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Army cook shortage at Ft Hood, Texas, [now known as Ft Cavazos],shutters some mess halls, leaving hungry soldiers scrambling
FoxNews.com ^ | Michael Lee | Fox News

Posted on 08/09/2023 12:47:26 PM PDT by luvie

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To: Gay State Conservative

I do, too!


21 posted on 08/09/2023 1:21:49 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American.🇺🇸)
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To: mylife

True, but that’s totally not the point. The point is HOW could this even happen! What if they are on deployment where they have to rely on their own cooks. I’m just so angry right now.


22 posted on 08/09/2023 1:23:36 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American.🇺🇸)
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To: luvie

“”””Soldiers who depend on the dining facilities to eat have also faced confusing and conflicting opening schedules for the facilities””””

This kind of thing is becoming routine, simple incompetence, everyday incompetence, routine things like a daily stateside mess hall lunch schedule beyond the abilities of our NCOs and Officers to handle.


23 posted on 08/09/2023 1:24:11 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: njslim

Well, if the cooks aren’t there to cook it.....they don’t get it.

Not that I would want it. LOL!


24 posted on 08/09/2023 1:24:38 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American.🇺🇸)
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To: ansel12

I hate Biden.


25 posted on 08/09/2023 1:25:22 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American.🇺🇸)
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To: inchworm

THAT point is what makes me the most angry. Spending billions of dollars on them and can’t even hire cooks to feed our own. 😡😡😡😡


26 posted on 08/09/2023 1:26:57 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American.🇺🇸)
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To: njslim

“What happened to SOS aka Sh*t On Shingle Feed ‘em that .......”

When I was in the army, the Mess Sergeants took pride in their Mess Halls and the food they produced....even the SOS.


27 posted on 08/09/2023 1:30:38 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: luvie
Hey, how about these foxes? I bet they can cook just as good as they look.

Remember the old Army recruiting slogan, "be all you can be?" The 2023 version appears to be, "be whatever you want to be."


28 posted on 08/09/2023 1:30:45 PM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, LGBTQs, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: j.havenfarm
I honor the military. Why would I feed them Chipotle?

Then send them dinners of the Porcini Rubbed Bone-In Ribeye with 15-Year Aged Balsamic from the Capital Grille in Austin.

Don't know if they can cater 10,000 meals a day, but DoD has the money.

29 posted on 08/09/2023 1:37:05 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: luvie

They could do what was standard in John Bell Hoods day. They issued rations, and the soldiers cooked them in small groups. Everyone needs to know how to cook .


30 posted on 08/09/2023 1:38:31 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: luvie

hungry soldiers will be hangry soon.


31 posted on 08/09/2023 1:42:03 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: luvie

Would have felt better about the Air Force Chow halls if they didn’t always park an ambulance right by it.


32 posted on 08/09/2023 1:44:13 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (I stayed drug - free going on 64 years for this?)
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To: luvie

Send the enlisted troops to the O club.


33 posted on 08/09/2023 1:51:01 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Perseverando

Gawd, that man in the blue dress is the worst of the lot!


34 posted on 08/09/2023 1:51:46 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: luvie
That it's one base points to something more. Was there as sting operation that netted several cooks? Drugs? Theft?

It would also explain the lack of clear causality - the JAG office sends out a gag order because they don't want to contaminate potential jurors.

I've seen similar situations after a large bust and it took longer than one would think to fix the staffing shortages.

35 posted on 08/09/2023 1:51:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: luvie

Hey Fort Cavazos I’m available.😁


36 posted on 08/09/2023 1:52:15 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: laplata

As a guy that went through cooks AIT in the Vietnam era and then was a Reserve Mess Sgt. I can tell you what happened — civilian cooks.

by the mid 70s civilian cooks began to make up a lot of the mess hall employees and by the 90s that was the vast majority.

In civilian life I built a lot of projects on military bases. Some had 16 mess halls with only two predominantly staffed with military cooks. That is where I paid to eat lunch, not the ones that might have a few military managers and civilian cooks.

I would think that skills training they could still get enough interested enlisted in the volunteer era but I don’t think they wanted to have cooks make up a significant percentage of the forces.

I was a good qualified rifleman as well and ran big consolidated mess halls feeding over a thousand man each meal as well as forward tent based field kitchens.


37 posted on 08/09/2023 1:56:46 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: inchworm

Nobody wants to feed Brandon’s army.
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An Army travels on its stomach. It is now Biden’s Army, starve it. Tell all you know, friends, family, veterans, young and old to NOT participate, do NOT join, do not think of joining,….never, ever enlist…the draft they have discussed and may try to instate will sink him and all of his corrupted, immoral administration.

A defeat of our military may just be the only thing to save us.

….from an ex-82nd concerned citizen.


38 posted on 08/09/2023 2:10:17 PM PDT by delta7
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To: luvie

Just another sample of Biden’s building back better.

For Xi


39 posted on 08/09/2023 2:15:26 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Agreed, no one ever asked our veterans about the disgusting name changes.

History will record that was when our military died, ripe for defeat. A good military defeat on the battlefield is exactly what is called for- realization Biden destroyed our once mighty military- rebuilding a defeated Army is easier than trying to “ fix” a morally corrupted one.


40 posted on 08/09/2023 2:23:03 PM PDT by delta7
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