Army Cooks at Forward Operating Base Salerno Afghanistan
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Footage of Army Cooks at Forward Operating Base Salerno.
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I was an army cook on forward deployment. Military cooks on deployment work all day cooking up meals and then serve on guard duty at night with weapons keeping watch on the perimeter. The work never ends.
When I was in the Army I was always in deep shit with my platoon sergeant and had to pull KP Duty when we went out to the field......I have never seen anyone work harder/longer hours as those cooks......up at 400 am and not leaving the field kitchen until the last food containers came back at sometimes 900 PM.....and they made awesome food......
My hats off to the food Service personnel - you guys work your ass off and put out a quality product!
Grease pans, grease the enemy... it's all good!
the army runs on your feeds.
My friend runs a five star restaurant and he owes it to the army
He was a cook in the army. He served a full 20 years and most of that 20 years was in the 82nd airborne
And he was used heavily for his job. When he deployed, he was always sent to remote outposts where they didn’t have contracted cooks and he had to cook everything out of an MKT. he had to forecast the shipments and make the orders and manage complicated spreadsheets. He did three back to back deployments like that in Afghanistan
Then he got moved to the cooking staff at the 82nd Airborne Division HQs. And he got sent to some of the best culinary programs in the country for the next two years. He got fully trained on all the European and aristocratic cuisines. He was trained on how to do ice sculptures. He got trained on how to organize and cater huge formal events. When he got back from that training in NYC, Los Angeles and Atlanta, he was put in charge of all the formal events for the 82nd airborne. The generals have a lot of banquets and fancy dinners and dinner meetings with other generals. Senators also visited. And the president twice. And he made the food and organized the entire presentation.
He spent his final years at the pentagon and often did food preparation with the White House culinary staff
When he retired, he enrolled in the culinary institute of America (the Harvard of culinary schools), graduated at the top of his class because he had so much work experience. He also deployed a total of 7 times during his military career and didn’t spent any of the money he saved during deployments-he had almost $200,000 in untouched savings, plus his retirement pension, plus his disability pension.
After working in one of the top restaurants in NYC for a few years, he got a veterans business grant. He used that grant and his savings to open a modest restaurant in California and he’s killing it
The irony is that he didn’t know how to cook before the army. The army chose his profession and he hated it at first but it took him to where he is now
He knew how to run a restaurant by the time he retired from the army. If you tell him to make enough omelettes for 500 people, he will be able to tell you exactly how many eggs, how many bars of better, how many jugs of milk, etc, it would take-and how many cooks and stoves would be needed. And he would be able to manage all of that while reading a book
What a fucking beast. Love hearing stories like this!
Where’s the restaurant located I’d love to visit and show my support, guy sounds like a badass!!
@@cardinality1975 Am also curious what restaurant it is
Really a good experience he got.
@James can you tell me why your friend has a disability pension, how was he injured cooking🤔
The Black soldier, serving the United States Armed Forces since the 1700's, with pride, dignity and courage, despite the struggles of their people in America.
Thank you for representing...you make us proud and I commend each and every one of you.
Military Forces Cooks almost never get the credit they deserve ,unless , when non - Food Services Specialist personnel get hungry and thirsty, their tune changes quickly.
Everyone respects the culinary specialists. They have the spirit to serve and we love them. Thank you for your service!
Nothing but respect for the cooks! Hot meals beat MREs everytime
The pasta dish at the 1min 44 sec mark looked awesome. Thanks to all of our troops ho serve in every roll
Appears to be tortollini, the food of kings.
We didn't have that when I was in 92-96. It does look good!
Yeah it did
92G, THANK YOU! YALL ARE AWESOME, and your efforts are GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Thank you for keeping folks fed!
When you're an infantry fighing in the battlefield, Hot chow is always appriciated in a great way no matter what it is
Respect these people and their work.
God I loved Salerno. Awesome base, gym, folks and FOOD.
I love the care in the preparation.
Under appreciated hard working people...
I just hope that everyone in this video made it back home.
I'm surprised the Army kitchen is not in a reinforced concrete building the Army should put this kitchen in a reinforced concrete building I hope everything is okay there the food looks delicious I bet these guys are Great Cooks thank you for your service and thank you for sharing this video
Great job ladies and gentlemen ,
God Bless them for their sacrifice
That blunt knife is an accident looking to escape onions.
