/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9918876
fucking hell no wonder so many of our boys kill themselves
>hunt's ketchup
good god

>>9918925
>Not buying Hunt's just so you can write a 'C' over the 'H'

>>9918876
why are we paying for this? there not doing anything to protect me

>>9918948
>Writing 'C' over the 'H' instead of writing 'Cunt' after 'Hunt's'

>>9918876
my experience with military dining facilities has generally been positive. I've only been to a couple kind of shitty ones.

>>9918975
>not writing cunt before the hunts and changing the s to an e and adding and r

>>9918975
>>9919022
It's about subtlety. Too much extra writing and someone will immediately notice.

>>9918973
you pay to maintain the military because if you don't have one and you need one it's too late
it's like insurance, you can't buy it if your house is already fire

>>9919052
Don't expect liberals/children to understand

>>9919087
About the military or insurance?

>>9919018
Mine has been super hit or miss. In the Marines it was typically glorified MREs that tasted like nothing, and in the Army it's been okay to tasty but low quantities. Sometimes I wish I'd just get an MRE and call it a day.

Funnily in the Marines it was common to only have MREs with maybe one hot meal a week in the field, but the Army if soldiers didn't get their two hot meals a day it was a constant bitch fest.

>>9918876
>tfw I actually long for the feeling of inclusion these people experience
>people who eat together shit together
>the feeling of having a second family
>will never be able to see the world
feels awful

>>9918876
I want to marry tomato anon.

Swoon!

>>9919506
I have 2 friends who just got out of the military

One unironically believes the earth is flat and the other is an alcoholic burnout

Chances are you'd still be just as much of an awkward retard in it as you'd be out of it

does anybody know what that beef thing with bread on top was?
looks like something i had in school which was a sloppy joe but with bread

>>9919523
Shit on a shingle

>>9919517
It's not to bad for awkward fuck. As long as you're not so retarded you put others life in danger you'll eventually find friends. You are pretty much guaranteed to either become addicted to tobacco or booze though.

>>9919018
Same the only ones i have been to that were shit were at air force bases and the best has been on naval bases

>>9918876
Hey Cookie, do you know why they call cooks fitters and turners?
'Cos you fit food into pots and turn it into shit.

I always felt bad for the CS (Culinary Specialist) marines when i was in. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, working over 12 hours a day, every fucking day. And what really sucks the most is that they are mixed in with civilian cooks and servers, many of which are retarded because the contracted company, Sodexo, literally hires retarded people through some government help the retards program.

I've wanted to be a cook in the Navy hut that job guy laughed at me and said I had a choice of being Nuke or CT.

no wonder the food is shit they are camouflaged in the kitchen how do they even see what the fuck each other are doing?

Ramsay : BEANS! NOW!
marine : yes chef!!
Ramsay : WHO SAID THAT

>>9919695
xD

>>9919695
Have an upboat!

>>9919704
>>9919706

guaranteed bites

the guy who runs the kitchen where i work was a cook in the british army, got to master chef or whatever the rank was. good fucking money, got a pension out of it, served in yugoslavia, afghanistan, iraq, falklands and now he just yells at filipino retards.

not a bad life

>>9918876
What is that brown sludge with corn supposed to be?

>>9919743

the thousand island dressing stare

>>9918876
It looks worse than prison food.

>>9918876
kind of irks me the way they go through all the stages of processing a single item before moving onto the next one.

like why not open all the tins of flour together and then dump em into the mix? or why not pull the leaves off of all the celery stalks and then proceed to chop them so that you dont waste time transitioning between the different tasks numerous times?

either they decided to do it like that to demonstrate for the camera or they are know nothing grunts that were called in to help out.

>>9919833
They are soldiers, not professional chefs.

>>9919833
>or they are know nothing grunts that were called in to help out.
usually this, with a few actual cooks trying to manage everything

>>9919833
Its odd seeing a professional kitchen staffed with people in non kitchen attire.

In the UK Military we always used to complain about the military chefs, so the bosses listened to our complaints an introduced a new system run by contractors making a profit....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508005/Soldiers-shared-photographs-disgusting-meals-including-maggot-infested-tomatoes-mouldy-eggs-warned-senior-staff-face-legal-action.html

>>9919636
Fuck off those retards are there to make us laugh

>>9919885
Here in Finland the food ladies made absolute garbage. We got much better food during exercises made by the military cooks in the forest.

