By Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston 39th Air Base Wing
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey, Nov. 24, 2017 — Airmen with the
74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron deployed here were among the U.S. troops
serving at home and overseas who received Thanksgiving Day greetings and thanks
from President Donald J. Trump yesterday.
Trump praised the airmen and told them that they and other
service members serving the nation are “very, very special people to me, and to
everybody in this country.”
The president also saluted military families.
The president spoke to the service members via video
teleconference from the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where he and
his family are celebrating the holidays.
He talked to service members assigned to five military units
deployed in different parts of the world.
This marks the first time a president has conducted a
holiday video teleconference call with deployed personnel during the holidays
in lieu of the traditional telephone call.
The Army was represented on the president’s video conference
call by the 1st Brigade Combat Team of
the 82nd Airborne Division that’s currently deployed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Also yesterday, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited
with Coast Guard members in Riviera Beach, Florida.
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