Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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Orangeburst said:
Men may be dumb at only a hair above primate level, but this is genius. Breakfast twice a day! Using same cookware...My man.
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One of my fondest memories when it came to the Army and being up at all hours repairing a radar was the MP mess hall. They served breakfast all night and we could drop in and eat. They had great cooks and lots of food, and the one meal even the Army can't generally screw up is breakfast. You could always be sure there'd be plenty of eggs, and sausage gravy or chipped beef gravy to go on biscuits or toast ... and ham and sausage.
 
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AM64 said:
One of my fondest memories when it came to the Army and being up at all hours repairing a radar was the MP mess hall. They served breakfast all night and we could drop in and eat. They had great cooks and lots of food, and the one meal even the Army can't generally screw up is breakfast. You could always be sure there'd be plenty of eggs, and sausage gravy or chipped beef gravy to go on biscuits or toast ... and ham and sausage.
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Breakfast in garrison was always a treat. Got to eat in an AF mess dinning facility a few times and it was amazing.
 
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hog88 said:
Breakfast in garrison was always a treat. Got to eat in an AF mess dinning facility a few times and it was amazing.
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Our own mess hall was constantly running out of food. Apparently in those days the food that a unit could draw was based on what it used in the past regardless of the number of people in the unit - so if our people were on site or whatever, the number of meals served was always less than the number of people not on separate rations and lots of times it didn't cover. The MPs apparently found a way around that. We were an Ordnance company attached to an Artillery brigade - might have made a difference because the mess halls at the Hawk sites were better than ours.
 
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hog88 said:
Breakfast in garrison was always a treat. Got to eat in an AF mess dinning facility a few times and it was amazing.
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One of my former supervisors was in the Air Force and he was telling me about going to chow one morning in Germany and a couple of marines were transiting through and walked in the door right behind him and one of them said, "are you F...ing kidding me?"
 
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AM64 said:
Our own mess hall was constantly running out of food. Apparently in those days the food that a unit could draw was based on what it used in the past regardless of the number of people in the unit - so if our people were on site or whatever, the number of meals served was always less than the number of people not on separate rations and lots of times it didn't cover. The MPs apparently found a way around that. We were an Ordnance company attached to an Artillery brigade - might have made a difference because the mess halls at the Hawk sites were better than ours.
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When I first got to Korea our chow hall was god awful, every meal was damn near uneditable. Turned out the mess Sargeant was selling stuff off post and buying crap to feed us.
 
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