What kind of food do you eat in Army basic training
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2019
- If you are going to Army basic training or even OSUT and are wondering what the food will be like then this is the video for you.
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It doesn't matter how it looks or tastes. You'll spend 10 minutes staring at it and shoving it in your mouth and the DS are going to be there screaming at you to hurry up everytime
No they won't dum dum
@@patrickmahomesll5107 your fucking hilarious
@Jeff Ourun if you can't drink soda or caffeine or eat any of the fast food, or snack during non-meal times, they are looking out for health.
"Chew! Chew! Drink! Swallow! Don't talk!"
When I went thru basic, which was back in the stone age the food was pretty good . Now we had KP, kitchen police this little this little trip into hell started around 430 in the morning where you washed dishs ,clean the line, washed pots, and pans ,cleaned the mess hall seating area three times a day ,with cooks who were worse than the DIs. You finally got finished around 730 to 8 o'clock. Good times had by all.
my first pepsi after basic was the best thing in the world
It burned my mouth but it was go
Pepsi? 🤮
Mine was a Dr Pepper, I know the exact feeling brother.
@@tajiSOG A MAN WITH TASTE
I had kp with a dude on profile who got busted drinking a coffee.
Good times. I was a pt stud tho.
The food at fort Jackson was pretty good there were no desserts but only on Sunday would they have cheeseburgers. Every other day was healthy ish food and breakfast was always good. And Everytime somebody dropped a spoon or something we had to yell "sorry spoon" over and over until u got outside . 🤣🤣
Lucky you, we had no cheeseburgers in Navy boot camp.
Food at Jackson was horrible.. don't lie to these people
@@gotmurica6225 Facts! I was in 3-60th Bravo Co “Bushmasters” at Jackson & the Lunch was complete dog shit. Even though we only had lunch on Sunday, the shit was still terrible. For breakfast they always had them hard-ass waffles that was hard asf to cut thru unless you had hella syrup on that shit😂. It was so bad to the point I enjoyed the Hot AIDS more 😂😂😭
B 1/61 here back in '97. The food was good, the burgers, soda, and candy were available only at my AIT.
“My food tastes better with my heels together”
Omg I had to yell that before
*chow tastes better
thomas roth Thank you Ft Benning.
“Heels together make my food taste better”
Bowl bowl bowl bring the bowl to the food
Glad I ate before watching this.
When I was at basic we had access to dessert the whole time but we were highly discouraged from taking it.
No food trucks for us but I remember my first time having Burger King after basic it was so good!
Army breakfast chow was always on point.
Here’s a hack: if you’re out in the field save the candies and peanut butter spread from your MRE’s. You can use them later as a snack so long as no one is watching. 👍
Don't forget about the cheese spread
MOS ?
mac burger
In retrospect all of that is pointless
Yes, My overnight pass after basic ((to go on the other side of post for AIT the next morning at 0400) I had 3 Whoppers and a case of Budweiser. I was hungover so bad that first day (or two) of AIT
@@redjack7296 That was the Best ever!
Hi! Went to Basic in 2013. Halfway through Drill Sgt told us we're actually authorized to eat/drink anything in the chow hall. But just cause you can, doesn't mean you should.
AV8R PhoenixRabbit lucky. We weren’t allow sweets or condiments until turning blue😭 only once during thanksgiving when the LTC and his family let us have pastries.
Ya I remember them telling us “go ahead, eat some cake and soda” but it sound very sarcastic. Like go ahead and do it and we will just make you pay for it later.
@@christopherchaos @ B138/inf we had none of that! unless you had KP then maybe get sum from the Cooks... Rock of the Marne Hooah! thanks Brotha'
@@christopherchaos Were the cakes riding a carousel with lights?
@@christopherchaos Kind of like when you wife says "go ahead and have fun with your buddies" lol don't go have fun with your buddies lol
We never had MREs for lunch in basic training. They were a new thing when I went to basic and were to expensive to give to basic training recruits. At lunch when in the field we had a KP line with food from the mess hall kitchen. The one experience I remember is I was loosing weight and entered basic training at 147 Lb. After four weeks at Fort Lost in the Woods I was hungry all the time and down to 129 pounds. For clarity I am 70 inches tall. Drills saw this and took care of me. They fed me a pizza every night for the next two weeks. The Drills will take care of you in basic. That is their first task and they hold true to it!!
You ate an entire pizza everyday, for two weeks? Yeahhh cap.
You are so hungry at chow time that everything tastes super good.
My parents tried that approach to raising me. It didn’t work.
