Camp Fat Camp.
I would like to know where and at what DFAC this image was taken. My guess- Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. The world’s largest most proficient chow hall is located there, serving up to 28,000 meals a day. 7,000 meals each, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight rations.
Both subject’s expressions are golden!
Back in the day... when running cadence and in passing an obviously overweight person, that person would be referred to as “heavy drop”. Airborne rigger-slang for heavy air loads dropped from the sky.
In 1983, I went to a basic leadership school and got rejected for being overweight based on some antiquated height weight chart. I had just run 2 miles in 10:35, for my most recent PT test so I was no slouch. I am built like an archetype middle linebacker. It didn’t matter one iota, since the chart said emphatically, that I was a fatty. The weight limit for my height (5’ -11”) was 198lbs. I think I weighed 207lbs. I was sent to the back of the room with all the other rejects. One rejected guy looked like a human fireplug.
My First Sargent sent me to an Army doctor to get a pinch test and my abdominal fat equated into a low percentage and the doctor adjusted my maximum allowable weight to 220lbs. Unfortunately, the effort was too late as the cow had already left the barn as I had lost my slot.