Death from Within... 8^)
Posted on 03/21/2008 3:22:30 PM PDT by SandRat
Believe it or not, I never had a terrible meal in all my time in the military. As a matter of fact, some of our mess halls in Korea could rival a three or four star restaurant. Many of the mess sergeants had been to civilian chef schools, such as the Culinary Institute of America or Le Cordon Bleu.
” An invaluable advantage of the FFSS is its capability to draw power from tactical (most military) vehicles”
I’ll echo that. The shipboard food I had in the Coast Guard was generally excellent. Our cook was an SS1 and he’d been to chef school. He worked some real magic, even when the supplies were running low. He always did something special. A couple times he got a buddy in Maine to ship some boxes of live lobsters to us when we were offshore in Alaska. Schweet. Another time we had a fish call and one of the guys caught a 140lb halibut. He immediately cooked it up for the crew for dinner. Best. Halibut. Ever.
These Marines look like they’re eating pretty good. Sounds like a great idea.
But even todays MRE’s are a whole different world from the old days.
I wonder how it's transported? It looks like it breaks down into shipping container size units.
The only bad chow I had in the Corps was when we were contracting the Saudis in the early days of DS...
The only thing worse than the B-B-Q camel ribs they sent, were the B-B-Q camel ribs they sent a second time...
other than that, no complaints... as long as there was enuff to go round... can’t even count the number of times I missed chow to make sure the junior Marines could fill their bellies... as it should be...
shoulduh knowed yer big @$$ would be on a thread about chow...
Death from Within... 8^)
Never had the camel ribs, but the bbq goat/sheep ribs (or so we were told) were good.
However, I am nostalgic about ‘pecan cake roll’.
Hah! Not so big an @ss as before... An’ slimmin’ an’ trimmin’ every day... :-)
But many miles yet to go.
Can’t say I’ve tried camel, but I got some pretty good ribs in Mexico that looked... Uh... Too small to be either pork or beef.
Not stringy enough to be cat.
But the sauce was really good. :-)
Cabrito
We didn’t have MRE’s, we had C-Rations. Some were okay and some weren’t.
An NCO or Officer should always have his subordinates welfare in mind 24/7.
...Yah... But the sauce was really good... Even the guy from Tennessee said it was the best he’d ever had. :-)
That’s the job. You don’t matter. They do. They’re the ones that do the heavy lifting.
Frankly, that’s the ethic I kept in my civilian career and it has served me well. As a department head, I see it as my first responsibility to be the arrow-catcher for my people.
A buddy of mine served on a PBR on the Mekong in 1968. (Take that, John Kerry.) He said they lived on C's while cruising.
He said one batch they got was left over from WW2. It wasn't any worse than their current stuff, except for the cigarettes (C's had cigarettes until the early 1970s). He said the cigarettes sparkled like a fuse.
Better clothes and better chow are a small investment to keep down the little gripes of the troops that can add up, over time, to a major beef. I had no real complaints in Basic, but I didn't have much to smile about, either. One afternoon, lunch on the rifle range had strawberry shortcake for desert. It was an unexpected surprise for me, and the only thing that would have made me happier that day would have been an honorable discharge, but that was still six years away.
Semper Fi!
L
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