The Chow Hall • How U.S. Marines Eat In Japan
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- Chief cook prepares meals for Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni chow hall in Japan. Filmed 2019.
Film Credits: PFC Jaxson Fryar
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The cooks were always the most over looked job, yet they contributed to the morale just as much as anyone. It’s a hard and thankless job. My hat goes off to all of them. You are appreciated.
In the military, the cooks are usually the last people you want to piss off.
The only one and absolute last time I've witnessed this was someone pissed off the cooks at the dining facility, and the thing the whole base had for lunch and dinner were trays upon trays of heated up, canned sardines. Very sad meal(s)
No.1 eternal rule don't mess with people who handle your food ☺️
cooks? try can opening reheaters dude - def not cooks
I love watching random shit like this. Don't know exactly why. Very interesting, and appreciate the work.
While im eating I like to watch random ppl eat random stuff, it enhances my appetite
@@omarkharnivall2439 me too
Same here.
@@omarkharnivall2439 same lmaooo thought it was just me I love making a big plate of food and just chilling watching some people make/eat food hahaha
Wow, mess halls have changed from the 70s. Memories of 30 straight days of mess duty back in June 1974, Camp LeJeune, Area 1, close to A Street. Semper Fi.
November 1995 I did 30 days of mess duty at chow hall #488 Camp Foster Okinawa. Cooked bacon, ham slices and sausage patties for breakfast. 0400 formation and worked until after evening meal sometimes almost until 2030hrs. Long days, then I went Camp Lejeune and lucked out no more mess duty for me.
I’m currently doing 90 days on my ship 😂
@@tbob8212 mess duty for us 1974, washing pots and pans, mopping the deck and taking our trash. Yes long hours 0430 to some times to 1900. Back then only the MOS qualified Cooks, cooked.
@@malloryphelps 90 days. Thats a long time, and tough duty. What ship are you on? You in the Mediterranean, Atlantic Pacific?
@@usmc-veteran73-77 Ah yes swabbing the deck, lol! Yes one of my daily duties was to swab the galley deck, two back hallways and clean the ovens we used to cook the breakfast meats. Then during the afternoon prepare the breakfast meats for the next morning. A mess sgt. (cook mos) was in charge of us plus we had Okinawan civilians (honchos we called them) cooking most of the food. But yes certain food items us Marines on mess duty cooked. Others washed pots and pans. We weren't free at night until the mess sgt. inspected the entire chow hall for cleanliness :)
Always treat your military cooks with kindness and respect. Tell them when you enjoy something. It can seem like a thankless task so it means a lot. Words of wisdom passed on to me from my Air Force father when I enlisted into the Army.
But thats because he ate Air Force chow....that shit is delicious. Hard to tell a damn CS in the galley that his shit is good
1shoot100commies Yup
In Basic, our Platoon Commander was a SOB. A true Mustang. However, one day he stopped the entire chow line because he noticed there was no more salad. He cut in, asked the civilian server to stop and refill the salad. He called back half dozen Marines to ask them if they wanted any. Salad! It was at that moment I realized what a Marine Corps Officer was. He kicked our ass and made sure we never ran out of rounds and salad.
A true leader....seriously.
"An army marches on its stomach" - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Can never get enough chili-mac
Im making chili Mac to nite
Hell yeah.
Hands down, best MRE...
chuckwagon stew
That chilli-mac was good. It's the only chow hall food I truly remember being good other than those morning omelets.
Man, these military chow hall videos have been coming in non-stop and I just remembered Taco Tuesdays. The chow hall was always packed on Taco Tuesdays.
MCAS Iwakuni. Served there in 1982-83.
I remember taking the train all over the country.
Kintai, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka.
Used to love the old Soba Shop, and running along the sea wall.
Good duty.
Semper Fi.
Spent 13 years in the British Army, only time I ever ate like a King was when I was based on a Royal Air Force base for two years. They had the most perfect food ever! Steak on the menu every single night. Army chow was hit and miss. Funny enough, I was in West Berlin in the 80s and spent the day at (I think) McNair (?) Barracks. US Army (armoured) and the food at lunch time was superb! Oh, and the ops rations, we had so-called 'rat packs' and the US had MREs, superior to our rat packs. If I had my time again, I'd have emigrated to the US in the early 80s and enlisted into the US Forces.