Bravo Zulu..... Salute !!
Wok & Tawa (W&T) A Wok can cook meals fast! Easy to transport! A Tawa can make Roti! Scrambles! Griddling!
I cook for a guide dogs for the blind school. Cut a tiny slice off your onion and you'll have a flat base and the onion won't move while you cut it. And use a pointed knife and keep the tip connected to the cutting board and just use and up-down action and you'll go faster. Chicken stock cubes are your friend...
You feed them ,they fight..one of the most important component of navy ,army, da same all over ..even on the construction site..police ,ambulance..and this lad cooking for hundreds..
All I could think of is all that styrofoam that lasts a century... being thrown away.
These soldiers are the real power behind the punch
I know about this I was spec 4 Cook in fort Bliss TX 38 yrs a go .
Those green beans look like they spent the last 15 years in a can.
Beats the hell out of MRE’s every day.
Holy shit private Gump ,was cutting onions .
Navy has got the best chow
Navy doesn't need to set up makeshift kitchens.
You notice how most of the cooks in the US army are either black, Hispanic or Asian
i was hoping for narration but good vid
What is the guy cutting onion's secret? He's not crying!
An Army marches on its stomach
Why is that guy cutting onions using a cake knife?
Using a ham knife to slice onions - ? The blade is too flexible for safe and efficient cutting of such solid items. What are they teaching cooks nowadays - ?
Back in the day our cooks couldn't boil water without fucking it up. Military chow sucked then sucks now.
Why does youtube keep giving me videos about the Military cooking
I'm not against it this shit is really cool but I want to know why I'm down this rabbit hole
If these wonderful MEN AND WOMEN didn't feed us, we couldn't defend this great country of ours.
Cooks always be jamming
I'd be so fat if i was a military chef...
Got to love em😋
Looks good boys
The life source of any military. A very underrated position.
Always good to have one friend in the mess hall and another in supply.
What's that old quote, 'An army marches on its stomach'?
@@miguelitoantonio1950 you got that right I was Army cook 74-76 stationed in Germany one of my buddies was the night baker so when I came back from partying in town I could always stop by the mess hall and make some sandwiches for me and my buddies,also my sergeant was tight with the supply sergeant so we had a complete set of brand new mess field equipment for inspection and another set that we used in the field was stashed in a Germans barn so whenever we went on maneuvers we would swap out the equipment,it was great to always have the brand new stuff for inspections
You are right it is very underrated, and in a way highly discriminated. For the unit or other soldiers, they don't see cooks as soldiers, they just are cooks
@@felixa.aliceamartinez7890 you are correct but everyone In service is trained to be a soldier first I've read books about the Vietnam war and if a base was getting attacked and their ass kicked even the cook's joined in on the fight
I didn't appreciate the cooks enough when I was in the Air Force, Thanks you guys, the food was always great!
You guys always had the best chow... I would go over to the Air Force chow hall anytime I was on an AFB
Being a cook is a hard job. Always hot, constantly lifting, running, busting ur ass so people have good food too eat. Thanks for showing them love.
Air force vs army vs navy vs marines
@@chefmesser420 Not to mention the long hours. I did 16 hour shifts when I was active.
AF had the best food and multiple entrees. We used to go their bases and eat chow when we got a chance. They had real plates and they would take your tray from the table when finished eating. Fly boys know how to take care of themselves!
When we were out in the field our cooks worked 20 hour days. Much respect!
They don't sleep~!?
I did KP once and I was working from 4:00 am to 11:00pm and I wasnt even one of the cooks. I was just helping out.
mynameisshaker same smh
Shit is ridiculous!
Yes we did and we did work 20 hours - didn't slice the onion with that meat slicer knife - use a crawl grip and a chefs knife.
g-d rite i was a cook in the army 80's and we fed tha troops!! god bless em!
Recruiter: I never said Seal Team 6, I said Meal team 6...
Oh that ones real funny.
