Who are you talking to? I hope you aren't talking to me. I'm not the only one who watched this and noticed that the reporter was rude, with no sense of humor, and kept interrupting the lady while she was trying to explain the menu. There's always one person in the comment section that likes to start mess.
Navy cooks are known for cooking great meals, and I enjoyed eating at their facilities too, as well as Air Force facilities where I ate food which was much better than that I ate in civilian facilities.
FYI: the food quality depends on the size of the ship. subs get the best food and aircraft carriers get the worst. the quality of food has to be sacrificed due to the quantity.
xKettzy Yeah, no shit. That's why I said they were sailors and not soldiers. All Navy vessels have Marines on board. That's why I said, "The Marines on board...."
How does this woman have a job as a reporter? How does the intern at Fox that labeled this video have a job? How come there are never onions left when I get to chow?
+bambang303 when I first got on a ship ( 1962-64 ) I was happy as long as they had coffee got out for a few years to go to college and came back into navy as a Seabee was still happy as long as they had coffee : )
This was filmed inport, stateside. After a week at sea, fresh food is a memory. If you think that's bad, wait till you're at the end of a 13,000 mile long Nav supply line for 6 months steaming around the gulf of Aden or the IO. Dehydrated eggs, freezer burned veggies, canned spinach and rice with soy sauce. You get sustenance via high- line transfer meaning you get what comes over a line rigged between two ships. It's meager and selection is limited. The supply dept does it's best to cram the boat with as much as it can carry. Flour after 4months at the bottom of a hold gets mildew and breeds bugs, it's navy flour meaning lowest bidder. Breakfast is dehydrated eggs to order. Possibly bacon but usually it's a navy staple called chipped, beef also freezer burned from sitting in a freezer most the deployment. The same company sells the navy it's chipped beef as in the civil war. The sauce is flour and water. The chipped beef is salted. It's fucking disgusting and combined with the chippy. Sticks to your ribs. The hash brown potatoes are dehydrated potato slices. Potato's don't reconstitute very well. Once revived they are drained and tossed on a grill where the cooks do their best to make it appetizing. No amount of lard or paprika can add flavor. Katsup ran out months ago so the cooks use tomato paste, vinegar and sugar to make homestyle condiments. Lunch is usually deep fried veal cutlet or pasta. It's all made well in advance of chow so by the time you get your cutlet you're looking at a good workout. Don't worry you're constipated for most of the deployment, better than the shits you get from water that has jet fuel for flavoring. Dinner is chopped hot dogs in homemade BBQ sauce over rice. Navy food inport is great. Frozen hash browns return, fresh milk, salads. But sailors belong on ships and ships belong at sea. You're never inport more than a month tops. Navy food at sea simply cannot be good, the job out there is to load ammo not filet mignon. For every pallet of frozen spinach you get aboard you'll load 20 times that ammo.
Fly Eagle dude, learn how to type in our language before you criticize us. But your talking about the fast food here, it's just like the stuff you got where you live.
Four years in the USMC, 1972-1976, the chow halls weren't bad. The baked goods were excellent. The best chow I had in those years though was on ship, particularly LST USS Spartanburg County. The squids knew how to cook indeed.
spartan1010101 a co worker who is in the regular Army and now is in the reserves gave me some mre.they are a lot better than the c rations I had to eat when I served in the 70s
That's cuz people didn't know how to make food taste good back then, and I'm sorry you had to go through that. Thank you for your service though and may you never have to eat an MRE again.
Bullshit, like hell they were!. MRE's smell the same as CRats. At least you could cook using the cans!. The K-ration vs the C-Ration is another thing on it's own!. You can't compare mess hall food with combat rations. As for tasting good, that's what Tabasco and Louisiana Devil sauce is for...LOL
I have a lot of respect especially for the men and women in the United States Navy. My dad died of cancer in 2005 but in the 70s he was on the USS Saratoga which is now has been taken out of service and laid to rest. He was a barber on that aircraft carrier and I still have the Clippers still to this day and it's the best pair of hair clippers I have ever had and ever used their so heavy duty it's crazy. I want to give a shout out the guys and gals in the United States Navy I have a lot of respect for you all.
The army hasn't had amphibious operations? The Army sea ribbon? Army crafts launched from navy vessels almost completely carried out by army personal since the navy isn't trained to use the equipment. Think you need to check that again chief.