Come visit soon
I wouldn't call it perfect. You must have been on a small RAF station, we don't usually call them bases as such. The only time I had decent food was when I was staff after basic training, the other bases the food was crap. I was also at one base that did not do night scam for people doing gate guard which was disgusting to say the least. You had to wake up hours before your shift just to get fed.
Yeah long time since I ate in a mess hall and really good chow.
My second day of Army Basic training at Ft. Dix NJ. Sep 1981, for dinner we had T-bone steaks and lobster tails. Basic Training sucked, but breakfast and dinner was great.
@Old man Goat
That's part of the deal. Taxpayers give you bennies. You put your ass on the line if the government needs you to.
Nice to meet you
I was working in Japan to maintain CH46E 30 years ago.
I went drinking occasionally with Marine Corps pilots and soldiers
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All I can remember are the breaded 'veal cutlets' served as veal parmesan. They were called elephant scabs. Oh, the powdered eggs were not so good either. Kadena had a great chow hall.
God bless those cooks! They are the heroes behind the scenes for sure!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
some dude that’s because the marines budget for food is far less then other branches. Air Force gets the best food
@some dude healthy*
Son in Afghanistan. Hope he’s getting something good to eat. He loves fish, veg. and salad.
MAKE SURE HE DOESN'T COME BACK TO BE A DIRTY COP BUT A GOOD ONE.
IF HE'S GOING TO BE A POLICE OFFICER.
Bill Frankison Kind of an odd statement, but ok.
@@billfrankison1460 ok? That was unnecessary
When everyone’s in quarantine so your getting fresh comments in a year old vid
I know the cooks in my regiment, 5th Marines, worked long hours and crazy schedules. In my opinion, the hardest job in the corps. Hats off to them all.
Yeah… Way harder than being a grunt.
Yep! I wouldn't want to do it😮
The only difference that I see from 1990 and 2019 military chow halls is that they seem to use more 'labelled' ingredients in the mess. I remember silver cans with numbers back when I served.
I’m an Air Force brat and served for 10 years. I can remember the products on the Commissary like the big white cans of coffee that just said COFFEE on it. My favorite was the plane white pack of cigs that just said “Cigarettes 100s”. The memories. Think I’ll get me some “Frankfurter, Beef”
Same. Camp Hansen in 88 was a far cry from this video. Only marines were in the chow hall.
@@McPh1741 : Yep, Army had OD cans with a msn # and "Coffee, Ground" on the label. Smokes were labeled Filter, Non-filter, or 100s.
I was the secretary (could type 60 wpm) for the EM and Food Service commitie whitch met regularly to improve food at HQ 1st COSCOM Fort Bragg. We instituted special food service times for minority groups. We had Mexican and Southern US food. First time I ever consumed burritos and collared greens. It was to say the least an interesting job helping to get this on. I sent up all the requests on paper and never forwarded any complaints for which the mess sargent was eternally grateful.
God bless these men and women
I was a mess specialist in the US Navy, 1991-1995. 2 years in Sasebo Japan. USS Saint Louis, USS Germantown.
As a Navy Mess Specialist, did you mop the deck, wash pots pans, and take out trash? That was Mess Duty in Marine Corps back in 1974, it sucked.
My Gentle Pitt Bull mess specialist is the navy name for cook. I think they’ve changed it to culinary specialist now
Marine on USS Paul Revere/also on USS Ogdon
I recently started learning the history of the United States Marine Corps.
This is because when I was 20 I was working on a CH46E helicopter at a Japanese company called NIPPI.
I have met a lot of U.S. Marine pilots and soldiers
Everyone was excellent and kind.
In Japan, only the current U.S. Marines are reported, not until they learned that they were actually established hundreds of years ago.
I will continue to learn. Thank you very much.
Being a cook in the military probably translates quite nicely to the civilian sector. Tons of food industry jobs out there. Managing catering and things like that. Probably make decent money too.
Respect to these boys for keeping the Roman Legions well fed.
God bless & to each his own!
