I had the opportunity to cover this unique story before they put the ship to rest; the only journalist to cover 'Mealtimes' aboard the USS JFK Aircraft Carrier.
From this Navy Vet 1980 to 84 I was an MS Com7thFleet and USS Coontz DDG 40 (👍 nothing like serving on a tin can👍) Thanks Vets for serving 🇺🇸 Happy 4th and Happy Birthday America 🇺🇸
During Korea, my Dad served in the USN on the Missouri and a number of other smaller vessels. He used to tell me and my brother when we were kids that the USN always fed them real good and the chow was always excellent. He said that chow time was always the highlight of the day and they always looked forward to the meals because the food was excellent.
God Bless those men and women who keep us safe and the culinary specialist who keep them high energy with their incredible chow! Happy Memorial Day to you all!
Imagine walking into a mess hall and being presented with an expensive menu: In 1954, I was a USAF enlisted man, awaiting entry to a cadet clsss, posted to Brunswick NAS in Maine. I got off the train at about midnight, and wandered into the Navy messhall, serving "midrats", a traditional extra meal served to those changing watch at an unpopular hour. And the main dish was boiled lobster. "One or two?" was the only question asked. And then a tub of melted butter. Thereafter, my opinion of USN soared.
I am impressed with the responsible task allotted to Chief Thomas, being somewhere in between 5,700 people and their needs for well prepared good nutritional meals each of 365 days.
Navy is known for good chow. As a Navy brat we always ate Thanksgiving dinner on the base. Used to love those giant stainless steel dispensers of chocolate milk. Much better than anything at home or in school.
@@michaelannrowe This person mentioned food on base, not on board. For the truth about food aboard ships (back in the 70's) I invite you to view my previous comments. Former JFK sailor.
We had no ice cream socials, but a barbecue or two during the Med cruises in 1972-1975. We got the sliced bread in port, but they baked it out at sea. The hot dog and hamburger buns they made was a general purpose bread for hot dogs, sloppy Joes and halved, buttered, spiced, toasted for garlic bread on spaghetti nights. We did have lobster once in a cruise. As we said during march cadence in boot camp, "GI beans and GI gravy, Gee I'm glad I join the Navy!"
I was onboard too... 1972-1975 ... CR Division. i remember a few "steel beach" cookouts on Big John. Remember when we were in Edinburgh, Scotland? 10 Days and a wake up till home and then ordered back into the Med. I was on watch when we got the message and wasn't happy. Talk about an abundance of "Form" Class "E" Messages going out to all our loved one's just saying "I won't be home as planned and have no date on my return". But, I was on watch when the message came in ordering us to outchop and head home. CWO (Communications Watch Officer) threaten us not to say anything to anyone until the CO put the word out. I remember going to breakfast during a chow break and just all smiles and holding back the excitement. We couldn't even tell our reliefs until the CO came over the 1MC and made the announcement. What a cruise...
Yes, I remember that. We knew. The ship was booking for at least a half an hour, vibrating the deck. It was scuttlebutt before reaching Edinburgh. I had beach guard duty there for 18 hours, but got paid for only 12! I didn't mind, we got paid in cash! There was a cartoon outside of my squadron admin that said "Haifa Tours" with an A-6 bombing something. Yom Kippur war. Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Club! Also I was on beach guard at the gate in Edinburgh checking IDs when I was notified by a Scottish cabbie that Agnew had resigned as vice president!
74 thru 77 on the John. Yeah no ice cream social. When first going on board after boot camp got the glorious duty of mess cooking for 90 days and worked in the aft galley. Spent the last 60 days of mess cooking in the butcher shop away from the main galley. Although lots of heavy lifting breaking out the tons of meat and had to wash the blood pans it was good duty and it was real close to the bakery and we got all the goodies we wanted. After that went to my division which was store keeper in S1 and I took care of the cook friends and they took care of me. I never went hungry day or night, in port or out to sea and never stood in chow line.
My father was in the Navy in WW11. He said they ate good. I was in the Army in 1969 bound for Vietnam. We were fed garbage while the Officers ate much better than us. They even had a elevated floor in the messhall in advanced infantry training so they could look down on us peons. As far as I was concerned they were a bunch of inflated charltons. Some proved that when their careless judgment caused the loss of our brothers lives. This will not be forgotten.
What most folks don't know is that most of those great meals served aboard carrier groups are supplied by selected countries from selected Ports. Kenya supplies the excellent chicken,bacon,sausages,milk,fruits,fresh veggies,Tea,coffee to US carrier groups anchored in deep waters kilometres away from the port of Mombasa. Big up Kenya for your great produce!
In other words the US navy exploits a third world country that can't feed its own people to the point where death from starvation is common so its dictator can be rich. Yeah thats really something to brag about right there
@@JS-wp4gs Poor you! I empathize with you,my goodness,the ignorance you exhibit! Kenya is a developed country producing enough food to feed it's people and export to other Nations. The country is a solid democracy and currently being governed by a digital presidency which democratically and constitutionally will be leaving office in year 2022. Cruise ships, foreign navies and US carrier groups all replenish from Kenya through the very modern Port of Mombasa. Sir,I invite you to visit this jewel of a country on your next vacation.
They got an ice cream social for a reporter? 3 doors down filmed a music video on my boat off Portugal and all we got was american peanut butter packets. Still - I love the captain's response "CS1 found ME."
Thanks Michael-Ann I am glad you got the experience of going to sea on the Kennedy when I was aboard she was brand new in 1968, did a shake down and Med cruise you did a great job reporting on the chow brought back good memories.
I have to say it was one of my most memorable experiences. Very special. What was not included here was also experiencing RAS. And it was with a Canadian Ship. Very cool to see. Amazing what you all do. I am grateful for your service.