YES!!! Best breakfast I have ever HAD! 😊
honestly so true when youre hella hungry and you'd rather eat expired food just oeat lmfao
DSRLEADER ‘ 🤣🤣🤣
Because of Basic Training and AIT I drink milk with most of my meals. I also eat a lot faster than my wife. She doesn't understand the struggle 😂🥺
Anthony Turner I hate milk 😭
@@bria1978 It's good with Oreo cookies, but that's about it.
Same
I completely understand,I'm the fastest eater in my house also ,I wonder why ?? Lol lol basic in 1971
john ziegler
vietnam?
I fainted during breakfast chow line. Because I donated blood the night before and went Monday morning running for PT. I made fun after that by all Drill Sargents.
ive been asking myself this question for WEEKS. thank YOU
Really? The food is good, but you won't get time to enjoy it. Of course, it could be that I was starving since you only get three meals a day and you're doing PT all day if you count the smoke sessions. Don't expect to gain weight in BCT.
@@johnstafford6458 y
@@trangtet6880 Why what?
Drills be yelling
"Side step!!!!!"
"One peanutbutter one jelly!!"
"One scoop and go!!!!!"
"No talking in the chow line!!!!!"
One last thing....
UPU SUCKS
you forgot " Swallow it and taste it Later!!! " Pick up your tray you DONE!... good times man
Oh man the apples in the oatmeals and rain and mud inside it in FTX’s and dropping the orange in the mud then peeling it or the apple YEEEE
@@cargoload1324 ah sounds exactly like my ftx days
Remember those days, kinda miss them. Our Drill Sgt have a special meal for my Charlie CO.
Appetizer 50 push ups/ 50 sit ups
Desert 10 pull ups
Best times ever
The food at fort Leonard Wood was terrible ain’t no damn soda, lmao it was milk and water with sloppy ass noodles or some liquid eggs every day lmao!!
LOL the green scrambled eggs you'd get in the field! 😂
(boiled eggs get that green color from being over cooked. the eggs were fine)
Ewwwww
I am going there
Leonard wood breakfast was the best honeslty 😂 they had soda in non training dfacs
Steak and Lobster every Thursday.
I TORE UP FATTY CAKES!!!
PT stud here.
My sit ups actually stalled tho I put on some pounds but ran my 2 miles in 12 minutes n did 100+ push ups.
Don't touch the cake or pudding...and white phase at fort Jackson was MRE's for breakfast and lunch for then chow hall for dinner
jimmy martin jimmy deans breakfast, MRE for lunch. Hot A’s for dinner for the whole white phase.
jimmy martin I ship to fort Jackson in 16 days. Kinda nervous but excited
@@onlinecomrade5737 right place, right time, right uniform and keep your mouth closed and it'll be easy for you...don't get angry at the 5 people that mess everything up for the whole company because yelling at them don't help
57th American I ship out Oct 2 to Ft. Jackson
@@FalseIdolization good luck
Just MRE like a man, like a badass, like a monster soldier, like the boss, like Christopher Chaos.
☠️☠️💀💀
Necromante Errante I enjoyed MRE’s not as good as Chow Hall food. I was always satisfied with the food. But then again it’s basic training and always hungry, (burning tons of calories all day every day) so don’t worry if the food tastes good. ITS NOT FOOD. ITS FUEL!
mac burger true. Where’d you go to basic. I went to Ft. Leonard Wood MP Bn. Went in 2013 but injured my knee and didn’t pass my last pt test. We were OSUT and I came home in the second week of AIT.
No Popeyes chicken sandwich? I’m out.
You don't get that until you get a weekend pass if you get a weekend pass and that's not until gold phase. My platoon was always in trouble so we got like one weekend pass because some people came back wasted. It was crazy but fun. When you get your weekend pass everyone spends their money on hotels, food, tattoos, booze, and strip clubs. Then when you get pcs orders to your first duty station you will wonder why you're broke 😂
I got orders to Korea and was broke for a few weeks 😂 but it's all my fault ain't blaming no one.
Love this one! Oh, yeah! They should do it in the Chicago’s inner city! Good deployment means to find the food sources! Dumpster diving and everything! You gotta do what you gotta do! Be resourceful!
I love how you walk in to UA-cam intros like Robert Stack it’s pretty funny
I’m getting prepared to go to MEPS and omg I’ve been watching all these kind of videos ugh wish me luck 😰
Good luck!! Well, hows it going?
George Maxwell it was actually pretty good not bad at all i got all worried for nothing lol
Diana Olivares Robles what MOS are you going for?