Lets see.. the USS America CV-66 and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69, embarked the 10th Mountain Division for a proposed invasion of Haiti in 1994. foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-time-when-two-super-carriers-became-floating-army-h-1647968681
For the LOVE OF GOD MEDIA, not all servicemen/servicewomen are soldiers! Soldiers are Army! Sailors are Navy, Airmen are Air Force and last but certainly not least Marines are Marines! Stop calling all servicemen/women soldiers!
Have you ever looked the definition of soldier: Definition of soldier (Entry 1 of 2) 1a : one engaged in military service and especially in the army b : an enlisted man or woman c : a skilled warrior This is the dictionary definition of soldier, it says especially in the Army not only in the Army. Every person serving in the military services is a soldier. If you are governed by the UCMJ YOU ARE A SOLDIER.
I was in the USAF, I can not think of one single bad meal my whole time in the service. Excellent food everyday. Midnight chow after night shift on the cold flight line was the best... Thanks to all of our cooks. If you're thinking of joining the AF, don't even think that food will be an issue.
***** in return of military services to keep a country with that amount of wanted freedom its pretty dumb that service members have to work with a shitty paycheck and have their lives risked just so they can be miscalled by a media worker who screams at the slightest sign of a spider. Perhaps you should try.
Well done soldier. An extremely important role for war effort. You handled the reporter like a seasoned pro! And all that food has made me very hungry at this moment. Keep up the fantastic work you and your crew do wherever you are serving.
Thank you to our sailors for keeping our country safe. Even the ones that keep our sailors stomachs full. A military can't march on an empty stomach. They probably have one of the most important jobs in the armed forces. Thanks guys and gals!!
"How do you guys stay so thin eating all this food, do you guys exercise or something?" Lady....they're in the god damn military. They work harder than any of us. Of course they stay fit, wtf.
BiggCMan I've seen a lot of fat sailors. and they're not really in the military, do they pick up weapon and fight for their country or do they hide on a boat? while they were two thousand miles away cowering from the fight real men were in Baghdad.
But you don't have to worry about drowning on land . Fat floats ! As a Boiler tech I needed every bit of the high carb and protien to get through a 6 on and 6 off shift for months . 130 plus temps take a toll . Back blow a boiler and get back to me .
Thanks to all the service men and women that serve on land and sea. This video just shows that our service people have to eat and like Neapolitan has been known to have said an army travels on its stomach, and seeing just one service of our military and the way they are kept fed and healthy is just great to know that those people that are cooks and the others that do an outstanding job for us and the crews of the ships are what makes all services the best on earth.
I would love to take a ride on the big boats with the good food and pretty girls. But here I am lugging a machine gun and 100lbs of gear around the desert eating MREs. That's how soldiers think.
Had a good friend who was a cook in the Corps. Crazy bastard he was or still is. I can’t remember this guys name when I checked into my unit so did he both of us got to 3/9 on the same day. Once we started talking I found out he was a pastry chef. I was in Comm. Blew me away that a pastry chef in the Corps. My stepson god forbid is a squid and he is a culinary specialist. He wants to be a full time Chef. He is good and very tasty meals he makes. Proud of him too.
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Yo whoever uploaded this and types that stupid title should be fired. Also so should the interview lady. They don't know the difference between the Army and the Navy.
The title is misleading. Its should read, what, "Sailors might eat at one lunch menu. And also hotdogs on the side." We also eat, just ordinary meals, like breakfast, and dinner meals. Like Spaghetti, Roast Beef, ham, and steaks. And when we go into a battle like the Persian Gulf War, we have steaks and lobster. And on the way home from most deployments we have the flight deck open for a BBQ along with several in house rock bands. There is the whole report. The meals are the best they can be. But you put 3000 people on a LHA, for 9 to 12 months at sea, it helps moral. This young lady is a FC3 who works on the CIWS. Close in Weapons Support System. She seems very bright. Former USS Tarawa sailor here. Thank you to all who have served and defended our country and to all the family's who supported them. Thank you.
I was in the Navy and i also attended my A school at an Army Base. Ft. Devens, Mass. I can tell u 1st hand when the would announce at the Army bases Mess hall that they had 2nd,s. on food. They would give it strickly to their Army Personnel. We were a Small Detachment of Sailor,s probably 200 total on base. We hated the way they treated us!! All i can say is my first Duty station after boot camp was that horrible Army base and from that day on whether i was aboard Ship or at a Naval base i thanked God everyday that i was in the Navy and i didnt join the Army. And aboard Ship the Navy takes such excellent care of all the Enlisted and Commissioned officers. There is no finer branch of the military to be in than the US Navy. Anyone who asks me about enlisting in the military i let them know what my experience was at Army Ft. Devens and then the Ships and Navy bases i was stationed to. Theres no comparison, Go Navy!!!