+antikoerper256 Does God bless Rome? Has good become evil, and evil become good? I have no respect for romE, but to capitalize the last character of it's name, because it's end shall be greater than it's beginning, and what a mighty fall it shall be, when Christ returns to put wickedness where it belongs, along with those whom love to eat from it's branches! I do not submit to the United Nations brood of devil worshipers! Nor do I bow down to your devil, accept it's image, name, or marks!
@@haroldmcbroom7807 k
@Harold McBroom That didn't make any fucking sense.
@@haroldmcbroom7807 jewbot90000000
@@haroldmcbroom7807: Need to lay off the drugs, son.
Pasta looks amazing
57 people (so far) are somehow angered or disappointed in some way by military people eating potatoes and chilli pasta. 'Food anger issues' is a concept I had never thought of hmmm.
This is in Iwakuni. I know because i eat at the galley here practically everyday. BRING BACK THE STROGANOFF
Looks good. Food is a big deal in the military. Hats off to those military members who specialize in it. Best chow I had was at Al Asad airbase in Iraq...2003-04 Army chow... I was aircrew and we would request to go plates every time we went there. They had the best food in Iraq or Kuwait.
When we wanted to eat good we'd drive over to kadena.
hernandez carlos same here. I was at Camp Hansen. The only decent meals were omelets for Sunday brunch.
Did the same thing back in 79-80, from camp foster.
God bless America❤️✌🏻
The soldiers at the back preparing endless meals for the front soldiers facing enemies are equally important in exercising the country's defense lines...
The marines in Japan are raping schoolgirls, not "facing enemies"
Marines in WW2 had to feed rice with maggots (classified as 'protein' or 'meat') to the devil dogs fighting and dying in the pacific. And that's only IF they had a mess unit with them. Hey, God bless and God speed...these marines deserve the best. The previous generation paid the price, let them eat banquette...but I would recommend, as every bite, the bitter taste that was paid previously. My humble recommendation. Bon Appetit' And YES..I AM a combat veteran...
Ate at that Chow Hall on Det there in VC-5. It was good chow.
Toughest job in the Corp outside of Drill Instructor. Semper Fi.
It looks like they have improved quite a lot since 1970.
The last time I ate in the Messhall in Iwakuni was in 1988. The Squadron Duty SNCO were required to eat one meal and log the results. I don't recall ever having a bad meal there.
I was stationed at MCAS Iwakuni 1988-89. Had mess duty while I was there. I miss that base. I wonder if the Soba guy still drives his little truck around the base selling noodles.
The Marines take care of their own always good old American food in this country and overseas
Not healthy though.... Marines should try local Okinawan food.
🤦🏽♂️ basic mind set ...I rather eat Japanese food than that
Koichi Nishi Okinawan food isn’t very good. Mainland Japan food is much better.
American food is a combination of food from all over the world - not just bland meat and ptoatoes
Loved Navy chow, " take all you want, eat all you take"! First time I had lobster was in a Navy mess.
If this was an Okinawa chow hall, there would be mountains of rice every meal
You know they eating good when the cameras come
Shit, look at those NICE uniforms; we either worked in Mess whites, or cammies!
Commandant must have a heart . nothing like that in the grunts in ' 75 .
Howard Wayne lol try in the 60's 😢
Is it free?
Looks delicious. Hmm yummy.
No you have a meal card or you pay with cash
technically its deducted out of pay
@@nathana.4752 subsidised? Average cost of a meal?
@@tacobell6826 depends on what is served, prices vary. But, meal card holders are allotted one entré, one side, one serving of vegetables, chips, and 1 drink.
@@nathana.4752 Give me an idea. $2? $5?
For military food that looks better than school food
Looks like the school lunch we had when i was young. Every lunch was prepared same day. Sugar was banned except for a few meals and in some desserts.
I can't turn down a good bowl of chilli mac. 😁
our mess in Iwakuni was a rat trap, fat Gunnies and Mst Gunnies running around dipping into food with their fingers and constantly running out of chow. the snuff line was spoiled hamburgers, and moldy fish sandwiches. forget about condiments or napkins.74-75
Nicely done. Much better than when Sodex Ho took over. I remember the Cooks in Garrison making pretty decent chow! Of course, that was over 20 years ago. SF
When I was stationed in Iwakuni Japan, the chow hall served the best food I ever ate in the 20 years I spent in the Marines. This was in the mid 90s. The chow hall in Kaneohe Bay (Wing Side) was the exact opposite. Worst food ever.