It looks ok and I fully get how your day can hang on what kind of meal you were going to get if you had a bad day. Repetitive meals became easy to understand if it had been popular because then they would go back to it too often. I worked at the North Pole for months for the Canadian Armed Forces in 1977 at CFS Alert. Now I believe there were full rated cooks on the US carriers,but many of them were lesser qualified and did more menial tasks like opening big cans or making simple dishes on a big scale. In Alert all the cooks were real cooks and were fantastic. I was there in the fall when the sun would go down for months and it was pitch dark 24 hours a day. It is hard to describe exactly what it was like day after day when you never see the sun. Eventually it becomes depressing but work and life had to go on. In a camp of only 250 guys. There was a high number of full cooks to the 250 guys, much more I thought than was needed. They made meals at all the usual times of day and more at different times and all night long too. They had the most unbelievable quality facilities for recreation for the troops and a popular one was the movie theater set up in its own location just like a real one you would go to at home. You would come out after the movie (and they played current movies as well, never learned how they got them) hungry and the mess hall was open 24 hours a day. You could go in and get a steak cooked to order fresh, or an omelet made to your desire, or big cheese burger etc. It was crazy what you could get. The food arrived every week on a Hercules plane that landed on the permafrost runway. Since it was frozen year round a real concrete landing runway was not possible, so the plane had to be robust and those Hercs were the work horse needed for short landings and take offs. When it arrived everyone was excited because it brought all the things needed to pick up your mood. It was so isolated there this was your lifeline to the world. I was just an 18 year old kid working as a grunt in the mess hall and I was sent to help off load. The mail was the first thing distributed to everyone. I would help store all the food. The meals were incredibly good. I always thought military food would be awful after watching Mash and army movies, but it was just the opposite. Being able to walk over to the mess hall in the middle of the night to get a meal made to order fresh was incredible. A sunset carnival was put on when the sun went down for months to help morale and the cooks made this incredible meal by each one differently and had their own station decorated to the theme they created. When the guys were finally allowed into the hall they were pent up with excitement from waiting for weeks for this event. Each cook made the coolest display that had to be edible and reflect what they chose. The fish station had a water fall with salmon jumping in the middle. We all brought cameras and each cook was photographed standing by their station bursting with pride for their hard work. It was not something you would have happen normally as cook in the military. I loved my time up there but as a young single I didn’t have the same concerns that the family guys had. My entire pay check was deposited in my bank account down south. For me money was not needed while working since everything was provided at the camp. They had a real post office and a base exchange called the “PX” where could shop for things that struck your interest. I still have photos I took during my time there. They had these big snow cats on treads you could take anywhere and one time I went with the guys on an excursion to these ice caves. As you walked in there were walls and ceilings of frozen ice that were smooth as glass and multi colored like rainbows. It was a really exciting job for me and in just about 4 months I made enough money to cash buy a car when I got home. At that time the military had a contract with the Eskimos to provide full time work for six of them at a time. They were so little compared to us so I had a couple of pictures taken with them. Some of them made carvings of soap stone depicting their culture and there was a long list of people waiting to have one made from them. I could go on with different stories of this, but that is more than enough for now.
Dear John: Thank you for sharing this journey with me and with all of the people who are adding comments here. Thank you! Some insight from others have not been as passionate, if you will, or reflective as you've shared, but I take my hat off to anyone who serves. We are forever grateful. Interesting enough, when I was shooting this story, I experienced RAS ( refueling at sea) with a Canadian Ship. It not only made for good documentation but was something to see! Who would ever think they could do that? The entire trip down the Hudson to its resting spot, and watching flight deck demonstrations was unforgettable. I do realize not everyone had the food showcased here- after all, it was a tiger cruise- the last time to be aboard before putting the JFK Carrier to rest. I was honored to be able to capture some of what the ship was like and really touched to hear stories, after posting this video. Thank you again. M-A
Cool to see the Captain's quarters. I don't know of any other vid on youtube with that area included. I served on JFK, and other than breakfast and sliders, the food was fairly terrible.
Gear Zen I’ve heard that in regular service, it’s not so glamorous. Given this was a tiger cruise I’m sure things were a little different. Nonetheless thank you. It was a great opportunity to be on board the ship before it was put to rest.
What a great presentation from a lovely host. You should be on television. Believe me, it would be a breath of fresh air for television. 😏 Tony 58-year-old Air Force VET 🇺🇸 And railroad lover 🚂//Toot Toot//
Carrier Crews do eat pretty good. I was on the Constellation CV-64, it was my 3rd Ship. Was on two LHA's prior to that. About 14 years total between the three. I do miss it.
That roast pork had looked too good the way he prepared it. Especially with the potatoes and green beans with the wine and roasted garlic . The cookies chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin the Captains favorite. That Captain is one lucky dude.
A good friend of mine was an ordie (1960s) NAVY Chief, USS Ranger, Hornet, and before those the Indy in the Atlantic; a 14-year Navy man. He told me they invited officers to the Chief's Mess. In fact, he said officers "requested permission" to enter their mess. RIP Norm. We held a memorial for him on the now-docked museum ship USS Hornet in Alameda, CA in 2013.
That's a FACT. I served on board the Kennedy, 88-90, as the CMC's Yeoman. I did my mess duty in the Chief's Mess. At the time, it was the BEST Mess in the US Navy.
Thanks for the video ! I served aboard the USS Ponce LPD-15 from 83 to 87. The food was ok the first week or two at sea, but after the fresh supplies ran out, it was spam, beefy mac, powdered eggs, powdered milk, and bug juice (koolaid) for the most part. Oh, don’t forget the beans and motherfockers ! We had frozen lobster tails a couple times when we were deployed off of Beruit Lebanon. Guess the skipper was trying to buck up moral because we had not been in port for months ! A few times a month we had roast beast (beef ?) which was ok I guess if you chewed it long enough ! 🤣 Navy chow has come a long ways ! Oh, the host is bubbly cute too ! 😉 Fair winds and following seas !
From what I have read and seen the Captain mostly dines with the other senior officers of the ship. They also do unannounced visits to other mess areas to see how the crew feeding service is going. On an aircraft carrier you have some weirdness as some of the aviation part of the ship is made up of people and planes that are just temporary visitors.
@@Joefred77 , It's complicated. You want the senior NCOs, enlisted department heads, etcetera to be doing a lot of the checking and appropriate socializing with the crew. Having senior officers there kind of takes those opportunities away from the senior NCOs. In addition the senior officers like to have officer time where they can discuss issues that don't need to be overheard by enlisted personnel. From what I have read on a lot of ships the food available at any meal for the officers is identical to the food available for the enlisted, it is just served in a separate area. The reason is logistics. A combined food storage area loaded for serving identical meals on each calendar date is easier to manage and budget for. The combat feeding program's group rations have no rank attached to them, only anticipated physical activity level and remoteness from cooking facilities changes the rations. The USAF's flight meals, box/bag combination meals, prepared on the ground in the flight kitchen, are identical for all crew, officer and enlisted. Identically bad or good.
joefred Ramirez well imo , there has to be some perks to the job, just like any other job in the private sector. Or else why hang around in the first place?
