How US Army Cooks Handle Crazy Rush Time in Tiny Field Kitchen

In this video they talk about Army field kitchens, but when I went into the Army in 1975,the field equipment was my responsibility from the Buffalo, which was 300 gallons of water, hauled by a dues and a haif,fire units with korasene,cabinets,with cradels,mermite containers,poratable freezer box,tents ,and cots,and we sent up camp in the forest,back then we had c-rations,and a portable latern,but sometimes we had fresh meat,chickens, pork,eggs,from Garrison and our job was to make food for the out lining troops as well as for our troops as we feed the whole company some 250 people men and women all in fatigues. But I had everything under control in the cabinets you could do anything that we had in the mess hall and controlling the fire unit's were very easy too regulate. And I didn't care how many people we had to feed,as long as they were happy and content, and after the maneuver was over we went back to Garrison to clean up all the mess gear,and wait for the next time we had to go back to the field and when it came to the IG,I made sure all equipment was operational, if not tag it,and write piece on order.And we passed with flying colors as was part of my duties.

i believe it was Napolean that said an army marches on its stomach. there are few things that can improve morale than a hot, hearty meal.

I've never seen the Air Force set up a field kitchen, much less eat from one!

WHY I love your videos so much is they always offer much more than the original content has stated. They are so astoundingly thorough too. I've learned so much and am getting better at remembering as there is so much to learn.

Love these Army and Air Force culinary professionals 👍

I'll have to say, I got hungry just watching this video 😂

The unsunf heroes to folks in the field. Nothing cheers a soldier up walking in from a tiring day in the dirt than seeing a culinary specialist cooking a batch of hot eats. Fills the stomach, warms the spirits, fires up the morale. And if the field kitchen is up, that means things are under control and looking decent.

My brother started a s cook ( cross trained in the medical and Security Forces) in the Airforce 30 years ago now he is an E-9 in charge of all the enlisted medical personnel in the eastern part of the US.

You would think they would be taught the proper way of using a knife for slicing.

Admirável organização, muito profissional.

When I was in the Marine Corps, I was stationed at Ft. Lee for a few months back in 1985. The Marine Corps mess hall was best on base at that time.

I was a U.S. Army, Military Police . When we had to go to the field , we called it hot slop! The last night , of the operation , we were great full to trailer Cooks . They worked their butts off ! Always great steak dinner ! I don't know how they did it!

It’s called boil a bag

That's the U.S. Air Force in the first segment .

That spaghetti looked cook to hell and like spackle. Who is training these cooks?

The Air Force eats MREs AND has field kitchens? They don't don't hire out catering services anymore?

Impressive .

I'm not sure how many cooks are there in a team in a field kitchen, but I remember a standard team can prepare a meal that can feed up to 1000 people, roughly a battalion size.

All American food is contaminated with harmful chemicals and other substances. The question now is whether it is the same for the soldiers what they get to eat there, it would be really interesting to know whether these foods are different.

When I was in during the 70s, the best we could expect from a "field kitchen" was that they would heat up a trash can of water so that we could thaw out our frozen C-Rations. We moved around too much for them to actually have time to cook anything. Not that it would have been any good if they did. Only privates and poor specialists like me who were still living in the barracks to save money ate at the mess hall, which in my unit's case was an old, roach-infested, WWII-era building. The NCOs and officers all ate at the clubs or had their wives cook food for them. Even my unit's mess hall sergeant didn't actually eat mess hall food. I will have to say that the mess hall at Ft. Sam during my AIT was great though. Nothing ensures good meals like having a bunch of officers eating at the same mess hall as the medic trainees.