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    Quote Originally Posted by Bilgerat View Post
    We had cod fish cakes when money got tight

    Since I worked some times on the boats, cod was easy to come by

    Mix up left over fish with mash and onions, fry it up nice and brown.
    Ha! Go to the foods you don't like thread and look at my first choice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    We ate at the chow hall/Airman's Club on Iraklion AFB, Crete. It was a tiny base. The NCO Club was down at the beach. The Airman's Club was basically open to everyone because there were no restaurants. You ate at home, the snack bar or one of the clubs. The Airman's Club there WAS the chow hall.

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    I heard a lot of GI's from other branches that ate in AF chow halls comment that the AF had the best food they'd ever ate on base. I don't know how I did it but I'd eat a huge breakfast with seconds, lunch, dinner and midnight chow at the Flight Kitchen when I lived on base and never gained a pound. Must have had some ass kickin' metabolism going on when I was 24-25 years old, and I'm talkin' two cheese burgers with all the topings, lettuce, tomato, cheese, mayo, and fries on the side from the Flight Kitchen. I think midnight chow started at the back window on the chow hall at like 10:00PM. I worked a lot of swing shifts at Nellis AFB so I relied on that.

    I'll tell ya... I MISS the Air Force, and I regret not pushing harder to life it now, instead of letting them shuffle me into some dead end job after I got medically taken off the flight line. I couldn't have cared a shit less if I'd have been sent into action, that WAS why I was there. I would have LOVED to have seen my F-16s in action. If I got killed, oh well, gotta die sometime. There was just something about the military that REALLY appealed to me, the regimentation, the security, the brotherhood, the uniform... IDK... maybe all that together... I miss it... some of the best times of my life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    I heard a lot of GI's from other branches that ate in AF chow halls comment that the AF had the best food they'd ever ate on base. I don't know how I did it but I'd eat a huge breakfast with seconds, lunch, dinner and midnight chow at the Flight Kitchen when I lived on base and never gained a pound. Must have had some ass kickin' metabolism going on when I was 24-25 years old, and I'm talkin' two cheese burgers with all the topings, lettuce, tomato, cheese, mayo, and fries on the side from the Flight Kitchen. I think midnight chow started at the back window on the chow hall at like 10:00PM. I worked a lot of swing shifts at Nellis AFB so I relied on that.

    I'll tell ya... I MISS the Air Force, and I regret not pushing harder to life it now, instead of letting them shuffle me into some dead end job after I got medically taken off the flight line. I couldn't have cared a shit less if I'd have been sent into action, that WAS why I was there. I would have LOVED to have seen my F-16s in action. If I got killed, oh well, gotta die sometime. There was just something about the military that REALLY appealed to me, the regimentation, the security, the brotherhood, the uniform... IDK... maybe all that together... I miss it... some of the best times of my life.


    I think, deep down. No matter what branch all of us were in. We all loved much of it. Otherwise, none of us would have succeeded to the levels we did. I will always miss the navy, even though much of the time was spent away from home for many, many months, and every day was a countdown to GETTING HOME AGAIN.
    The experiences, and the people we shared them with...are what made us VETERANS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aboutime View Post
    I think, deep down. No matter what branch all of us were in. We all loved much of it. Otherwise, none of us would have succeeded to the levels we did. I will always miss the navy, even though much of the time was spent away from home for many, many months, and every day was a countdown to GETTING HOME AGAIN.
    The experiences, and the people we shared them with...are what made us VETERANS.
    We made very good friends in the military. We were all brothers and sisters in arms. The military as a whole definitely is a fellowship, no matter the branch, and our fellow GI's were our family. I spent a lot of Thanksgivings and even Christmas' away from home. I still have several good friends from going on 40 years ago in the Air Force that I'm still in contact with.
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    Still my favorite breakfast:

    SoS on toast with two sunny side up eggs on top. Plenty of coffee.

    As for missing the service, you bet I do. went from being "Sergeant Major" and all that implied to being "Mister" which merely implied I was over 18 years old. Quite the adjustment that is....
    I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CSM View Post
    Still my favorite breakfast:

    SoS on toast with two sunny side up eggs on top. Plenty of coffee.

    As for missing the service, you bet I do. went from being "Sergeant Major" and all that implied to being "Mister" which merely implied I was over 18 years old. Quite the adjustment that is....

    Indeed, when asked for I.D. I always show my Military ID Card.

    I was asked by a young lady if I had a drivers license and I said that it took me 22 plus years to get that card while it only took a half hour to get my license.

    Now I ask you, which card has more value?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bilgerat View Post
    Indeed, when asked for I.D. I always show my Military ID Card.

    I was asked by a young lady if I had a drivers license and I said that it took me 22 plus years to get that card while it only took a half hour to get my license.

    Now I ask you, which card has more value?
    Pretty darn sad when the younguns dont recognize a military ID, especially those carried by us retired guys/gals. They have no clue ,,,,,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bilgerat View Post
    Indeed, when asked for I.D. I always show my Military ID Card.

    I was asked by a young lady if I had a drivers license and I said that it took me 22 plus years to get that card while it only took a half hour to get my license.

    Now I ask you, which card has more value?
    When I changed my license to Oregon, they would not accept a military ID.
    They wanted a birth certificate.

    Shit! Obvious I was born idiots! Refuse a military ID? Idiots!
    I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?

    "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"

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