Coming from the EU it's really weird that the officers get that much better food. I mean sure they always have some snack- or food benefit, but giving em a private chef? Way to become seperated from your crew. Our officers down in Afghanistan and Chad always ate with the troops, most of the time the same meals.
What a croc! I served aboard 74-78. We never had any of these luxuries. At sea we had chili w/wieners for lunch and warmed up chili w/wieners for dinner. The cooks wore nasty T-shirts and would turn them inside-out when they were dirty enough. The only time we had anything decent to eat was when there was a dignitary onboard that they were trying to impress. Powdered eggs, powdered milk, dehydrated potatoes were the daily norm. Of course this was before women were allowed on ships so I'm sure things changed to accommodate the fairer sex. And sure, as a reporter on board it would seem like a fun cruise. Not so much when you work 12 hours on and 12 off seven days a week with very limited port time. And I lived aboard when we were in port as well, and did side-cleaner work when we were in drydock. Yep, sure was fun. I'm not saying that I wasn't proud to have served. I'm just giving you the real "inside scoop".
@@michaelannrowe I was with the E-2 squadron. I left in Spain to meet the ship when it returned to Norfolk and off load. I was not on any tiger cruise.
90 percent of the chow was potatoes rice beans and gravy and dehydrated eggs. Once in a while you get some chicken or Salisbury steak . Then you couldn’t shit for 3 days.
Of all the Army mess halls I ate at in my 9years in the service the very best food I ever ate was at an Air Force base in West Germany. I’ll be damned if I remember the name but I’m guess it was Ramstein AFB.
Had the pleasure of being invited on board when I was serving on the HMS ANTRIM 1975 MEDITERRANEAN TRIP out of Malta made really welcome returned the favour with spot of navy's neaters and a few cans of beer much to there surprise as there ships are alcohol free happy days
USS John F. Kennedy CVA-67 AIMD Ground Support Equipment Shop ASM-2 1968-70 PLANKOWNER. We had great chow no complaints while I was aboard. Went aboard 51 years ago.
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I served as an ASH-3 in GSE on JFK 1980 to 1982. I never had any complaints about the food, I thought it was ok. Only bad time was when we ran out of milk onboard, the bug juice just doesn't do it for me. I still haven't drank any kool-aid/bug juice since my enlistment..
Does the chef who cooks for the captain wear any gloves for sanitary...he wears his Gold which holds bacteria... NO EXCUSES.... Sanitary or leave the room TY
The Navy feed their troops real good and if you are a Marine you want to be stationed aboard the Navy ships, and submarines. I had the chance to eat some Navy food at the mess hall at Andrews AFB, Maryland, and loved that food so much, even though the Air Force have great food also.
Sidney Mathious All those at Andrews are contract civilians . . . one expects a higher standard ! These guys . . . coming off the street, learning the culinary trade, from the ground UP . . . deserve all the credit, for a job well done !
THE COOK WHO FOUGHT BACK Doris Miller was a navy cook. Because he was black, the navy didn’t allow him to be much else in those days. He certainly wasn’t allowed in a combat role. But fate doesn’t follow rules. Miller, known to most people as Dorie, had enlisted in the navy as a mess attendant in 1939 and earned promotion to cook, third class. On December 7, 1941, the 22-year-old Texan was collecting laundry aboard the battleship West Virginia, moored in Pearl Harbor, when Japanese planes suddenly roared overhead. Several torpedoes and two bombs hit the ship. The deck collapsed and fire and smoke were everywhere. Doris Miller (Arizona Memorial Association Museum)Wounded were everywhere, too, and Miller was ordered to help move them, including Captain Mervyn Bennion, who died soon afterward. After the fallen were evacuated, Miller took it upon himself to join in the defense of the harbor. He found an unmanned but loaded .50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft gun, and though he’d had no gunnery training, began firing it overhead at the buzzing planes. He eventually ran out of ammunition and was ordered to abandon the sinking ship. Miller’s heroics during the Pearl Harbor attack were initially forgotten-until the press got wind of the story. On May 27, 1942, Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, personally pinned Miller with the Navy Cross, the navy’s second-highest honor. Miller was the first black sailor ever to earn the award. In the spring of 1943, Miller found himself serving as a messmate aboard the brand-new aircraft carrier Liscome Bay. The carrier was in the central Pacific on November 24, sending planes to attack Japanese positions in the Gilbert Islands, when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine. Miller’s body was never found, and a year later, he was declared dead. In June 1973, the navy gave this hero of Pearl Harbor another of its rarest honors: it named a new ship the USS Miller. This article originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of America in WWII. Order a copy of this issue now.
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I lived and worked at the last live in logging camp in the lower 48. You want to talk about good food. If it wasn't great the Chef might come up missing. You don't mess with a hungry Logger and stay healthy for long. FYI, it was at Camp Grisdale in Western Washington State
Glad I joined the Air Force. The difference between the air force & the navy is that after work (in the air force) I can go downtown and have a beer and go to any restaurant I like to eat good meal but in the navy you can't have that.
But,you had to spend money to get to that restaurant,then spend money on your meal,we,on the other hand got Triple A Class food onboard the Kennedy,I ought to know . . . Plane Captain HS-11 Dragonslayers (helicopters),U.S.S. John F. Kennedy(CV-67) 1975-1978 👍😁👍
@@beerborn , When your battle group is getting harassed by Soviet or Russian surface and submarine warships in the North Atlantic or North Pacific during winter you don't need to be serving alcoholic beverages to sailors. Alcoholic beverages on top of long fatiguing days is a recipe for disaster.
Wow Dude, did you ever have a meal with the Navy? You must be kidding or very ignorant. Johnboy here. Was sent to the Navy from the CG twice. Not only do you get choices but if you leave a Navy mess and are still hungary then it is your own damm fault!
Joseph Ronzone You want the head of your ship making the correct and sane decisions for your day to day living! Whatever it takes to keep him content and less stressed. Food is powerful. The role he has is not for the week! Give him his very own damn chef and food he likes, if it keeps the ship flowing and in harmony.
