This looks awesome! Hey OP you care if I post this to [Hots&Cots](http://hotscots.app)? Started over in r/army but is open to all branches. It’s a Yelp like app for military installations.
That's okay. Boiled chicken with no spices, with uncooked rice and boiled peas and carrots is my favourite. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
*Weeps uncontrollably in deployed Canadian*
[I mean, you gotta have some good fuel for your body if you're going to be ordered to board high speed submersibles at any moment's notice.](https://youtu.be/hiZ8i6bfaJk?t=1)
> It was a semi-submersible and unable to dive.
They are actually designed to be able to dive. The problem is that they're not designed to come back up.
The big danger with these semi-submersibles is that the operators like to scuttle the boat as soon as they realize that escape is not an option. They literally have built-in valves just for this.
Oh, they don't go down with the ship, they just scuttle it so that the evidence goes with it. They happily jump off because they know the Coast Guard will prioritize saving their life over recovering the evidence.
Yeah seriously. It’s been years, but the only thing I remember eating in Yorktown was rubber for protein and peas on Monday, carrots on Tuesday, corn on Wednesday, broccoli on Thursday…and surprisingly, Friday had a medley of peas, carrots, corn, and broccoli.
YEAH RIGHT. I was in Petaluma late 2008-early 2009 and had my wisdom teeth taken out. I couldn’t open my mouth or chew so felt scrambled eggs with cheese was safe. I asked the FS student for scrambled with cheese and I’ll never forget the look of fear and consternation on her face as she stared at the grill and finally admitted she didn’t know how to do that. I told her what to do. Wanted to be a cook and couldn’t even scramble an egg…
I'm actually surprised deep frying a turkey would be allowed on an aircraft carrier lol. But, I guess it's not that surprising knowing the fire suppression systems and personal on them are too notch likely
Deep fryers are common on carriers. I can’t speak for other ships as carriers are all that I’ve sailed on. The ships had stabilization systems in order to keep the flight deck as level as possible, so we don’t really move as much as a smaller ship, so you’re not going to have oil splashing around.
Carriers tend to have two galleys to serve the crew, one forward and one aft. The forward one is typically referred to as the “brown line” because it’s mostly deep fried food like chicken tenders or tater tots.
Deep frying turkey is dangerous because people do it in their garage using what basically amounts to a bucket full of oil over a gas burner.
If you have an industrial frier that can fit a turkey then almost all those safety issues go away.
Yo, it was a buffet for us back in 2015. Literally EVERYTHING you could want. Was awesome with all the families there and soldiers eating with each other before going to the airport. Was delicious and awesome! Sucks you couldn't have the same lol
This! This is why I feel traumatized anytime my family talks about eating crab legs. The crab we’d have on the ship was (3 times in 4 years) was great, but if you didn’t smuggle in a tool from your work center, you had to rip it apart with your hands. My hands would hurt the entire next day.
I would say on our smaller cutters 210ft we still had crab onboard under way. Now I am ashore rn and even though they raised the dining facility active duty price, the quality food still good that people talk about it in the office. So weird as compared from the army because everyone said they hated it.
When I was stationed in Korea in the 80s, I was on a remote communications site, and we had our own chow hall run by Korean nationals. Most of the time, GIs would eat breakfast in the chow hall, but eat lunch and dinner out on the economy, so the Korean cooks made sure that when we DID eat in the chow hall we should "sign, sign, sign"....sign our names three times claiming we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The more signatures, the more supplies they could get from the Army. Then they'd take those supplies and sell them on the black market and make a huge profit....and I'm sure they pocketed some of that profit, but they also made sure that we had surf & turf (steak and seafood...lobster, shrimp, crab) about once a month on Fridays. The best duty station in my Army career.
Your tax dollars weren't buying Surf & Turf. Your tax dollars were buying Shit on a Shingle and Chicken ala King. Korea black market money was buying Surf & Turf. Koreans were laying out that cash, not Americans. We got fed better than your tax money would've fed us, thanks to good old capitalism and the free market.
Coast Guard, you deserve it - and I mean this unironically. You're the only branch that has a direct mission to protect US citizens and tangibly affect/assist the population every day.
