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Chow
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It's going to be a well balanced meal, and it will be different every day (breakfast is always the same), but you'll have to wait for somebody else to chime in with experience w/ Navy boot camp to see about the quantity you'll get at a meal.
mmmm....powdered eggs, dry pancakes, and untoasted toast...breakfast is great!
"Dont hydrate my brightworks. they are not thirsty".
Although now I hear each "ship" has its own galley and all the recruits never have to leave the building. As far as food goes, it wont be mothers cooking and you'll be under a time crunch to eat everything, but its not horrible by any means.
Although now I hear each "ship" has its own galley and all the recruits never have to leave the building. As far as food goes, it wont be mothers cooking and you'll be under a time crunch to eat everything, but its not horrible by any means.
It may have changed since '93 but we stood in line at 0500 for breakfast, 1100 (ish) for lunch, and 1700 (ish) for dinner. The food is OK (at best) but I've never been picky and I was hungry like a hostage at every meal.
You will also have to listen to an annoying schpiel before eating ("You have 15 minutes and 15 minutes only to eat you fine, fine Navy chow..."). When you're done you go outside and wait for the rest of the company to finish.
Overall, bootcamp teaches you to hurry up and wait...that's the Navy way!
You will also have to listen to an annoying schpiel before eating ("You have 15 minutes and 15 minutes only to eat you fine, fine Navy chow..."). When you're done you go outside and wait for the rest of the company to finish.
Overall, bootcamp teaches you to hurry up and wait...that's the Navy way!
I have no gripes about Navy chow; you don't have to cook it, and for the most part you don't have to clean up after it (til you go cranking, anyway). Boot is what Steve said, except when I went through there was cereal and donuts as well. The worst part is you get used to eating a full meal in five or six minutes, and when you get back to see your friends and family, they'll think you're some form of animal when you clear two plates in a matter of seconds.
PB&J will be your friend.
Freakin' recruits nowadays don't a "Service Week", which included a job for 7 days of working the galley, drill halls, etc. Money issues aside, I think that's a loss. Plus, the galleys are all in the individual ships, so gone are the days of standing in the snow during the Great Lakes winter at 5am, waiting just to get inside!
Anyways, off rant, the food isn't bad. When I went through I was the last person to sit down (AROC) and I only had 10 minutes to eat, so expect 10-12 for your meal. The food is decent, nothing extravagant but it's actually tasty. You'll get plenty, for the most part you'll get what you want of what's being served.
Like pat said, during Parent's Weekend you'll finish your whole meal, have desert and be smoking on a cigarette before your folks finish their salad!
Anyways, off rant, the food isn't bad. When I went through I was the last person to sit down (AROC) and I only had 10 minutes to eat, so expect 10-12 for your meal. The food is decent, nothing extravagant but it's actually tasty. You'll get plenty, for the most part you'll get what you want of what's being served.
Like pat said, during Parent's Weekend you'll finish your whole meal, have desert and be smoking on a cigarette before your folks finish their salad!
Wow… no kidding? Have things changed that much? When I was in, and granted it was a few years ago, we had eggs to order with great breakfast meats. You took the type of bread you wanted and put it in a large machine that toasted it while you waited. Then you got jelly and such, and moved on to the coffee, juice and the milk machine (Chocolate if you wanted… kind of a creamy surgery thick liquid.) We also had good pancakes and French toast, with baked pastries. If you wanted cereal it was there as well in those small boxes. (I’d kill for some of that SOS they served with the tomato base and ground beef. Yum yum…)
As a matter of fact, the OOD had to eat with us enlisted men while he had the duty. I remember, that arm badge was passed around quite a bit for “midrat’s.” (Not a soul said a thing.) At Cecil Field, “midrat’s” were a combination of what was left over from lunch, dinner and what they were going to have for breakfast the next morning. Now Cecil Field though large in area, was small in personnel, kinda family. If you were hungry, you ate 24/7. It’s hard for me to fathom any other way. But keep in mind I only did 4&2.
Steve
We're referring to the food served in boot camp. After that, I agree, the food is pretty darn good....especially breakfast (can't beat eggs to order).
Seriously... we had that kind of food at "Great Lakes" as well... But keep in mind I was in during the 60's. (But I did Looooove "midrat's" at Cecil.)
Steve
The Great Lakes guys complain about the weather but there's nothing like a nice "Grinder Reminder" from Orlando. Good luck picking up chicks down on Church Street with that semi-permanent ring around your head.
I may not have been cold in boot but I definitely ate soaking wet during the summer in Florida. Good times!
I may not have been cold in boot but I definitely ate soaking wet during the summer in Florida. Good times!
Yea, no joke. Nothing like trying to dodge the lightning bolts on your way back to the barracks. What company were you in?The Great Lakes guys complain about the weather but there's nothing like a nice "Grinder Reminder" from Orlando. Good luck picking up chicks down on Church Street with that semi-permanent ring around your head.
I may not have been cold in boot but I definitely ate soaking wet during the summer in Florida. Good times!
I graduated about six months ago, and chow was as follows: Stand outside of galley in line while being yelled at by RDC's for not being close enough together, go in the galley, 12 minutes from the time the R-POC sits down, he is usually the first one seated, so less than 12 minutes. Food was a lot better than I expected, donuts fairly often, cereal was present all day (Lucky Charms, Reese's Puffs, Frosted Flakes, and Cheerios usually) The meals were rotated every day and repeated after 30 days I think, maybe less. Good luck, and have fun in Battle Stations 21.
I was C 056...way back when God was a Seaman. I started May 24, 1993 and we were in Division 5 all the way at the end by the Blue Jacket.