Hmm 😮 Filipino Steward or Filipino Mess Management Specialist usually prepared food in the Cabin Mess, Flag Mess and all the way to White House. They're all now retired after serving in the US Navy that started at the turn of the century...👍
I knew I should have joined the Navy.......that chow looks amazing! That being said, GO ARMY with nasty T-rats and A-rats and MRE's...........GOOD TIMES 19K style :)
For all you young guys and gals who are considering joining the Navy, you won't eat like that. We had two types of food on the USS Nimitz, meat and ain't meat. You won't be eating off any plates either. More like a compartmented metal tray, kinda like a human version of a dog dish. Yeah we had steak on the Nimitz, it's called SOS. All kidding aside, considering they had to feed 5200 people every day, the food wasn't really that bad.
Looks just like my daughter. Only this woman is ditzy and goofy as all hell. My girl would be cooking meals and learning how to steer the ship and learning how to launch aircraft. Don't judge blond women. Love you Jessi.
When I was in they were called cooks and they got no respect unless they were working the wardroom or CPO mess. For the rest of the unwashed masses - E-6 and below, it was like oh well, you can eat or starve.
I always liked US Navy cinnamon rolls the best among Army, Navy, and Air Force. For some reason the Navy chefs don't skimp on cinnamon like the Army and Air Force chefs do. Now I wasn't on a ship, but in Naval Air Station mess halls when I got those cinnamon rolls, so maybe out at sea they do skimp on the cinnamon.
My father was in the Navy 1946-1962. The one time he figured out what he was eating, it was liver with bones in it. After that, he didn’t want to know.
From this Navy Vet 1980 to 84 I was an MS Com7thFleet and USS Coontz DDG 40 (👍 nothing like serving on a tin can👍)
Thanks Vets for serving 🇺🇸
Happy 4th and Happy Birthday America 🇺🇸
God save our freedoms they are taking them away from within, communist socialists.
During Korea, my Dad served in the USN on the Missouri and a number of other smaller vessels. He used to tell me and my brother when we were kids that the USN always fed them real good and the chow was always excellent. He said that chow time was always the highlight of the day and they always looked forward to the meals because the food was excellent.
Thank you for sharing. Nice story.
I can totally attest to that! US Navy chow cannot be beaten by anyone. 🇺🇸💪🏻
My favorites on my ship: Steak, nuggets, seafood, and Mexican nights.
God Bless those men and women who keep us safe and the culinary specialist who keep them high energy with their incredible chow! Happy Memorial Day to you all!
Another example of why the American military is the best in the world.
Imagine walking into a mess hall and being presented with an expensive menu: In 1954, I was a USAF enlisted man, awaiting entry to a cadet clsss, posted to Brunswick NAS in Maine. I got off the train at about midnight, and wandered into the Navy messhall, serving "midrats", a traditional extra meal served to those changing watch at an unpopular hour. And the main dish was boiled lobster. "One or two?" was the only question asked. And then a tub of melted butter. Thereafter, my opinion of USN soared.
Wow! That brings back memories. I was aboard the Kennedy from 1980- 1982. BIG JOHN
I am impressed with the responsible task allotted to Chief Thomas, being somewhere in between 5,700 people and their needs for well prepared good nutritional meals each of 365 days.
The captain runs the ship, but the chiefs run the navy.
ENC USN RETIRED.
Retired Corpsman and was VS-22's Corpsman for the 1982 Cruise, really enjoyed my time aboard and miss it to this day.
As a Boy Scout My troop and I once ate supper in the JFK’s Officer’s Wardroom. The chow was excellent!!
nothing but the best for those men & women who keep us safe, and allow us to sleep in peace at night....
Navy is known for good chow. As a Navy brat we always ate Thanksgiving dinner on the base. Used to love those giant stainless steel dispensers of chocolate milk. Much better than anything at home or in school.
Hi Cal. Thanks for sharing. I wonder why the chocolate milk was better on board. A bit nostalgic too I imagine. M-A
@@michaelannrowe This person mentioned food on base, not on board. For the truth about food aboard ships (back in the 70's) I invite you to view my previous comments. Former JFK sailor.
We had no ice cream socials, but a barbecue or two during the Med cruises in 1972-1975. We got the sliced bread in port, but they baked it out at sea. The hot dog and hamburger buns they made was a general purpose bread for hot dogs, sloppy Joes and halved, buttered, spiced, toasted for garlic bread on spaghetti nights. We did have lobster once in a cruise. As we said during march cadence in boot camp, "GI beans and GI gravy, Gee I'm glad I join the Navy!"
I love this. Thank you for sharing all this. Getting hungry :) M-A
I was onboard too... 1972-1975 ... CR Division. i remember a few "steel beach" cookouts on Big John. Remember when we were in Edinburgh, Scotland? 10 Days and a wake up till home and then ordered back into the Med. I was on watch when we got the message and wasn't happy. Talk about an abundance of "Form" Class "E" Messages going out to all our loved one's just saying "I won't be home as planned and have no date on my return". But, I was on watch when the message came in ordering us to outchop and head home. CWO (Communications Watch Officer) threaten us not to say anything to anyone until the CO put the word out. I remember going to breakfast during a chow break and just all smiles and holding back the excitement. We couldn't even tell our reliefs until the CO came over the 1MC and made the announcement. What a cruise...
Yes, I remember that. We knew. The ship was booking for at least a half an hour, vibrating the deck. It was scuttlebutt before reaching Edinburgh. I had beach guard duty there for 18 hours, but got paid for only 12! I didn't mind, we got paid in cash! There was a cartoon outside of my squadron admin that said "Haifa Tours" with an A-6 bombing something. Yom Kippur war. Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Club! Also I was on beach guard at the gate in Edinburgh checking IDs when I was notified by a Scottish cabbie that Agnew had resigned as vice president!
74 thru 77 on the John. Yeah no ice cream social. When first going on board after boot camp got the glorious duty of mess cooking for 90 days and worked in the aft galley. Spent the last 60 days of mess cooking in the butcher shop away from the main galley. Although lots of heavy lifting breaking out the tons of meat and had to wash the blood pans it was good duty and it was real close to the bakery and we got all the goodies we wanted. After that went to my division which was store keeper in S1 and I took care of the cook friends and they took care of me. I never went hungry day or night, in port or out to sea and never stood in chow line.