Chickent_Nug 92a
How was it?
Basic 1972 Fort Polk When your name came up for kp the first one in the chow hall next morning got to be the DRO dining room orderly the others had pots/pans or other kitchen work for the day
Once you become a Soldier, you will go to different posts for training, etcetera. You will experience "Oh Wow" food from some chowhalls, to oh gawd ones. Always a fun perk of being in the Army. Hot Tip: Get some sort of trip that gets a layover in Hawaii. The Naval Base there makes gourmet box lunches for Army people leaving there! Former Army paratrooper here.
US Army, trained at Ft.Benning here. We had orange chicken twice. No idea how since I've yet to have orange chicken again from the DeFac (now at Ft.Stewart) but somehow that was by far the best orange chicken I've ever tasted. I personally enjoy the DeFac food, for both training and service, and will heavily suggest, along with that orange chicken, the chicken with fish inside stuff, and the meatloaf. Personal opinion, though, and the only real way for you to know is to have it put on your tray while a drill sergeant ruins the day of the guy behind you for whatever reason he can find
Breakfast at fort benning was the only thing I really looked forward to. That’s the only meal I actually got full off of.
So I take it dinner isnt that good
rmay883 it’s hit or miss to be honest. Some days it’s good others no so much but in basic the taste of the food isn’t horrible, you’re gonna eat what’s on your plate regardless. There’s a saying drill sergeants used to say during my cycle and it was eat fast taste it later. That’s how it is in there aha.
What if you're allergic to chicken. I eat chicken and I'm deathly sick for a week. Can I survive Ft Benning with a chicken allergy?
@@samuelharris2533 im sure they sub for that kind of stuff, you have to tell them what you're allergic too before you signup anyways
Chili Mac!!!!!!! Did you forget?
The main takeaway I'm getting from this (no pun intended) is that if food is important to you then join the Air Force 😅
Hey man thanks for all the useful information you put out there helps me get a head start on my career
Lackland AFB, summer 1984. Surprisingly good food, wide variety, generally given at least sufficient time to eat, albeit you really could not lolly-gag around or chat with others much. The 10-minute rush thing the other branches was more along the lines of 15-20 minutes.
Drill Sergeant: "TWO Boxes of cereal!!?"
Me": "Well, Yeah"
DS: "What are you doing with TWO boxes of cereal!?:
Me: "I'm going to eat them, Sereant."
DS: "Sit down and eat and move it!"
Basic training food tasted better then the food at my current unit 💀
The food I had in basic was better than the food at AIT and the food at camp vilseck, or maybe it just felt better 🤔🤔🤔
Food at Benning is good, whole fried catfish, general tso chiken, spaghetti, ect was very impressed.
Any advice? I leave next month and I'm nervous.
Lil' Al do your pushups, sit-ups, and jog. You don’t want your body to feel over worked cause you didn’t prepare physically. They will smoke the dog shyt outta you but stay confident don’t break. Learn the soldiers creed, the army song, and if ur cav scout learn fiddlers green and know your military vehicles cause there’s a test to each to identify as a soldier . You won’t have to much time to study/remember in basic cause of classroom time and drills so learn before you get to 30thAG (reception). You will be hungry, tired, and strained but in the end it will be worth it. I came from harmony church, 2/15 delta company 1st platoon.
@@phoenixdavidson4979 Thank you very much.
I’m glad to hear this leave on the 13th thanks dude
Oof, I forgot about the catfish! 😍😍😍
Excellent video as usual. I leave for BCT next week, so this video was helpful. Thanks. Hooah!🤘
What day?
@@thegoldenwolf5554 3 Sep.
@@chrissmith9088 How is it so far lol
How did it turn out
Where u at now?
Also, considering spaghetti as healthy food...lol
Sloppy Joe
Its no different than rice which is staple food
"Your drill seargeant's going to be angry one day and you might not get to eat in the chow hall for a week." Gosh, where can I get in line for that?
In Navy boot camp if you messed up real bad, they'd have you eat a brownbag meal in the barracks instead of the DFAC food.
If I have to say something positive about my time in the Air Force, it's the great food and barracks with AC from day one! Can't complain!!!
