Yeah until your mess hall was closed and you had to go down to the next one then your mess hall was great right.
Usually, when we got back to main post, we signed in to the 325 mess hall under our own names.
Then, we signed in to the 327 mess hall, under assumed names - Casper Weinberger, ronalald Reagon, Donald Duck, whatever.
The 82nd is NOT good at feeding troops in the field.
Go for a month, on one meal a day, and a bunch of 18-yo kids get HUNGRY.