The FReeper Foxhole Studies The History of Army Food Service - November 10th, 2003

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Quartermaster Cooks - History of Dedication



Today, one of every four Quartermasters in the Active Army, US Army Reserve and Army National Guard is a cook – a soldier with the military occupational specialty of 92G (Food Service Specialist). Throughout the Army’s history, Quartermaster cooks have distinguished themselves in combat.

World War I. Sergeant Edward Greene, a cook for Battery F, 10th Field Artillery, 3d Infantry Division, found himself without a mission when his field kitchens were destroyed in a pre-assault bombardment. The Germans were mounting a major offensive July 15, 1918, near the Marne River in France before the newly arrived American Army could make a difference in Europe. SGT Greene, without being ordered, began carrying ammunition forward to his battery’s guns. For several hours while under constant artillery shell fire and enemy observation, he performed his mission until wounded. He had to be ordered to the rear for medical attention. For his singular act of personal courage, SGT Greene was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.



World War II. Technician Fifth Grade (T/5) Eric G. Gibson was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry and courage under fire. He was a company cook for the 30th Infantry Regiment who participated in the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Anzio Beach landing, and subsequent drive up the Italian peninsula. On January 28, 1944, near the village of Isola Bella, T/5 Gibson’s India Company came under withering enemy attack. He mobilized a tiny squad of replacements to rush out and secure the unit’s right flank – and in so doing, destroyed 4 enemy positions, killing 5 and capturing 2 Germans. He then went out a full 50 meters in front of the squad. Running, leaping and dodging automatic weapons fire, he single-handedly knocked out another enemy position with his machine pistol.



T/5 Gibson continued moving toward other bunkers and firing a submachine gun with almost every step forward, as enemy artillery began to zero in on his position. Refusing to stop his advance, he crawled the last 125 meters right through a concentrated artillery and small arms barrage. Dropping two hand grenades in a German machine-gun emplacement, he killed two more of the enemy and wounded another. In one final face-to-face engagement, he was mortally wounded.


Photo by Marine Corps Cpl. Jason Ingersoll

September 11, 2001. A Quartermaster chef was among 10 soldiers who received both the Soldier’s Medal and the Purple Heart for his actions immediately following the terrorist attack on the Pentagon’s west wing. Staff Sergeant Christopher D. Braman, a sous-chef who also was a purchasing agent at the General Officer’s Mess in the Pentagon, stated in print and broadcast interviews that "I believe you should never leave a fallen comrade." Terrorists had highjacked four commercial airliners on September 11, 2001 to explode the jetliners into four targets within the United States: two into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City, one into the Pentagon, and a fourth aircraft that crashed into a Pennsylvania field instead of the White House as passengers tried to subdue the terrorists.

SSG Braman voluntarily ran back into the flaming Pentagon with other military personnel to take out as many badly burned victims as they could locate in the ruins. General John Keane, Army Vice Chief of Staff, described the actions of soldiers and civilians who received awards after the Pentagon attack: "when they reached a point of relative safety, some turned back…some entered the burning building from the outside…making multiple trips…until they were physically restrained by the firefighters and told ‘No more.’"

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:

www.quartermaster.army.mil
www.qmfound.com/army_subsistence_history.htm

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The eight US Army Rangers were under heavy fire, roaring through the streets of Mogadishu in an armored personnel carrier, trying to reach their buddies who were under a relentless attack on the other side of the embattled city.

"The call went out for all able-bodied Rangers," said Lamb, who found himself in an armored personnel carrier with seven Army cooks, heading for the battle. "Don’t misunderstand. These guys are Rangers first, cooks second. They’re first-rate people." - John Carlson, "‘City Was Crawling With Bad Guys,’ Iowa Native Recounts Attack on Army Rangers in Mogadishu," October 9, 1993, Copyright 2002, reprinted with permission by
The Des Moines Register.

"We had to go through a terrible small-arms crossfire at every intersection," said Sgt. Richard Lamb, a Des Moines native who was one of the eight Rangers in the vehicle. "And then we got hit. It was a Soviet-made rocket-propelled grenade. It flattened three tires and blew off the oil pan.

The driver was wounded so I got behind the wheel and we took off again. Then another (grenade) hit the wall next to our vehicle. I took a piece of shrapnel in the forehead. Everything went kind of gray. And then there was this spurt of blood. I pushed my helmet down a little harder on my head to stop the flow of blood and drove us out of there. We reached our objective and got our guys out."

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For each mission, Rangers consider the augmenting and tailoring of a unit’s table of organization and equipment (TOE) as a normal practice. This TOE adaptability results in multiple, unique missions for the Quartermasters who are food service specialists in the 75th Ranger Regiment.

