Military Meme's

[Alpo]

A little early. Or, a little late. Depends on how you look at it.

 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

3 hours ago, Alpo said:

A little early. Or, a little late. Depends on how you look at it.

 

THE best C Rat meal, bar none. And I'll fight anybody that says otherwise. No I won't, I'll just trade what I got for HIS Turkey Loaf.

[Caprock Kid]

The desserts no one traded anything for…

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Alpo]

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Chantry]

[MizPete]

Daddy said food in the Navy was good.

[Barry Sloe]

2 hours ago, MizPete said:

Daddy said food in the Navy was good.

It literally depended on which cook was in the galley. Some went straight by the recipe and it'd be bland. A little seasoning goes a long way. 

None of the cooks could do anything about the "hockey pucks" (breaded veal). I swear you could pound nails with them.

That's my story, 

BS

[Dapper Dave]

They said I would get at least one hot meal aboard ship. They never said anything about it being edible...

[Caprock Kid]

Dad was a gunners mate (and junior man) on a small boy (little boat) in WWII that didn’t have a cook. When the 15-man crew lined up for the new Senior Chief  (senior enlisted ), they lined up highest rank to junior.   Senior asked each crew man his rating (job) and if they could cook. Of course every sailor said, “No, Senior Chief” about their culinary skills.   When Senior got to dad at the end of the rank he said, “Well Gunner, sure hope you can cook.”

Dad spent the rest of the war manning the forward fifties in fights and cooking chow the rest of the time. Thank the Lord his mama taught him to cook. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

15 hours ago, Chantry said:

 

 

The 1916 Manual.   This opens up to the page for Chipped Beef but you can browse through.  I've tried several of the receipts, not just the beef, but also salads and desserts, and they're not bad.

[DeaconKC]

[Chantry]

[Dapper Dave]

On 4/30/2025 at 3:56 AM, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

The 1916 Manual.   This opens up to the page for Chipped Beef but you can browse through.  I've tried several of the receipts, not just the beef, but also salads and desserts, and they're not bad.

Max Miller on Tasting History did several old military menus, as well as a bunch of others, and the chipped beef was one of them. He has some other very cool videos as well, highly recommend. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

47 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:

Max Miller on Tasting History did several old military menus, as well as a bunch of others, and the chipped beef was one of them. He has some other very cool videos as well, highly recommend. 

 

He has replaced The Townsends for me because if his wide range.  Townsend is great for colonial era receipts,  but sometimes I like a wider range. 

 

I don't always agree with some of the substitutions that Miller makes,  or some of his conclusions,  but I like his content. 

[Dapper Dave]

Have you checked out Glenn and Friends? Canadian couple that do some interesting cooking stuff.

[Subdeacon Joe]

55 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:

Have you checked out Glenn and Friends? Canadian couple that do some interesting cooking stuff.

 

Starting a new thread about YouTube cooking. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Since this is on the subject of food I will mention a series that was once on the Pentagon Channel… The Grill Sergeants…. Yes they include Chiefs.

 

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/154288/grill-sergeants-gumbo

[Cactus Jack Calder]

On 4/29/2025 at 5:10 PM, MizPete said:

Daddy said food in the Navy was good.

Generally I would agree. 
However, in the late 60’s the Navy used a resupply system labeled 3M. This was set up to automatically supply standard material used onboard a ship without the trouble of getting each item requisitioned and signed off on before it was delivered. This system kept track of the quantity of an item delivered to a ship and automatically replaced it on schedule. If you accidentally got too much of an item you definitely did NOT want to return the excess or delay replacement of that item on schedule. Otherwise 3M would decide you didn’t need it anymore. Getting an item that had been marked as not required was almost impossible.
Now the story. Our ship received food stuff through this 3M system. The crews galley received large bags of little pearl onions. Maybe 100 instead of 10. Surely some typo like that.

Well the cooks dared not return the extra onions and they were a perishable item so they had to be used up quickly. Heaven forbid they get deep sixed. For months the crew had little pearl onions in the corn, peas, creamed corn, mashed potatoes and finally sewed little pearl onions on their own. Even in “MIDRATS”, the midnight meal supplied for those going onto midnight or off the evening watch.

Once I returned home it took me a while before I would eat something with cooked onions in it. 😝

 

CJ

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Since this is on the subject of food I will mention a series that was once on the Pentagon Channel… The Grill Sergeants…. Yes they include Chiefs.

 

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/154288/grill-sergeants-gumbo

 

I remember seeing that show, but I don't remember where.. 

[Sedalia Dave]

1 hour ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:

Generally I would agree. 
However, in the late 60’s the Navy used a resupply system labeled 3M. This was set up to automatically supply standard material used onboard a ship without the trouble of getting each item requisitioned and signed off on before it was delivered. This system kept track of the quantity of an item delivered to a ship and automatically replaced it on schedule. If you accidentally got too much of an item you definitely did NOT want to return the excess or delay replacement of that item on schedule. Otherwise 3M would decide you didn’t need it anymore. Getting an item that had been marked as not required was almost impossible.
Now the story. Our ship received food stuff through this 3M system. The crews galley received large bags of little pearl onions. Maybe 100 instead of 10. Surely some typo like that.

Well the cooks dared not return the extra onions and they were a perishable item so they had to be used up quickly. Heaven forbid they get deep sixed. For months the crew had little pearl onions in the corn, peas, creamed corn, mashed potatoes and finally sewed little pearl onions on their own. Even in “MIDRATS”, the midnight meal supplied for those going onto midnight or off the evening watch.

Once I returned home it took me a while before I would eat something with cooked onions in it. 😝

 

CJ

 

 

 

I remember a friend that was with VXE-6 telling about how on one of their supply runs to Antarctica they delivered a pallet load of urinalysis cups. Seem to me that there were close to 10,000 cups on that one pallet. Somebody made a typo and now they had 50 year supply. He said for years afterwards you would see those cups all over the place.

[Chantry]

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Subdeacon Joe]

Not really a meme 

 

 

[Trailrider #896]

WWII Japanese knee morter.

[Caprock Kid]

M224 60mm Lightweight Company Mortar System in trigger fire mode. “Company Commander’s hip pocket artillery”. Everyman in the company helps carry ammo. You would file by the firing point and drop rounds as you moved into assault positions.