While you are all at home enjoying the holiday break, I thought I would post a short note about Christmas in the fleet. Often ships will be in their homeport for the holidays. Most of the crew will then be on leave and enjoy the day at home, the same as you and I. Many ships, squadrons, and Marine Corps units, as well as other units from other services, will of course be deployed away from home over the holidays. For these folks the service always does their best to make the holidays as special as possible. Ships in port set special decorations; each ship tried to outdo the others, but the finest displays were always seen on the huge battleships where the gun turrets would be outlined with lights. Some of the best Christmas meals I've ever had were on ships at sea where the food almost made up for being away from home. Here are a few pictures of fleet activities:
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The USS Hoon tricked out for Christmas in port, Pearl Harbor.
(April Kalblein,MHS class of 2009 and our former cadet XO is a second class petty officer aboard the Hoon.) |
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| RADM Schoemaker, Commander of Carrier Strike Group 9 assists in cutting the ceremonial cake cutting on board his flagship, the USS Abraham Lincoln. |
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| The Command Master Chief helps serve Christmas dinner aboard the Abraham Lincoln. |
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