The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base
By Bill Briggs
NBC News contributor
May 31, 2013
Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.
The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats" — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It's described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.
The base, which is located in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.
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MREs: Going to war with the meal you have
MREs: Going to war with the meal you have
Drawdown in hot chow hall breakfast underway in Afghanistan
By Gretel C. Kovach APRIL 5, 2013
If chow is morale, as the Marines say, then troops deployed to Afghanistan may be getting grumpier.
Because of security needs, cooks and other support staff are withdrawing from the war zone faster than service members who protect military bases. That means some who used to dish into hot meals at the chow hall now have to start their day ripping open a Meal, Ready-to-Eat packaged ration.
“As a part of the responsible drawdown of operational forces ... commanders in some areas have altered the ration cycle. The same number of meals is provided, but the type of meal may have changed. Commanders have not eliminated breakfast,” Army Maj. Adam Wojack, a spokesman for the U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, said in an email from Kabul.
Hot breakfasts cooked by food service specialists may be a casualty of the drawdown, but no one must go hungry. “No ISAF service member is being denied any meals,” Wojack said.
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Drawdown in hot chow hall breakfast underway in Afghanistan
By Gretel C. Kovach APRIL 5, 2013
If chow is morale, as the Marines say, then troops deployed to Afghanistan may be getting grumpier.
Because of security needs, cooks and other support staff are withdrawing from the war zone faster than service members who protect military bases. That means some who used to dish into hot meals at the chow hall now have to start their day ripping open a Meal, Ready-to-Eat packaged ration.
“As a part of the responsible drawdown of operational forces ... commanders in some areas have altered the ration cycle. The same number of meals is provided, but the type of meal may have changed. Commanders have not eliminated breakfast,” Army Maj. Adam Wojack, a spokesman for the U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, said in an email from Kabul.
Hot breakfasts cooked by food service specialists may be a casualty of the drawdown, but no one must go hungry. “No ISAF service member is being denied any meals,” Wojack said.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
DOD warns shakes in MRE may have salmonella
Salmonella concerns prompt dairy shakes warning
By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 20:26:34 EDT
Don’t drink the dairy shakes. They might give you diarrhea.
Defense Department officials are warning all military personnel to temporarily avoid drinking dairy shakes found in Meals, Ready to Eat and Unitized Group Rations-Express because they might contain Salmonella.
“There is a remote chance that we might have some dairy shakes that could have some Salmonella,” Gerry Darsch, director of the DoD Combat Feeding Program, told Army Times on Wednesday.
That means that potentially there are about 12 million dairy shakes in MREs that could be affected, Darsch said.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/07/army_dairyshakes_070109w/
By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 20:26:34 EDT
Don’t drink the dairy shakes. They might give you diarrhea.
Defense Department officials are warning all military personnel to temporarily avoid drinking dairy shakes found in Meals, Ready to Eat and Unitized Group Rations-Express because they might contain Salmonella.
“There is a remote chance that we might have some dairy shakes that could have some Salmonella,” Gerry Darsch, director of the DoD Combat Feeding Program, told Army Times on Wednesday.
That means that potentially there are about 12 million dairy shakes in MREs that could be affected, Darsch said.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/07/army_dairyshakes_070109w/
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