>>9919636
>they are mixed in with civilian cooks and servers, many of which are retarded

Surely they fit right in with the Marines?

>>9919885
How do you even make a fried egg mouldy?

>>9919915
Through hard practice and dedication.

>>9919458
either

>>9919886
So what is this? Raw mince and coagulated snot?

>>9919923
I believe it's an attempt at a cheeseburger

>>9919919
The Daily Mail article has a picture of a mouldy hard boiled egg; now that's some magical shit they have going on.

>>9919636
Sodexo was my school lunch provider. There's a reason I stopped eating lunch in 9th grade.

>>9919747
:)

>>9919928
I wonder if it was moldy before cooking.

>>9918973
This. They are for the most part welfare queens who get free meals, free room and board, pay for doing next to nothing, and retire at 40 so they can set around and leach off the taxpayer for another 40 years.

>>9918973
because if you don't pay they'll send someone like him to kick your teeth in and put you in debtor's prison.

>>9919959
You should run for office

I hate these fags

Prior USAF here. chow hall was usually decent, at least back in 2004. ham & cheese omelets for breakfast, sandwiches and chili for lunch/dinner.

I always thought it was weird i couldnt shit the first few days at bootcamp but apparently it's normal
though I doubt the random green shits we all got were. I can't remember what food it was but every once in a while we'd all shit green. We all had bad gas too

>>9918876
The military is basically voluntary prison.

>>9919741
Looks like some kind of shredded beef pot roast.

Army mess halls only have about $1.50 for breakfast, $2,00 for lunch, and $2.50 for dinner per soldier to work with. each individual one on each base gets budgeted based on number of people that usually get.

one of the mess halls at my first base, did something great for a while. a new civilian manger put in display fridges like at a convenience store. then stocked them with canned drinks, cold lunch meat foot long sandwiches, and bags of chips. You could just walk in, scan the meal card; and then grab a drink, sandwich, and chips. which meant you could spend most of your hour and a half lunch break doing something else. that lasted about 3 months. when the base command saw how much his cost overruns were. they fired him and stopped the take away stuff. which meant you wanted it to go, you had to stand in line and get normal food in a polystyrene box. no drinks to go.

mess halls only still exist because the military still insist in housing enlisted soldiers that aren't married or have enough rank, in barracks. which most of them have no kitchens. if they do. it is a shared kitchen for an entire floor or entire building. which is just a pain in the fucking ass to use. so instead of getting Basic Allowance for Subsistence. soldiers in barracks get a meal card. forcing them to eat in mess halls or pay out of pocket. while married soldiers and soldiers not in barracks get a few extra hundred dollars tax free per month to buy food.

eating in mess halls really dominates your schedule too. since it takes up so much time. what would be a 5 minute breakfast in your own home. takes 45 minutes at a mess hall. drive to the mess hall because they don't have enough to make them all walking distance from barracks. stand in line to scan your meal card. stand in line to get your food. put stuff at a table. then get your drinks, silverware, napkins, cold/dry food items like fruit and cereal. sit and eat. take your stuff to the turn in point.

The Army DFAC when I was stationed in Alaska was amazing. Same with afghanistan

am I allowed an induction top in my dorm in the air force? this shit looks miserable

>>9920764
no Hotplates in the barracks ever you will burn them down.

>>9920713
oh and mess halls usually close at 7pm or even earlier. so you have to get dinner between 5 and 630pm. which can be a problem when your normal release for work for the day is 5pm and dickhead commanders or first sgts will keep you late. don't you dare mention that you need to go eat. they'll either make you go get something to go and come back and eat it in a minute while watching. give you an MRE. or tell you tough shit. though you might luck out and have decent ncos in your squad. who will buy pizza or something for the squad every once in the while.

some mess halls don't do all 3 meals. some won't be open on weekends. some on the weekends only do 2 meals and breakfast is still ass early in the morning for some reason.

i've never had even decent coffee from a mess hall. the 5 year old packet of freeze dried instant coffee in an MRE is better coffee than what I got in mess halls.

the soft serve ice cream machine is always broken.

the milk is always too warm.

"buttery whipped spread" instead of butter.

strawberry creamcheese in little cups instead of regular.

some jack ass put something other than batter in the waffle iron and ruined it.

the orange juice is sour/bitter.

