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I strongly suspect that this practice of an evening breakfast of sorts, accommodated much more than a meal to those who stayed up late. Some had the munchies and I shall leave it at that.
My friend Willie called it midnight chew. The main dining facility had the post office in it. So, we might say, "We were checking our mail".
My friend Willie called it midnight chew. The main dining facility had the post office in it. So, we might say, "We were checking our mail".
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MSgt (Join to see) Well, they say breakfast is the most important meal, despite it being around 10 or 11PM. lol
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MSgt (Join to see) - I put in for Eilsen AFB where my sister Linda was born and where I went to Kindergarten. I even have my report card from that time..
1961-1962. How about that?
1961-1962. How about that?
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Well, when I was a Det Ops TIF OIC in Iraq, we had 24 hour operations, and my PLT had the night shift. MidRats was the only way we got fed, except ours had to be trucked over from the DFAC.
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1LT Nick Kidwell - My first experience was in Basic Training in Lackland and this was about midnight of the first evening we arrived, straight off the bus. It probably would have been more fun, except the guys with the big Sombreros were telling us how worthless that we were.. lol
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MIDNIGHT Chow is lunch for night flying aviators and MPs running the night shift. There are a ton of folks who are on separate rations to deal with this stuff, but no help spending it when overseas or out in the middle of BFE, so therefore the requirement to have the meal. The folks who have the MUNCHIES are just co-benefactors of the need to feed the ones working from 1800-0600.
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CW5 Sam R. Baker - For the first three or four years I was a benefactor of the spoils and Green Eggs and ham. In 1978 I worked rotating shifts and thus felt justified. lol Better?
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SPC Wendy Watson
Honestly Chief I do not see an issue with, however I think it a very touchy subject when it come to personnel. Generally I do not have a problem with serving soldiers 24/7 but company level leadership may not be so understanding, they already have the impression that cooks are lazy "cake-daddies" when actually we are the hardest working soldiers besides mechanics and MP's in the army.
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CW5 Sam R. Baker
SPC Wendy Watson , as with every kind of Soldier and Officer, there are those who do and those who don't! Having just returned from JRTC with TF 6-101, those cooks and the Mess Sergeant kicked total butt! The Mess NCO and his staff are one of the largest and most impactual motivators Soldiers can have in a field problem, deployment or Garrison. Sooooooo, that being said, it only takes one bad apple to leave an impression that takes what seems a lifetime to overcome.
That can be said for Pilots too!
That can be said for Pilots too!
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