How Aircraft Carriers Make 17,000 Meals A Day For US Navy Sailors
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2022
- An aircraft carrier may have more than 5,000 sailors on board. To feed all the sailors on an aircraft carrier, more than 17,000 meals must be prepared daily. There are more than 100 cooks on board, which seems like a culinary miracle, but is it? How are meals prepared for such a large number of sailors?
When the ship first starts its deployment, there is a lot of fresh food on board. As the weeks go by and the fresh food becomes more and more depleted, frozen or canned food may be used. But that doesn't mean that the sailors won't get any fresh food at all. The ship has what is called an underway replenishment, the replenishment ship has a lot of fresh food on board that is delivered to the aircraft carrier while it is at sea and underway, and the crew starts the cycle all over again. Also when the ship enters port, it usually has fresh food ready to be stored for the crew.
About 17,000 meals are produced daily by around 93 Culinary Specialists staff. These meals range from breakfasts served at 6 a.m. to midnight rations. Planning is essential to accomplish this goal; the ship's cooks adhere to a menu cycle that lasts for 15 days and receive resupplies at sea once every week, including both dry and fresh commodities.
The 5,000 crew aboard an aircraft carrier can consume 1,600 pounds of chicken, 160 gallons of milk, 30 cases of cereal, and 350 pounds of lettuce in a single day. Everything is produced in enormous quantities. Cooks are required to constantly prepare meals, do various activities, and undergo training to learn new responsibilities.
All galleys on carriers are sufficiently supplied. After every seven to ten days, a supply ship will bring between 400,000 and 1 million pounds of food. When there is a need for variation in the deliveries, it is not uncommon for regional foods to be included, such as feta cheese from Greece. #aircraftcarrier #usnavy #sailors - Věda a technologie
Hey! Not everyone can be a fighter jet pilot..they need everyone. From cooks,doctors,atc,firemen, nurse ,electrical engineer, laundry,environmental services ( janitors) etc etc
That's why it's called a "floating city"
Gotta have something to throw into those torpedo holes after a Chinese sub hits you.
Just want to know. How are pilots treated in an AC. Are they like rock stars because the main purpose of this big ship and support staff is to launch them to air and recover back.
@@divinewind6313 yrs, pilots on an AC are rock stars and do Cat launches and arresting hook landings.
No shit sherlock
I can give you a perspective of in the military, you learn to improvise, adapt, and overcome if you want to eat when the chow line is closed. While a young sailor in the Navy some 55 years ago, I was assigned to a fireroom (boiler space) of a WWII vintage Gearing destroyer, we had one of our guys up on a working party loading food supplies, he tossed a case of lobster tails down our hole. We cooked 'em in a galvanized bucket using the 150 lb. root steam drain for the bilge pump. We'd also "acquire" potatoes from the spud locker up on ASROC deck and cook 'em in the mud drum during the midwatch; officers never came down our hole but once a year for space inspection, the heat, the smell, the black oil and the legends of brutish snipes kept 'em away. ☺
That's awesome! Any spice for the spuds?
What's the meaning of brutish snipes?
I'm working in cargo rn, you could easily just become friends with a CS and ask em to make you something if you needed it. But i guess a bucket and steam work aswell😅
@@michaelvigil5321 nothing tastes better than food that's appropriated😁
@@frankni8681 they beat your ass!
I was a cook on two aircraft carriers, a replenishment oiler, and an amphibious assault ship. Actually, there are more than two galleys. The officers' mess is called the wardroom, with their own menu, galley, and cooks and the Chief Petty Officers (CPOs) have their own mess and their own menu, galley, and cooks. While the E6s and lower ranks eat off trays, the officers have their meals on real plates, cups and saucers, and nice silverware. It doesn't matter what type of ship, the officers don't eat with the enlisted. All 4 ships I was stationed on the officers have their wardroom mess.
