{"id":145572,"date":"2023-08-10T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145572"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:11:56","slug":"ft-cavazos-hood-mess-hall-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145572","title":{"rendered":"Ft. Cavazos (Hood) mess hall woes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mess Hall Fort Leonard Wood, MO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Military.com reports that soldiers on Ft. Hood<\/del> Cavazos are having a tough time getting fed. Yeah, fed.<\/p>\n

The situation at Fort Cavazos, Texas — previously known as Fort Hood — has left some junior enlisted with few options for meals, as top officials on base struggle to juggle logistics while most of its cooks are on deployments, missions or serving field training and other events.<\/p>\n

The base had only two of its 10 major dining options open every day for much of the summer, with three others open only during limited times. The closures forced many soldiers to drive long distances across base, sometimes an hour round trip for their meals.<\/p>\n

But not all junior soldiers have vehicles, and the base provides only a limited shuttle service, with none dedicated to dining facilities. The service is so limited that some service members interviewed by Military.com didn’t even know it exists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to report some facilities are closed, some open only for some meals – one had a sign which said “Closed for Dinner” – you live in Texas, you’d better define whether you mean dinner (in Texas served at mid-day) or dinner (many places interchangeable with supper, a sundownish meal.)\u00a0 Then we get to the meat of the matter:<\/p>\n

At the heart of the issue is the dining facilities not having enough Army cooks to run them. A rotation to the National Training Center, or NTC, and support for a cadet training exercise at Fort Knox, Kentucky, took many cooks off base.<\/p>\n

Dining facilities have been a key focus in the Army’s discussions on boosting the quality of life for soldiers.<\/p>\n

That has included access to healthier foods and staffing those facilities with civilians so Army cooks can focus on feeding troops in the field.<\/p>\n

However, the service has made no notable progress on those efforts.<\/p>\n

Army officials are eyeing allowing soldiers to use their meal cards at non-military restaurants on base, such as Panera and Qdoba, an idea that is currently being piloted at Fort Drum, New York.\u00a0 Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“and support for a cadet training exercise at Fort Knox” – <\/em>we just wrote about that recently, that the kay-dets were also bitching about not getting fed. So where are the damn cooks and food actually going?<\/p>\n

This is a rampant leadership fail at so many levels – the Pentagon, the Army, the post – all are showing themselves to be inept and bluntly, not giving a shit about the troops at any level. Remember when leaders, enlisted and officers, only ate AFTER all their men were fed? How about “an Army travels on its stomach”, an expression so old they aren’t even sure if it predates Napoleon or Frederick the Great.<\/p>\n

Maybe some of that base renaming money should be spent on basics, like three squares a day?<\/p>\n

This really is inexcusable. At least in an older army they may have had the excuse of a shooting war. This? Lot of folks in the chain of command should be out of a job and some money about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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