2009, 01:32
In my 9+ years in, I enjoyed 4 Thanksgiving meals while on "training missions in international waters...." We had a turkey like substance once, but the other 3 were on Surf-n-Turf nights and you don't cancel those....

Mike
Title: Re: Turkey on a Sub
Post by: DLGN25 on Nov 26, 2009, 09:46
Not on a sub or a nuke, but on a tin can in the Indian Ocean, steaming on Condition II watches during the lead up to the Indian-Pakistani war in 1971.  We had turkey on that Thanksgiving day.  Still on Condition II most of the time when Christmas rolled around and we had turkey once again.  All we wanted was to return to the Gulf of Tonkin and those Condition III watches, and of course, combat theater pay.

Title: Re: Turkey on a Sub
Post by: Marlin on Nov 30, 2009, 06:11
Quote from: greenbean on Nov 25, 2009, 01:23
I know a lot of people don't get to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families if they are deployed or are out to sea.

I'm curious where some of you celebrated thanksgiving while under way. Did you have turkeys brought on board? Was there a port visit you remember?

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Lobster is "Turkey of the Sea"  ;)
Title: Re: Turkey on a Sub
Post by: nuke_girl on Nov 30, 2009, 07:44
neither does Nuke girl !!!!!!


Title: Re: Turkey on a Sub
Post by: Marlin on Nov 30, 2009, 07:52
More bugs for me, pass the butter.  8)