>>9918876
>packing flour in those tiny ass cans
feels kinda wasteful

>>9918876
that's some slow-ass cooking, specially the fucknuts prepping the vegetables

>>9920828
cooks are never the sharpest knives in the drawer.

I only ever meet one that actually wanted to be a cook. it was some guy that had already been working in some god awful boomer chain restaurant like chilis. so the army said he could just do basic and go straight to work.

>>9919636
I'm all for businesses providing work for the intellectually disabled but Sodexo straight up hires completely non functional head cases for staff.
The Chow Hall at my base had a guy who was both blind and had downs syndrome. They also had this low functioning autist that would constantly make threatening gestures and swear loudly about where you set condiments.
So glad I'm out now.

>>9918876
>1:10 "Hurr wtf is the claw grip"

Teach you're comrades to hold a knife proper marinebrahs

>>9920999
trips confirms you were that low functioning autist

>>9919636
>>9920999
>be getting chow in basic
>server had some mental disability and had the trex arms
>have to move through chow line quick while DI is screaming at us to hurry up
>retard cant even pick up a spoon to serve us the veggies and food properly
>get maybe 2 little nugget sized pieces of chicken and 3 or so pieces of the tiny frozen vegetables for lunch before being screamed at to move on
Godamnit

>>9918948
Formerly Hunts

>>9921053
I'm high functioning.

>>9918876
look at all the manlets and 4:45.

>>9920801
>the 5 year old packet of freeze dried instant coffee in an MRE

Nice!

>>9921054
Sodexo is bullshit with their portioning too though. I'm a grown ass nigga busting my fucking ass 12 hours a day in 100°+ weather. I'm gonna need more than 3 fucking wings and a half scoop of collard greens to get me through the day.

>>9921133
hey, those corporate CEO's need their bonuses y'know, can't blame them for being a little stingy
now go fight and die for their right to scam tax money and provide sub-par nourishment for all government employees

>>9919885
I was an RLC chef 2009-2014

All I heard was good things in the field when we were allowed to cook. Nobody likes sodexo.

Speaking to LE Cap/Maj's they used to describe how Corp of Catering had alsorts of funds and made daily fresh bread and more pride in the 80s.

Pre Options for change Army sounded class. Everyone had funding out the arse.

>>9921160
>For government employees
>Who still pay taxes
>And also get paychecks garnished exorbitantly for small portions of garbage food
Civvies can have their bitchfits over "muh tax dollars" but trust me, the average GI isn't the one doing the damage.

>>9919915
cook it ahead of time, like days ahead of time, and not store it properly.

>>9921192
>cook it ahead of time, like days ahead of time
The mould would be the least of the issues.

>>9921191
that's the point m8
sodexo-tier corps are fucking everyone and laughing all the way to the bank while the rest of the people keeps fighting for their scraps and pointing fingers at each other

>>9920567
Nigga it's called food safety
Plus imagine one of these guys was wearing a band aid and it fell off

>>9921296
judging by the look of that "meat" pie type of thing that'd be the least of my worries

>>9921296
You're right that meat pie unironically looks likes shit tho

>>9921133
>mfw days where the choices were grilled cheese sandwiches or "quiche" which was eggs with whatever the leftovers were from the previous days
those days were just real fuck you days along with the frozen circular lunch pizzas. Never got enough protein unless I swallowed down a bunch of cottage cheese or peanut butter "spread"

>>9921296
food safety is washing your hands before food prep and observing potential contaminants.

a rubber glove is just another potentially dirty risk

rubber gloves in a kitchen for any purpose except keeping plasters on is retarded.

>>9918876
i thought army mess hall food was better than that shit. how are they gonna keep morale high?

>>9921081
Me too. Wanna make out?

>>9921336
Most armies in 'relative' peace time suffer from poor morale, boredom, desertion, suicides, apathy.

Funding drops, means are stretched and people stop giving a fuck.

At least that's how it is here in bongland. Battalion life is shit when you're stuck in some shitty 10 man room in some random county with only 2-3 pubs selling pints of fosters for £4 being the only thing to do on a Tuesday night.

>>9921361
No I don't enjoy being touched.

>>9918876
>canned flour

>>9918876
what is this stuff?

>>9921566
im guessing its some sort of blueberry dessert

>>9921546
has to be shelf stable for years and when transported to shitholes like afghanistan.

>>9921386
that's pretty expensive for shitty beer

>>9921546
Prevents moisture from getting in.

