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Old 05-05-2018, 04:40 PM   #1
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Military Chow Halls

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WHAT!!!!
As a 19 year old kid, eating all I wanted in a Navy chow hall was heaven.
Good memories of steak, eggs, SOS.
Not mom's cooking, but when you are really hungry, it really did the job.
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Worst chow hall WAS Ali Al Salem, had to keep one hand moving to shoo away the flies. It got better, likely because it could not get worse. Best Chow Hall, Bagram Army Aviation staffed by Army and Kirkuk Iraq staffed by KBR.
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Old 05-05-2018, 05:11 PM   #4
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Chipped beef on toast

SOS was the bomb!
Never did understand the emergency milk we had on Diego that was not refrigerated.
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Smelliest Chow Halls are in Korea. They all small like KimChee.
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Best chow was Guantanamo. The Chiquita Banana boat dropped off fresh and frozen every week as part of their run from the states to the Banana Republics.

Marines ate the same as we did there. The goat looks like a survival course. The rest of the time I am not sure they eat that good in the field. ;-)
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The worst chow hall food I ever ate was at the Security Police chow hall at TSN AB, RVN from Dec '67 to Dec '68. My worst memory was biting into a big piece of batter covered fried chicken and watching the blood flood out into a pool on my plate. Got food poisoning on one occasion. During the month of Feb '68 through mid March, following the Tet Offensive, our main stay was C-Rats for other than the pathetic breakfast that was offered. I carried a can of Sterno in my ditty bag and a biscuit can converted into a stove so I could always eat them heated.
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Memories!

Thanks for the thread, guys! I was, well used to be, a 94B. That's right, food service specialist!
The guy you hated on base but everyone wanted to be my best friend in the field!
Trust me. One field problem, and I racked up a BUNCH of favors to use when we got back to base!
And I used them too!
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Can't remember what the food was like at San Diego Naval Station....boot camp
Company Commander RAN us in........10 minutes....RAN us OUT
Gobbled it down so fast never got a chance to taste it.

'A' School Great Lakes Naval Station........food was decent but repetitive.
Pretty much the same fair each day

On board ship...........HA
Powdered eggs, powered milk, bug juice, greasy stuff bell peppers during a typhoon, chipped beef that was necessary to soften the stale bread, hamburger patties that came aboard in 'waxed cardboard boxes' date stamped 1945

We actually ate better down in the engine room.......our escape trunk was on starboard side which is where stores/food handling line ran from fantail to forward coolers.
Officers food stores came FIRST. Several high quality items would disappear down the escape trunk hatch -----t-bones, shrimp, lobsters, water melons
Had an 'refurbished autoclave ' that we steamed the shell fish in and a 1000*F steam strainer that we set a 1/2" steel plate on with a little turbine oil to 'sear' the steaks on (butter flavored)

Had a mess cook that would start making bread/pies at 2 am .......then lock up the mess and head for his rack around 5 am.
There was a small opening in mess cage that we could stuff our littlest guy thru ......he would grab what he could, pass it out to us and then we had to reach in and yank him back out.
Only had 10 minutes total time due to 'Sound/Security' watch making rounds before reveille

Course we had to consume anything we 'snatched' and get rid of the evidence ASAP


AH.....memories of a 'snipes world' on a tin can.
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I loved to go to the one in Frankfurt Germany.
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AF chow halls changed their name a long time ago. They changed it to Dining Facilities
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Most of the time the comparisons with the AF living way above and beyond are spot on. Not so much with chow halls though as the AF long ago gave up having their own cooks and contracts out to the lowest bidder. It could result in some pretty sorry chow in some areas. In most of the joint bases I went to in the middle east we would beg to be able to eat in the Army, or Navy facilities when they were different. If and when they would let us, it would be rationed, generally to no more than one meal a week.
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Our chow halls in the AF were outsourced vendors and they did a great job. All you could possibly eat and it was really decent.
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During my last IRAQ deployment all of the US D FAQ were pretty good. The state department chow hall was a step up, however, the USAID really had it going on when it came to a good meal! However, the british chow halls were truly miserable places usually I'd prefer MREs to what the Brits were serving.
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