A photo taken a month ago on Thanksgiving Day led to a very Merry Christmas morning for Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Banny Chavez who used the photo as the final picture in a slide show he sent to his girlfriend Ericka Hall as a marriage proposal, Dec. 25, Forward Operating Base Farah, Afghanistan. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ericka Hall accepted Chavez's proposal this morning via a phone call using Skype. "She was excited, surprised and obviously happy. We haven't set a date," said Chavez, "but she's already planning." The couple met while deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, and have been
A photo taken a month ago on Thanksgiving Day led to a very Merry Christmas morning for Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Banny Chavez who used the photo as the final picture in a slide show he sent to his girlfriend Ericka Hall as a marriage proposal, Dec. 25, Forward Operating Base Farah, Afghanistan. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ericka Hall accepted Chavez's proposal this morning via a phone call using Skype. "She was excited, surprised and obviously happy. We haven't set a date," said Chavez, "but she's already planning." The couple met while deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, and have been together for four years since. Both are stationed at the Naval School of Health Sciences in San Diego. Chavez wrote his love letter to Ericka on the floor of the Forney Clinic trauma bay with glow stick liquid.
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