When I was in basic (summer 2001 at Ft. Knox), soda & desserts were strictly forbidden, as were short order lines (don't think they had one at my DFAC, or at least I didn't notice) regardless of PT scores or achievement of any milestones. The main line almost always had something good ~90% of the time, but the portions always felt inadequate. It was the healthiest diet I've ever eaten, since the inadequate portions forced me to fill up on salad - the only thing that wasn't portion restricted for basic training soldiers. Even though I still ended up being a disgusting fat-body after leaving the army, to this day I still hardly ever drink soda; this is perhaps one of the few remaining healthy habits that I kept from the army. 🤣
I did basic in Jan 1997....at Action Jackson and like you, everything was strictly prohibited. AIT on the otherhand the chow hall rules were laxed and we were allowed the desserts, soda and we even had snack machines on our first floor in the building. It was during AIT when I was at my lightest and lasted until about a year after grauduation. I got a hip injury that affected my ability to run and do situps but just enough to pass. The one thing I do miss, is the camaraderie and the bullshitting with buddies.
I used to think it not possible but i managed to get away from soda in basic and i went back to soda afterward and now i am trying to get away from soda again but it very hard so i am trying to learn what foods they had so i can avoid soda again.
I left graduated from basic back in March at fort Jackson, rarely got chow hall especially during red and white faze, mostly got something called HOT A’s and MRE’s
Devin Hartlaub you mean hot ass
I’m leaving for basic soon and out of curiosity in chow hall or with MREs do they make you eat everything on your plate ? I’m very physically active but if I eat a ton at once or before activity it makes me sick.
What is your MOS?
In blue phase me and my battle would run to the front of the line screaming "DETAIL"!!
HAHAAH great times
Early Vietnam era, we went through overhead parallel bars going into the chow hall. Speed was of the essence. By platoon? Probably. I don't really remember.
Yes, do remember the monkey bars before chow. Every time, every meal.
"HURRY UP AND GET OUTTA MY MESS HALL!." -- 1967 A-11-3 (5th Platoon, 7th & Gold Vault Rd.). . . . . that's all we heard, all the time.
Remember the breakfast SOS.
I did Basic at Ft. Lewis in 1970. I wish that I could tell you what I ingested. The issue was that the Drill Sergeants stood over us yelling: Eat faster! Swallow now; taste later! They then took us at double time, for a nice 5 mile tour of our base (in the rain).
Chris, is "kp" a thing of the past?? I recently asked Erica Bernie during one of her live streams. She is a drill sergeant on active duty. She told me she has never heard of "kp" and what the detail consists of. LOL!!!!! I know that I peeled plenty of potatoes during the three times that I pulled "Kp" during basic training!
Food trucks? We referred to them as the "roach coach", "maggot wagon" , "scarf and barf", etc. Although like you mentioned, the food from the trucks was almost gourmet stuff compared to the mess hall, chow hall or DFAC. LOL!!!
Doug The Eliminator it’s definitely still a thing lol
@@patlynch2101 It's crazy. You ask ten different people and get ten different answers! I read somewhere that the Army was thinking of scrapping the whole KP concept.
So it is still kinda a thing but not sure they still call it KP or not but it also depends on the units. A lot of soldiers I talk to did not do it in basic but would sometimes do it in the field.
@@christopherchaos I did it three times during my eight weeks of basic. Usually from 0500 to 1700 hours. We did everything from peeling potatoes to scrubbing pots and pans. LOL!
@@dougtheeliminator1077 Same here. I guess I was lucky. They had a drum with a grinder type wheel on the bottom that peeled the potatoes. Still had to cut them though. BCT 1989 Ft. Jackson.
When I was in military school they gave us just water or milk with salt less and sugar less food with nasty ass burritos. Eating w/ your feet at 45 degree and only for 5 mins was annoying xD getting yelled at while eating was so annoying too but I get now haha
I was very underweight and actually was allowed and told to eat dessert or a bigger helping ... Other people that were overweight seemed to be the ones seemed to be on a quicker time limet
I was lucky enough to be assigned to a Company in the new "Starship" barracks at FLW. The DFAC was like going to Golden Corral 2 to 3 times a day and shoving it down your throat in 3 to 5 minutes. I think I ate sandwiches the first month after I left there.