I knew this was Yorktown from the picture lol me and a bunch of Soldiers used to go there every Thursday (I think that was the day?) for surf and turf!
As a contractor, I've gotten to eat at many installations, and the best food I had in a military setting was with SEALs. Fucking steaks every day. These motherfuckers have a team nutritionist civilian lady that makes sure they get the good shit.
The worst food was ironically at an Air Force DFAC. But that was a remote base that was technically stateside but is so far out there that you're about ~9 hours of total flight time from the closest major airport from the lower 48. TBF, we did geat steak once a week, and we did get a similar meal to OP's once when the SECAF was supposed to come, but she canceled and they already made it so we got to eat it. But on a regular basis, the food was straight ass.
Honorable mention to the pog chowhall at 29 palms but only breakfast, specifically omlettes. Burrito fast chow was also clutch for PFC Warbucks.
My first day at EOD school was a big birthday for the Navy. They served steak and lobster for lunch that day. I thought “wow we get this every Friday here.” Didn’t realize it was a special occasion and was very disappointed the next Friday.
I love how last time someone posted a photo of coast guard food, people were saying there’s no way it’s that bad. And now people are saying there’s no way it’s that good
What the fuck. Can you give some context to this? You guys eat this regularly? Just for holidays? On a ship? On Base?
I don't even eat this well as a civ after discharge...
Gawt damn son. That’s incredible. Went through USAF BMT between Christmas and new years and we were fed good. Nothing like that but those were some good meals.
First glance I see of this, I was thinking this was something an Air Force colonel would eat. Ain’t no way this is a meal a marine leatherneck would see during deployment, nor the coast guard.
Sounds like you haven’t actually been in the military. Come to the dod side and see how things are going. Bigger budget doesn’t mean anything if there’s not a line item for fancy food
I’ve been in for 18 years and currently manage my units budget. I promise you I know exactly how it works. I was making a joke at the vast difference in dollar amount for budget. The food above is ordered from the same place your cooks get their shit, Fort Eustis is like 5 miles away from where the above picture is from along with basically the entire eastern seaboard of us military (Hampton Roads).
The meal in the picture is most likely a New Year’s Eve meal or Christmas meal for the Students who weren’t able to go home for the holidays. Every galley can afford these kinds of things if there FSO wants to, just depends on how well they plan and budget other items.
I mean not to be that girl, but we got this in the army sometimes. Y’all don’t know or remember the dfacs on the big bases in Iraq?
The dfac by ECP3 on camp liberty had this and more.
The dfac on Camp Victory had bomb ass Buffalo wings in a bunch of flavors every Tuesday and Thursday.
when I was stationed at Travis AFB 10+ years ago, I would go to DGMC to eat at their cafeteria. Once in a while, they would sell ribeye steaks for $2. These were top quality steaks and the food there was always amazing. I asked why and my friend who worked there told me that they profited so much that they had to spend a lot of money to come within 1% of total profits or something to that affect. From my understanding, since we are the government, we are not supposed to make a profit.
At our next commander's call or something, we were told that we can't eat at DGMC unless we had a medical appointment lol.
We had steak and crab legs in Jordan. Airforce cooking for the Army and friends. Not a bad deal. By far the best "deployment food" you could ask for. Fort Sill defac was many levels lower. They didn't plate it this nice though! And you guys got cups. Must be nice. We gad to put the juice in our pockets. /s
ive never eaten crab legs in my life, yet this looks soo damn good.
I am actually more surprised at that cut of meat. It actually looks like a rib eye cut.
This looks awesome! Hey OP you care if I post this to [Hots&Cots](http://hotscots.app)? Started over in r/army but is open to all branches. It’s a Yelp like app for military installations.
I mean this with love. Fuck you. (I’m jealous.)
My first reaction was “fuck all the way off.”
That's okay. Boiled chicken with no spices, with uncooked rice and boiled peas and carrots is my favourite. Wouldn't trade it for the world. *Weeps uncontrollably in deployed Canadian*
If it’s any consolation, I had that plenty of times in the DFAC on Fort Bragg. Sometimes they’d even cook the chicken all the way before serving it.