I am going to take a wild stab at this one Fox News before actually watching the video. I bet the US Navy eats food cooked by a person who knows how to cook... just a guess.
Guys as a former Marine from the mid 70's i had was on a "Carib" cruise on a LST. Navy food was great. The only thing i did not like was the rabbit that was served one time. I think i got a bad piece. Navy Food Rocks!
She's awesome , Great personality right off the bat ..... Talking a bit much "giddy" From the camera at first . Haha But shes awesome ... She's a sailor , Not a news caster or interviewer. ... She stole the show, killed it and put the older lady outta business LOL
I'm technically an airman, but I'm in the Navy. Just so you know there are five different types of sailors, you have seamen, airmen, corpsmen, firemen, and constructionmen. Although, generally corpsmen are grouped with seamen.
It would've been nice if they would've interviewed an actual CS or MS as we were called when I was in 81-85. She is doing what was called "Mess Cook" duty a 90 day requirement for all sailors to work in the Galley.
I was in the Navy and the Army. I was lucky to experience the Sailor life and the Soldier life. Calling a sailor a soldier may seem minor to you news people but if you're going to take the time to expose military life, please take the time to understand the differences between a Sailor, Soldier, Marine, Airman and Coast Guardsmen. We all undergo different trainings and serve different purposes. So please don't call a branch another branches name. And the last thing, please let our president know that it's Marine Corps, not Marine Core!!! Much respect to my brothers and sisters out there serving, praying for you guys.
She doesn't know $#!+ I am partial to seamen myself but that is because I am a retired Rear Admiral who always left his poop deck open to them. I never met a porthole that I didn't like.
I recall the chow hall when i was up in Iceland........1950's The pancakes were ok, but you had to be careful with the syrup. It just wasn't really good syrup, i guess it was "homemade" lol We had metal trays to eat on. If you left some syrup on that tray, then put your silverware on top and that was touching some of the syrup, it would get REAL sticky. Have one cigarette and then gramb your silverware and the whole damn tray would come with it lol We also had "powdered milk and powdered eggs" Sometimes they would get real "fresh eggs" and word would get around quickly. There would be a RUSH for them. yummm
You Marines ARE Navy. Any Time someone says negative about the Navy, they are insulting you. Who begot who?... oh and we also forgot about the seals? Kevin you are neither marine nor navy. They would never insult each other nor hold dick measuring contests. Research before insult. Attack Army, or air force, but NO REAL marine attacks navy. Navy does not consider itself Marine but they appreciate each other.
This Younqin Coming from a mouth breathing I think with my nutz kind of guy like you, I'm not very moved. Hopefully your caps lock key is working fine, it seemed broken on some of your other comments.
I was an Army truck driver, but got stationed at Rhein-Main Airbase in Frankfurt. We also hauled ASAP freight (called "Triple Nine" cargo) that had to go to its destination IMMEDIATELY, 7 days a week. The Air Force chow was So Much Better than the Army, it was rare to go to an Army mess hall and get tasty chow, the Air Force provided it daily. For anybody thinking of enlisting, consider the Air Force first and foremost. EVERYTHING is better, from the food to the barracks to the (lack of) omnipresent harassment done by Dodo Bird Army Sergeants. They are a professional group with a professional mission, the Army was sloppy, inefficient, grossly wasteful. P.S. if you REALLY want job training that applies to civilian life After Your Enlistment, consider working in a hospital, electronics, aviation,ANYTHING but Combat Arms......My brother shot a 105 Howitzer for the 82nd Airborne.....good training if there were lots of companies that wanted that skill.....Haha....and although I learned to be a truck driver, they are a dime a dozen in the civilian world. Choose your career path wisely, don't just grab the first or easiest thing offered. All the best, Patrick Young, US Army 1974-76.
While we love our fellow service men and women....there are no soldiers here. One marine and one sailor. Our family travels together(Navy/Marine Corps)
I retired in December 1995 I was stationed among other places SIMA POURTSMOUTH, VA. They take care of all East Coast Carriers as part of AIRLANT COMMAND. In my day the NAVY dished out what ever and Exercise was time out of sleep, eat or shower Time. Now I guess they finally got there heads out of there assets and let folks have time to P.T. Time especially for Snipes! You don't see Fat Marines? and Aircraft Carriers are the Cadillac of the Navy! I was small boys....GO NAVY! MM2(SW) USN RET.