As someone with a fast metabolism, and who likes to eat, let see what they have in there, looking forward on joining to the Army.
my experience was about the same as described in the video. i never had to pick up someone else tray though. the food is just "meh" nothing special. most of it was fine but the asparagus always sucked balls, and stayed that way in every unit I was in after training (14 year veteran). the food is the constant all through your military career. there are exception days. maybe you're over seas and they cook some local dish.
as for standing in line... yeah that is gonna sound like something you might not be able to handle... you can though. standing with maybe an inch between you and the guy in front of you and the guy behind you isn't what i consider natural. that whole personal space thing. but this as with many of the other things is necessary! you're a soldier and you follow orders. you'll be surprised that you're doing it one day and not think anything of standing so close to another guy. LOL or the day you're told to drop into a roadside ditch with 4"+ of gross looking water and lay there. after a while. following orders is just what you do. and the sight discomfort of not being an total individual but something more will fill that "but I'm an individual" space with pride in yourself and what you and they others have accomplished as a group.
being a soldier kinda sucks, not gonna lie. but you'll get to tell stories about it for the rest of your life. stories about things no one else will have been through. some of them will be slightly embellished. but others will be so out of the ordinary you might feel the need to tone them down just so they'll be believable.
here's a few examples of mine where just the title might captivate you...
"Adkins ate the banana"
"Where did ice cube go" (over seas bar story)
"SAC2 ammo/explosives return"
"Ft. Hood: your uniform for tomorrow will be a towel"
"PLDC commando hill slide maneuver"
"pink mist... yup that was a hit!" (war story)
"i can sleep through anything" (multiple stories)
i have way too many of these to list.
I only had 10 minutes to eat so wasn't concern with how food taste, objective was just trying to get full fast. Semper Fi
Very accurate Sir! My basic was just like that. No talking no looking around etc. If you didn’t eat it timely you didn’t eat. They want you to lose weight. When you were out in the field I barely was able to get the food down. I remember being so hungry I stuffed food in my field jacket. To this day I can’t stop eating fast. Sad.
So did they make you eat everything on your plate or is it just you that you eat what you can as fast as possible and what’s leftover goes in the trash ?
@@Shes-wicked they never encouraged you to eat, you ate it in the time allotted and the rest went into the trash. I was always hungry in basic. In AIT it was the opposite.
@@wherecar54 thanks for the fast reply. I ship this summer. Trying to think ahead ; I cramp up pretty bad if I eat a lot before working out/activity lol.
@@Shes-wicked keep your mouth shut, pay close attention to everything, never, ever lose sight of your M4 in training, and try to be respectful to the Drill Sergeants, and you should be fine
@@wherecar54 thanks, I appreciate the advice
I wonder if they still have unsweetened Kool Aid? That was one of my nasitest memories, but I had to devour whatever was given. He said " if you can taste it Your wrong Privates"
Honestly my recollection of Army chow back in 87-94 when I served was really not that bad!! Of course, everyones story will be different!!
"Chew and. Swallow!!!! Taste the food later"
Don't taste it, eat it!
When you throw it back up? Lbvs xD yikkeeeeeessss
LOL, the fact that people remember what they ate in basic training tells me it's become a lot easier than it was. The only thing I remember was using a spoon to shovel everything into my mouth before they told us time was up.
You're not going to get enough time to taste it, so don't worry about it.
What's the best way to poop in basic after eating this?
Bear squat
My fondest memory of chow during bct is a private taking two peanutbutters and he had to hold the extra up to a portrait of Michelle Obama saying "would you like some peanut butter former first lady?" Over n over . 😅🤣🤣
Hey Brother! Thank You for your service and The video! Yes, ours was pretty much the same.. however I remember it being so good!! We were hungry. Yeah, a couple of The Cadre had standards as far 😢 what You could have.. depending on pt results. I do remember milk All the time in dispensers. Whole and chocolate and maybe a low fat variety. I just put it in the cereal boxes! Again Man Thank You!
I never got taste my meal because when i sat down about to eat the Drill Sgt yelled "This table has 30 seconds to eat!" 10-3-2-1 drink it up and go! They did this to my platoon all the way to gold face. I'm not exactly sure what I ate or how it tasted. The only time we got to taste food was MRE's, but you weren't allowed to use the heater. I'm pretty we were in red phase until day of graduation. I also remember two people went awol somehow and also we were never allowed to go to Sunday services or ot was at least frowned upon or something. It was really terrible at the school of Hard Knox.
In basic you will eat 3 meals a day. When you go to the range and stuff during white phase that’s when you start eating mre’s. Get used to not eating at the d fac for lunch and eating an mre instead lol. Sometimes it happens like that
Mre’s are not bad though you will get used to them
Our lunch truck meal was usually breaded veal
Yakisoba was the best! “Take it to the head” is what the DS would say to us to finish our drinks after only 3 minutes to shovel food down our throats.