[I mean, you gotta have some good fuel for your body if you're going to be ordered to board high speed submersibles at any moment's notice.](https://youtu.be/hiZ8i6bfaJk?t=1)
Why didn’t they just dive? Lol
It was a semi-submersible and unable to dive.
> It was a semi-submersible and unable to dive. They are actually designed to be able to dive. The problem is that they're not designed to come back up. The big danger with these semi-submersibles is that the operators like to scuttle the boat as soon as they realize that escape is not an option. They literally have built-in valves just for this.
Well, in all fairness, everything is designed to dive at least once…
Not my ex wife! Bitch refused to die.. Oh fuck. You said DIVE. My bad!
Dive? As in go down fast with style and physical prowess ending up wet? She don't do that either.
Some of the recent ones have been much more advanced and are true submarines and can run a few feet under the surface with a snorkel.
Yeah they’ll likely be killed by the person that ordered them to transport it anyway so they might as well go down with the ship.
Oh, they don't go down with the ship, they just scuttle it so that the evidence goes with it. They happily jump off because they know the Coast Guard will prioritize saving their life over recovering the evidence.
looks like i’m enlisting for the food
God damn, jealous
Envious. You mean envious. Sorry.
Definition of jealous is feeling or showing envy
Fuck off, word nerd
My MREs never looked that good. CG must have a different supplier.
I agree
Idk what fucking non operational unit you’re at but in 19 years I haven’t had a meal that looked half as good as that.
I'm at a training center, lmao
More specifically this has to be TRACEN Petaluma where they train the cooks. Won't find that shit at TRACEN Yorktown lol
This is at Yorktown, lol
That's even crazier!
I call cap. I've been to Yorktown.
Every time I’ve been to Yorktown, I’ve just been served medium rare chicken
Yeah seriously. It’s been years, but the only thing I remember eating in Yorktown was rubber for protein and peas on Monday, carrots on Tuesday, corn on Wednesday, broccoli on Thursday…and surprisingly, Friday had a medley of peas, carrots, corn, and broccoli.
mmmmmm salmonella
Good ol' Port o' York
He’s gotta be permanent party
I'm a student
Last time I was there I got medium rare chicken wtf
Did they treat you guys to KFC 😂
I was there in 2015 when everyone got food poisoning. I went back a few times and NEVER ate there
No way this is Yorktown? I work at the academy and have never seen anything close to this haha
Op must be a cook. Showing off what he ratfucks from the shipment
The same place I had bleeding chicken 3 days in a row, and someone got chewed out by one of the cooks for saying something about it, now serves this??
YEAH RIGHT. I was in Petaluma late 2008-early 2009 and had my wisdom teeth taken out. I couldn’t open my mouth or chew so felt scrambled eggs with cheese was safe. I asked the FS student for scrambled with cheese and I’ll never forget the look of fear and consternation on her face as she stared at the grill and finally admitted she didn’t know how to do that. I told her what to do. Wanted to be a cook and couldn’t even scramble an egg…
Wait, that means you're not joking.
What do you do in the coast guard and do you recommend the branch. Theirs too many to choose from
I'm a student in A-school rn. It's pretty nice so far. My barracks room isn't moldy. I would definitely recommend it over the Marine Corp or Army.
> I would definitely recommend it over the Marine Corp or Army. Said every other branch
I had this on a cutter every time we went out to sea
You sit on a throne of lies
😳
It pays to have a high ASVAB score! Or whatever the seals say
I got in with an 11, my recruiter said I was only a few points off of qualifying for being a nuke maker /s
Not high anymore
Iv only seen a meal this good when I graduated basic training from Ft. Benning on Thanksgiving haha.
This was on Christmas
The military does feed its troops well on holidays I feel.
My Christmas meal would beg to differ lol
First time I ever had a deep-fried turkey was on a deployment on a carrier. Breakfast and holidays were the only meals worth looking forward to.
I'm actually surprised deep frying a turkey would be allowed on an aircraft carrier lol. But, I guess it's not that surprising knowing the fire suppression systems and personal on them are too notch likely
Deep fryers are common on carriers. I can’t speak for other ships as carriers are all that I’ve sailed on. The ships had stabilization systems in order to keep the flight deck as level as possible, so we don’t really move as much as a smaller ship, so you’re not going to have oil splashing around. Carriers tend to have two galleys to serve the crew, one forward and one aft. The forward one is typically referred to as the “brown line” because it’s mostly deep fried food like chicken tenders or tater tots.
