At the Bagram airbase, U.S. troops joined their British counterparts in Christmas caroling and a traditional dinner. 
There are 100 Royal Marines stationed around Kabul and Bagram, and about 1,500 British troops are slated to be deployed as a part of a multi-national peacekeeping force that is expected to eventually number 5,000. 
Stationed at the Bagram base, Maj. Vic Harris said he appreciated a special holiday schedule in operation. "Our leadership has substituted in our gate guard responsibility so that the younger soldiers can come and have a Christmas dinner, which we're going to do today," he said. 
After more than a month of consuming only plastic-wrapped Meals Ready-to-Eat, the troops at Bagram had special Christmas dinners flown in from the Ramstein Air force Base in Germany.
Capt. Jimmy Cummings described the menu for the dinner U.S. troops would be having with their British counterparts. 
"Hopefully we'll have some turkey, some sweet potatoes, maybe some pumpkin pie," he said. 
U.S. soldiers also got a chance to call home and wish their families. 
In the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, U.S. and French soldiers gathered in the cafeteria of a school they are currently stationed in to sing carols and receive special food rations. 
More than 200 French troops stationed at the Mazar-e-Sharif airport were given gift bags containing red wine and canned French food. The troops admitted they had been complaining about the U.S. military food rations they were receiving. 
And in the Arabian Sea, about 5,000 troops stationed on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed a 50 percent reduction in warplane sorties. The Roosevelt has launched an average of 80 flights a day since the United States began the military campaign in Afghanistan on Oct.7.
