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.
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.
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...
Semper Fi!
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