This is the Ford Class carrier they are talking about not Nimitz class which had the 5 galleys you are talking about. Ford has what they call a conglomerate galleys, One Galley prepares Enlisted,Chief and Officers and aft galley is like a secondary one only in operation when Air wing is on board. One centralized galley aft serves meals to the crew, chiefs, and officers from three adjacent sides; and the forward galley serves officers on one side and air crew on the other. So Aft Galley on ford is now larger one where forward on Nimitz was. If they have a different galley for the Air Crew that is brilliant. One worst things I saw was having to stand in line during meal hours for 45 mins because all Air Wing was in line at same time. I was a Nuke and we did not have very much time when out to sea to stand around in line during the day to eat. When I was out to sea I lived off PB&J sandwich when had PB packets out.
Except, there is a regulation that requires the enlisted mess to be sampled by an officer for each meal. As a JO, I always relished doing that because sometimes the crew was eating better than we were in the wardroom, and the atmosphere wasn't nearly as stuffy.
Well on a LCS officers eat from the same mess as enlisted and eat off of trays, don't go saying everyship in the navy is the same.
@@josephstagoski2177 The wardroom and Chief's Mess decide if they want to have a closed mess and buy their own food, or if they want to subsist off the crew's mess. Depends on the ship.
His point was that the newest boat reduces the gallay number to two in order to increase overall quality, likely to the detriment of officers and improvement of the lower ranks.
I was in the Army.I am not picky about food.They did a great job feeding us.The best meal I had was on a troop ship on Easter Sunday.God bless our military!
My Dad was on an Armored Troop Transport in WW2 in the Pacific. He was a corpsman. He said that they had to eat chili for 6 months straight.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
After he got out of the Navy in 1947. He never ate chili again.
He grew up in the Depression, and all they had to eat was popcorn.
He joined the Navy at 15, Grandma helped him slide in.
He was in the Navy before the War. He said the first time he saw Pearl Harbir it was still smoldering.
He passed 10 years ago.
I miss him like it was yesterday.
My grandfather had a similar experience, but his was chipped beef 3 times a day for 3 months
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Damn what his farts smell like ?
He is considered one of the "Greatest Generation", and to them...we owe our freedom!
Had friend in the Navy during the Vietnam conflict. He never wanted to see canned roast beef ever again.
I remember mess cranking back in the day and having to be on a 50 man working party to bring on FFV. One of the cases of frozen meat I grabbed was clearly stamped, "Rejected by U.S. Air Force". I found that rather troubling. That said, Navy chow has gotten better and better. Carrier Sailors eat well and the ship usually never runs out of things. The smaller ships on the other hand had pretty good chow too, but they would often run out of certain items until the next UNREP which could be a while in some cases.
This reminds me of a rumor I heard while working in Army Aviation. Apparently, Air Force personnel living in Army barracks were given "substandard living" pay.
Never confirmed it, but I didn't really doubt it either.
I've had cabbage served instead of salad lettuce because they ran out of lettuce and that cabbage had black spots on it because it was getting old. Getting fruit very scarce.
@@theunkownbanana1823 I can confirm. True.
@@riffraff9070...I can second that.
When I went in I was convinced to go in as an Operations specialist, an important but general dull job with no real translation in the civilian world. If I could go back in time and do it all over again I would have taken Culinary Specialist, I like cooking and there's always a demand everywhere for a quality chef
I was in the service (not the navy) and I was always flabbergasted by their ability to provide hot chow under any conditions, on the first day of a deployment. I'm guessing Russia can't do that...
Yes, because, ideally, America respects the INDIVIDUAL.
there was a video of a knocked out russian field kitchen in ukraine, it was filthy and seemed to only have bags of potatos and onions.
@@dont-want-no-wrench to be fair you can't really compare a field kitchen to a carrier although i wouldn't be surprised if US had better systems and food in place
@@Kleur Dude, we literally shipped a Burger King trailer to Bagram air base back when we were in Afghanistan. A fucking Burger King.