Believe it or not, grains can go rancid. So consumption of flour or spices decades past expiration can cause 'ergo', a disease you could get from something as simple as spoiled caraway seeds as long as they're exposed to air enough years.

>>9918876
>Doritos with the food
>They bother to make pastry dough for the goop but won't even bake their own bread

>>9921808
most of the people i knew in the army wouldn't appreciate a good fresh bread and butter.

>>9921739
Usually your only outlet unless you're in the block wanking

>>9921871
Fuck if I care, I doubt that bread they were serving is as cheap as flour.

And what is this talk about dessert in the thread? I'd rather they spend an extra dollar on the actual food than serve sugar on the side.

how many guys has the blonde qt already fucked?

>>9920828
you take an aptitude test and the cooks are the ones who aren't fit for other more skilled labour.

>>9919833
Actually, I'd like to know this as well. We just hired a former Marine for our kitchen, and he does the exact same shit, but on the line.
If he tries to work on several things at once, he'll forget something. Is laser-focusing on one thing what they're trained to do, or is his brain just wrecked from being in combat?

>>9919978
Are you calling him a faggot?

>>9918876
Why did this feel oddly comfy to me?

>>9922391
all of them

I really miss fucking Navy scrambled eggs. When you blanket it in salt and Texas Pete it's pretty good.

>>9919716
Subtle kek anon.

>>9923391
You are one disgusting bitch.
Served a year on the Roosevelt and by no fucking means are navy eggs (or anything) any fucking good.
I'd tell you to eat shit but you'd probably like that too.

When I got out of the Army, they were moving towards civilian contractors, which was a vast improvement over most of the ghetto trash working in a chow hall.

My experience with military chow was, from best to worst:
1. Air force
2. Navy (land based)
3. Army
4. Navy (aboard ship)

Didn't eat in any Marine specific DFAC's.

i'm scared to go in the navy now i can't live eating pig slop

>>9922851
i was offered machinists mate on a non-nuke sub and some other mechanic job. how retarded am i compared to other people

>>9919716
I'm actually considering advancing my culinary career through the army reserve. I don't know how well that would work out for me, I don't travel well. But my area is basically a dead end for anyone pursuing that career path because we are overrun with shitty chain restaurants.

>>9921296
You do realize that the military is pretty strick about that? If you touch anything like fuel, oil, grease you're not allowed to handle food let alone prep it for 24 hours. You also have to constantly wash your hands. Just like in a real kitchen (where staff don't wear gloves). Last thing you want is bits of plastic in peoples food from the tearing.

>>9920611
Kinda (except the navy, that is legit prison), but unlike prision when you get out you're a lot more hire-able. You've also got the GI-bill and if you used TA while you were in you can male that go a long way. I've never used one myself, but as I understand VA home loans are pretty nice, and my grandfather just got a service dog from the VA and he's pushing 75.

>>9920764
Kinda no kinda yes. I had a coffe maker and electric tea kettle. Both of which were prohibited, but I never got them taken away because I wasn't an idiot. They were always left unplugged, and kept clean. Several rooms around me had theirs taken, but they never took mine.

>>9920820
Pretty sure it's for shelf life, but yea I wouldn't be suprised if it's from a 40 year old contract that keeps getting renewed.

>>9919636
Never understood why of all places the govt hires slobbering retards to serve our fucking food. Literally saw a drooling retard have a string of drool from his mouth to the turkey tray one day. Stayed skinny during that tour, basically lived off honey buns and Vienna sausage

>>9918876
that was horrifying

>>9923712
It's not horrible. Even on the ship

>>9920801
To be fair that's not half bad instant. It's almost always name brand too!

>>9919636
if you can only get in to cook food, not even get shot at, you're probably retarded too

>>9919965
>debtor's prison
found the filthy bucktoothed brit

>>9923891
i wish i'd done it, it doesn't seem so bad, there's the opportunity to put away a shit ton of money if you're not bad with it like most americans are because all your expenses are paid, you can learn trade skills for free, GI bill stuff is great (free college and housing afterward), stay in for long enough and you get a pension
i'm too old now though

>>9920622
i would say this, except you can't see any beef fibers like you would expect...it just kind of looks like chocolate pudding with corn

military food is so bad strangers will literally marry each other to avoid eating it

>>9920801
can i get uhhhhhhhhh.....

>it's broke

>>9922391
Literally every single one.
The worst part is that I'm not even joking. The second worst part is that she probably has a boyfriend.

