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Posted: 12/31/2005 6:39:07 AM EDT
[#1]
and I remember when breakfast was $.75 in 1984............... still a bargain now though..... Ummm SOS.......
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Posted: 12/31/2005 9:53:04 AM EDT
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And it really isn't that bad. I eat with my troops at least once a week during the lunch meal at the DFAC.
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Posted: 12/31/2005 11:41:29 AM EDT
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Last time I was on Head Count, about 1992, I believe breakfast was $.90 and lunch/dinner was $1.10.
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Posted: 12/31/2005 12:45:12 PM EDT
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Was that price the last time I was on headcount too.... |
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Posted: 12/31/2005 1:24:34 PM EDT
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Shit, last time I did headcount was like 92 at the Fort McNair chow hall in DC. You guys are making me nostalgic. 
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Posted: 12/31/2005 1:32:34 PM EDT
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This was the 4th BDE chow hall, Katterbach, Germany. What got me was how the chow hall always gave you a cash box with no change....some guys would get pissed if they didn't get their dime change back at breakfast! 
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Posted: 1/2/2006 12:57:56 AM EDT
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That's what I recall back in the early 90's...but now it's free...and still just as bad, LOL. |
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Posted: 1/2/2006 6:23:44 AM EDT
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Does that mean Seperate Rats is gonna go up too?
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Posted: 1/3/2006 1:18:07 PM EDT
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Looks like it's going up about .30 cents a meal. If I remember correctly, breakfast was $1.60 and lunch/dinner was $3.25. Schofield Barracks, March '05. Pretty good deal for breakfast though - I always appreciated Army DFAC breakfasts. Usually made to order, good selections, and good "comfort food" - an omelet made in Georgia tastes just like one made in South Carolina, or Arizona, or Hawaii, or Bosnia, or Afghanistan etc..... |
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Posted: 1/3/2006 9:43:20 PM EDT
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2 pieces of toast, 2 eggs, and cover it with SOS. That will carry you till dinner.
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Posted: 1/3/2006 11:00:21 PM EDT
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Still the best damn deal going for the money... I am always amazed at the number of troops I see purchasing "breakfast" from the shoppette at 3 times the price when they can hit the chowhall a block farther down the street... |
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Posted: 1/4/2006 6:23:24 AM EDT
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Or even worse, when it's free. I know I'm a cheap bastard, but lunch has to be pretty bad to not be worth nothing. |
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Posted: 1/4/2006 6:32:42 AM EDT
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Breakfast was always one of my favorite meals at the chow hall, but eating there every day can get boring. In my barracks room my buddy and I had a fridge, a two burner hot plate and a coffee pot. We would go shopping together at the Commissary and keep a good supply of food in our room. We would take turns cooking meals that we missed from home, my buddy loved my homemade beef & bean burritos! The whole barracks would get hungry as they passed our room! It was not an uncommon sight to see us doing dishes in the latrine sinks! |
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Posted: 1/4/2006 4:01:58 PM EDT
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God I feel Old they make you Pay for meals now! I guess I really am an Old Fart!
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Posted: 1/4/2006 8:28:51 PM EDT
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I can't remember the prices I charged when I had Head Count!
For the Cherry's around here: Officers and EM's on Sep Rat's had to pay. Everybody else had to sign their name on a long form whenever they ate. 
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Posted: 1/5/2006 12:07:11 AM EDT
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Yep, with one of these! 
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Posted: 1/6/2006 1:21:52 PM EDT
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No, you have your prices all wrong. You have been out of the loop for awhile. Them prices you've quoted are a bit dated by about 2 years. |
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Posted: 1/8/2006 8:32:20 AM EDT
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I remember $0.90 for breakfast circa 1992/93.
Damn..that was some fine eating right there!
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Posted: 1/8/2006 8:33:54 AM EDT
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Wouldn't that be nice? |
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Posted: 1/9/2006 7:06:38 PM EDT
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I wish they would bump up BAS. We don't have our own chow hall to eat and all I have is a bloody microwave and a small fridge in my hotel "barracks" room. Bah..
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Posted: 1/11/2006 4:50:48 PM EDT
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They charge for meals now?
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Posted: 1/11/2006 9:03:13 PM EDT
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What now? I remember paying for meals in '64. 
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Posted: 1/11/2006 9:14:29 PM EDT
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I am impressed that anyone could remember the cost of chow. I'm even more impressed that someone kept his chow card.
I only have my pink ID and a de-commissioned security badge. I should scan them before they get lost. |
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Posted: 1/11/2006 9:27:16 PM EDT
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Like I said; EM's got their meals free; Officers and EM's on Seperate Rations had to pay. AND Civilians who ate as guests ALSO had to pay. I remember on Graduation Day in Basic watching some Aunts and Uncles having to pay to eat that one meal in the Mess Hall. I was shocked that they had to pay.
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Posted: 1/11/2006 11:02:46 PM EDT
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I'm a civilian but I don't pay for meals, mess is authorized under contract :)
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Posted: 1/12/2006 4:28:08 AM EDT
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Not my Meal Card, I pulled that pic off the web. I am sort of a sentimental guy, but hanging on to my Meal Card from 20+ years ago never came to mind back then! 
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Posted: 1/12/2006 7:21:56 AM EDT
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I never paid for a meal. Well not that I remember anyways. Just show the card, give last name and last 4 and go eat. I do ot recal any pay deductions.
Maybe because it was overseas? I was stationed in Italy for a while and we didnt have to pay for meals unless you wanted to go to BK. |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 7:38:26 AM EDT
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Yea, that’s how it worked for folks in the barracks with a meal card, and as far as I know that was SOP anywhere. Show Meal Card to Head Count, Head Count took down the number and the soldier signed. Personnel on Separate Rats paid and signed.  Quib “Scouts-Out!” |
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Posted: 1/12/2006 7:48:23 AM EDT
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Thanks for the info. I never got to experience life outside barracks life. |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 3:49:53 AM EDT
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Actually, it does.. "BAS" AKA seperate Rats is the exact same amount that it would cost someone to eat in the mess hall 3 times a day for the month. |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 4:02:14 AM EDT
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BAS and Separate Rations (Commuted Rations) are two separate things. Officers received BAS (Basic Allowance for Subsistence) which is tied to the cost of feeding a horse, hence being about 2/3 of commuted ration. While Commuted Rations are tied to the meal cost of in the chow hall. |
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