DFAC Christmas Dinner, Part II

Wanted to add some of the watermelon carvings and other DFAC Christmas sights:

Dining Facillity Christmas Dinner

Christmas Dinner was pretty much a ditto of Thanksgiving with different decorations. They go all out to be sure. Nativity scenes, gingerbread houses, Rudolph made of fruit loops were all present, plus watermelon carvings--we ate them the next day! Food was everything you could imagine, plus some.

Christmastime in the 86 CSH

This is actually my office. My little desk in inside the door to the left. You can see the edge of it. I am like the secretary. This is my good friend, Jim Cahill.
Holy Joe's Cafe--Coffee source for the CSH. This is on the way to my office. Chaplain is a good friend who I have breakfast with every day.
Pharmacy in Arabic...
Chapel. We have our services here. This is my favorite place of the whole week.
Chapel from inside the LSA looking out.
Santa with boxes of sockings to pass out.
Santa in the ICW.
Linus on the way down to the Pharmacy and Lab
Grinch down the Pharmacy hall.
Me standing in the OR entrance
OR Entrance

The entire inside walls of the CSH are dry eraser board. SO, with each holiday and especially during the night shift, the artists are about filling the night shift slow time with creations. I took pictures of the collective creations for the Christmas Season...CSH= Combat Support Hospital, but is pronounced CASH. Santa Claus visited also to pass out stockings and goodies to all the CSH personnel. Very nice time of year fraught with many calories from well-wishers in the states!

Gimsbach Church

Our wonderful Church in Gimsbach from 1747. It is the oldest building in town and has a wonderful old organ in it. We go once a year to a church service here--pretty much as often as the rest of the town too!

Mom and Anne's plus Friend

Veritable Central Multimedia Communicatory Experience as Supervised by Mother

Small Village of Kennington

Kennington Entry: Small Village

CHU Sweet Ginger CHU

So, here is an exact replica of my CHU. No decorations, no frill. There IS a toilet INSIDE it vs down the T-walls. The cement T-walls are each about 14 ft high and weigh 4 million pounds...

Ok, well the Germany people have not updated anything so here is an update. First there is some pictures of Halloween, and then pictures of when Katie came to visit us, then a picture of Thanksgiving and the rest are of beautiful Snow!!!

LSA--Maybe means Living Space Area. It is where I live and everyone lives.

Notice the 12 foot high T-walls made of lovely cement.




My room with my bed and closet and desk. The view of the front door and the neighborhood on the way to the DEFAC past many other CHUs. CHU is Containerized Housing Unit,

The Lethal COL Warrior

This is possed as I have an M9, not M16. This was when we were doing the Warrior Task Battle Drill Lanes. Notice my IOTV, which weighs a million pounds and VERY HOT.....

En Route to Baghdad

All of our B bags--duffle bags for B Company who are going to Baghdad,Little lopsided is my hat....
Inside the Air Craft en route to Baghdad
LTC Jim Cahill, my friend from Illesheim.
Look ferocious, correct. Guy next to me is Pete Moffatt, ER Doc and friend.