A Food Service Section conducts individual cross-training in organic weaponry, communications equipment, and Ranger small unit leadership tactics. The section’s primary mission in garrison is quality food service to its battalion.

However, during rapid deployments and brief missions, Rangers mainly eat operational rations. For such operations, a Quartermaster with the 92G MOS can find himself working on a team at a casualty collection point (CCP) attached to a line company or augmenting a critically short mortar squad or machine gun team.

During rotations at the Joint Readiness Training Center, I found myself attached to Bravo Company as a CCP team leader with the mission of timely evacuation support or assigned as the commander’s radio/telephone operator (RTO) carrying a PRC 77 with a KY 57 and enough equipment to equal a rucksack weighing more than 100 pounds.

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Tribute to a Generation - The memorial will be dedicated on Saturday, May 29, 2004.

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[E.G.C.]

Good morning Snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole. We're forecast to reach the upper 60's today here in SW Oklahoma.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Idaho (BB-24)

Mississippi class battleship
displacement. 13,000 t.
length. 382'
beam. 77'
draft. 24'8"
speed. 17 k.
complement. 744
armament. 4 12", 8 8", 8 7", 12 3", 2 21" tt.

The USS Idaho (BB-24) was launched by William Cramp & Son's, Philadelphia, 9 December 1905; sponsored by Miss Louise Gooding, daughter of the Governor of Idaho; and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 1 April 1908, Captain S. W. B. Diehl in command.

The new battleship conducted a shakedown cruise to Cuba April-May 1908, and after a visit to Panama returned to Philadelphia for alterations. The ship took part in the giant naval review in Hampton Roads 22 February 1909 celebrating the return of the Great White Fleet from its around the world cruise. In March she returned to the Caribbean for maneuvers, continuing to take part in training operations until October 1910. Idaho sailed 29 October for exercises in British and French waters, and upon her return participated in gunnery exercises in Chesapeake Bay 19 to 28 March 1911.

Idaho sailed from Philadelphia 4 May 1911 for a cruise up the Mississippi River to Louisiana ports. She then steamed to the east coast of Florida for battleship maneuvers, and continued to operate off the coast and in the Caribbean until entering the reserve at Philadelphia 27 October 1913. There she remained until 9 May 1914, when the ship sailed to the Mediterranean with midshipmen for at sea training. After visiting various ports in North Africa and Italy and carrying out a rigorous training program, Idaho arrived Villefranche 17 July 1914, transferred her crew to Maine, and decommissioned 30 July. She was turned over to the government of Greece, whom she served as coastal defense ship Kilkis until being sunk in Salamis harbor by German aircraft in April 1941.

[manna]

Present!

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning EGC. It's 30 degrees now and expected to get into the mid 50's. That'll last about an hour. LOL.

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Good morning aomagrat. Good aerial photo of the ship under attack.

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Good morning manna.

[The Mayor]

I was a cook and my mos was 94B

Be imitators of God as dear children. —Ephesians 5:1

To become like Christ, we must learn from the Master.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 10:
1483 Martin Luther Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism
1668 Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1683 George II king of England (1727-60)
1697 William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
1730 Oliver Goldsmith Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer)
1759 Frederich von Schiller Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy)
1793 Jared Kirtland US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1819 Cyrus West Field financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1844 Sir John SD Thompson (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1851 Waldemar Brígger Norway, geologist/mineralogist (Metamict State)
1861 Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1873 Henri Rabaud Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 Vachel Lindsay Springfield IL, poet (Johnny Appleseed)
1880 Sir Jacob Epstein sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 Frances Perkins 1st woman Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor 1933-45)
1889 Claude Rains London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca)
1895 John Knudsen Northrop aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1907 Jane Froman St Louis MO, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1911 Harry Andrews Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1916 Billy May Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 Guido Turchi Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 Jack McCoy Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1919 Clyde (Bulldog) Turner NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 George Fenneman TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1919 Moise Tshombe President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1925 Richard Burton South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1930 Clarence M Pendleton Jr chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1934 Norm Cash Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1935 Pippa Scott Los Angeles CA, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky)
1935 Ronald E Evans St Francis KS, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws)
1937 Albert Hall Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4)
1944 Dave Loggins singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 Tim Rice lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1945 Donna Fargo NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 Alaina Reed Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227)
1946 David Stockman Reagan's ex-budget director
1948 Greg Lake rock guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Tarkus)
1949 Ann Reinking Seattle, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude)
1950 Jack Scalia Brooklyn NY, actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat)
1954 Fernando Allende Mexico, actor (El Lobo Negro, The Phoenix)
1955 Jack Clark Pennsylvania, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1956 Sinbad comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1959 MacKenzie Phillips Alexandria VA, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1961 Junior [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1973 Khiry Abdulsamad Los Angeles CA, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm)

