A Army marches on it’s stomach...pity a private contractor will run the place..
I was deployed to our former base in Uzbekistan, 2003-04. The DFAC was run by Kellog Brown & Root and was the most fabulous chow I had known from when I joined up in 1970. Omelettes to order every morning; every Friday was king crab and lobster tail, with grilled steak on Saturday. We Army types owed this to the majority presence of Air Force.
My deployment lasted for exactly thirty eight Fridays.
But I’ll have to say the messhall food in Vietnam was pretty good, too. Good chow was important to us real helicopter pilots’ morale, and we carried marmite cans of hot chow AND ice cream to long range patrols out in the boonies.