>>9919636
Had a friend who got 3381 and we all made fun of him for it.
Joke was on us though when we all got out. He literally got hired as a part time manager and head chef at this fancy hotel restaurant with absolutely no job experience except for the USMC.

>>9919087
of course we need more insurance than 11 countries combined.

>>9919747
Stav, what are you doing here?

>>9921336
Mandatory fun Friday's of course anon! Haha I love them!

>>9918876
>being in the army
>2017

High school was real hard, huh?

>>9924962
I'd tell anyone in school today to join the 'softer' arms like Navy or Air Force.

Instead of geting into a mountain of debt getting a near useless degree you earn heaps, save a mountain of it (while still splurging). Get fit and earn real experience.

I walked into a management position and earn more than any of my friends for being 26.
Workplaces trip over their boners to hire anyone with forces experience and a modicum of professionalism.
This is all bongland based though. Surely it can't be too different elsewhere?

>>9919716
Yeah I knew a guy get promoted pretty quick with a bit of brownnosing but also genuine effort.
He got his WO2 by the time he was 30ish.
Last I heard of him he was teaching new recruits in Grantham for the TA. Easy money.

>>9923743
I'd say go for it. I was a reserve Chef and you could attach to basically any unit of exercise so you see a wide range of scenarios and capbadges. They had a lot of civvy chefs join for the same reason you mentioned.

Just be aware you'll probably be sharing your first chef training course with mongs and you'll be shown basic shit all over again. But at the same time, half the course is practical cooking in the field which is fun in itsself.

>>9921069
>Sneedposter
/cock/ at it again

>>9924962
>Implying that the nearest slack jaw bipshit can't just as easily get through a 4 year college degree.
You aren't special, nor are you inherently better than the average GI. There pretty regular people, anon.

hay, pass the hot sauce would ya?

>>9923978
how does that work?

>>9923712
it wasnt that bad. I had to go cranking twice because it was a small ship, and that will make you want to kill yourself, but the food is about on par with a shitty truck stop usually. Unless youve been at sea for a long time and all you eat is canned peaches and white rice at midrats every single night for a month. I had to do 12 hour watches for a long time, ate canned vegetables and bacon during the day and the peaches and rice at night. lost some weight, but that deployment just flew by. do it, faggot.
also, buy a stupid amount of beef jerky. literally better than all the other junkfood and you can eat it anywhere.

I'm gonna be on a sub. how is the food on a submarine compared to a ship

>>9918876
first time i've seen someone get ptsd from tomatoes
>10/10

>>9919506
>Can't find a paying job in my field
>Navy board rejects me
>Can't even land an internship
Time to become a dishwasher the rest of my life

I had a friend in the Marines for a few years. Their Chow Hall actually hired civvies.
I almost got in but they apparently hired a contractor instead. Shame too, I would have increased morale with my cooking alone.

>>9923891
I'm 27 and my current regret in life is that I went to college instead of the military. Tons of debt and barely more employable. If I went in the military first, they would have paid for college and being a veteran is a huge boost to your resume.

>>9925987
i also regret going to college, but if i went into the military i don't think i'd bother with college.

the undergrad maybe i don't regret so much, but going into a phd program was the most retarded choice of my life. i could have done OCS after the undergrad and would have still benefited from the degree. if i go in now it's as if i pissed away 5 years because the military doesn't give a shit about doctorates unless it's law or medicine.

>>9926009
Thanks for the inadvertant reassurance, I was actually starting to regret NOT getting a phd.

>>9926048
the thing about getting a phd is that everyone's experience, even two people in the same lab starting at the same time, will vary considerably because the whole point is to work on a unique project and there's far less structure than in undergrad.

the biggest problem is that you're the closest you can legally be to a slave. your adviser rules over you for the 5 or so years it takes you to finish. you can virtually do nothing without his approval, so if you get a shit adviser, as i did, you end up in 5 years of suck. worse so, the offer i got for a job right now only pays 79k/year. so i pissed away 5 years of my 20s that i'll never get back, making less than a burger flipper while working more hours, and in the end it got me a salary that i could have reached, and maybe even exceeded, by working in the industry and earning a real wage for 5 years since my undergrad was in engineering.

>>9926072

However down the line your earning potential will keep going up where as someone with a BA caps somewhere before you.