😢We got MRE a lot
I’m floored by what I saw here! Good food is key to good morale. Hats off to the USN!😊
If you want people to kill on command , better serve good grub
@@jacobjorgenson9285 Sadly, there’s probably a lot of truth in that statement.😟
@@marknonnenmacher1918what they say
Spent most of my cruising time on FF's. You usually only had one or two senior cooks. Depending on how good your cooks were depended on how good the meals were. One unfortunate "stormy" night, we had chili for dinner with the expected outcome.
But I can say that I never lost weight on Navy chow.
I read somewhere that the best cooks are deployed in submarines as they have to make with few and submarines are not replenished as frequently as the surface ships.
I guess that’s also where moral is the most critical and the hardest to maintain. Being a submarine sailor must suck mightily.
It doesn't matter what your role is on board its all important, Never down play what you have done or feel your job wasn't worth it, you served your country and did your best
I served on the USS Enterprise CVN-65, in 2003-2005, and the meals were barely edible back then. Breakfast was the best food of the day and I mostly lived off the salad bar for lunch and dinner. Midnight rations were sometimes a pleasant surprise, but for the most part meh. I’ve never heard of the “birthday meal”, maybe the officers were eating them for us back then 😂
I was on Nimitz 2010-2014 and the food was a joke
Don't worry, the Truman CVN-75 hasn't failed its sailors in supplying maggoty cabbage and undercooked meat as of 2018-2021.
I was on the Kitty hawk and Cross decked to the GW 2006 - 2010, Never had a Birthday meal, we had a lot of Filipino Food and Rice, we all mostly lived off Ramen bowls, the food for E-6 and below was substandard, i would allows lose 40-60 lbs out to sea, i was even told one time, Cereal was only for hook ups. I've gotten food still Frozen in the middle, not sure where this guy is getting his info, maybe when the boat in port and only ships company on board
@@FREECIVVIE Goooooooooood morning team Truman!
@@Navy6438 I saw the Kitty Hawk in Sydney Harbor in 2007, we were visiting from Finland
Everywhere from Boot Camp to State-side bases to deployed bases in the Middle-East, meal time is often a highlight in high paced, stressful days. In over 12 years of service, I can honestly say the food very rarely misses. Big props to upper management for understanding the mood and moral boost that comes from sitting down to a good meal.
Even the MREs given when working in the field are pretty good. It's obvious a LOT of time, research, and care goes into making them.
Maybe I shouldn't say this, but a friend in a service gave me some MREs to take on a fishing/camping trip. I was skeptical, but some of it was better than my old lady's cooking. They went good with fresh trout.
As someone who did that onboard Nimitz we didn’t get up at 3am. We got up at 6am got in at 7pm worked 12-16 hours a day. You have some of the tough working conditions. You have to shower every day, lots of cleaning , some of the most hours on the ship. Always busy, but it’s cool because you have access to the best food on the ship. Also wasn’t hungry.
I doubt youll get hungry after spending so much time cooking food. 😂😂😂
@@harukrentz435 that's like saying I doubt you will get thirsty by swimming all day. Work is work man, no matter what you do.
Although I was never on an aircraft carrier I have to say that most of the meals I had in my 8 years in the Navy were pretty good. The messmen(I guess now called culinary specialists) did a wonderful job! Salute! That said, when I was stationed in the UK I wasn't thrilled about the cases of meat the Brits sent us labeled 80% Pure Beef. I probably didn't want to know what the other 20% was!
🤣 Not sure if it is the same as the US, but when it is 80/20 beef here, it is the meat to fat ratio. So 80% meat 20% fat on meat or mixed in if it is ground beef. So it was PROBABLY ok......