My father was in the Navy in WW11. He said they ate good. I was in the Army in 1969 bound for Vietnam. We were fed garbage while the Officers ate much better than us. They even had a elevated floor in the messhall in advanced infantry training so they could look down on us peons. As far as I was concerned they were a bunch of inflated charltons. Some proved that when their careless judgment caused the loss of our brothers lives. This will not be forgotten.
What most folks don't know is that most of those great meals served aboard carrier groups are supplied by selected countries from selected Ports. Kenya supplies the excellent chicken,bacon,sausages,milk,fruits,fresh veggies,Tea,coffee to US carrier groups anchored in deep waters kilometres away from the port of Mombasa. Big up Kenya for your great produce!
In other words the US navy exploits a third world country that can't feed its own people to the point where death from starvation is common so its dictator can be rich. Yeah thats really something to brag about right there
@@JS-wp4gs Poor you! I empathize with you,my goodness,the ignorance you exhibit! Kenya is a developed country producing enough food to feed it's people and export to other Nations. The country is a solid democracy and currently being governed by a digital presidency which democratically and constitutionally will be leaving office in year 2022. Cruise ships, foreign navies and US carrier groups all replenish from Kenya through the very modern Port of Mombasa. Sir,I invite you to visit this jewel of a country on your next vacation.
@ Ignoramus Wrangler Sheepdog
@ 100% Madam!
@@JS-wp4gs...Apparently idiot , you have never been to Kenya.
We had a first class cook named Royal who was the absolute best cook ever. He did not allow any slop to be cooked for his mess deck.
He wasn't better than Me
Somehow that sounds familiar. What years were you on?
They got an ice cream social for a reporter?
3 doors down filmed a music video on my boat off Portugal and all we got was american peanut butter packets.
Still - I love the captain's response "CS1 found ME."
My late father, USNR (WWII & Korea) always said US Navy has the best chow......& cooks. God bless all of them who serve our country
It was a great exploration before they put the ship to rest. Capturing the food on board was quite interesting for sure. Thanks Colleen!
Yes, your so right Colleen. They put it all in perspective. M-A
Salute and "Thanks" to both our beloved Fathers. Mine served in the Army ('44-'51) in Korea.
Thanks Michael-Ann I am glad you got the experience of going to sea on the Kennedy when I was aboard she was brand new in 1968, did a shake down and Med cruise you did a great job reporting on the chow brought back good memories.
I have to say it was one of my most memorable experiences. Very special. What was not included here was also experiencing RAS. And it was with a Canadian Ship. Very cool to see. Amazing what you all do. I am grateful for your service.
Jim Kerr good fruits pnmnpai boyv Churches gitgirl.
Hi Jim. Thank you!
"With food this good, I can't wait to re-enlist!"
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@@PedalToTheMetal61888 Shit on a shingle is the original name for cream chip beef on toast, fyi.
BULLSHIT
To eat this good, you shouldnt enlist. Earn a commission to eat like this.
Captains Chef. Nice Qtrs.."With Rank, comes privileges!". I remember my Basic Training TI in the USAF telling me that 85-89..
It looks ok and I fully get how your day can hang on what kind of meal you were going to get if you had a bad day. Repetitive meals became easy to understand if it had been popular because then they would go back to it too often. I worked at the North Pole for months for the Canadian Armed Forces in 1977 at CFS Alert. Now I believe there were full rated cooks on the US carriers,but many of them were lesser qualified and did more menial tasks like opening big cans or making simple dishes on a big scale. In Alert all the cooks were real cooks and were fantastic. I was there in the fall when the sun would go down for months and it was pitch dark 24 hours a day. It is hard to describe exactly what it was like day after day when you never see the sun. Eventually it becomes depressing but work and life had to go on. In a camp of only 250 guys. There was a high number of full cooks to the 250 guys, much more I thought than was needed. They made meals at all the usual times of day and more at different times and all night long too. They had the most unbelievable quality facilities for recreation for the troops and a popular one was the movie theater set up in its own location just like a real one you would go to at home. You would come out after the movie (and they played current movies as well, never learned how they got them) hungry and the mess hall was open 24 hours a day. You could go in and get a steak cooked to order fresh, or an omelet made to your desire, or big cheese burger etc. It was crazy what you could get. The food arrived every week on a Hercules plane that landed on the permafrost runway. Since it was frozen year round a real concrete landing runway was not possible, so the plane had to be robust and those Hercs were the work horse needed for short landings and take offs. When it arrived everyone was excited because it brought all the things needed to pick up your mood. It was so isolated there this was your lifeline to the world. I was just an 18 year old kid working as a grunt in the mess hall and I was sent to help off load. The mail was the first thing distributed to everyone. I would help store all the food. The meals were incredibly good. I always thought military food would be awful after watching Mash and army movies, but it was just the opposite. Being able to walk over to the mess hall in the middle of the night to get a meal made to order fresh was incredible. A sunset carnival was put on when the sun went down for months to help morale and the cooks made this incredible meal by each one differently and had their own station decorated to the theme they created. When the guys were finally allowed into the hall they were pent up with excitement from waiting for weeks for this event. Each cook made the coolest display that had to be edible and reflect what they chose. The fish station had a water fall with salmon jumping in the middle. We all brought cameras and each cook was photographed standing by their station bursting with pride for their hard work. It was not something you would have happen normally as cook in the military. I loved my time up there but as a young single I didn’t have the same concerns that the family guys had. My entire pay check was deposited in my bank account down south. For me money was not needed while working since everything was provided at the camp. They had a real post office and a base exchange called the “PX” where could shop for things that struck your interest. I still have photos I took during my time there. They had these big snow cats on treads you could take anywhere and one time I went with the guys on an excursion to these ice caves. As you walked in there were walls and ceilings of frozen ice that were smooth as glass and multi colored like rainbows. It was a really exciting job for me and in just about 4 months I made enough money to cash buy a car when I got home. At that time the military had a contract with the Eskimos to provide full time work for six of them at a time. They were so little compared to us so I had a couple of pictures taken with them. Some of them made carvings of soap stone depicting their culture and there was a long list of people waiting to have one made from them. I could go on with different stories of this, but that is more than enough for now.