>>9926094
that would be true if i were able to get into either consulting or finance. consulting may happen if i take the offer i was given as it involves working with natural gas, but if i take that offer getting into finance flies out the window.

79k/year when you're a couple years from 30 is not impressive by any stretch since nowadays kids straight out of undergrad get offers that match or even exceed that. a low starting offer also makes it more difficult to get a higher offer down the line. recruiters generally have a good idea what each company pays on average even if you lie about what you were getting paid.

>>9925800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOMii8yjOy8

>>9925977
your cooking sucks

>>9923712
Aaaaahhh. pooki, you want me to be your Navy chef? Ill keep your tummy full and my hands clean.
>>9926195
Gravity doesn't exist under water, these guys are idiots. That's why they're in the kitchen, and not having their pictures taken yanking on a bunch of cords.

>>9926328
Schwuchteln

>>9926328
>Gravity doesn't exist under water

>>9925800
everyone's always told it's better in a submarine but then again every single other aspect of your life is worse so

>>9926405
so let's see
>better food
>worse beds
>worse gym
>worse commodities

did i make a mistake picking sub over ship? it sounded cozy the guy the way the guy described it to me, like the sub is a small community where you know everyone rather than a giant ass ship

>>9926195
1:12 made me a little uncomfortable.
That's not your daddy's dick, guy. It's just some fried food.
A springroll maybe? Why cut that in half, though?

>>9926971
Yeah you did. Nuke is a huge meme are you in the pipeline already or a depper? here's from the /k/ general but i mean the gym is barebones and you hot-rack (when you finally get a chance to go to bed you jump in the bed of someone who just got up to work hence hot-racking) Their duty sections are shit too compared to the rest of the ship (t. on a carrier). I pity those retards for picking nuke

>>9924011
We need more insurance than 11 other countries combined because greater than 11 countries don't have a military to protect themselves.
>they don't need us to protect them
Yes they do.

>>9919523
Looked like some sort of shepards pie

>>9919743

>>9921764
Ergot is the word you're thinking of. I think it's actually caused by a certain fungus that grows on rye and other grains. LSD is also made from that fungus.

>>9927147
being a Nuke is suffering, hence the highest suicide rate in the military and the highest failure rate in school. though if you can hack it. you can get out after 10-20 years and be highly desirable by civilian nuclear energy employers.

>>9919636
hey i work for sodexo... we don't just hire retards, we also hire felons, women and minorities.

>>9919695
bretty good, mate, you know your memes

nothing personal

>>9919743
godamn son is just touching tomatos, just close your eyes, damn.

would you rather rations or mess

>>9927464
Why would you want to do that? Are you doing that right now? How much is the yearly salary for those nuclear workers? If youre capable of being a nuke then you're capable of doing some other job that will set you up just as well on the outside such as the CT jobs which set you up for 6 figure salary with your clearance and connections

>>9922391
Are women in the military really whores? I matched with a girl on tinder who is in the navy and she's easily a qt 7.5

>>9923725
if you chose civilian live or cook over life in a sub you are 100 percent retard

>>9927147
I'm a depper and as far as I know i'm conventional, not nuke. Am i still fucked? Is it too late to change jobs? I signed some shit, I know that, and i signed 5 years instead of 4 for money. Just how big of a mistake have I made now i'm doubting myself

>>9927599
i don't understand what you're saying here. i was offered some mechanic job for a ship, and a machinists mate on a conventional, not nuke, submarine. I chose sub because it sounded comfier.


are you saying if i chose to be a cook over some submarine job i'm retarded? because I didn't, cook wasn't even offered and i'm not interested in making shitty food

>>9927630
get off ths board normie reeeeeee
this is FOOD AND COOKING not SUBS N HOMOS

>>9927587
>Are women in the military really whores?
Why would their profession change it? Of course they are.

>>9927618
you can get out of being in DEP though it may be looked down on in the future if you try to get in again. THere's also DAR which is a DEP action request which you can change your rate while in DEP. What do you want to do? What rates are you interested in? It's your fucking life man don't let someone rope you into doing something you don't wanna do for 5 years

>>9927692
Damn.. you've achieved maximum assburgers.

>>9927618
In the navy you always get the dick. Fun times....

>>9927732
I don't know what i want anymore 4chan has filled me with doubt. I'm not interested in anything in particular, and that applies to life as well, which is why i thought navy might give me some direction as opposed to a trade school. I'm interested in mechanic work somewhat but not really plumbing.

