Posted on 04/02/2009 4:14:14 PM PDT by SandRat
GAS-GAS-GAS! SET MOPP5! ....................... yeah, you got that right, you are one of the few who know who I am. That was the “A” company cooks.(called the A Co Mess section in my day)Hey, that stuff tasted great, we would have 2nds and 3rds if possible, but you paid for it the next day. Well, lets say who ever sat in the offices the next day knew what the A Co. cooks made the previous day. That was my time with the NYARNG, I was in the USAR by the time you got to my old Bn..
That’s what I was told on this board. It’s been a few years since I’ve eaten in a mess hall, personally. :-))
I don’t understand your point?
I had the last of the c-rats in 1984 then they went to mre’s c-rats were much better.
You could do much more to “spice-up” C-Rats.
Drop down the stack of a 113, let warm, punch the gas, catch the can.
Yep and p-38’s sure were handy.
Still carry mine on my Key ring.
Yep - a P-38 is not an airplane.
It truly is an artform!
That was the first thing that came to my mind as well. To leave the Army, get a degree, then return to the enlisted ranks rather than as a warrant or commissioned officer just doesn’t make sense.
The school district that my daughter went to built a new High school and spent 400K on a world class kitchen to teach Culinary cooking and at the same time were/had dumped all the classes involving auto mechanics/ metal working and such. Then they said they did not have enough funding to buy history books left in their budgets.
Just a pet peave with me and the local people where I was living at that time.
Also the Education system there had a strong tendency to teach rewritten American History.
Of course warrant’s do not cook so I guess he would see that as a waste of education.
Go Sgt Serna!
Army cooks generally do a pretty good job, I think, given the quality of ingredients they’re forced to work with (in my day it was pretty low), etc.
Hey, I know everyone loves my scrambled eggs. Where did I learn to cook them? By watching the big fat sweaty Army cook in the mess hall make my eggs every morning for two years. I make them just like he did (except I make sure not to sweat in them!).
It makes me furious, that our local school district has phased out trades education, in favor of “college prep”.
Why can’t a HS kid aspire to be a cook?
Not really - I left the Army as enlisted, got degrees in math and engineering, and they wanted me back, on a professional commision.
Then they went, awe- you turned 29 two weeks ago? We will give you an E-4 slot.
I went, piss off.
No reason why they can’t but someone has to fix the utensils and stoves when they break and they elemenated these classes in that school district. Like it or not Industrial Arts are important to teach to our children along with cooking (use to be called Home Economic’s) too.
If I had studied plumbing in HS, I would be a wealthy man today.
When there is poop in the bathtup, are you going to call some service center in India?
Nope - your wife is going to want the floater out of there.
So I see a need for plumbers.
A plumber than can run a business - that man will be far richer than I will ever be.
Thanks for this. Ping to the Canteen crew. Old Sarge, see post #5.
“I hear they got rid of chipped beef on toast, my fave.”
The chipped beef on toast at Aberdeen was the best I ever had.
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