Matthew Morris28 said:Give it a rest with these meal complaints...
I was stationed at that base ten years ago—I know how it works. Food isn't the issue. Anyone claiming there isn't enough food or that meals are being skipped is simply LYING. The food isn't exactly gourmet—let's be honest, it can be pretty "unpleasant"—but there's plenty of it. The real headache is the sheer rush of everything. I think things have changed since my time, but back then, we had about 2,500 people in the barracks who all had to clear the mess hall in a thirty to sixty-minute window. The bottleneck was usually in the kitchen prep and serving lines; they used a rotation system where guys from every unit were pulled to help out—most soldiers have done it. The catch? They’d wake you up at 3 or 4 in the morning to drag you to the kitchen, and you wouldn't be done until well after sunrise. Naturally, everyone stuck on potato-peeling duty or serving lines was pissed off and hated the world for the rest of the week. If the kitchen was down for maintenance, deep cleaning, or training exercises, we got CSO (all-day dry rations). That meant a few spreads, deli meats, jams, and maybe one or two stews like bean and sausage. The only real issue with the CIA stuff was that if the stew was cold, it was barely edible—you had to fix it by heating it in hot water. Around 10 or 11 AM, they'd serve a mid-morning snack—call it whatever you want—usually donuts and chocolate milk. If you just ate that alongside breakfast (which was typically spreads, hot dogs, cheese, and a breakfast burger), you wouldn't starve. Even the guys in the brig didn't go hungry; they actually got fed first. Actually, my unit went first, which made the rest of the base hate our guts. The worst part was standing formation outside the mess hall waiting in the snow, rain, or blistering sun.
Just wrap this thread up already...
I'm 6'0", and before I joined the service, I was 180 lbs. I'd been doing karate and soccer since I was a kid, and once I hit high school, I moved into semi-pro lifting, boxing, and wrestling. I even fought for prize money at tournaments.
Bottom line: I watched what I ate. I wasn't overweight, and I wasn't skinny.
In the military, I dropped 45 lbs in 7.5 months. Since you're all so damn smart, tell me—is it normal for a 6'0" guy to weigh 136 lbs???
Of course, I was too young back then to have the nerve to complain. Nowadays, you'd probably get tossed in jail for making a scene like that.