@@Bendigo1 Its call corn beef or bully beef .ex service man .🇬🇧
The piece of equipment on the flight deck at 7:45 It's a big yellow thing with black squares on top that you can see in the lower left. I am a part of a tiny crew of people that make those. Very high chance I did a LOT of the physical building of that exact unit. We make two at a time, each ship gets two. And I do a majority of the building to one of the two units myself. If I didn't build that one, I built the other one they have on that ship more then likely! :)
What is it?
My dad was a CB cook in Guam during the Korean war. He used to hole out a 5-pound can of SPAM with canned fruit, Pineapple, mixed fruit, and such. People would come to the back door after Mess hall hours and pay up to $5 for one of his SPAM sandwiches. When he got out of the NAVY he bought a Buick Roadmaster. My dad loved big cars.
I love this. "..he bought a Buick Roadmaster..." Wonderful!
OUTSTANDING!!! My Uncle Chief Pat Maldanado was on many aircraft carriers and shore galleys during his career as a CS. He feed many Sailors and Marines that were happy with his food.😋😋😋
Best soup I’ve ever had was in a restaurant in Sheboygan Falls: he was once a naval cook. May he rest in peace and thankful for his service.
Nah i swear ive watch all diff type of videos like this. I went from nfl to a submarine to this… im addicted for no reason
So impressed every video I see how our awesome military stays fed. Second to none! 🇺🇸
They keep loosing wars though , do they deserve good food ?
@@jacobjorgenson9285 Oh, you're thinking of the Russian military. Honest idiot mistake.
Food can be one of the best pick me ups while at sea!
I did not serve on a carrier, but on my ship, USS Sacramento, in the late 80's we generally had good food and lots of it. The meals during the holidays were especially good. =)
I was in the Air Force and we took the company truck to the dining hall for our hour of leisurely lunch, always well prepared, and I never had a bad meal but I really enjoyed my breakfasts the most especially the biscuits and gravy. Air Force chow was always consistently good at all the different bases I was assigned to for the eight years I was in.
Yes Air Force here and the food was pretty good....better overseas for some reason though!
I was a MS3 on board the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 during the Persian Gulf war. It was a very challenging job and I did it extremely well. I'm proud of being part of the most important rates in the Navy!
Always show appreciation for your CS's.
Who watched this and wanted to eat. I’m hungry now!
Lol don’t ask for navy food let me tell you it’s the worst
Was on the USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) 94 to 00 i must say i felt privileged Charlie Davis our cook was the best in the fleet the man could have run a 5 star restaurant if he was not in the Navy
When you're serving 5,000 people 17,000 meals a day, that's what they do on cruise ships now. Yet, when I've been aboard and toured galleys aboard cruise ships and aircraft carriers, I was struck at how much smaller the ones on carriers are. With fewer people in more constricted workspaces, whether it was in the butcher shop or bakery, I'm totally impressed at the way they handle the logistics of moving food and supplies around and manage time, all to please their crew.
I was on a carrier for a few years and the only time I can remember the food ever looking this good was when the galley was being inspected. Dont even get me started on midrats lol
Or when we had civilians guest onboard.
This is the true power of the American military. You conquer the world with food!
Makes me so proud of these sailors! It's an incredible amount of work and dedication to the team. Thank you all for your service to our country. Again, I am so incredibly proud of you!
Best, from Mesa, Arizona.
That food looks so good !
I love how they treat sailors on their birthdays :)
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Retired chef here. I loved cooking for the masses and this job looks like fun. Nice galley arrangements and everything well organized.
But I hate boats.
I was in the Army late 70s thru early 80s and thought the food in the mess hall was great. Thanks to all the cooks that made it happen!
I was in during the late 70's to early 80's. Stationed at PAX (which had a great chow hall) but went out on DET to several ships. Best SOS I ever had was on Nimitz. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
I was deployed on the USS America CV-66 and the USS Nassau LHA-4 once. I remember those Un-Rep details. It was a lot of work. Gunny used to always pick me for some reason.