HAHA, I didn't even know there was a different chow hall on Kaneohe Bay. Stationed there from 01-04.
I was there in 02, and never knew there was another chow hall either. The main chow hall was nice, and had good food.
As I recall the food was not that bad actually. Most important: Never heard ( or personally experienced) of any cases of food poisoning, and the quantity was not bad either. At times eating at the same place could get boring, but never really had a “bad meal”. V/R JRP
How many meals are you allowed to eat?
These US Marines still eat authentic Japanese dishes with strict Japanese standards and cultural practices, do they?
Wow the food looks great. Is the mess food always like this or was this one just for the cameras?
shityyy that looks good.!!!
I remember when cooks covered up weevils in the oatmeal by adding raisins. Glad things have changed. But i still use those SS mess trays at picnics.
Were the crayons at ?????
Just looking at that chili-mac and bug juice gives me indigestion all over again....even after 25 years. Semper Fi!
Bon appetite Guys✌🇺🇸
This looks 100 times better than any of the food I ate when I was in the Seabees.
This would be a 5-star restaurant compared to our mess hall..
I can remember the guy working the griddle back in the day just sweating bullets on what he was cooking for you. At breakfast he yell at you "Eggs" meaning how you wanted them...it didn't matter what you said on how you wanted them they ended up scrambled anyway. Lurch Bco 34 SIG BN.
Why no salmon sashimi with wasabe ? What about california rolls ?
Perhaps, you guys can prepare the following :-
1) pork trotters cooked with vinegar
2) plain rice
3) chicken curry with potatoes
4) deer meat cook with black pepper sauce and ginger
5) broccoli, cauliflower with black mushroom cooked with corn starch + garlic + onion
6) celery, carrot with corn - stir fry with garlic and onions
7) grilled stingray with lemongrass
8) lemon chicken
9) large prawns (shells removed) with nestum
10) egg + parsley omelette
11) chicken feet (in slices) with sliced mangoes + sliced carrots with lemon/lime sauce
Drinks
1) cold lemongrass with some sugar
2) barley with rock sugar
Desserts
1) honeydew sago
The best chow hall was at Kadena AFB! Steak and lobster on Sunday!
dflesher65 I agree with you there. I spent a week at kadena waiting to go back to conus.
The Marine Chow was so-so!
dflesher65 it was terrible at the 3/9 messhall. Our food was bad.
Was the 3/9 chow hall in Camp Hansen?
dflesher65 Yes. Before the Vietnam war camp Hansen was the home of the 9th Marine regiment. The 3rd was at camp Schwab and the 4th Marine Brigade was at Kaneohe, Hawaii.. the battalions of the 9th and 3rd regiments provided a floating battalion that would react to conflicts in the Far East. They would board ships and go to places like Hong Kong, subic bay in the Philippines, and japan. We went to the foothills of mt Fuji at north camp for training.
Guess things have changed from the 1960’s, where are the trays, eating on dishes is what we always accuse the Air Force of .
Kevin Trelease oh I c. This is somehow a dig at the state of the marine corps today compared to when you went through? And that somehow you are a better marine because you didn't have trays in the chow hall line?
Dave was meant in jest, chill out
The cooks delivered the most important ammunition FOOD a well fed Marine is a Highly effective Marine
Spent 2 plus years between camp foster and the old hospital on lester and all around Oki from 09-2011. 8404 fmf devil doc. Kill. Even went back in '12 on the 31st meu with 2/7. Rah
my uncle told me stories about the chow hall in the army and coast gaurd, he said they would all get up 4 in the morning on cooking duty and you basically stood there half awake flipping bacon for 2 hours…. the millitary rlly is smth else 😅😅
June 68 in Paris Island we ate Duck we ducked in the mess hall an ducked out Alpha 1/9 Marines in the A Shau valley PH by feb 69 0331
Good vedio 👌👍👌👍👍😋😋😃😃
When I was in the Army we were glad that we got to eat
chow certainly has improved since i was in 75 to 79 what i remember from japan (the rock)
was if the creamed beef was good the cooks had no party. if the creamed beef was off then the
cooks partied ( party would consist of the cooks grabbing as much fruit punch as they could
and everyone would buy a 5th of whatever i mean jack Daniels, southern comfort crown royal
you name it and dump it in the barrel of punch now called Mojo
One time when I was a E3 in the Army. I had to go to Ft. Irwin for training. Our Airplane had engine trouble and we had to land on a Air Force base. We went to chow and it was the best food I ever had. When I got done eating. My squad and I got up to take our tray of food to clean it and stack it away. A one star General looks at me and said. “ You stupid fucks. We have civilians who pick up your trays.