Dear John: Thank you for sharing this journey with me and with all of the people who are adding comments here. Thank you! Some insight from others have not been as passionate, if you will, or reflective as you've shared, but I take my hat off to anyone who serves. We are forever grateful. Interesting enough, when I was shooting this story, I experienced RAS ( refueling at sea) with a Canadian Ship. It not only made for good documentation but was something to see! Who would ever think they could do that? The entire trip down the Hudson to its resting spot, and watching flight deck demonstrations was unforgettable. I do realize not everyone had the food showcased here- after all, it was a tiger cruise- the last time to be aboard before putting the JFK Carrier to rest. I was honored to be able to capture some of what the ship was like and really touched to hear stories, after posting this video. Thank you again. M-A
Absolutely fascinating story of your experiences... man... thanks for sharing all of that.
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It’s a well known fact that US Navy chow, whether onboard or onshore, is second to none. 🇺🇸👊🏻💪🏻
A lot of Navy ships have good grub ... it's a morale builder.
Cool to see the Captain's quarters. I don't know of any other vid on youtube with that area included. I served on JFK, and other than breakfast and sliders, the food was fairly terrible.
Gear Zen I’ve heard that in regular service, it’s not so glamorous. Given this was a tiger cruise I’m sure things were a little different. Nonetheless thank you. It was a great opportunity to be on board the ship before it was put to rest.
Michael-Ann Rowe Glad you enjoyed my old home. Despite some hardships, I do have plenty of fond memories.
Gear Zen I’m glad you remember the good ones.
As a RN CPO Caterer my first job was to teach the crew some basic table manners, including how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’!
Cute and fun video!
What a great presentation from a lovely host.
You should be on television. Believe me, it would be a breath of fresh air for television. 😏
Tony
58-year-old Air Force VET 🇺🇸 And railroad lover 🚂//Toot Toot//
Shauntrail Skinner thank you for your kind words. And for your service!
Carrier Crews do eat pretty good. I was on the Constellation CV-64, it was my 3rd Ship. Was on two LHA's prior to that. About 14 years total between the three. I do miss it.
Nice to be the top guy.
That roast pork had looked too good the way he prepared it. Especially with the potatoes and green beans with the
wine and roasted garlic . The cookies chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin the Captains favorite. That Captain is one lucky
dude.
Retired Navy, Chief's mess had the best food and cooks. Officers looked forward to be invited to dine with with us.
A good friend of mine was an ordie (1960s) NAVY Chief, USS Ranger, Hornet, and before those the Indy in the Atlantic; a 14-year Navy man. He told me they invited officers to the Chief's Mess. In fact, he said officers "requested permission" to enter their mess. RIP Norm. We held a memorial for him on the now-docked museum ship USS Hornet in Alameda, CA in 2013.
That's a FACT. I served on board the Kennedy, 88-90, as the CMC's Yeoman. I did my mess duty in the Chief's Mess. At the time, it was the BEST Mess in the US Navy.
@@tabithamartin4092 I did my mess crankin in the chiefs mess too in early 80s, I wonder if they still get tips on payday these days
Pan cake, ohmlet, and soup cracker, ice cream & cookies, french toast
Thanks for the video ! I served aboard the USS Ponce LPD-15 from 83 to 87. The food was ok the first week or two at sea, but after the fresh supplies ran out, it was spam, beefy mac, powdered eggs, powdered milk, and bug juice (koolaid) for the most part. Oh, don’t forget the beans and motherfockers ! We had frozen lobster tails a couple times when we were deployed off of Beruit Lebanon. Guess the skipper was trying to buck up moral because we had not been in port for months ! A few times a month we had roast beast (beef ?) which was ok I guess if you chewed it long enough ! 🤣 Navy chow has come a long ways ! Oh, the host is bubbly cute too ! 😉 Fair winds and following seas !
Thank you for your sacrifice/service! And for sharing your story.
Your complaining about Chili Mac? Everybody else loved it. That's Navy Chow. They can keep the rancid frozen lobster tails.
I really miss the tasty mid-rats, though. 😆
Wgaf
I was aboard Ponce in 2003/2004, chow never improved apparently. LOL
If I were the Captain I would feel guilty not eating with the rest of my crew each day.
From what I have read and seen the Captain mostly dines with the other senior officers of the ship. They also do unannounced visits to other mess areas to see how the crew feeding service is going. On an aircraft carrier you have some weirdness as some of the aviation part of the ship is made up of people and planes that are just temporary visitors.
He should be eating with his crew & eating what they be eating no special treatment here god dam it man people always taking advantage smh......
@@Joefred77 ,
It's complicated. You want the senior NCOs, enlisted department heads, etcetera to be doing a lot of the checking and appropriate socializing with the crew. Having senior officers there kind of takes those opportunities away from the senior NCOs. In addition the senior officers like to have officer time where they can discuss issues that don't need to be overheard by enlisted personnel.
From what I have read on a lot of ships the food available at any meal for the officers is identical to the food available for the enlisted, it is just served in a separate area. The reason is logistics. A combined food storage area loaded for serving identical meals on each calendar date is easier to manage and budget for. The combat feeding program's group rations have no rank attached to them, only anticipated physical activity level and remoteness from cooking facilities changes the rations.
The USAF's flight meals, box/bag combination meals, prepared on the ground in the flight kitchen, are identical for all crew, officer and enlisted. Identically bad or good.
joefred Ramirez well imo , there has to be some perks to the job, just like any other job in the private sector. Or else why hang around in the first place?
was there 81-85. Miss it to this day.
Thank You!
Thanks for serving ..was an MS 80- 84 Com7thFleet and on a tin can USS Coontz DDG40
Good food for the people who will defend America.
God bless!
Give a 'hand salute' to the Captain for me. Culinary has advanced generations, from my time in . . . initially 30 years ago !
It must have Paul. Thank you.
From 'boys & girls' to 'men & women' . . . she's learning ! 🇺🇸
Coming from the EU it's really weird that the officers get that much better food. I mean sure they always have some snack- or food benefit, but giving em a private chef? Way to become seperated from your crew. Our officers down in Afghanistan and Chad always ate with the troops, most of the time the same meals.
then become an officer
What a croc! I served aboard 74-78. We never had any of these luxuries. At sea we had chili w/wieners for lunch and warmed up chili w/wieners for dinner. The cooks wore nasty T-shirts and would turn them inside-out when they were dirty enough. The only time we had anything decent to eat was when there was a dignitary onboard that they were trying to impress. Powdered eggs, powdered milk, dehydrated potatoes were the daily norm. Of course this was before women were allowed on ships so I'm sure things changed to accommodate the fairer sex. And sure, as a reporter on board it would seem like a fun cruise. Not so much when you work 12 hours on and 12 off seven days a week with very limited port time. And I lived aboard when we were in port as well, and did side-cleaner work when we were in drydock. Yep, sure was fun. I'm not saying that I wasn't proud to have served. I'm just giving you the real "inside scoop".