I don't drink pop or alcohol, I prefer clean food... Whatever food I have access to is what I'm happy with eating
Ft. Benning GA. Harmony Church summer of 1986. We stood at parade rest and read smart books. The Drill Sergeants asked you questions from the smart books like effective range of the M16A1, subjects in there like the M18A1 Claymore Mine etc. If you got the answer wrong, you went to the back of the line. If it was correct we did the pull up bars with 5 good pull ups. If you messed that up, back of the line along with answering questions from the smart books. If they were pressing for time it was read your smart books and do 10 push ups before entering. The foods I got introduced to which I never had as a civilian high school student but at Basic Training. First was Parmesan Chicken with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, Chicken Fried Steak, Chicken Ala King, Turkey Ala King, Tomato Ground Beef, Tuna with Noodles, Fried Ground Beef with Spaghetti Noodles with no Spaghetti Sauce, and my favorite was Chili Mac. That was for lunch or dinner. For breakfast was French Toast, Grits, and my favorite SOS. Never had them as a civilian. My Dad who served in the Army for 23 years never made or cooked these foods for us but told us how terrible they were. For breakfast Dad only had was bacon, eggs, toast and coffee. He never got "Fancy" like the Army did. Our Mess Hall at Harmony Church back in the day but now no more. Were wooden buildings made before and during WWII. They creaked as we walked or ran into them with green linoleum floors, painted white on the outside, and had shingles on the roofs. It was like being transported back to WWII, Korea, and the Vietnam era. The mess hall at reception before Basic was a modern red brick with air conditioning and very modern like a high school cafeteria. That ended when you got inside the cattle cars headed for Harmony Church. Same food but very old mess halls which they called the "DFAC". We called it the mess hall as our Drill Sergeants would call it. My Drill Sergeant was an E-7 Vietnam combat veteran from the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He was very old school. Those were my memories of Infantry OSUT at Harmony Church in 1986.
"Back in my day". In basic (1989) , lunch and dinner in the mess hall was basically meat and carbs (potatoes/noodles) and a vegetable. No salt or pepper at the table, just Mrs Dash.
Went in 87 and definitely remember the potatoes and noodles!! Usually beef stroganoff!! Always rice was available with everything too..
In 67 it was meat and potatoes. Best thing was chocolate milk.
It's crazy talking about not being able to eat short order. When I went to Basic Training in 06 I could eat whatever I wanted with no problems but I was skinny and needed to eat whatever to put on weight
I recall a drill sergeant calling the company to attention and ordering all Regular Army to the front of the line and the reservists and national guard to the rear of the line. That was at lunch. Breakfast was after PT at 0630. Lunch was often C rations of canned food eaten cold. I even got a pack of cigarettes occasionally. I recall the drill sergeant standing at the end of the chow line and shaking salt all over our food. He salted down my green jello. Breakfast was the best because we got OJ, eggs, hash browns and bacon. But I learned to chew my food quickly. The one drill sergeant would circulate among us and yell at us the to chew our food x number of times to get the maximum nutrition out of it. But to do it rapidly.
This is very informative! Thank you so much for your service to our nation! I appreciate everyone in the military because they sacrifice so much to help keep the United States the land of the free and the home of the brave! You are super awesome!
Back in ‘56 we done ate in the latrines instead of the ‘ol chow hall, kids have it too easy these days
Klown yup you are a clown
Back in my dad kids got measles and died like REAL men not these PUSSYS nowadays and there pesky vaccines
Warrior Breakfast 2017: Our entire company got smoked and ran around the battalion with full stomachs.
Warrior Dinner: All I got was a small salad, not wanting history to repeat itself, but got yelled at for not getting enough food. Came back with a large ass pizza, hotdogs, wings and a burger. CO's jaw dropped. Luckily, we didn't get smoked after lol.
It cost 7 dollars for an mre. To feed a soldier in a mess hall only cost 3-4 dollars
I had to pull KP on the first Day of Basic. It started at about 2 Am and lasted until the last dish or pot was cleaned after Dinner. You talk about a long Day! I peeled a lot of potatoes. The food was not bad. We had to shout at the top of our Lungs either RA Drill Sergeant or NG Drill Seargent! If we were not loud enough we had to drop and give him some pushups. One time someone did talk and the whole hall had to eat standing up. Fort Gordon summer of 1976!
Food tastes better with heels together
Benning 2-47 :’)
quan tri huynh Benning 1-17
as a former 94b the breakfast meal was outstanding!
My daughter's mother still blames me for her telling mommy - "Eat it now, taste it later."
Remember food taste better with the heels together
Im going to ask my drill instructor if he can have fresh fruit and cookies out for me. I like that.