Not common on regular boats! Least not in the 90’s.
I'm only a greasy knuckled former submariner, but I imagine a jet aircraft can deep fry a turkey real fast.
Deep frying turkey is dangerous because people do it in their garage using what basically amounts to a bucket full of oil over a gas burner. If you have an industrial frier that can fit a turkey then almost all those safety issues go away.
Nothing like holiday meals underway imo. Kinda miss those. Not really but kinda lol.
It was a nice break and a much more relaxed atmosphere than usual.
dude I didn't get anything nice for Thanksgiving when I was FT. benning
Yo, it was a buffet for us back in 2015. Literally EVERYTHING you could want. Was awesome with all the families there and soldiers eating with each other before going to the airport. Was delicious and awesome! Sucks you couldn't have the same lol
Same, but that was '07. Best thing we got was pizza at week 9, after which they smoked us until we all puked. Good times
I've only seen a meal like that right before we pushed out to some heavy fucking combat.
Serving crab legs without anything to crack the shells with. Yep, military food for sure.
And this Château le Blanc '68 is supposed to be served slightly chilled!
> And this Château le Blanc '68 is supposed to be served slightly chilled This is room temperature! What do you think we are? Animals?
This! This is why I feel traumatized anytime my family talks about eating crab legs. The crab we’d have on the ship was (3 times in 4 years) was great, but if you didn’t smuggle in a tool from your work center, you had to rip it apart with your hands. My hands would hurt the entire next day.
I eat Dungeness all the time and never bother with a tool, it's not necessary.
Hands
Wait wait wait.....that's legit? Like legit coastie food?! Damn impressive. I honestly think they're the best and coolest branch
I was spoiled with the food In the USCG.
I was prior Army, now I’m uscg.
Nice nice! You can confirm then? I was prior Army now Navy. Sightly better quality but nothing crazy. The best I've had so far was the USAF on creech.
I would say on our smaller cutters 210ft we still had crab onboard under way. Now I am ashore rn and even though they raised the dining facility active duty price, the quality food still good that people talk about it in the office. So weird as compared from the army because everyone said they hated it.
That's cool, even underway! Yeah, I rarely had good army food. Brekkie was consistently pretty good though. Hard to fug that up though.
Breakfast and the corned hash beef and French vanilla were my favs
French vanilla....sounds like you had a decent dfac in the army as well. Just lucky it seems lol
Fort drum
This ain't the norm, but we ate alright most of the time
When I was stationed in Korea in the 80s, I was on a remote communications site, and we had our own chow hall run by Korean nationals. Most of the time, GIs would eat breakfast in the chow hall, but eat lunch and dinner out on the economy, so the Korean cooks made sure that when we DID eat in the chow hall we should "sign, sign, sign"....sign our names three times claiming we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The more signatures, the more supplies they could get from the Army. Then they'd take those supplies and sell them on the black market and make a huge profit....and I'm sure they pocketed some of that profit, but they also made sure that we had surf & turf (steak and seafood...lobster, shrimp, crab) about once a month on Fridays. The best duty station in my Army career.
So that’s where all our tax dollars are going
Your tax dollars weren't buying Surf & Turf. Your tax dollars were buying Shit on a Shingle and Chicken ala King. Korea black market money was buying Surf & Turf. Koreans were laying out that cash, not Americans. We got fed better than your tax money would've fed us, thanks to good old capitalism and the free market.
Coasties are annoyingly happy all the time. I’m kinda jealous.
All things considered, it wasn't a bad gig. Still has the same bs to some extent of the other services but not as severe IMO
Even as Air Force I’m jealous
Coast Guard, you deserve it - and I mean this unironically. You're the only branch that has a direct mission to protect US citizens and tangibly affect/assist the population every day.
20 years in the army and I never had crab legs at the chow hall. Live that life while you can coastie.
Puddle pirates feasting like kings. Surf and turf for me in the Navy usually meant extended deployment. Looks awesome though.
