Originally Posted by
jsfBoat
Just want to see what some of the military Xmas memories people have. Since I'm suggesting, I'll start.
Remember when my dad was in the air force, was about 10 years old. Stood out on the flight line with my dad to wait for Santa's arrival, and watched as this F-16 landed on the runway, taxi in, shut down and the canopy come open. Little did I know it was "Santa" until he climbed down the ladder and handed a big bag of presents to the line crew. Probably my best military Christmas memory.
Originally Posted by
Stallog
They (we) still do that. At my last assignment the parents were tasked to buy books for Santa to hand out to the respective children.
Stallog
We usually did that too - but Santa didn't fly in - the plane was towed in front of the hangar from another location on the airfield.
It kind of kills the moment if Santa has to strip off all the flight gear; and I guarantee that I couldn't fit on my flight gear over a Santa suit or fit into the cockpit!
USMCFLYR