why are conservatives so concerned with other people's money?

kpmarine

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All Marines are Infantrymen, its the Creed of the Corps, Every Marine a rifleman.
It's true and false. Could your average clerk shoot a rifle accurately? Yes. The catch is that unless you're in a combat-deployable unit; you don't do workup training or really even go on field ops. That's where you learn shit that's useful.
 

kpmarine

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HAHAHA that is no shit, good god the cooks were absolutley HORRIBLE!!!! The potatoes had weevils in them that would crawl out when you cut the potato open. The bread had nuts and bolts baked into it because the machine was shedding parts, the meat had to be boiled before human consumption as it was USDA Grade D beef, shoe leather was better than steak. Coffee would melt your spoon and your gut. Had to wipe the rat droppings off the small cartons of milk before you could open them.

Good times, OOOOOH FUCKING RAHHHH!

The Mid Rats was good though, because it was cooked to order breakfast and simple fare for those Marines working 6PM to 6AM. Hard to fuck up omelletes and toast.
It's all civilians mainside now. When we go to the field they just heat up a water bath and drop some t-rats in until heated. Gotta love those bags of "scrambled eggs".
 

abandonconflict

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My MOS school was at Knox, Army chow is miles ahead of Marine chow. I can only imagine the on-call gourmets the spoiled ass chair force has.
I have heard that the airforce barracks have maid service. Yes army chow was good especially civilian cooks in Georgia. Airforce chowhalls were like my mom's house.
 

NoDrama

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Good thing about airborne units is access to airforce chowhalls.
I was pretty happy to be on board a Carrier (Mardet) for 18 months, the food was downright good, except when they ran out of milk and we had to drink the "Green stuff" milk substitute. Went ok with froot loops.
 

NoDrama

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My MOS school was at Knox, Army chow is miles ahead of Marine chow. I can only imagine the on-call gourmets the spoiled ass chair force has.
Yeah, went to Nellis once for combined warfare trials, TVs in the Dining hall, ice cream, real food, and about 90% of the Airwomen were fawning all over us. The Women Marines look like Phyllis Diller so it was quite a shock to see actual feminine looking females with their tree outfits on.
 

abandonconflict

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I was pretty happy to be on board a Carrier (Mardet) for 18 months, the food was downright good, except when they ran out of milk and we had to drink the "Green stuff" milk substitute. Went ok with froot loops.
In Balad Iraq we had a taco bell and a burger King.
 

NoDrama

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It's all civilians mainside now. When we go to the field they just heat up a water bath and drop some t-rats in until heated. Gotta love those bags of "scrambled eggs".
So no more KP?

Everyone dreaded KP, I got lucky and was only selected to work the chow hall one time, but I punched a Navy Petty Officer and they let me go back to my unit after the second day, I got reduced in grade and pay for that one.
 

lifegoesonbrah

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I have heard that the airforce barracks have maid service. Yes army chow was good especially civilian cooks in Georgia. Airforce chowhalls were like my mom's house.

No maids :( , we had the multi point sink shining inspections just like the rest of yous. We did have some decent food and CNN flat screens in the chow hall though.
 

lifegoesonbrah

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So no more KP?

Everyone dreaded KP, I got lucky and was only selected to work the chow hall one time, but I punched a Navy Petty Officer and they let me go back to my unit after the second day, I got reduced in grade and pay for that one.

Yeah we just had KP duty in basic
 

NoDrama

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We had our share of chemical laced MRE's as well, I always ate them cold because of the smell of the chems cooking.
Self heating MRE's were not part of the Marine Corps meal system. If you wanted it hot you put it in your Trouser cargo pocket and let your sweat and long physical labor heat that sucker up. Otherwise every MRE was a cold one.
 

abandonconflict

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They finally fixed it. The heating chemicals go in a filter paper thing that heats the food evenly. It lasts long enough to make a shitty cup of coffee too but I usually just ate the folgers crystals.
 

Hazydat620

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Thats not so bad. I suppose its cheaper, easier and more efficient to hire civilians to do that job.

Most Marine's can't tell which end of a can opener to use.
wow what to say, you say you need to hire these people cause a marine is to stupid to feed them selves, maybe we should take away your allowances and give it to the people you need to feed you? The military doesn't even do a 1/4 of the shit they use to do. You bunch used to be pretty self reliant but it has apparently been contracted out to people more qualified. When do we cut the military's pay?
 

kpmarine

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I have heard that the airforce barracks have maid service. Yes army chow was good especially civilian cooks in Georgia. Airforce chowhalls were like my mom's house.
I heard that too. I don't know if it's some mysterious legend or true. I have wingnuts in the family, but I always forget to ask if they get turndown service.
 
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