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<blockquote data-quote="okie362" data-source="post: 3032592" data-attributes="member: 6818"><p>Speaking of military chow, I used to occasionally service one of the mountaintop receiver sites in Korea. As everyone knows the AF doesn't have cooks, we had Mess Sergeants who were responsible for managing the dining facilities. They were responsible for managing the supplies, menus and recipes but not for the actual cooking of the food. That was contracted out to civilians.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, this particular site had only one old Korean man responsible for meals as it was a 6 man site on top of a mountain. Come to find out after my first visit there, he lived onsite with the guys stationed there and was actually a trained chef. On my first visit I went straight to the site and began working on the equipment I was sent there to inspect and repair. After about an hour on-site, I was confronted by this raving lunatic Korean civilian chastising me for not calling ahead to "let him know I would be visiting HIS site." He informed me in no uncertain terms that I and the SGT traveling with me would be eating sandwiches while the permanent staff had lunch because he hadn't prepared for 2 extra people. (On homemade bread of course)</p><p></p><p>It seems he made a daily trek down the mountain to the little village market to get fresh veggies and local ingredients for the day's meals. He refused to serve anything that wasn't of gourmet quality to "HIS GIs on HIS site." From that point forward I always called and gave Mr. Song a 48 hour notice when I had to make repairs to anything on that site and was always treated to a 5 star meal(s) for as long as I had to be there. If an emergency came up and I had to go there short notice, he was the first person I called and then my wife to let her know I would not be coming home that night. I would also make arrangements with our Mess Sergeant to trade phone services etc for steaks or lobsters to take up the mountain to him whenever possible.</p><p></p><p>As for work, due to my career field being that of communications, I interfaced and worked with every branch except the Coast Guard. I can tell you that if the civilian IT community would perform half as well as the men and women I worked with in the military, services in every industry would be much better and the push to get everything offshore to save money would virtually disappear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="okie362, post: 3032592, member: 6818"] Speaking of military chow, I used to occasionally service one of the mountaintop receiver sites in Korea. As everyone knows the AF doesn't have cooks, we had Mess Sergeants who were responsible for managing the dining facilities. They were responsible for managing the supplies, menus and recipes but not for the actual cooking of the food. That was contracted out to civilians. Anyway, this particular site had only one old Korean man responsible for meals as it was a 6 man site on top of a mountain. Come to find out after my first visit there, he lived onsite with the guys stationed there and was actually a trained chef. On my first visit I went straight to the site and began working on the equipment I was sent there to inspect and repair. After about an hour on-site, I was confronted by this raving lunatic Korean civilian chastising me for not calling ahead to "let him know I would be visiting HIS site." He informed me in no uncertain terms that I and the SGT traveling with me would be eating sandwiches while the permanent staff had lunch because he hadn't prepared for 2 extra people. (On homemade bread of course) It seems he made a daily trek down the mountain to the little village market to get fresh veggies and local ingredients for the day's meals. He refused to serve anything that wasn't of gourmet quality to "HIS GIs on HIS site." From that point forward I always called and gave Mr. Song a 48 hour notice when I had to make repairs to anything on that site and was always treated to a 5 star meal(s) for as long as I had to be there. If an emergency came up and I had to go there short notice, he was the first person I called and then my wife to let her know I would not be coming home that night. I would also make arrangements with our Mess Sergeant to trade phone services etc for steaks or lobsters to take up the mountain to him whenever possible. As for work, due to my career field being that of communications, I interfaced and worked with every branch except the Coast Guard. I can tell you that if the civilian IT community would perform half as well as the men and women I worked with in the military, services in every industry would be much better and the push to get everything offshore to save money would virtually disappear. [/QUOTE]
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