From my time in the army (71-91) I can say that the army cooks were the unsung heros! They work long hours and sacrifice their holidays so the rest of us could have that Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. When we marched through the European country side for three days they met at an obscure clearing in the woods and in the middle of a snowstorm they fired up their field stoves and cooked us breakfast to order. Man did we ever appreciate them!
Where were you stationed West Germany or Italy
Thank you. I was an Army cook for 3 years and that was our life plus odd times to work. The food was amazing especially breakfast. Lol.
I still make SOS at home on some days.
@@pipsqueak631 I was a medic. It always seemed us needles and spoons got along well! Seems the army couldn't get along without us!
@@saabab1474 Germany
@@muzikizfun But when I left the hospital that one time I had to make the bed. Lol.
0:32 glad to see that bubba's grandson is carrying on the dream
Oof lol
Hahaha, exactly what I saw. But aint no shrimp on this menu!
Lol
🤐😂😂🤐😂😂😂
Lol yes ... Bubba must be proud
You Have to admit are off all the time in service (20 years) the cooks did a great job. I never had a bad meal... Thanks COOKS
Retired at 42 from the service We had one cook that made sure everyone on base got lobster tails on his birthday ..480 people on base at the time ..
The following birthday we sat him down and took over cooking that day and brought in ribs and chicken for a BBQ The CO gave him a flight out on a 4 day to see his kids
I was at Schofield Barracks for 2 years 84-85.....I loved breakfast there.....eggs to order.....always has my grits with butter and milk and sugar....bacon every day....it is funny a lot of the guys in now skip the chow hall and have their breakfasts in their "Suite"......all the bull shit of measuring oats and powdered shit in a blender.....total metro sexual gen Z type guys.....the only thing I regret is I was not a coffee drinker as a teenager.....every day I passed one of those big old school metal coffee makers and never had even 1 cup.....WTF was I thinking.....
@@US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV. eggs and bacon every day have you heard of our nation’s ongoing war with cholesterol
Thank you to all those who feed, clothe and shelter our soldiers.
I have to say that next to US Army cooks in a hospital, cooks out in the field are just about up there. Love all you military cooks!
If you are a black man you can only be a cook in the military ??? Just like in the 40's ... Racist country !
@@nemanume wtf? Have you ever served? You absolutely know nothing
@@aiirraidzz125 Answer this question ... Are there any white people in this video ? as a cook ...
@@nemanume black ppl can pick their jobs. Going on 12 years in the military I have seen so races as cooks. Interestingly enough though, most cooks are blacks..and having to do with what you score and the list of jobs, you get stuck with it. I my self though chose the combat jobs while others have chosen others such as cook it admin.
Better question to ask is, why do most black people pick support jobs? Such as cook or admin? Why do they? Why don't they want combat jobs? I've only seen few that chose the combat jobs over support
1:07 That girl look so cute
Wow you have like no standards
I agree with Tran. What makes her attractive to the eye is her 'girl next door look'. Fake models or porn stars can get boring in my opinion.
She is on a FOB in Afghanistan with probably a 95% male population. Pretty sure she is getting plowed on the regular.
Yeah every female that joins the military does it to just get plowed on the regular doesn't everyone know that. Women love multiple penis so much they are willing to get shot at for it. Yeap we are such studs.
Army pukes are studs? That's cute. Every beautiful girl I met in a club when I was a bouncer said they could not stand military boys. Too macho and never home. We saw a lot of cheerleaders from the Carolina Panthers in my club. They always went for the muscular, non-soldier types....sorry!
WOW, great looking chow! When I was on operation in Vietnam we ate C rations. When we were in base camp we ate powdered eggs, powdered milk, etc. I was 11 Bravo, Infanrty!! First I D 2nd Bn 16th Infanrty.
i appreciated every hot meal i got!
Yes.
That’s great
I was at Schofield Barracks for 2 years 84-85.....I loved breakfast there.....eggs to order.....always had my grits with butter and milk and sugar....bacon every day....it is funny a lot of the guys in now skip the chow hall and have their breakfasts in their "Suite"......all the bull shit of measuring oats and powdered shit in a blender.....total metro sexual gen Z type guys.....the only thing I regret is I was not a coffee drinker as a teenager.....every day I passed one of those big old school metal coffee makers and never had even 1 cup.....WTF was I thinking.....
