Posted on 12/25/2020 9:20:04 AM PST by PROCON
Link only due to copyright rules.
My BIL AF pilot always said if they landed at a Naval AS, they’d head to Navy mess, it was the best chow.
Most prisons attempt at least Turkey etc
Some do quite well especially if they let the prisoners have free reign which some do for special meals
Columbus Day....mob guys run kitchen
Thanksgiving .....blacks
Christmas and Easter ....whites
You kippur and Roshashannah.....Jews obviously who tend to fix Sephardi dishes....maybe some pirogues and brisket too
Rest of the year the joint runs the kitchen and lol you can tell....the guards glom the good stuff for their clubhouse
Did your prison holiday knowledge come from behind the bars or outside? 😎
I read a lot
My Step-Father, Retired Navy Captain, Submariner etc..
He would ask for coffee and in order for the crewman to get the cup of coffee down the stairs during rough seas without spilling it was to transfer the coffee into his mouth, run down the stairs and spit it back into the cup.
SOP.
He passed in July 2019.
Not my real dad but a stand up guy.
The last time I saw him was in the hospital, literally on his death bed. The nurse came in to check on him. She asked him “What day is it?” He got it wrong.
She asked him “What month is it?”
He got it wrong again.
She then asked him “Who is the President?”
He said “Make America Great Again”
I love that man.
He is resting now at Arlington National Cemetery. Thirty years of dedicated honorable service to a Great Nation that he loved.
All of the “service name here”’Times publications are privately-owned. At one time, it was Gannett, same as USA Today but I’m unsure if they still own them.
The Mil-Rags are run by USSA Today. So Ad revenue is required.
Amen to that... a good editor would have handed the piece back to him or rejected it. Years ago I had a friend who came up freelancing - paid by the word. He never gave up some of his ingrained bad habits which included really sloppy wordy writing after the firth paragraph. Sometime back I saw a piece posted here with his byline. I followed the link - and sure 'nuff it was crap after the first few paragraphs...and it was a fairly good paper that had run the original...
People who have never known journalists as friends have waaaaay too much respect for the profession.
....good luck with that..... there aren’t all that many black, lesbian, transgender, Asian, handicapped folks holding flag rank within our Armed Forces...? well, according to critical race theory....(wait for it....) it is all due to RACISM....!!...this is from our illustrious Dept of Defense.....
....[The] Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) is an organization aligned under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) that develops and executes diversity management and equal opportunity policies and programs affecting active duty and reserve component military personnel, and DOD civilian employees.
My high school best friend’s dad spent thirty years active duty. First ten was as a Navy cook. The next twenty were as an Army cook. For some reason after serving during the Korean War he refused to ever eat chicken again.
(Flying 11-12 hour missions with my Navy crew in the mid 80s, the Reel Ops would put together an entire Christmas feast out of the Convection Oven in the Herc.)
Umm, sounds like a EC-130Q sailor to me. I used to let one out and reel it in myself.
If you can catch it.
I was in the AF in the 70’s. Steak every Saturday night. No Mess hall/KP duty, except during Basic. Food was pretty good. There were some dining halls that served better food than others. Word got around and people started go to the “better” dining halls on our base. The base commander put a halt to that and made us stick to our assigned dining halls.
Christmas and Thanksgiving was epic. Since I was in tech school, even those that lived off base jointed us for Thanksgiving Dinner. We explained that we were a class that wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving together. So everyone, met at the dining hall at the set time. We pushed together numerous table and ate as one “family”. There had to have been 50 + of us that included spouses and children for a few of the class members.(If I remember correctly, even one or two of our instructors joined us.).
The staff were so in awe, that they helped set up our tables. The class leader even said grace, before we ate. After eating, the main course we were sitting around talking, the staff brought out trays of pumpkin and other pies with whipped cream or ice cream for the toppings.
From what I have hear air force eats high.
A friend used to joke about chocolate fountains and foi gras
Army in Korea in 1985. A large roast beef. There were a couple nice ice sculptures made by local craftsmen as well for decoration.
Yes, I have heard that as well. My dad would hassle me during my phone calls home wanting to know how many times I was doing KP, or other mundane chores. He did not believe me that we ate steak every Saturday. I think that lobster did happen on occasion, but since I am not a fan, so it wasn’t a big deal to me. (Other fishy items such as rock cod, crab, shrimp, halibut,salmon, etc., that is a totally different matter.)
My “Christmas Meal” (Thanksgiving’s too) memories were badly warped by being so long in new construction (shipyard duty in the nuke subs in Electric Boat and Newport News) because we have no mess deck built yet, no heat, no power, no floors, nothing but a coffee pot and a remote barge workshop.
It wasn’t only that the mess cooks had nothing to cook with, nothing to cook on, or no mess decks to serve on, but they were not even assigned yet for 3 of the 4 years!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.