I was on the JFK and the best food for the enlisted was the CPO mess. Was on there from 80-84.
Thank you Daniel! M-A
Michael Ann Rowe, you are welcome. Go Navy!
I was in the CPO Mess on JFK from 76 to 80. Best food by far.
why dont they make more restaurants as aircraft carriers? U.S.S. Olive Garden....lol
I love that idea.
Me Too ! 😍🎩💋
JFK. Just For Khakis. The chow was great in the chief's mess. Did the last cruise for JFK. It was my last cruise too!
Mike. Were you on the Tiger Cruise?
@@michaelannrowe I was with the E-2 squadron. I left in Spain to meet the ship when it returned to Norfolk and off load. I was not on any tiger cruise.
when I was on the kennedy from 70 to end of 72 (part of air-wing VF-14 ) we had pretty good food compare to horror stories I heard from other carriers
On the boat pretty much the same time. I never had a bad meal and if it looked so-so, there was always the speed line forward for hot dogs and stuff
Captains quarters looked a little over the top....
I guess that's how Jackie wanted it...
I love the American chocolate cookies
90 percent of the chow was potatoes rice beans and gravy and dehydrated eggs. Once in a while you get some chicken or Salisbury steak . Then you couldn’t shit for 3 days.
Of all the Army mess halls I ate at in my 9years in the service the very best food I ever ate was at an Air Force base in West Germany. I’ll be damned if I remember the name but I’m guess it was Ramstein AFB.
Do you know what year this was shot? i was aboard from Feb1999 to April 2004
The summer after 911; which would be 2002?
I WAS A FUCKING COOK IN THE NAVY
Good vittles,
Had the pleasure of being invited on board when I was serving on the HMS ANTRIM 1975 MEDITERRANEAN TRIP out of Malta made really welcome returned the favour with spot of navy's neaters and a few cans of beer much to there surprise as there ships are alcohol free happy days
Good to see that the Navy still prefers African American cooks. I guess things take longer to change afterall.
1:26, Santana's reaction. lol
I had a limited career in the NG. Do active army officers, especially Colonels have their own cooks, like this navy captain?
USS John F. Kennedy CVA-67 AIMD Ground Support Equipment Shop ASM-2 1968-70 PLANKOWNER. We had great chow no complaints while I was aboard. Went aboard 51 years ago.
...my next Door Neighbor ...was ...27...years''...on...NAVY...DESTROYER''...asked Why not ...do the WHOLE...30...years...YOU WOULDN""T BELIEVE WHAT HE HAD TO ...say..!!
74-77 Aimd airframes shop, hanger bay
I served as an ASH-3 in GSE on JFK 1980 to 1982. I never had any complaints about the food, I thought it was ok. Only bad time was when we ran out of milk onboard, the bug juice just doesn't do it for me. I still haven't drank any kool-aid/bug juice since my enlistment..
Does the chef who cooks for the captain wear any gloves for sanitary...he wears his Gold which holds bacteria... NO EXCUSES.... Sanitary or leave the room TY
I noticed that
Glad I joined and retired from the air force. I can't deal with ship board life.
The Navy feed their troops real good and if you are a Marine you want to be stationed aboard the Navy ships, and submarines. I had the chance to eat some Navy food at the mess hall at Andrews AFB, Maryland, and loved that food so much, even though the Air Force have great food also.
Sidney Mathious All those at Andrews are contract civilians . . . one expects a higher standard ! These guys . . . coming off the street, learning the culinary trade, from the ground UP . . . deserve all the credit, for a job well done !
Thank you for sharing that Sidney!
Galleries? That's OK, we know what you meant. Damn auto spell check.
I was USMC and aboard ships we usually got rabbit, cornbread and beans. They even served it for breakfast. Never had a good meal aboard ship.
Make it a habit for the kitchen staff to wear mask and gloves. This includes the chief chef, cook etc
It was not a norm 20 years ago, which is what this video is
This must be a really old video or a new Kennedy, the Kennedy I remember was decommissioned sometime ago.
What is the chefs job during battle stations?
THE COOK WHO FOUGHT BACK
Doris Miller was a navy cook. Because he was black, the navy didn’t allow him to be much else in those days. He certainly wasn’t allowed in a combat role. But fate doesn’t follow rules.
Miller, known to most people as Dorie, had enlisted in the navy as a mess attendant in 1939 and earned promotion to cook, third class. On December 7, 1941, the 22-year-old Texan was collecting laundry aboard the battleship West Virginia, moored in Pearl Harbor, when Japanese planes suddenly roared overhead. Several torpedoes and two bombs hit the ship. The deck collapsed and fire and smoke were everywhere.
Doris Miller (Arizona Memorial Association Museum)Wounded were everywhere, too, and Miller was ordered to help move them, including Captain Mervyn Bennion, who died soon afterward. After the fallen were evacuated, Miller took it upon himself to join in the defense of the harbor. He found an unmanned but loaded .50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft gun, and though he’d had no gunnery training, began firing it overhead at the buzzing planes. He eventually ran out of ammunition and was ordered to abandon the sinking ship.
Miller’s heroics during the Pearl Harbor attack were initially forgotten-until the press got wind of the story. On May 27, 1942, Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, personally pinned Miller with the Navy Cross, the navy’s second-highest honor. Miller was the first black sailor ever to earn the award.
In the spring of 1943, Miller found himself serving as a messmate aboard the brand-new aircraft carrier Liscome Bay. The carrier was in the central Pacific on November 24, sending planes to attack Japanese positions in the Gilbert Islands, when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine. Miller’s body was never found, and a year later, he was declared dead.
In June 1973, the navy gave this hero of Pearl Harbor another of its rarest honors: it named a new ship the USS Miller.
This article originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of America in WWII. Order a copy of this issue now.
5500 sailors on board, and 800 cookies, hmmmm doesn't quite add up.
