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The chowhall on Marez they opened after the Dec2004 bombing was the best I made it to. I was living in the mountains north of Mosul most of the time eating goat and rice, so any chowhall was a treat
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As stated, in general, the hospital DFAC are the best. That and ones belonging to the Air Force. 187th MED BN dining facility at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio is ridiculously good! Rich
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Best chow hall?? Just about every Air Force Base I was assigned at! Lackland AFB, RAF Upper Hayford, Aviano, Mather AFB, Luke AFB, McConnell AFB. Worst ever?? Army chow halls specially Fort Dix...friggin green eggs and ham!
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bob hope mess hall in Camp Victory Iraq. anyone eat there. it's the big mess hall on VBC. near the gym. that was some good chow. the food on FOB Kalsu Iraq was pretty good. Thanksgiving was aswome though.
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Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego. Was real good.
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Best shipboard food I ate was on John C. Stennis. Was TAD in 2006? for 2 weeks and it was better than Hometown Buffet. Roast Beef was great.
Best Galley on shore was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard during A and C school. I have noticed that most Sub bases have really good galleys. Gator - I eat PMRF about 3 or 4 times a month and try not to miss Kalua Pork Tuesdays........ Bill in SD |
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South Camp, MFO Sinai, Egypt. Although I suspect that the "roast beef" was probably camel.
If you stay out in the boondocks eating MREs for more than 2 weeks, the first chow hall you enter always qualifies as the "best".
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That would have been one of the observation posts. Small posts with a couple of towers, about 3-4 buildings and a few bunkers. Wire fencing about 100 meters in diameter. Manned with a rifle squad. The food in those posts generally sucks, as one of the 11Bs gets cross-trained as a cook. You can imagine the culinary chaos that ensues.
An MFO tour used to be considered one of the best in the Army. Probably still is.
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Can't remember if it was a navy or air force base, but it was in japan, probably yokosuka.
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+1 for TRACEN Petaluma. But it makes you wonder what the SS's forgot by the time they got out of school and went to the cutters, cause the food on the cutters sucked compared to what you'd find at Petaluma.
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Oh ya on the Gravy,but the best was Ireland hospital at knox and some of nurse's there weren't bad either.
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Made it a habit to stock up on Japanese ramen type noodles when we'd get to Yokusaka. But the best chow hall for me? Pearl Harbor sub base, dem bubbleheads had it good |
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We got crab legs 2-3 times in the USn, usually around the time of an important inspection.
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While it may not have the best quality, it certainly had the best quantity... Camp Lemonier. Open 23/7 Just don't bring it back to the CLUs.
USEUCOM was probably the most disappointing... Last edited by ruderob; 11-18-2008 at 10:24 PM.. |
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The NCO mess at Edwards AFB in the mid-70's would make you cry. First morning I walked in (a Thursday), got in line, I'm looking at a chalkboard menu and the guy asks me if I'd like blueberries in my waffle or not. Friday nights they had steak & lobster or steak & crab frequently. At lunch you could get oysters on the half-shell or oysters Rockerfeller and their clam chowder was excellent.
Eddy's airplane patch was "experimenting" by letting culinary schools in the L.A. area send out students to cook for us and teach some of the AF cooks too. Morale was pretty good around then. The O-club wasn't that much better than the NCO mess. I think they just got the sharper knives and booze. I was surprised by Elmendorf AFB having fresh fruit when it was like the backside of Neptune in winter. But you could get fresh OJ on base along with all sorts of fruit you could eat in the lounges. I think that was to make up for the entertaining conditions. I still remember the power (and heat) going out around 2am in the TBEQ in February... |
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Barksdale AFB - In flight kitchen, on the flightline. best freaking double cheeseburgers i've ever had. and only .25 cent fries! gooooood **** |
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whoops, sorry i swore. i noticed the site blocked me automatically, i'll watch it from now on!
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Dhahran Air Base, Saudi Arabia
The Permanent side had a Restaurant (may still be there, I've been out for 9 years) for the Short Tour (1 year) Permanent folks stationed there. I was TDY in Khobar Towers several times. The chow hall(s) SUCKED there, but I always had friends that were there doing there 1yr tour. I would meet up with them a couple times a week and go to the Restaurant. ALL of there meals were paid for (whatever they wanted), yet because I was TDY I had to pay for my meals. It didn't matter, it was good and worth it. Probably not the best food I had ever had, but definitely the best military food. Those guys ate so well, after the first few months they got tired of Lobster and Steak. Pretty nice setups too. Each guy had there own Apartment, Vehicle and still got there alcohol Rations. |
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Castle AFB (Used to eat there all the time when I was a kid)
3rd BDG Chow hall on Ft. Lewis North Ft. Lewis Defac before the civilians took over it. The worst; SLO, Camp Roberts and Dona Ana.
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The potatoe pancakes at FOB Warrior are killer, but all I pretty much eat is the Mongolian BBQ/stir fry, so if a FOB doesn't have a stir fry line I think the D-Fac is crap. Sykes and Q-West have good stir fry, I always miss chow at Speicher so I end up eating taco bell or burger king.
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Diego Garcia was probably the best.
Being way out there in the Indian Ocean, they probably figured they had to have good food to keep the people happy. Glad I was only TDY there for a week, though. |
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Pentagon, Flag Officer's Dining Room. The had a small room for drivers/guards that we ate in.
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