>>9927753
Like a GSM? what about aviation side like an AM? Just dont ever go subs

>>9927768
i told my recruiter i was interesting in welding and mechanic type shit and i was offered mm(sub) and another job i forget, and i was encouraged to go sub. nothing else was offered, i didn't know enough to inquire about more, but now i'm thinking i should do more research and do a DAR so I don't actually waste 5 years of my life

>>9927771
if you fail the initial PFT when you arrive at bootcamp, you get a second shot in 48 hours. Fail that and you get kicked out
I didn't know you could pick MM subs before A school. What was your AFQT?

>>9927782
afqt = 76.

I'm seriously considering asking my recruiter if I can delay my entry, because I highly doubt i'll pass the initial pft

>>9920597
It's probably more likely because you were in a new unfamiliar environment. Lots of people don't shit for several days while on vacation. It's not the food doing that

>>9927796
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=103353
just do pushups and situps every day, it's the only way you'll get better. I'm telling you never go subs never go subs never go subs

>>9927803
should I talk to my recruiter about submitting a dar, then (if i even have any other option) to cancel my job/pick another?

>>9927812
It's up to you. Is it something you want to do? just dont go subs. Do some research is it written in your contract that you're MM(SS)?
https://www.reddit.com/r/newtothenavy/comments/41sh77/how_is_it_being_a_machinists_mate_mm/
yeah i know >reddit but I'm personally not an MM so I can't speak of it

personally, seeing the marines prep food is more appalling than letting transgenders enlist and serve alongside them

>>9921546
>phone poster

>>9927828
yes my contract is mm ss. does that mean i can't back out?

[spoiler] i have no issue with reddit for most things [spoiler]

>>9925261
er ya go, enjoy!

>>9927862
you can always back out. There's no commitment until you actually step foot at great mistakes. It'll be a pain in the ass but it's your life
kill youself

>>9927832
Found the closeted faggot. Don't you have a rally to be attending to let loose your suppressed rage?

>>9927878
i'm thinking it'd be in my best interests to submit a DAR because I'm suddenly stressing out

I've never had issues with Sodexo. All the people they hired were amazing in Kentucky. WHFRTC even had a designated omelet/burger dude. I miss Omelet Man sometimes. Also, the best chow I've ever had was at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany when we went there to do some CERFP training/help with tornado clean up a couple weeks later.

I swear to god, their cook staff were all legit black grandmas.

I'm leaving for Air Force basic training in February. Any tips or food related tips? I'm going in as a 3D0X2 or system admin in civilian terms I guess. I'm hoping to get a bunch of certifications, and hopefully work towards a [spoilers]masters degree while I'm in. Hopefully get a decent job after 4 years and use my GI bill for a fun degree or to learn a language or something

So what is the food like on air force bases? Is it easy to gain weight? Is it decent in basic training? Will I have enough time for my meals?

>>9928069
idk

>>9928069
just kys now before it too late

>>9928069
>tfw afqt score was below the minimum requirements
i need to study and i hope i get in,good luck anon
but from what i've heard AF Chow Halls are some of the best out of the entire military branches and you should be able to get at the right things inorder to get fit or gain weight. You won't have much time to eat in basic but for the most part over time I believe after the first few weeks you should be given some more time to eat.

>>9928069
keep powdered donuts and candy in your footlocker

>>9918876
Jesus they all look like such fucking morons.

>>9923962
open your eyes you dumb Burger. Debt prisons are back in america but with a different name and you are too dumb to see it.

>>9919959
(You)

>>9928320
just do a bunch of practice tests and try to memorize concepts for the subsections you want for your desired jobs. I used a kaplan book to brush up.

>>9919747
criminally underrated

>>9928525
yeah im gonna take the test again soon and I basically have this whole month to study. Arithmetic reasoning and mathematic knowledge are my biggest low points that I need to excel in, god if only my previous math teachers weren't so fucking terrible

>>9928550
khanacademy.org for any topics my dude

>>9928560
cool now if only my medical waiver doesnt disqualify me

>>9924962
flunked out of life and the military is my only option

>>9924962
>mfw I'm an electrical engineering undergrad and going into the air force anyways

>>9924962
you dummy we want people in the military as long as its voluntary theres nothing wrong with it you massive faggot

Check out the hooters on Lt. Soy. Don't they have dishonorable discharges for these dandies?