Don’t forget to ask for a mint on your pillow also.
thabks for the advice guys, I cant wait for boot camp, will they have stress dogs, I like that too.
Dont do that
I want to ask them to take me to buffet.
I’m gonna ask for a few Big Macs, 2 large fries, a large sweet tea, a large sprite, some ice cream, some apple pie and pumpkin pie, and 1 chocolate milkshake and 1 vanilla to top it off.
I still don't feel like I have an idea of what kind if food is served from the video.
For my BCT class breakfast had 3 meats (bacon, sausage, and Turkey sausage), scrambled eggs, some sort of carbs like rice or potatoes and breakfast breads (pancakes, waffles, or french toast) everyday. You could pick one of each. There was also a huge selection of breakfast cereals in single serving containers.
Lunch and dinner similarly had 3 meat entrees to choose from (always a beef and chicken and either pork or fish), overcooked steamed veggies (carrots, green beans, or mixed brocolli/cauliflower), a full salad bar and dessert was usually a nature valley granola bar or yogurt.
Fresh oranges and apples and slices if bread are always available to those who want to take them and condiments (peanut butter, jelly, butter, mustard/ketchup) are available too.
To drink you'll have water, fruit juices, Gatorade, and milk.
I dont drink soda anyways so i could live without it
Mind you Christopher Chaos went to basic training in the 80s so the food might be completely different
Uh no... I was in basic at the last cycle in the 90’s and I sometimes still eat in the chow hall because I work on an army base.
I agree! always fried Chicken or Sloppy Joe Hooah. I was a contractor at FT. Irwin CA after ETS and we was not allowed to eat at the DFAC or purchase anything not even Water at the PX.... after serving 8yrs in Army it was hard to believe that. so Burger King go!
Christopher Chaos dude I was about to say...... there’s no way you’re THAT old, but hell yeah for sticking to your roots and not forgetting where you came from!!!
Guess I'll find out Tuesday 😉
Good luck
Probably not. Meps is not fast 😂
Always remember eating was fast. In the chow line the Drill Sgt's would ask random people stuff from your smart book like your 3 General orders and so on. If you fail to answer correctly you were sent to back of line which meant you would have about 5 mins tops to eat. C-rats when out in the field or ranges. Funny story about AIT chow hall experience. We didn't have Drill Sgt's i guess you would call them NCO soldier herders :) Made sure they got there troops to class /mess hall/Etc. To this very day when i'm in a rush to go somewhere and i'm trying to get the family to eat quicker i would go back to the time the AIT NCO with the strong southern accent would say ( Put down the rake and pick up the shovel) Means put the fork down and use the spoon obviously. Sounded funny with his accent.Happened 37 years ago and it's one of the things that sticks in my head.Do they still have KP in basic?????? That was the worst part of basic for me.I joined knowing and excepting training to be in the Army but not washing dishes.
Sundays were usually what I looked forward to! They served this breakfast pizza at the chow hall on Sunday mornings and that was something!
Marines: snort crayons for sustenance
Do not eat the dessert. Drill seargant will make you pay for it….. 75% of the time we ate MRES. Learn the MRE MENU and snacks……They are only required to give you one hot meal.
And NEVER eat the dehydrated beef patty MRE. It always tore my stomach up.
I loved Gut Trucks. We had one laid back Drill Sgt. "What are you Privates doing"? "Drill Sgt, taking initiative and marching ourselves to chow". "Okay then carry on".
I did basic during the summer of 1973 at Fort Lost in the Woods as well as AIT. The chow was good there. We did only have a few minutes to eat but unlike a lot if my buddies, I made a sandwich of as much of what was on my tray. That way it was far faster to eat. I sure came up with some odd sandwiches.
My dad went through 10 years after you did in September of 83.
I was always hungry in basic we had tons of food it really wasn't bad. You just burn up the calories that you consume . We ate mres 2 times out doing range stuff for lunch . Otherwise we were in the chow hall at Ft Jackson SC .
Most basic training will make you do pull-ups pushups or some type of work out before you go into the DFAC…… You may have 15 minutes… you may have a drill sergeant say 1 minutes…30,20,10 your done!