The mess hall in Iwakuni Japan in 1969 was ..... better than eating Spam!!
My son did 4 yrs Army and 9 months Afghanistan and said he never seen meals like this. Dull,bland and no seasoning. We sent care packages because he said their food was tasteless. The meat taste like cardboard and veggies tasted rotten
😋 looks delicious 🤤
This makes me hungry
Chill Mac!
Good looking chow, Mess Hall and Kitchen very clean 👌 👍.
Same Shit Different Country lol. I don’t miss soul food day in the military 🤢🤮
I worked in the chow hall at camp schwab, the worst experience in the marines.
Would be "good to know" what they make regularly....menu-wise.
Is it all you can eat or is there portion control?
Portion control
take all you want, eat all you take
@@marinegrunt6633 Same rule at Lackland AFB in the sixties. I was always hungry though worried I couldn't clean my plate.
They did absolutely nothing but play around with the food and make it look like a bowl of slop
johnathon kyle
a time to wait a while
angeliques smile
I love marine♡
Galley food is trash. Only good mess halls i ever ate at were Air Force mess halls
Chili mac!
Camp Smith Hawaii 1984-1988. One choice of entree, couple sides with Veggies. Also had leftovers from day before. Want 2nd’s ? Peanut butter and jelly and bread and butter at the end of the line. We always at at Hickman Air Base, two to three choices, plus good leftovers, and seconds. Plus beer sold all nite at the air terminal.
Cooks thks troops thks
Beef-a-Roni.... kinda like Sloppy Joe... iconic and universally beloved comfort food. Good to see they are actually preparing real food and not feeding our Heroes a bunch of highly processed junk. God bless and keep them. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Marine Air Wings have the best chow halls.
OOH RAH there Pat. When I was stationed at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station, Grunt Division LOL. We would walk over to the air wing side and eat there. Food was much better and they had salt and pepper right on the table. LOL and you ate off plates.
I dunno. I was at El Toro. The food was okay, but nothing worth mentioning. However, we did get served rabbit once. Not bad.
Ok, this officially takes me back. iwakuni Japan, 1987.... Sill had the f-4 there when I was first deployed. I wonder if they still have the ammo rails that were used for long removed AA guns,, Only thing I didn't like about being there, is my Barracks was on the N end of the base, and the F-4 would take off from North to South not far from me.
Oh, and MWSS 171, just for the record.
I was stationed at the Marine Air Base on Okinawa for 13 months and the chow wasn't bad.
Imagination: I’m gonna do some badass stuff as a marine.
Reality: KP duty.
Never had the honor of eating your mess, but damn you guys make great chow for troops out there training every day.
Better then Chinese military food byfar.
My Uncle visited Fort Campbell in the 1980s and he ate in the Enlisted Dining hall and he said that was the best food he ever ate. He told the cooks that and he was surprised by a snack that was given to him: two fully dressed cheese burgers with fries and a Coke. No wonder why the President eats good with military cooks.
I was USAF. Ate in all branches mess halls. Food was always good no matter who made it. Vietnam of course was another story. Lots of powdered eggs for breakfast or there was always plenty of C- Rations. We still ate better then the average Bear.
wtf is this Gerber food? oooh nvm i see chicken yay
Mmmm. Never had a bad meal in any branch chow hall. The best part was that there was always an E-7 who was in charge of that chow hall. If you had a complaint about the chow being served, he was "always" willing to hear your complaint. Lol...