I tell people the extra is for all the cookies they take from the line. You know who you are.
MB pretty much hit it. What I'm talking about is the fact that I pay a mess bill for each meal that I'm on the ship. While in country I didn't pay a cent extra for all of my food. I get it. When on base in the States, if I want to eat, I pay for it. When any other service deploys, they get their food for free. They don't lose their BAS. When I deploy to the ship, I have to pay for the slop I'm served.
I tell people the extra is for all the cookies they take from the line. You know who you are.
It's only available during meal hours, because it's being eaten too much. Flying during a mealtime? Suck it. But hey, we'll make special hours for the "watchstanders"Where's the PBJ?
It's only available during meal hours, because it's being eaten too much. Flying during a mealtime? Suck it. But hey, we'll make special hours for the "watchstanders"
I got in a pissing contest with the SuppO one month. Why? They refused to provide box lunches to aircrew when we were flying during meal hours, and locked up the PB&J and cereal during non-meal hours. So, I kept a detailed log for a month - and refused to pay for my full mess bill since I wasn't afforded the opportunity to eat the food I was paying for. Ended up in front of the ship's XO because the SuppO thought he was going to win.WTF do you think you are? A paying customer?
When I was on the small boy we made nice with the mess guys and always had food available after we landed. Of course I probably ate more meals in the enlisted mess than in the wardroom due to meal hours, quality of food, etc.
Luckily on the CV you always have food available.
As MB stated, not all CVs. It was the Vinson in 2003 when we had just started deployment. They would clean out the wardrooms completely after meal hours, which of course did not jive with flight ops. One day the wardroom officer happened to be in there on a no fly day (clearly this guy had no SA) and was asked about why nothing was left out - no cereal, pb&j, nothing. His answer, unbelievably, was that it was because "you selfish aviators would eat it all."
The scene unfolded in epic fashion is just about everyone in there surrounded this idiot JG with VMFA-314 ready to rip him apart. He just kept screaming in defiance eventually yelling out that "this was my wardroom!" Silence ensued after a loud booming voice was heard. The air wing parted for DCAG who said to the wardroom officer "actually, it is the Big XO's wardroom and we are going to go pay him a visit right now."
The problem was rectified shortly thereafter.
I guess I should clarify. I didn't miss a whole month of meals. If I dug around and looked - I could probably still find my log, but I think I missed somewhere along the lines of 16-ish meals in the month. I also counted the ones where I came screaming down from the flight deck, dropped my flight gear in the room, only to have the mess cranks close the line and say "sorry sir" to my face.I ran into a similar situation as Phrog on my second deployment. I wasn't nearly as organized as Phrog73 and I probably only missed 5 meals instead of a whole month...
Organized? I'm hardly organized. I was pissed, and we were three months in to a "we don't know when we're coming home" deployment (turned out to be 8 months).