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Thanksgivings Past
By Bull Nav
We are all thankful today for something.
I am thankful I am home, and that when I was on active duty, although I missed a few Thanksgivings (and one birth), I never missed a Christmas.
One of the Thanksgivings I missed was in 1999. The mighty USS SCRANTON was inport Bahrain, one of 4 port calls to that august center of US Navy operations in the Arabian Gulf.
A couple of other ships were in, too. Our carrier, the USS JOHN F KENNEDY and its shotgun, the USS MONTEREY were both inport. It didn't seem like a carrier was in...
Until the Joan Jett concert.
Beer was cheap and it was Ramadan, so no one was going into town. It was1999, the last century even, and 9/11 was still a couple of years away. We were the tip of the spear, ready to get to it with whoever wanted to make trouble. In port, it was time to party and let loose.
Our Chop (that is supply officer, for you non-Navy types) managed to get the entire band to sign our brow banner, but Joan Jett did not.
Drank a lot of beer and ROCKED OUT!
It was a good time in a foreign port, even though we were far away from our families.
We still had our Navy family.
Sunday we were underway and back at it.
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Happy T-Day Bull Sir,
Now a word from #1 who is with me in the back yard under the orange tree be warned, the scotch is the drink tonight....
Bull Sir, my dad has told me alot about you. First of all, let me express my utmost respect for your commitment to the U.S military and the American way of life.
Now he is backing away from the laptop, can't type to an Officer in my present condition says he, wants to write you in the daylight and with a clear head. So be it....