I hadn’t mess duty in the Chief’s mess on the Dubuque in 1994—as an embarked Marine. Not easy, but much better than the slave labor on the mess decks
That is exactly so...far better than the general enlisted mess.
Food was better, and for some odd reason, the chiefs didn’t mess with you.
I know in the general enlisted mess, there was often acrimonious back and forth between the lower enlisted peons like me and our fellow lower enlisted peons, and there always seemed to be some E3 or E4 cook who would be a hard-ass about something, because I saw them being a-holes to some other poor pimply faced FNG bottom feeder like me!