They put their lives on the line for us - they deserve to eat well! God Bless!
Do you really believe that?.
Nuhur Dwindler yes
@@guitargod1403 Everyday in the field is a 50/50 chance of dying.
I worked there for 5 years and these young men and woman of the military closed the camp..it used to hold about 7,000 soldiers
Napolian " army marches on its stomach" you guys are the unsung hero s
God bless each one.
I was going to join the army after high school and be a cook.. I wish I would of done it.. Practice makes perfect and my definition of perfect is being better then you at it. Much respect for these guys. Thats the fuel right there for our men and women to keep going
@Allen Memmott why didn’t you join the Army 🤔🤔
the new crop of army cooks got things pretty good in some ways. but I must say god bless and I know what's it's like to get up at 3:30 am and cook 3 meals and get off at 7pm. "allons"
32 seconds in melted my heart. That dude loves his green beans. He's all like, "hey green beans, you ready to be in my belly?"
In German we dont say without food no fight.
We say : "ohne mampf, kein Kampf"
Its basically the same and i think its beautiful.
When I was in Iraq ...the chow hall was so good....it was the one thing you looked forward to most....they had everything including surf and turf night...no huge respect to these men and women.....love them all ....they are all my brothers and sisters....
a u.s. army breakfast bac in the 80's was outstanding!!!! better than the golden corral!!!! or ihop!!!
In the 80s the breakfast was huge back at garish on . Choice of any kind of egg , omelet all the fillings 3 kinds of meat . Fruit , Pastries .pancakes . French toast. Hash browns , home fries . Oatmeal. Grits ect. It was great and free.
@@garryhyland2795 u r rite garry h ! the garrison army breakfast was the " "breakfast of champions" lol ! u did'nt need no lunch meal!!!
I was at Schofield Barracks for 2 years 84-85.....I loved breakfast there.....eggs to order.....always has my grits with butter and milk and sugar....bacon every day....it is funny a lot of the guys in now skip the chow hall and have their breakfasts in their "Suite"......all the bull shit of measuring oats and powdered shit in a blender.....total metro sexual gen Z type guys.....the only thing I regret is I was not a coffee drinker as a teenager.....every day I passed one of those big old school metal coffee makers and never had even 1 cup.....WTF was I thinking.....
@@US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV. lol! from a old 94b! " spoon"!!!
Salute for these men and women who prepares food for the us military on a daily basis. God bless to your sacrifices! 👍☝️
Just a glimpse into the supply and logistics involved in keeping an army fed!
My Primary MOS, post-USMC,in The US Army, then-94B, turned 92G(2P), from 08 January 1993 to 17 December 1998. Even hardcore Delta Force, Rangers and Special Forces Soldiers need to eat and drink too!!🇺🇸🦅🗽🔪
One time, during a training exercise, I was "killed" when I was delivering a load of AGM-88 Mavericks to the flightline (I was Air Force and didn't hear the attack siren). At first, the causality recovery team dropped me off the morgue. I didn't mind it, I was in chemical warfare gear and laying under an enormous oak tree - so I decided to take a nap. After about 15 minutes or so, the morgue staff decided that I could be best used elsewhere, so I was sent to work as an augmentee at the dining facility. I worked my ass off for the rest of the day. That experience gave me a profound respect for the Food Services personnel, and it greatly aided me when I became a First Sergeant several years later.
When I was a grunt I loved getting hot chow.
that food looked pretty good, M.A.S.H. lied
I would break that damn radio ...not listening to crap music during chow
You would think as many meals they prepare each and every day the Army would provide a food processor.
Soooo much better chow now then the 70s, when we had green food, it was the mold that gave it that color.
Thanks to the cooks and thks 🇺🇸 to all the troops be safe 🚓
thanks frank f ! a hungry tired grunt saying thanks for the hot food made it all worth it!!!!!
Who says military food is bad? This looks infinitely better than half the shit served at my high-tier university lol. The tortellini looks savory.
Some of this Guys now works in the Cruise ships. Some in a hotel. And some with a Succesful restaurant business and Bakeshop.
WHY CHRIS BROWN!? WHY NOT LIL' WAYNE!?
