For the first time since the Vietnam War, Bob Hope entertains United States armed service members for his classic USO Christmas show, in this case members of the U.S. Navy and Marines serving in the multi-national peace-keeping force in Beirut, Lebanon, along with British, French, and Italian troops, from 1982-1984. Highlights include a segement where Hope endures the same constant gunfire that plagued Lebanon from 1975 through the early-1990's.