Do any of you vets remember the paper thin omelettes? Man they were good! Our cook made his special hot sauce for his favorite folks.

Loved them

But ours probably weren't fancy like yalls

Midnight chow was some of the best in the chow halls. The omelettes were awesome. All the OJ and Milk you could drink. Good toast etc. If I was still eating in the chow halls today, I would be about 750 lbs. by now.

Midnight chow at carswell was strange. Breakfast food, frozen pizza and fried chicken.

That is strange. At Langley and Tyndall they served breakfast (omelettes, eggs, french toast, bacon etc.) for the midnight meal. For a while I worked the graveyard shift. I'd go to the chowhall first, then off to work. Work from 11 to 7 am. I couldn't do it today. When it gets dark my eyelids get heavy.

Yum

apparently coddled flyboys - if there was a midnight meal in the Army it was S.O.S. with a side of S.

We had midnight chow in the Army in Iraq and Korea. Awesome if you came back off mission late you could get a decent hot meal.

As a cook, I never cooked omelettes at midnight. The boys got left overs or sandwiches.

Never got any midnight meals when I was with the 4th Inf. Div. in Vietnam.

We didn't have a mess hall in the field. I was with an artillery unit so we were always in a fire base (usually on some hill top), and we did have a mess tent where you lined up to get whatever our cook could make with dehydrated stuff (B rations). He actually could make almost anything edible.

You AF guys lived in luxury!

There is a reason us smart ones chose the air force.

When I was stationed at McConnell AFB we would get off evening shift and go to a little bar right out side the gate have a few and make it back to midnight chow. Seemed like it was always good food

most "omelettes" I remember ya had ta use a "p38" ta get at 'em�..

Yep.

The worst part was that the mushrooms were canned, and not fresh. That must have been some kind of torture invented at SERE school, because it�s freaking inhumane to have to eat canned mushrooms.

at tech school they made the best ruben sandwiches ever.

Mid Rats in the Chiefs Mess on the 3 Aircraft Carriers I served on were always your choice full breakfast or regular meal always hot and fresh. It didn't get any better than that. On the 2 LST's and the AOE they did not have the full menu but even the Marines were glad to get back aboard and stand in line(it's what they did best) for a hot meal they were still better than eating out of a can on the ground. GO NAVY!

Midnight chow rocked!

midnight chow on an air farce base was the way to go, when lucky enough to be on one.....as for the Army mess halls....well, you were usually better off getting a few boiled eggs and some bacon...lol

I was only authorized to eat at dining halls once a quarter...just a check on how the troops are treated kind of deal.

We were collocated with a large Navy base. I had always heard how great the food was in the Navy, but our facility fed many sailors.

Food was good generally...and they did not prepare anything special for us. Ate a number of Holiday dinners there. Always enjoyed it.

I still have a couple p-38s. Come in handy from time to time.

[quote= Marines were glad to get back aboard and stand in line(it's what they did best)[/quote]

And get sea sick.

Midnight chow yum. That was one benefit of working off shifts, that and no brass around. I do miss the food from the Hospital mess halls. We had the best food on base.

I liked chow hall food, but kp duty sucked

I was at Ft Sam in an Antonio in 67-68, the hospital food for us working in hospital was great, not so much for the patients we had. Especially the COLD COLD milk

we had civilians for that.

Utmost respect to those of you who served in any branch.

That's just not the path I took, and I sometimes have regrets or "wishes" that I had.
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