1:06 a woman that is drop dead gorgeous, and serves the country?! Sign me up! (Don't tell my wife) jk lol
I saw a lot of female cooks that were decent looking.
Army fights on its tummy, looks like they are getting a lot of great tasting fight in them :-)
That brown meat? Looked like raw liver🤔.
On the field and off the field work very hard!
When I was in the Army I was always in deep shit with my platoon sergeant and had to pull KP Duty when we went out to the field......I have never seen anyone work harder/longer hours as those cooks......up at 400 am and not leaving the field kitchen until the last food containers came back at sometimes 900 PM.....and they made awesome food......
Being a cook ain't easy, unless their handing us MRE's but sometimes they make some good meals that boost morale
The cook is using a roast carving knife to slice a onion . Very dangerous , no control of the knife . Also too large .
Garry Hyland He should have stabilized the onion by slicing a small bit off then turn it sliced side down so it doesn’t rock back and forth.
That is incorrect, Lieutenant. Your weekend pass is cancelled. This is United States Army property which was taken without authorization from my mess facility. And I will not tolerate thievery in my unit.
OK Sobel!
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@@Billy_the_Greek LOL
STILL FRIKIN LOOKS BETTER THAN SCHOOL FOOD
Out somewhere in BFE Afghanistan, we STILL have the ability to actually prepare and cook meals with real ingredients for the troops. Amazes me how proficient we are as a fighting force.
There are 2 people you never disrespect.
Your supervisor and the dude preparing your food
Delicious chow
Eating Army food builds character!
Jon Stewart 😖😖😖😖😖😖
Jon Stewart and it looks like a strong stomach too.
And constipation or Hemorrhoids
The air force had the best food by far. I don't know how it is now, but when I was in from 87-95 the food rocked. I got sent to Saudia Arabia for Desert Storm and was at different places at different times. I was almost always at a Saudi air base. Not only was the food great...we actually had soft serve ice cream machines, but we had an Olympic sized pool to use, a bowling alley and other niceties. I almost didn't want to leave....yeah right! Did a 6 month deployment and worked with some British troops and Canadian soldiers. They all agreed on the food part. Never once did we open an MRE. We just had to worry about scuds but quickly realized that the Iraqi forces couldn't figure out how to use them. Just shot them all over and hoped it hit something. Our patriot missiles shot down most of them.
@Hammer Time meanwhile the Marines were eating MREs
In our unit, NCO'S made it a point at field kitchens and the like to have lower-enlisted go through the line first. It was a sign of responsibility that an NCO'S Soldiers ate before he did, and that he was ensuring that their needs were first.
Folkskjöldr officers always eat last after everyone else.
Currently OCONUS (outside of the continental US)
Very under appreciated. In Iraq, the cooks at our DFAC (non military) were hired labor from 3rd world countries that never washed their hands, or undercooked their food.
I’ve been sick multiple times eating the food here. I have mad respect for our cooks back at base, looking back I wish I gave more appreciation. Don’t shit on Army Cooks!
I have so much respect for these guys!
Being an cook in the Army ( aka slopjocky) is absolutely the most difficult of jobs! No one has ever passed the course.
Are the soldiers and the military personnel are they allowed to have pizza in bacon cheeseburger I'm just curious once again these guys look like Great Cooks
1:09 This is what I want to eat.❤
Nothing beats hot chow served in the field. Thanks, guys. Most underappreciated people in the military.
Whew, that was hard times being a cook from 76 to 79. But put on night baking was good. Except for cleaning chitterling for the Soul Line in the Speciality House I worked in.Anyone on post could come. There were Soul. Italian, German and Mexican Lines. Incredibly busy at mid and ends of the months.
My grandfather was a very proud former pastry cook in the army during World War II, he didn't go to combat, it was already all over by the time he became active, but he did spend a lot of time in the Conservation Corps, helping with Army engineering projects working on dams and stuff he used to tell a joke about.. how you make a pie in the army .. you'll say.. how do you make a pie in the army? First you start with 50 lb of flour.. everybody would laugh...😆grandpa was joker
FOB Salerno was best FOB ever. I work like civilian(Contractor) for USA Army and Rocket City(Salerno) was crazy base.