How good is the food on carriers/navel ships?
Also doesn't this seem a bit decadent bbqing steaks and shit in the ocean 3000 miles away?
How good is the food on carriers/navel ships?
How good is the food on carriers/navel ships?
Also doesn't this seem a bit decadent bbqing steaks and shit in the ocean 3000 miles away?
tummy ships
>decadent
More like the ultimate flex.
this
>Blow up some of your mudhut shithole with a few bombs that cost more than your entire country.
>BBQ afterwards because we can
you ever have long pig anon?
with the right spices, if you make sure to really de-nerve the meat, you've got a pretty tasty meal there
but you gotta get the nervous system out or you'll get kuru
The US military is peak decadence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge
Not really decedent, just the best we can do... which is really good.
Shit like this is important, it's a fundamental component of high morale. Look at MREs between nations. The chink assault ration is shitty emergency food bars that all taste the same. The US one is the most advanced food preparation tech in the known universe in appetizing and various menu sets.
People won't eat shitty food when they are stressed. Like cats/dogs not eating when they are gravely ill. When people stop eating they suck at everything they do.
So yes, bbqs on CVNs is exactly what they should be doing, because that sailor with a stummy full of steak and burgers will kick the shit out of any starving/malnourished counterpart in the world.
The US military has realized that being in any military fricking sucks and that doing literally anything to improve morale is one of the best possible things you can do to stop your soldiers from doing moronic shit. Thus, USN vessels generally get once-monthly cookouts where they barbecue meats and are allowed a limited amount of alcohol.
A bit of regular world stuff goes a long way.
>allowed a limited amount of alcohol
I saw a Navy documentary where a sailor got drunk one night and threw some light sticks overboard. Light sticks in water is code for sailor overboard so naturally everyone on the ship freaked out and thought someone fell in the ocean, they spent hours searching for a missing person.
Was friends with a guy that was a Navy officer on a amphibious assault ship in the 70's. Military meals work off of a dollar amount per meal. When they were transporting Marines they would lower the quality (price) of the food served on the ship. The Navy budget covered the Sailors, the USMC budget covered the Marines. After they dropped off the Marines they would use the skimmed off budget money for steak and lobster tail for the voyage home. The accounting books looked level as you were just back pushing money.
A Marine I knew talked about when they got their two beers for three months at sea all the alcoholics were running around offering $20 a beer.
the silliest of petty frauds
the only reason auditors don't get at it is that it's too small potatoes, like palming sweets at a store
go to your Asian food store and try picrel, it's the most bog standard of Jap curries and you can it just about anywhere
it's just food anon
though one description of Iraqi food had me chortling:
>heaps of rice and your choice of curry, red, yellow, and green, it all tasted roughly the same
>go to your Asian food store and try picrel, it's the most bog standard of Jap curries and you can it just about anywhere
I already use that. I mean the actual retort pouches of stuff from various ships that they put out.
I bet they didn’t have the mozzarella sticks tho
Americans will BBQ wherever we please. Whenever we please. I'm sure our military expansion is just to acquire exotic meats to BBQ.
Nothing stops the BBQ.
>3:26
Why the frick is Afghanistan getting glassed by the Covenant
>they fricking Chinook'd a grill up the mountain to the outpost
I guess Forrest Gump was accurate. War never changes. It ain't me.
>It ain't me.
Some folks are born spatula in hand
Sarn't, won't you get the grill, sarn't?
But when the lt come to the spot
Lord, she start lookin' like a desert queen, yeah
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't eatin' no mres, son, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no rear line pog, no
Well you see, in this war, things get confused out there.
>*takes a bite on burger*
Power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity.
>*grabs chicken wings, lathers them up in honey BBQ sauce*
But out here with these natives... it must be a temptation to be God.
>*munches on wings and licks fingers*
Frick me that's good. What was I saying. Oh, yeah... so good doesn't always triumph, sometimes the dark side overcomes. And the colonel who's there... in the FATA...
>*pops a beer can and goes for another burger*
Is operating beyond the limit of any reasonable morality.
Haha my sides. Good one m8
>"the steaks are goo-"
>[automatic fire]
>"don't be scared, GO!"
>"steaks are fine"
>"all that matters man"
>[explosions]
>just keeps grilling
God bless
>shit chyeah, smells good as a motherfricker dude
>god bless you
Top lads.
Great video. Thanks anon, thoroughly enjoyed.
>freedom steaks
Meat-eat-feast destiny
Bloody Yankees.
Its about as good as the best hospital cafeteria food you ever had. Fills you up and doesn't offend, and yeah the cookouts are boss. occasionally Seaman Santiago or Jamal will turn out to be a actually good cook and you're lucky to get in their line
From the surface gays I've talked to, carrier food is straight dogshit at best.
>Also doesn't this seem a bit decadent bbqing steaks and shit in the ocean 3000 miles away?
Yes that's the point. Why shouldn't troops be allowed to have fun and enjoy a good meal every once in a while?
>bbqing steaks and shit in the ocean 3000 miles away?
That's only for special occasions.
>decadent
Even some of the poorest people in America grill steaks and other meat every so often. Is OP from some famine stricken shithole?
Good food keeps soldiers sane.
The food on carriers is the worst in the fleet. Reason being is because they have to accommodate so many different dietary restrictions for some of the crew, and most of the visiting riders.
Best food is on submarines, bar none. Heard it's pretty hit or miss on small boys.
As far as OP's pic, that's a 'Steel Beach Picnic', where some NGO gets flown on with their grilling rigs and makes halfway decent BBQ for the day shift. Go frick yourself if you're on nights. It happens once every other cruise, but it might happen more often for the US-based carriers. I was only ever on 7th Fleet.
>Heard it's pretty hit or miss on small boys.
It depends on where your ship is in the world. If you load up in the Mediterranean, you're gonna get good food.
Maybe you'll even get All The Eggs.
>Feeding your servicemen completely normal food that any civilian would have an any given Sunday is now decadence
How bad are the rations on a thirdie ship, anyone have stories?
I want to try JMSDF curry. People say it's really good.
>Also doesn't this seem a bit decadent bbqing steaks and shit in the ocean 3000 miles away?
I don't know how many times US carriers do it per month but considering that they're in the middle of frick all with the nearest hovel being somewhere along a +/- 33 + 76-day trip by 24-hours swimming, I don't think a nice grill under clear skies once every so often is decadent at all.
You got to let your guys let off steam once in a while. Stories of idiots going overboard when out of camp or on such breaks are a problem of personal discipline, not from "decadence" from not having a stick up their asses 24/7.
>Also doesn't this seem a bit decadent bbqing steaks and shit in the ocean 3000 miles away?
homie I was in a COP at the foot of the fricking Himalayas with 20-something others and they still had a MH-47 fly out and do a pinnacle landing to deliver a christmas tree and a dozen trays of food for a feast.
Grilling in the middle of the ocean is nothing. The US military's greatest ability is its ability to deliver whatever it wants, wherever it wants at a specific time for whatever reason. Doesn't matter if it's bombs on target or trying to remind two dozen grunts in the world's butthole that it's Christmas.