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Deaths which occurred on November 10:
0461 Leo I the Great, Pope (440-61), dies
1865 Henry Wirzm Confederate prison supt executed for excessive cruelty
1938 Kemal Ataturk, [Mustafa Kemal], general/president Turkey, dies at 57
1968 Gerald Mohr actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1978 Linda Scott dies at 28
1981 Abel Gance French movie director, dies at 92
1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 CARTER WILLIAM T.---LONGS SC.
[FAIL TO RETURN FROM MISSION]
1966 MC ATEER THOMAS J.---PITTSBURGH PA.
[FAIL TO RETURN FROM MISSION]
1966 O'BRIEN JOHN LAWRENCE---PITTSBURGH PA.
1966 RIORDAN JOHN M.---SEATTLE WA.
[FAIL TO RETURN FROM MISSION]
1966 SCHODERER ERIC J.---SURF CITY NJ.
[FAIL TO RETURN FROM MISSION]
1967 COOK KELLY F.---SIOUX CITY IA.
[NO CONTACT]
1967 CREW JAMES A.---WINBER PA.
[NO CONTACT]
1967 HUNEYCUTT CHARLES J. JR.---CHARLOTTE NC.
[NO CONTACT REMAINS RETURNED 10/25/89}
1967 MORGAN JAMES S.---EL DORADO AR.
[NO CONTACT]
1972 WRIGHT FREDERICK W.---HAWORTH NJ.
[REMAINS RETURNED 9/90]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0461 St Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1444 Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats Crusaders
1567 Battle at St-Denis: French govt army vs Huguenots
1630 Failed palace revolution against Richelieu government in France
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
1782 In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1898 Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1926 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan
1940 Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected President of Guatemala
1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1957 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1971 US table tennis team arrived in China
1974 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 Montreal Candiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays the $12.55 fare
1984 Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to MD 42-40
1986 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill
1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 Orel Hershiser wins NL Cy Young award unanimously
1989 Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador
1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
2084 Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

India : Guru Nanak's Day-1st teacher of the Sikhs
Indonesia : Hero Day/Youth Day
Iran : Death of Iman Ali Day
England : Lord Mayor's Day (Saturday)
US : Womens Veterans Recognition Week (Day 2)
Goddess of Reason (French observance).
International Drum Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of St Andrew Avellino, confessor
Ang, RC : Commemoration of St Leo the Great, bishop of Rome, pope/dr

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Religious History
1766 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Queen's College was chartered under the Dutch Reformed Church, to provide education "...especially in divinity, preparing [youth] for the ministry and other good offices." The present name of the school, Rutgers University, was adopted in 1924.
1770 French philosopher Fran_'__ois Voltaire, 75, uttered his famous remark: 'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.'
1871 Following seven months of searching, foreign correspondent to the "New York Herald" Henry M. Stanley succeeded at last in locating Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa. Stanley prefaced his encounter with these words: 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume.'
1952 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'I believe that, in the present divided state of Christendom, those who are at the heart of each division are all closer to one another than those who are at the fringes.'
1977 It was announced that Pope Paul VI had ended the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried. (The excommunication was first imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.)

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"A wise man can see more from a the bottom of a well than a fool can see from a mountaintop."

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Question of the day...
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

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Murphys Law of the day...(Laws of sex)
Love is a matter of chemistry, sex is a matter of physics.

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From the Cliff Clavin BIG book of stuff...
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

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Good morning Mayor.

Thank you for sharing with us today and thank you for your service to our country.

As an Army cook there must be some good stories you can tell. So tell me, do you cook at home or were those skill transferable to the home kitchen at all?

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1782 In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.

I didn't know that and Chillocothe about 50 miles south of where I am. Thank you Valin.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone!
Have a great day.

[Darksheare]

Thankfully, I didn't see TRAYPacs mentioned.
Thnakfully.
Not sure what to say about the nasty exploding sausages and the so-called 'scrambled eggs' which were almost guaranteed to produce gross distortions of the digestive system resulting in rapid evacuation of same.
Especially when one got hit with teargas.

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LOL. The types of foods and rations will have to wait for their own thread. Too much information for one day. ;)

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Good morning feather.

[Darksheare]

Yes, TrayPac is definately subject all to it's own as anyone unfortunate enough to experience it will say.