[Justa]

I think the chow halls are all under the same contract but there are certainly service differences site-to-site. My favorite was the BBQs at Babylon. They'd have outdoor steak BBQs (coals/grill) on the covered chowhall patio (on the river). On the way in you'd go down the line, select a raw steak(s) and tell the chef how you wanted it, then go in to the main line. After getting main line food, salad bar, etc. you'd go out and pickup your steak(s).

The OIF chow is definitely the best I've ever seen on a military base. The weekly surf-and-turf is great but it's gotten to about once a month now. The steak is always great.

My only peeve is 'someone' frequently cuts the coffee with tea. Seeing that they pour the Maxwell House in from pre-opened cans I just know it's a conspiracy. And why do some bases never have coffee in their PX? This is the kinda stuff that causes riots -but our troops are just too professional for that nowadays. Too bad.

[namsman]

You are right about the coffee in the Exchanges. I've been dispatching boxes with bags of Seattle's Best and Starbucks to LCpl Namsman Jr. since he deployed. He says he's pretty popular with the coffee drinkers.

Namsman sends.