...''NOW...YOU starting to see WHAT i already ...KNow...its also ...500...women...ON-BOARD-...UN-accounted ...for ...GUESS''...What their job...is...i/LL...just LET that ...marinate just for a ...minute ...LET YOU COME BACK...with the ...answer...after you Ask one of your ..NAVY''...friend/s..!!
I lived and worked at the last live in logging camp in the lower 48. You want to talk about good food. If it wasn't great the Chef might come up missing. You don't mess with a hungry Logger and stay healthy for long. FYI, it was at Camp Grisdale in Western Washington State
Cap'n always ate from my galley line
👍👍👍👍 A well fed military is a strong fighting military!
It’s amazing that the CS are all mostly black even today. Historically it was one of the only MOS that blacks were allowed,to enter in the Navy.
...NAVY IS ONE RANK...i DO NOT UNDERSTAND...all those anchors and...shit...w.t.f.'''
Best job in the Navy, The CO's cook.
Stop it! Your making me hungry!!!
When was this video? I served on the JFK 86-87
Hi. This was back in 2002 when they put the ship to rest.
@@michaelannrowe thank you
Feed them good, they'll function good
Glad I joined the Air Force. The difference between the air force & the navy is that after work (in the air force) I can go downtown and have a beer and go to any restaurant I like to eat good meal but in the navy you can't have that.
But,you had to spend money to get to that restaurant,then spend money on your meal,we,on the other hand got Triple A Class food onboard the Kennedy,I ought to know . . . Plane Captain HS-11 Dragonslayers (helicopters),U.S.S. John F. Kennedy(CV-67) 1975-1978 👍😁👍
@@beerborn ,
When your battle group is getting harassed by Soviet or Russian surface and submarine warships in the North Atlantic or North Pacific during winter you don't need to be serving alcoholic beverages to sailors. Alcoholic beverages on top of long fatiguing days is a recipe for disaster.
Prior service Air FARCE Medic, until I wised up and joined the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman (and they sent me to the Marines to be an FMF Corpsman.
Wow Dude, did you ever have a meal with the Navy? You must be kidding or very ignorant. Johnboy here. Was sent to the Navy from the CG twice. Not only do you get choices but if you leave a Navy mess and are still hungary then it is your own damm fault!
Why can't the captain eat what everyone else is eating.
...that''s HOW He GOT To Be ...captain''...by staying...''HEALTHY''...he,..he,..he,..!?
Joseph Ronzone You want the head of your ship making the correct and sane decisions for your day to day living! Whatever it takes to keep him content and less stressed. Food is powerful. The role he has is not for the week! Give him his very own damn chef and food he likes, if it keeps the ship flowing and in harmony.
Had a head of the line chow pass. LSE flight deck
Hmm 😮 Filipino Steward or Filipino Mess Management Specialist usually prepared food in the Cabin Mess, Flag Mess and all the way to White House. They're all now retired after serving in the US Navy that started at the turn of the century...👍
Thank you for sharing Jose. It was quite a trip to meet the crew at the time. M-A
My uncle was a chef in the Navy. I have mad respect for anyone who puts on a uniform.
Raymond Di Claudio AMM#1st Class
Same as the boys in WW2 !
I knew I should have joined the Navy.......that chow looks amazing! That being said, GO ARMY with nasty T-rats and A-rats and MRE's...........GOOD TIMES 19K style :)
there are no boys and girls on any Naval ship.
For all you young guys and gals who are considering joining the Navy, you won't eat like that. We had two types of food on the USS Nimitz, meat and ain't meat. You won't be eating off any plates either. More like a compartmented metal tray, kinda like a human version of a dog dish. Yeah we had steak on the Nimitz, it's called SOS. All kidding aside, considering they had to feed 5200 people every day, the food wasn't really that bad.
I was in the navy. And worked on land in a few navy kitchens serving soilders. Never cooked anything just served. something about navy food.
Ray. This was probably more heightened due to the ship being put to rest. It was a 'Tiger Cruise'; Friends & Family. And a crew :)
Michael-Ann Rowe oh that's great must of had a pleasant day. are you a chef normally.
I am sure the guys were hoping she would be on the menu
They are not Boys and Girl’s the are Men and Women that serve their Country!!!
Looks just like my daughter. Only this woman is ditzy and goofy as all hell. My girl would be cooking meals and learning how to steer the ship and learning how to launch aircraft. Don't judge blond women. Love you Jessi.
I did a cruise in 2002 on her it might have been the last
Sure didn't get this kind of food and desert on Uss Ticonderoga 1964_1968
Or the Oriskany or the Hancock either. Long live the Essex-Class! (AE2 1965-1969)
When I was in they were called cooks and they got no respect unless they were working the wardroom or CPO mess. For the rest of the unwashed masses - E-6 and below, it was like oh well, you can eat or starve.
USS JFK 67??? already sent to the breakers!
army boys what are you having ha ha that is world class what they get
Army food kept us lean and mean (and hungry). Less of a weight problem than our cruise ship buffet Navy.
I always liked US Navy cinnamon rolls the best among Army, Navy, and Air Force. For some reason the Navy chefs don't skimp on cinnamon like the Army and Air Force chefs do. Now I wasn't on a ship, but in Naval Air Station mess halls when I got those cinnamon rolls, so maybe out at sea they do skimp on the cinnamon.
WHERE IS CHEF RYBACK?????????????
My father was in the Navy 1946-1962. The one time he figured out what he was eating, it was liver with bones in it. After that, he didn’t want to know.
Heck, I'd go back into the USAF just for the food. The military people bitch about
many things but the food isn't one of them.
Up in Northern Alberta candain oil field camps we get the same treatment all yuo can eat
'Merica🇺🇸
Chief, why your cooks wearing a watch?
So they know what time it is einstein.
such an exciting potato ;)
Are you ok
Needs more MREs. lol
Those are there, available for the USMC personnel if they go into combat or combat training.
I thought they were laying the keel on the new Ford class JFK?? What is this ship?
Gardis72 , this is the old USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67). She was decommissioned 01AUG2007. I spent my best years in the Navy on her.
Thank you sir, God bless you for your service to our country.
Thank you for your service and sharing!
The Original JFK, CVA 67, commissioned in 1968, now decommissioned..
It is important to note, this was a Tiger Cruise (friends and family)- before they put the ship to rest. Thus, why the hoopla and food experience.