I used to be within the navy for 8 years, and I’ve had meals from navy destroyers, plane carriers, submarine tenders, and shore obligation galleys.

When a ship is in port, it at all times had loads of recent meals on board. Proper earlier than a ship pulls out to sea, it’s replenished with new foods and drinks.

If you happen to going to be out to sea for some time, you’ll begin to lose a number of the issues on board you are taking as a right. Contemporary milk is often one of many first issues to go. They substitute it with powdered milk, and it doesn’t even come near actual milk.

Do not get me incorrect, the meals on the ship is definitely fairly good, and also you get loads of it!

If you end up in port, you’ve got entry to the freshest meals the navy has, similar to your hometown grocery retailer just about.

Once you get up within the morning, you go right down to the galley, and get within the chow line. There could be 10 guys in line by the point you get right down to eat, and breakfast is often served many of the morning, as a result of not everybody can eat on the similar time, and it will be over crowded then. On smaller ships, like destroyers and frigates, you often would have 4 meals a day. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Mid Rats, a small meal that make round midnight for those who are nonetheless hungry, and wish one thing to eat.

On the destroyer I used to be stationed on, we’d additionally usually have prepare dinner outs proper on the fantail. We at all times had a 55 gallon drum that was minimize in half, and somebody from the Provide Division could be frying cheeseburgers, and that was at all times good, even out in the course of the Indian Ocean, we’d be having a prepare dinner out.

For breakfast, you may often order your eggs to order, there might be a prepare dinner or 2, that take requests for a way you need your eggs made, that they had a rule not over 5 eggs, I often solely had 2 more often than not, and I’d inform them I need a ham & cheese omelet with 2 eggs, after which after I get my eggs, I transfer down the chow line, and get no matter else I wish to go together with that, bacon, sausage, similar to a small buffet actually.

Often on Fridays, if we have been in port, we’d have steak and lobster tails on Fridays. I by no means even actually had a lobster tail till I joined the navy. My dad by no means favored sea meals after I was a child, so we by no means had it in our home.

Lunch and dinner have been often like a buffet additionally, absolutely anything that they had, was a line of excellent meals, and you are taking what you need, and you may at all times get a brand new tray and return in line once more, in case you are that hungry.

The plane service I used to be on, was truly means too large of a ship for me, and I used to be so glad I solely needed to keep on it for two weeks. There meals was good additionally, and it had 2 galleys, in order that one was at all times open, if the opposite closed for cleansing or no matter cause.

When you’ve got roughly 5,000 individuals on board, you higher have a spot for them to eat on a regular basis, similar to a on line casino, if the ship had slot machines on it, it will be fairly near the identical ambiance of a buffet.

Once I was in transit someplace out within the Indian Ocean, I needed to go to Saudi Arabia to get on a flight to Italy, and a helicopter flew me and about 5 different enlisted guys out to this USNS ship, and we have been supposed to only journey the ship for two days, till we bought off the ship. They’d an enlisted 1st class yeoman that had his personal stateroom, which on a daily navy ship, simply the officers get.

This was a USNS ship, which meant it had civilian employees, and the navy personnel was assist for them. Once we ate of their dinning room every day, a waiter would come to our desk, and he would take your order. I believed to myself, it’s a must to be kidding me, these guys are sporting civilian garments, and a waiter is taking their order, and I can not even imagine that is actual. They offer you a alternative of two choices, form of like on an airplane, they usually carry you ice cream as dessert, and I believed that was unreal.

Many of the civilians on that boat weren’t cool just like the navy guys, most likely as a result of they thought the navy labored for them, which on that ship, they positive did, and I might consider a number of methods to save lots of the navy a ship load of cash!

Submarines get a number of the finest meals within the fleet. They guys are underneath water typically for therefore lengthy, and will you think about if they didn’t have good meals?

They’ve a drink they name bug juice, which is absolutely Kool-aid or a fruit punch drink. You higher get used to ingesting bug juice, in the event you like one thing to drink together with your meal, after the recent milk runs out.

Right here is likely one of the craziest issues I’ve witnessed on the ship, and each ship does it! It’s such a waste of excellent meals, however I suppose you may see the way it does shield the states from pests and bugs, however does it actually?

When ever you’re going out to sea far, you often cease by Hawaii to get new shops, as they name it, which implies you’re stocking up the ship with recent meals and meat and stuff like that.

As you journey the world, after which are returning, earlier than you cease by Hawaii, it’s a must to throw all of the meals that might have any probability of getting any sort of bug from one other nation in it, so we’ve a working social gathering, of possibly 20 guys, and the job is to make a line from the meals fridges, which a ship has a number of decks of them, all with elevators to make all of it collectively, and we unload all of the meals, 50 pound baggage of brand name new onions, heaps and plenty of them, large bins of lettuce, a number of bins of it.

We throw nearly the whole lot that is left within the coolers overboard into the ocean, and all the fellows simply cannot imagine we’re throwing all this good meals overboard, and we guess quite a lot of sharks are following the ship, and might you think about how a lot meals an plane service would throw over board. An plane service has a spot on the again of the ship for throwing trash into the ocean, however solely if you end up out 50 miles or extra to sea, so it doesn’t wash up on the shore, and so many issues are thrown within the ocean, moreover meals. You may sit and smoke a cigarette, and simply watch all of the those that have trash to throw within the ocean, fairly weird in a means, however you may’t have it pile up on the ship.

I must say general, the meals within the navy is nice, possibly even nice, I’d of by no means thought it will be as good and plentiful because it was, and a few days after being out of the navy, I swear their spaghetti remains to be one of the best I ever had in my life!