[Antonello]

“This chow is amazing to be field rations,” said Lance Cpl. Douglas Smith, a Bridgeton, N.J. native and scout sniper with BLT 1/2. “It sure beats eating MREs all the time.” Aiding the 2nd MLG Marines are food service specialists from the MEU’s Command Element, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Bn., 2nd Marines, and MEU Service Support Group 22, who are learning how to operate and maintain the new cooking facility in the field so they in turn can support the MEU’s Marines and sailors.

I was always amazed at how good dehydrated/rehydrated pork chops could be when you were in the field. The two groups of people I never wanted to piss off were cooks and corpsmen. God bless 'em all.

[Meadow Muffin]

This brought back some fond and some not so fond memories of eating in Vietnam.....good hot food does a lot for morale, but even cold C rats, are great if that is all you have and you are hungry.