It’s nice to know our front lines are well fed, have exercise, and good jobs. It’s only right for their sacrifice.
Definitely good for morale, unlike the Russian army who just throws frozen potatoes and onions at the conscripts lol
This is peacetime dining at its best. Yet under the pressures of wartime, would we see a return to more basic dining as back in World War Two? Back then everything was more basic. The same entree would be cooked and served to everyone. It might be for Wednesday evening, dinner is beef stew with mashed potatoes, bread and butter, canned mixed vegetables, cherry pie, ice cream, milk, coffee. You wouldn't see a fancy of variety of foods. You eat what is served or you don't eat at all.
That's a good question, my grandpa was in the 1st Cav during world war II,and he always said they knew they were going in the battle cuz the food got better
@@dougc190 I saw that played out in the 1999 war movie, "When Trumpets Fade", a movie about a localized small number of G.I.s where the storyline surrounds a reluctant G.I. private who is tactical savvy but reluctant to risk himself. Forcibly promoted to buck sergeant, he meets his new squad of young, inexperienced G.I.s nearly fresh from basic training. The Battle for the Hurtgen Forest is still ongoing and repeated American local offensives have either failed or been violently repulsed with heavy losses. While the new squad dines on hot food from the Army field mess kitchen, the reluctant sergeant tells them to get ready for another big push. One of the young G.I.s asks the new sergeant, how does he know they will be doing another attack? The sergeant, replies deadpan, 'Hot chow, cigarettes...sure as shit we're going to be making another push.' He knew from experience the Army would make great efforts to properly feed the men so they would be ready for another offensive.
I was in the Marine Corps in the mid-1960s. My father told me about the horrible food he had in the army twenty-some years earlier. I was pleasantly surprised at the high quality of the food I was served at the several Marine bases at which I was stationed. The food was quite good, varied, and plentiful. I can only imagine how much better our military folks eat in this day and age. They deserve the best.
On my last ship (USS Abraham Lincoln), we had a grab & go stations with fried chicken patties and tenders, condiments, buns, and sandwich stuff. it was supplied during chow times and we'd often go down there for a quick bite. We also bought spam and microwavable rice from the ship store if we wanted a snack in between meals. you'd be waiting for an hour or two sometimes, and just wanted something quick.
To the men and women of our navy thank you!!!!!!! You are the best!! I'm glad they let you fill your plates. Eat well you deserve it.
Fantastic looking food! I was in the Australian Army Reserve and whilst the food was good, I don't remember it being this good!
I was on an aircraft carrier CV 66. I ate Breakfast everyday. I worked night shift. Running around on a flight deck you gotta eat and they feed you well. Breakfast was always good.
Navy E6 here w/ 8 years, 3 carriers, and 3 deployments of experience - this video is a great "overall" jist of how things work, but there are some major oversights/simplifications on the reality/actuality of operations. I would give this video a rating of 85% accurate.
As a Chef, I can't imagine having to do the ordering and menu for an Aircraft carrier. I can call my supplier or go a couple blocks to Kroger if I forget something. I'm not in the middle of the ocean. Cheers to the Navy Chefs!
I got to spend the night on the USS Yorktown when I was a kid. Bet your butt when they were showing us around, I was asking an annoying amount of questions about the galley. The tour guide handed me off to one of the cooks and I got to cook dinner with them.
@@dustinrettig3652that’s awesome ngl
In a word.....................................INCREDIBLE!
i was on nuclear alert in the alert area in a B52 squadron, for 4 back to back tours. 44 months on alert.
what they didnt realize was the alert palace where the crews lived for a week at a time was serving steak and lobster. plus nobody could enter the area without going thru the entry control point, and nobody could come out on to the airplane patch without prior notifications to the guards out on sentry post.
i was a close in sentry, so bad it took the start 1 treaty to put us down.
a miracle of engineering , science, naval tradition and coordination!
Thank you for your service.!