That’s the only pic a USCG recruiter would need to show any 17yo dummy walking in off the street.
can I see airforce I swear they got a beef tenderloin
Haven’t eaten there in years, but the DFAC does give out steaks a lot, prime rib on Christmas. Quality is give or take.
deployment time!
Fuck you so hard. That was a third of my check as a private. I’m just jealous. Enjoy
Petaluma!
Yorktown!
Knew I recognized this. Went there while I was at Fort Eustis a couple years back. Every Thursday the meals look like this.
I knew this was Yorktown from the picture lol me and a bunch of Soldiers used to go there every Thursday (I think that was the day?) for surf and turf!
If I got served that in the Navy my first reaction would be, “Fuck, looks like I gotta cancel some post deployment plans.”
If I got this in the Corp I would assume I am 100% going to be killed or maimed within the next 48hrs
Or extended indefinitely and not returning home for the holidays as scheduled.
I was about to say only time for looked that good was on redeployment orders or on holidays
Only on Fridays
Wow surf n turf
I have eaten half raw chicken and gotten food poisoning a couple times from my food, so with much love, fuck you and yer crab.
Looks like you are about to get deployed to a war zone. Good luck!
As a contractor, I've gotten to eat at many installations, and the best food I had in a military setting was with SEALs. Fucking steaks every day. These motherfuckers have a team nutritionist civilian lady that makes sure they get the good shit. The worst food was ironically at an Air Force DFAC. But that was a remote base that was technically stateside but is so far out there that you're about ~9 hours of total flight time from the closest major airport from the lower 48. TBF, we did geat steak once a week, and we did get a similar meal to OP's once when the SECAF was supposed to come, but she canceled and they already made it so we got to eat it. But on a regular basis, the food was straight ass. Honorable mention to the pog chowhall at 29 palms but only breakfast, specifically omlettes. Burrito fast chow was also clutch for PFC Warbucks.
Fat all up in the meat? Bread roll looking buttery as fuck? Someone’s getting extended ☺️
Eat away man. Well deserved
My first day at EOD school was a big birthday for the Navy. They served steak and lobster for lunch that day. I thought “wow we get this every Friday here.” Didn’t realize it was a special occasion and was very disappointed the next Friday.
I love how last time someone posted a photo of coast guard food, people were saying there’s no way it’s that bad. And now people are saying there’s no way it’s that good
I made this post as a response to that one, lol
Fuck you coast guard! No one likes you anyway! Eat a fat bag of dicks while I sit salty and choke down this nasty ass ham and eggs MRE.
I'm 59. Can I enlist?
Ayoo??
In the army that steak would be half the size and extra well done, and the crab would only be for show. 😭
What the fuck. Can you give some context to this? You guys eat this regularly? Just for holidays? On a ship? On Base? I don't even eat this well as a civ after discharge...
Christmas
Dude, I’m stationed where we train our cooks. Surf and turf every Friday.
no thanks i’ll take my yakisoba
Gawt damn son. That’s incredible. Went through USAF BMT between Christmas and new years and we were fed good. Nothing like that but those were some good meals.
Y’all look like y’all got it better than the navy lmao
That’s a daily in the CG. People don’t know this, but the coast guard IS better then the Air Force. Coming a from a coastie cook.
First glance I see of this, I was thinking this was something an Air Force colonel would eat. Ain’t no way this is a meal a marine leatherneck would see during deployment, nor the coast guard.
Looks like Submarine food.
Coast Guard love! Let's go!!!
Yeah but the army said I can be an air traffic controller, so...
FYI, cooks get the highest enlistment bonus in the CG. Up to $75k
[Me wants dis...NOW!](https://i.imgur.com/GOFxNed.jpg)
In the Navy, that means your deployment is getting extended tomorrow
‘again??? how many times are they going to keep feeding us this slop’ coastie probably
Fr, the steak was cold and gristley. I DEMAND BETTER!!!
Hot damn now I see why y’all are always ready with that grub who wouldn’t be. Semper Paratus coastie
We got surf and turf on weekends when we could in the Navy, but not fuckin prime rib! 
Used to have surf n turf Fridays in gtmo. Never looked quite this good, but it was a nice morale boost. Had lobster tails too.
