Well, I was sitting with the rest of 2nd MEF in Kuwait and we had 1 hot a day. Maybe. During the ground push we had 2 MREs a day, and NO breakfast. I had to "liberate" a gallon can of peanut butter to avoid resorting to cannibalism.
If sbeebe had 3 hots a day in DS then he wasn't a Marine.
LOL. C's and K's. You ate what you carried. 200' tall jungle canopy didn't even allow for an air drop. We ate stolen rice a lot. I still don't like rice to this day.
I sure did enjoy my time being chauffeured courtesy of the USN. The chow was good, but seriously, how hard is it to stock enough hot sauce and ketchup to last more than two days? Our group was the very last ships to take port call in Subic Bay...
Well, I was sitting with the rest of 2nd MEF in Kuwait and we had 1 hot a day. Maybe. During the ground push we had 2 MREs a day, and NO breakfast. I had to "liberate" a gallon can of peanut butter to avoid resorting to cannibalism.
If sbeebe had 3 hots a day in DS then he wasn't a Marine.
LOL. I was attached to 5th Marines and I don't remember eating at all while on the ground in DS.
Oh yeah? We ate sand.
As a corpsman, the cooks always hooked me up. Never ran out of hotsauce or fruitloops.
My ship evac'd most everybody at subic and Clark in Fiery Vigil, after Pinatubo erupted. What a friggin cluster with an extra 14,000 civilian on board. They all got fed an med tho.
Was too bad about Subic, that was some bad azzed port o call.
Ya I can't remember the exact date we were there but I was part of 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and we were traveling courtesy of Amphibious Group 3 on our way back from DS after driving around in rectangles in the Persian Gulf for a while. I was on board the Juneau at the time but I hopped around to the Tarawa and others in the group too. We stopped and helped Bangladesh during Operation Sea Angel and then went on to Subic. We didn't miss the volcano eruption at Subic by too many weeks.
I would have loved to have been permanent personnel at Clark or Subic at one time. Not for too long though... a man might get used to that lifestyle to his own detriment.
You know what they say..."My A$$ Rides In Navy Equipment". Besides, you guys ain't so tough when you're seasick! Ha! That was always my favorite for the land lubbers, 50 foot swells and a can of smoked oysters.
You know what they say..."My A$$ Rides In Navy Equipment". Besides, you guys ain't so tough when you're seasick! Ha! That was always my favorite for the land lubbers, 50 foot swells and a can of smoked oysters.
lol.. that's a fact. You anchor clankers do a pretty good job of getting us where we need to go.
I've floated on my share of flat bottom well deck boats and the suspension in them babies ain't so great. The worst part it seems is just after you clear the harbor at San Diego though... something about that shelf right when you hit the big ocean makes for a bumpy ride. The worst part of being seasick is when you feel like you need to puke 24/7 but you can't!
I never went on a WESTPAC, but I have a total of about 10 months or so on board ship between floating over for DS and various exercises in the Pacific. I've always enjoyed sea time and there is just NOTHING like going topside in the middle of the ocean with a big moon, stars all around and nothing but the sound of the waves. It's truly a religious experience.
I landed in theater 10 days after 9/11. First two weeks were MREs, and I thought they were pretty good after my wife's cooking (I do all the cooking now). After that we went another 4 weeks with one hot a day supplemented with MREs.
If anyone in your family talks about joining the service, have them eat MREs for a few days. Then ask them to imagine that for two weeks. If they whine, tell them to go to college.
If anyone in your family talks about joining the service, have them eat MREs for a few days. Then ask them to imagine that for two weeks. If they whine, tell them to go to college.
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