When I was mess cranking and assigned to the chief's mess galley.... ate like a king.
I was at 92 golfback in the 80s when it was a different classification and it's really hard to do that kind of work without the support of your fellow cooks and it's for the morale of the troops it's a good profession and I would do it all again I looked forward to taking care of my troops all the time cuz I know that food is a very luxury thing to have cuz it's good for the morale of the troops and I was proud of the work that I did United States Army 1983 to 1989 Go Army
Wow!
I was in the Navy 1982 to 1988 with VS-41 and VS-33 I was on the USS Ranger CV-61 Jul 83 to Feb 84 and the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 Jul 85 west pacs and the food on the USS Ranger was always half cooked and one time we got half cooked fried chicken and the crew was pissed so I would eat at the forward galley with hambergers and fries it was the fast food galley but on the USS Kitty Hawk the food was very good and at our base North Island Naval Airstation the chow hall was great ..ate a lot of mexican with it being San Diego and loved it.😁And we ran out of food and milk all the time.
I loved the chow when I was in the Navy.
I was the comshaw artist for our shop when I served on the Kitty Hawk in the 80's. We were doing an unrep and one of the food conveyors broke down. I was alone in the shop when the Chief of the Mess Deck called and I had that thing going in 5 mins. Chief was so happy he gave me the pick of the litter to take back to the shop. Brought back my Chief a 20 lb can of coffee and that man damn near adopted me on the spot! Out to sea coffee is like liquid gold! I got us a small fridge so we could eat sandwiches instead of waiting in line for chow. Depending on what they were serving that day those lines could go on forever. People going on watch had head of the line privileges along with E6's so the wait could be long.
Love the random army guys clip… you can see their pt jackets with the pt belt and their uniform deployment patches
God Bless the Chefs. Honestly It looks better than what i cook and eat
As a young child while living in San Pedro, CA one of my neighbors was in the Navy stationed at Long Beach Naval Station he was assigned to what I believe was a Fleet Replenishment Oiler ship. He took me on a tour of the ship once and I ate a meal onboard the ship. The food was really good. If my parents had decided to remain in California I most likely would have joined the Navy. But instead we moved to Loiuisiana and once I graduated high school I joined the Army and made it a career. Believe me Army chow was never as good as Navy chow.
The food they were showing looked great.
Late 80's sailor on a carrier. I was never disappointed by the food. It was actually great. Of course it was really good at Cecil Field, too. They did serve a lot of rabbit on the ship, and I wasn't a fan, but we did have surf and turf most weeks.
As a marine I can say the only good chow hall on any base i was stationed was the sub base in Georgia
@@brandondirocco9816 St Mary's?
Yep, was at Cecil Field outside of Jacksonville several times & the chow was always good.
An army marches (and a navy sails) on its stomach. Kudos to the cooks.
People don't even realize cooks run a life or death operation as well, and I'm not taking about starvation. Say they have been at sea for months, haven't seen home and morale is low, but they still need to pay attention, and do their jobs. One nice "home cooked" meal that reminds the sailors of home will cheer them up and send them back to work with a smile making them more alert and preforming better
The food looks fantastic
Thank you for your service! Freedom is not free.
Thanks for sharing
That food looks great. I'd have no problem getting some down.
I loved the chow, I was in the USMC from 1973 to 79
Thanks !
Very different from the army national guard on state side missions, food was always an afterthought. Rode through many convoys that made no chow plans so you learned to bring your own snacks or snag an MRE. Food was always good at the chow hall though.
Everything looked good, good on them for feeding them well
This is so informative
Wow, that looks amazing!
Great video! Informative and interesting! Thank you!
I can relate as a fresh Marine reporting to SOI back in the days getting informed I would do 30 days of mess duty before Infantry training, then to make matters worst I got stuck in the pot shack, I would never be as tired in the military as I was working 18, 19 hour plus on 3 to 4 hours a sleep for a month in that dam pot shack, Navy food always was top rated, MOS school at Coronado in 1991, mess hall was top rated.