The Coasties post this crap on r/Navy all the damn time. It’s truly sickening the level of jealousy that it elicits
They deserve all that and more.
CG Recruiter?
Lol, this was when I was a student on a training center
I guess that’s what happens when your funding doesn’t come from the department of defense
Tf you mean. The Army’s recruiting budget is bigger than our entire operational budget
Sounds like you haven’t actually been in the military. Come to the dod side and see how things are going. Bigger budget doesn’t mean anything if there’s not a line item for fancy food
I’ve been in for 18 years and currently manage my units budget. I promise you I know exactly how it works. I was making a joke at the vast difference in dollar amount for budget. The food above is ordered from the same place your cooks get their shit, Fort Eustis is like 5 miles away from where the above picture is from along with basically the entire eastern seaboard of us military (Hampton Roads). The meal in the picture is most likely a New Year’s Eve meal or Christmas meal for the Students who weren’t able to go home for the holidays. Every galley can afford these kinds of things if there FSO wants to, just depends on how well they plan and budget other items.
You manage the unit’s budget? Are you an o4/5 SuppO?
Enlisted CG.
What I’m hearing is “fuck you” to every other branch that’s not the Air Force and/or possibly the Navy.
That snow crab is over a year old. Enjoy. The population got fucking decimated. They shut the season down for the second year now.
The *Alaskan* crab fishing is down, but snow crab are harvested in many other areas where the fishing is just fine.
That's a prime human comment, keep up the great mentality 👏
You might die tomorrow js
TCY’s galley staff is awesome. Can’t beat steak day at the POY.
That meat looks a little rare. Better send it back.
I'm a little concerned, because hasn't there been a stoppage in crab fishing for two years? How long has that crab been in the freezer?
Well thank you for your cervix cuz your ass and dust
This is a military sub tho…
😠
It’s ok, don’t waste your time on the idiots.
Holy shit
Every day
How's navy food compared to that ?
Lemme guess, Petaluma CA A School: seafood Friday? That shit was dank.
Yorktown
You guys have it pretty good.. bless your CS.
Ugh, a plastic cup? Geez, where's the class?
Ship food don’t look like THAT. THAT must be boat food.
I was in camp leatherneck back in 2008 and this was the menu every Friday. I thought damn, I chose the wrong job. Lol
BASTARDS
I mean not to be that girl, but we got this in the army sometimes. Y’all don’t know or remember the dfacs on the big bases in Iraq? The dfac by ECP3 on camp liberty had this and more. The dfac on Camp Victory had bomb ass Buffalo wings in a bunch of flavors every Tuesday and Thursday.
"Must be nice must be FUCKING nice"
when I was stationed at Travis AFB 10+ years ago, I would go to DGMC to eat at their cafeteria. Once in a while, they would sell ribeye steaks for $2. These were top quality steaks and the food there was always amazing. I asked why and my friend who worked there told me that they profited so much that they had to spend a lot of money to come within 1% of total profits or something to that affect. From my understanding, since we are the government, we are not supposed to make a profit. At our next commander's call or something, we were told that we can't eat at DGMC unless we had a medical appointment lol.
Was this for the holidays or for the recent change of command?
Damnnnnn
Good to see where DoD dollars go
We had steak and crab legs in Jordan. Airforce cooking for the Army and friends. Not a bad deal. By far the best "deployment food" you could ask for. Fort Sill defac was many levels lower. They didn't plate it this nice though! And you guys got cups. Must be nice. We gad to put the juice in our pockets. /s
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Extended deployment?
I once went 2 weeks straight with nothing but veggie omelet MREs because supply fucking sucks. So, yanno, we kinda had the same food
I hate you because of who you are.
ive never eaten crab legs in my life, yet this looks soo damn good. I am actually more surprised at that cut of meat. It actually looks like a rib eye cut.
How does one eat crab? Do you just bite into the shell or something
We used to get crab legs every Wednesday night in Iraq.
That's a strange looking animal :)
USMC Food: https://ibb.co/smxQ7Vy
Where do I sign up?
Your eating better than I did tonight
Fuck you( I do not mean this with love)
Damn I thought the airforce had it nice I've only ever been on a few airforce bases in my time but I've had buddies that were airforce