Best chow hall you ate at?

[sammass]

Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, CA 1970-72. Hot and plentiful. For the bull riders, motorcycle riders, and AIT recruits who "ran into a door, Sir" and had wired broken jaws, the staff would take their breakfast, lunch, or dinner order and blend it into a smoothie with a straw. Sometimes didn't look too appetizing with the veggies, but it got the job done. Some kids gained weight. ANY chow hall meal was better than long rats in RVN. :-) Met my wife at CPPEND 42 years ago. All good. Be Well.

[dbo]

NAS Atsugi, we even had a fanta icee machine and a sandwich samurai

[dbo]

Originally Posted by weaponpro1

When I was in the Marines the best chow hall was at the Kadena Airforce Base in Okinawa. The day I was there they had Lobster and steak!!!

Kadena has an f'ing chili's too!!!

[esiegel91]

Originally Posted by Fishslayer

Only place I've ever been that could make BACON taste awful.

HA!! Go to the F-16 world. Competition in Jordan and try they're bacon...pretty sure its goat..lol oh and you can't wash your mouth after cause there's barely any running water...

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[cfm117]

Toss up between 82nd Avn Bde and SF chow hall @ Bragg. SF was all contractors and food was served from those chrome or silver servers with candles under it at one point.

[evidens83]

So far in my young military career, Rocco's Dfac on Ft Sam Houston gets my vote.

[allpoint]

Originally Posted by 69daytona

Kadena AFB in Okinawa. every friday was new york seak day, being a lucky Jarhead I had a pass to eat at thier dining facility, nothing like a USMC or Navy chow hall, more like a reasturaunt. plus got to see the SR71 up close many times while there. great site to watch take off at night.

+1 We would pile in a car and make it down to Kadena AFB from Camp Hansen to eat at their chow hall.

[Arondos]

SSBN 731 Blue. Our counterparts had cooks that won the Ney award for best small galley afloat. They could cook the same food our cooks made and there was no comparison.

[0351USMC]

Yokota Air Force Base,Japan or Marine Corp B-day Meal for Crab legs and Steak@ USS Essex

[AfghanVetOrcutt]

Originally Posted by air0n'03

2. FOB Salerno, Afghanistan
3. Kuwait DFAC

Agreed but I will add the 1st Cav DFAC at Ft. Hood. Screw Waffle House that DFAC was better and cleaner!!! Not to mention the IHOP right off post smelled like cat piss.

[navycorpsman]

Any air force base especially hickam. Air force boys and girls are spoiled

[BajaJames83]

1st Tank BN used to have a good chow hall in 29 Palms

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Naval Hospital DFAC, Guantanamo Bay Cuba was fantastic. A big breakfast there after P.T. in that Caribbean humidity was always a treat.

[helmikins]

SHEMYA, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, AK. Great stop over point on a 130 on the way to Japan.

[NastyNate]

Originally Posted by BajaJames83

1st Tank BN used to have a good chow hall in 29 Palms

+1 for 1st Tank Bn.

The galley at Pearl Harbor was another good one that I remember.

[Matt1984]

Only a fobbit would make this thread.....best chow hall is....screw the chow hall best meal you can have is the pogey bait you can share with your bros out on mission.

[catmman]

Randolf Air Force Base where they had the culinary school for chef's.

[OldShooter32]

Fort Lewis Officer's Open Mess...FLOOM. Fantastic food!

Of course, I had to buy a sport coat to get in, but it was worth it. The coat was a ghastly red blazer and cost $5 off the clearance rack at the PX. I never wore it again.

[OldShooter32]

Oh, and a very close second to the now-closed officers club at the Presidio of SF. Clinton gave the place to the hippies...:-(

[jarhead714]

Originally Posted by BajaJames83

1st Tank BN used to have a good chow hall in 29 Palms

That hall was famous for it's great chow. Permanent Personnel chow hall at the Depot was pretty darn good too.

[pterrell]

That's gotta beNAS Pensacola. The chow there was on point

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[choprzrul]

Johnston Island '89-'90. They brought in professional civilian chefs to keep the civilian contractors happy and us Army guys reaped the benefits.

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[WindyRN]

KNB, Kuwait Naval Base DFAC...especially midrats

[rambutan316]

I would have to say the best chow hall was when I went to Shepphard AFB for tech school. Of course, the fact that it was all free helped too

[Germz]

DFAC 5, Camp Leatherneck

[Tom-ADC]

Chiefs mess on the USS Independence CV62 was good, best food was the year I spent in Danang, until the Army took our galley over my last couple of months there.

[TMatty45]

camp dwire. Midiiiiiiiiiiiis!

[bodger]

McClellan AFB enlisted chow hall, 1972. There was an older SMSGT who ran the place, and he took it seriously. It was called "The Camellia Room". Best fried chicken I think I have eaten anywhere. Eggs and steaks cooked to order, and a damn fine array of pastries.

[sandbasser]

Clark Air Base, Phillipines...circa 1969 (now, I believe the entire base is buried under volcanic ash )

[Tripper]

Did I say Sinai, south camp

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[boukca]

I never served in the military, but working as a DoD civilian, the chow at MCAS El Toro was pretty good. Loved the S-O-S.

[Gutz]

DFAC 1 in Camp Cupcake (Iraq).

[rero360]

I'm going to have to change my view from my previous post here. My now best Chow Hall I've eaten at was Camp Holland DFAC on MNB-TK prior to the start of the retrograde, food was amazing, the food at Camp Ripley was good as well before they shut it down, never got to eat at the SF camp on base.

[Psybain]

Flightline chow hall at bagram in the first half of 09. It was run by soldiers, so you could actually get your eggs however you wanted them, onlike the contractor run dfacs.

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[faris1984]

Originally Posted by MrSlippyFist

The 163rd INF was running FOB McHenry in Al Haweja from 04-05. They had some local hook-up for beef steaks. Every friday night they'd BBQ outside the TOC. It was better than their DFAC and the ones at FOB Warrior and FOB Speicher.

Haweja north of Iraq Kirkuk.

[faris1984]

Best chow in Fob Shield (Baghdad) and Fob Rustamaia (Baghdad) the best in Fob Balad (north of Baghdad)

[Ordnance Man]

NCO Mess, Incirlik AFB, Turkey

[faris1984]

Worst Chow Hall ever Fob Corregidor (Ramadi Province) west of Iraq.

[maggie06]

Chief's mess on a French ship somewhere in the Med. Johnny Walker red and black before meal, wine with meal, cognac after. Don't remember after that!

[Cpl. Haas]

Originally Posted by pterrell

That's gotta beNAS Pensacola. The chow there was on point

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Da fuq!? That galley was worse than RTC! Horrible staff and stale food... Flightline Cafe at NAS Jacksonville is staffed by actual CS' and is leaps-and-bounds better by comparison.