Also wtf, cans of flour. Do these jarheads think they're in the middle of the vietcong jungle? Bag flour not good enough. And what a joke, a meat thermometer in the steamed carrots.

>>9927538
This would be a great menu for a food truck

>>9923055
Marines are really really dumb, they're trained to be that way. However, if I'm trapped on the wrong side of a wall I want a marine to come get me. Most people would attempt to go around the wall. A marine will run straight through it.

>>9924176
a cupcake and a candy bar

>>9918876
This is worse than the prisons here lmao

>>9927532
Which one are you?

>>9919695
WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT?
WHO'S THE SLIMY LITTLE TWINKLE-TOED COCKSUCKER WHO JUST SIGNED HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT?!

>>9924962
>army

anon I get that you're a loser but you should be able to read

>>9918876
I am so happy I didn't join up.

tfw I was a cook in the military

>>9919506
It's not all its cracked up to be.

>>9928069
I’ve been to Lackland and Minot, both places have decent chow. It’s basically free unlimited food, and once you’re out of basic you’ll have plenty of time to eat. Basic food is barely okay and you have short chow times, but you’ll be more worried about destroyed than how good the food is.

>>9921174
Hello, Loggy friend.
Now, what’s in the pies, chef?

>>9925935
What was your rate senpai

>>9928938
shipmate CS3 Mantits over there can stay in as long as he doesn't hit high year tenure.

Navy just released a new policy where lack of physical fitness cannot result in a medical discharge.

>>9927771
recruiters get a nice bonus for signing un people to do shit that nobody likes or wants
like subs, for example...

>>9927587

Yes. Because the type of bitch to become a uniformed whore is the trashiest of slags. They are glory hounds that want to prove women can do it too. There are Prostitutes with less mileage on their cunts.

>>9924962

Why do I have to be constantly reminded that this is the lowest IQ board and people will fall for out of date idiot b8.

>>9927532

Those are just different breeds of retards.

>>9924009
Why make fun of the person who's making your food?

>>9919087
>liberals/children
>tips

>>9919747
that was pretty hilarious

>>9919601
BASED Odd Angry Shotposter

>>9931036
Much like in prison, on a ship don't mess with the ones who make your food, the ones in charge of radio, and the ones in charge of your pay

>>9925028
This guy gets it. You want to have military credentials but not dig ditches and get shot at in a desert? Join the Air Force or Navy, especially the former and enjoy a comfy job relevant to your future career in complete safety. The only issue with the Navy is long bouts of isolation which can wear on you.

>>9920713
CAF reservist here, the base I did my basic training had fucking incredible breakfasts every day. Hot bar was typical stuff like fresh eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes/waffles, bakes beans. The cold bar had fruit, fruit salds, muffins sometimes, coffee was good and there was separate milk and chocolate milk dispensers, which was awesome.

Lunch and dinner ranged from good to great, with steak Fridays still a thing at that base, which was surprising.

On the other hand, I did another course at a small unit's regiment (no mess in Northern Ontario lel) so it was catered everyday by a private company (Chartwells). Shit food from day one. The only great food we had was burritos, but it was in the field so we couldn't even enjoy them that much...

>>9919893
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508005/Soldiers-shared-photographs-disgusting-meals-including-maggot-infested-tomatoes-mouldy-eggs-warned-senior-staff-face-legal-action.html

>tfw Islamic State feeds their dudes better than you.

>>9923962
>>debtor's prison
>found the filthy bucktoothed brit
What is family court?

>>9919926
IT'S FUCKING RAWWWWW

>>9919885
>baked beans
>soldiers called "squaddies"
knew this was british before reading the file name

>>9928069
Why did you want to become a parking lot attendant for planes?

>>9934631
>parking lot attendant for planes
Retard

>>9930097
No pies. Only pasta from 2 days ago mixed with 2 litres of passata.

>>9934631
I'm probably not going to be near any planes

HAMSTERS NIGGA
TACO TUESDAY NIGGA
FUCK STEAK AND LOBSTER NIGGGGGA
WHO FEELS ME

>>9919087
About how or why houses catch fire?

>>9919517
The military is 4chan personified. They take all of the retards, fuckups, abused children, and sociopaths, then put them in one room together, then tell them to entertain themselves while they wait for something big to happen.

>>9921887
theyre a military not a fucking bakery. if its not noteably cheaper to make it then you buy it. thats how most companies make their decisions.