I went to basic training at Ft Bliss, TX in Jan '84. Our chow hall was closed down by the health department. When it reopened we got steak or lobster for lunch. If that wasn't bad enough when we graduated I went to Juarez, Mexico with my buddy and his family who have family there. Went to a restaurant and I ordered chicken. I think I got a cat 😢😮😅😂
I LOVED Army basic training BREAKFAST!!! 😊. Because I only had one bowl 🥣 for breakfast, at home 🏡.🥣
I liked the burgers on the short order line. My drill sergeants really didn't worry too much about people using the short order line, getting pop, or getting a dessert with two big exceptions. If you were well overweight they put you on a restrictive diet. I think a few guys may have been on liquid diets for a while. Or, if you were extremely underweight they made sure you got a ton of food. If you were somewhere in the middle, they weren't too concerned. We were so busy that a pop or piece of cake just got burned running around. That was back in 1989, so things have likely changed.
We did do chinups before getting chow. I also remember during the beginning phases the drill sergeants would come in and keep people eating quickly and moving out. They would say funny things like, "You got four minutes to eat, and five of them are already gone."
For those who may be going to Basic in the future, don't about the food. You will be well fed. While the stereotype of a drill sergeant is a mean tormenter, it's for a purpose. They do really care for the troops. And, the officers over them really care for the troops. They want the troops to be successful and healthy, which means things are set up to make sure you're well nourished.
Biscuits and gravy. All the way.
All the way to the shitter
1988. We didn't have a short order line. It didn't exist. There were sodas and deserts which we weren't allowed to use until our training was for the most part over. (We could at reception though.) Milk, water, coffee, juice, Kool-Aid, that was it. We had an unlimited salad bar but we were limited to one trip. We could eat as much as we wanted butbwe had to eat everything we took. Even our Drills weren't allowed to send food back. Food wasn't restaurant quality but it wasn't like that green stuff in Biloxi Blues either. Usually meals were in the chow hall unless we were training and then they brought lunch out to us. During bivouac we had hot meals except for lunch which was an MRE and back then there was no way to heat them. When a company was graduating that day the battalion mess hall served steaks to everyone but they were really basic no-frills steaks not much better than veal. For some reason we had a lot of veal. There weren't many options for vegetarians but there also weren't many vegetarians either. After Red Phase we were allowed to walk back to the barracks on our own but that was probably just our company.
We had salt and pepper but we were encouraged to use Mrs. Dash. Little did we know that stuff was 100% MSG.
Once in a great while we went to Burger King or had pizza delivered to the barracks but that was rare. We still had to sign for our meals though.
Do soldiers in Basic and AIT still get stuck with a day of KP duty? We did when I was in.
Dru Smith: As did I, back in 1982. Apparently, it might be a thing of the past. I recently asked more than one person who is on active duty and they replied, "What is "KP?"
@@macburger5026 What year did you attend basic??
@@macburger5026 I went to Fort Knox in July 1982. "KP" was an entire day. From peeling potatoes to scrubbing pots and pans. LOL!
@@dougtheeliminator1077 I Didn't mind KP in Basic because we got to eat left-overs and Drink Soda outta the Cooks AO. I will never forget doing KP in Saudi on my BDay back in 90's for 24hrs straight in a Hot ass Tent... that one suck! 11B Hooah
@@macburger5026 I really didn't mind the days that I had to do it. The 10-12 hours went by in the blink of an eye. And I never saw it again after basic. The mess hall in AIT had civilians that cleaned up as did my permanent units.
Went through Benning June - August 1990. Saddam invaded Kuwait during that period so the place was a bit nuts. There were three different dishes prepared for each meal but you did NOT get to choose, you took what was in front of you. If you delayed for the slightest of seconds then you weren't hungry and were tossed out. To drink you were required to have four glasses of water and nothing else. They were big on water at Benning so if you wanted more I'm sure you'd have gotten it but even OJ was a pipe dream. The only utensil we were permitted was a soup spoon (called a shovel) regardess of what we were eating. We had to earn the right to use knives and forks and of course hadn't yet. The funny thing to me was dessert. It was off limits but the civilian contractors who did the food were required to provide it. So they'd take the tray of cake or brownies or whatever, carve it up and station a private in front of it as the server but he stood at parade rest since none of us could have it. We just shuffled past it dreaming of a day in the future when it could be ours. Good times.
Drill SGT we took initiative and marched ourselves to the chow hall.
Once we got comfortable at Fort Leonard Wood. We marched ourselves to chow. "What were you doing privates"? We were just taking initiative Drill Sgt...
Thank you for your service Christopher
I liked things I didn't have to chew haha. Like pancake with peanut butter and a banana. Or cornbeef hash or biscuits and gravy. I really liked the bellpepper with hamburger meat inside.
So you can pretty save money pretty easy in the military.
We used to hide the fatty cakes in the ceiling tiles of our barracks. They would always find it...