Yes looks like some seriously good Tucker!
Jim Powell speaking.
I was attached to a fighter squadron during the Vietnam war. Made two Westpac cruises to the South China Sea, Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. Even back in the mid 1960’s, the food I thought, was good on the USS Ranger.
Without the Culinary staff, there wouldn't be anyone fit to serve! To the men and women who serve in our Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, and US Coast Guard, Merchant Marines....I Salute You!
I served aboard the USS Enterprise. West Pac 78. We ate very well. I remember when the fresh food was getting low. Especially the milk. They would break out the sterilized milk. Yuck. But all was good when we got the UNREP. AQ2 VF-1 Wolfpack
I would've been curious to hear the breakdown of shifts for the kitchen staff. Obviously they can't work from 3 AM to midnight. I'm assuming it's like regular kitchens? You got your prep guys, your morning guys and your closing guys.
I was on the Ike. Food wasn't bad unless you got midrats! But since it's an older carrier, we didn't have the same galley layout as the Ford classes do. That was pretty interesting.
My niece is a CS on tbe Carl Vinson (CVN 70). She tells me, "I'm just a cook." I tell her, you're not just an anything." When the folks on your ship dont/can't eat.....NOTHING gets done when there is no food.
NEVER got a birthday meal! I spent almost 4 years on the Indy! But then again that was in the early 70s! Food was very good though.
I like the shots with Army soldiers in the chow line. They are on the Carrier . Love it. If I can get a job editing for navy videos, let me know. Thaaaanks
1998 USS Blue Ridge: Building 19, breakfast was always the best with a ham and cheese omelet. Lunch and dinner were usually hit or miss. The birthday meal was dry ass steak and room temperature lobster. The cake was good.
Much respect!
God bless you all , keep growing all ,
It's logistics like this that really drive home how huge these ships are
This is incredible, the logistics are just MIND-BLOWING to me! The food all looks GREAT also! ✨👏🏼😎✨. 🇺🇸
Really interesting - thanks!
I was in the Sea(similar to Boy)Scouts, never got on a ship but I got to wear my T-shirt backwards, that's my experience.
This is a far cry from the food service I expereinced on CV-41, CV-64, and CV-62. It was a real treat when my SCPO would bring me a couple of cheese burgers from the chiefs mess. They tried but it was just a cut above school lunch.
I loved food on the boat. Better than most Marine Corps chow halls.
I know most schools get lunch trucked in from a central source these days, but when I was in elementary school, we had the best hot lunch in the city by a big margin. Really great stuff, and late morning, the smell would slowly start to permeate every inch of that school, and you knew without looking at the menu, what was for lunch more often than not. It was the same on ship.
Talk about a morale booster. Come down off the flight deck to fill out your paperwork and put your tools away, and as soon as you open that hatch, that rush of warm air comes up the ladder well with the smell of homemade breakfast or pizza, or the occasional morale booster meal, and your day is already instantly better.
after seeing what tacos Tuesday looks like, as a mexican that would be my fasting day.
Cool video
This video made me hungry.
As a Air Force vet on a SAC base in the early eighties, the best food was midnight chow after a night of hard drinking at NCO club.
Right On Go Army!
I think the cook is one of the most important service in any branch on an empty stomach you cant fight
I hope you youngsters appreciate & enjoy (well deserved + thank you for your service) all that GOOD food today. During Vietnam on the 'Shitty' Kitty we never, ever, ever, ever, ever (a thousand times) ate as good as you guys do today. Rarely had shoe leather (thin, tough ass steak). However the Navy beans/meatloaf/spagetti/beef stew was AWESOME and WTF lobster???? You guys are on a paid cruise. The TUBERS ate like the carriers of today whereas the Kitty Class ate school lunches AT BEST!