Overview
- Across bases and ships, service members decorated spaces, shared special meals, and attended chaplain services tailored to mission schedules.
- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made morale calls from the Pentagon to personnel in South Korea, Kuwait, Norway, Greenland, and a Navy carrier operating in the Pacific.
- Operation Christmas Drop concluded at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, delivering hundreds of C-130 aid bundles to remote Pacific islands in its 74th year of training and regional cooperation.
- USO centers and mobile teams provided festive meals, decorations, and rest spaces across Europe, the Middle East, and the Indo‑Pacific, including remote or austere locations.
- Today’s observances echo World War II practices that ranged from turkey-and-ham menus enabled by improving logistics to foxhole meals during the Battle of the Bulge, traditions that continued through Korea and Vietnam.