when you and your mates looked in the general direction of home and wondered how they were spending Christmas?.
2007-12-21 20:56:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Out of six years of service, I spent 5 Christmas holidays overseas on one deployment or another. Of course your thoughts are on your loved ones, but you soon realized that you were over there in Bosnia or Kuwait or wherever so your family, friends, and loved ones didn't have to be. Then it was easier to stomach.
2007-12-22 01:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by sirmoosta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can recall every Christmas being away from family. I know the lcoations and people I was with during that deployments. For some people it is a sad moment, for others, the people that are beside them are their family too. I always knew what my family was doing on Christmas, it was tradition. Sure I missed them but usually I had more important matters during the day then to sit and get depressed for being away from my family. In the long run, I will never forget those days and thoughts. My children are always in my thoughts.
2007-12-21 21:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by Red 7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From many places and all directions Vietnam and Europe and even within the U.S. many Christamases when I could not take leave to get home. I think I made three Christmase trip here, which is home, in twenty years but those were special ones and after getting married and spnding them with just my family where I was always had some friends or the younger Marines over for it; not my family I was born and aised with but a different family I served with.
2007-12-21 22:48:21 · answer #3 · answered by GunnyC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do, I remember spending a christmas in Abu Ghraib, getting mortared, and than being able to spend the next christmas in Rome, always balances out in the end.....and there is always a phone for me to call home, i'll be home soon enough.
2007-12-21 23:34:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I often recall many of those days away, That is why even today after I have been out for more than 12 yrs I just like to sit back and enjoy everyone else having fun. It did not get to many times for I was on duty. It still upsets me when I think about the 1st shirt asking every one what days you would like to stand duty. We all picked our days, then low and behold he would come back and try to sway you into changing your days because so and so would like to spend it with his family who was with him. No 1st sgt I would like to go out also, well then SSgt would you(and the tone of his voice changed) so he pulled the rank card on you and again you as stuck with duty. Even after I got married they pulled the same crap on me and another person. Maybe we just had sucker on our forehead or something.
2007-12-21 23:37:43 · answer #5 · answered by Yogi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know for a fact I've been on foreign soil at Christmas but I just realized I can't remember the occasions. Soju will do that to you though.
2007-12-22 00:35:22 · answer #6 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