USS Reagan Below Deck: America's Heartland Series
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- This is a story not so much about the exciting life topside but the more routine life below decks. While seemingly mundane, the galley crews like "Culinary Specialist" or "C.S.", Torry Mitchell, take enormous pride in their work. Visit tinyurl.com/624ghq
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Thank You - To All Veteran's - God Bless You and Your Family's...
Good to know our boys and girls are well taken care of by these great cooks and culinary staff. THANK YOU!!!!
Don't believe the hype I was on many of these ships and the food was barely tolerable, but when that's all you have or starve, we lower our standards.
I enjoyed all 17 pixels
Yeah
It was filmed 11 years ago, whadayawant!
There was 18 actually. 🤣
@@TheRedmage420 Dude 11 years ago was 2010... Not like 1980, full hd was pretty common around 2010.
@@buddybeavers2691 18 and 1/2 pixels get it right
I'm always fascinated by videos of life onboard a large ship. It's amazing to me how such vast spaces (tremendous mess halls, kitchens, etc.) can float and how much money it takes to keep such a thing going...
10 years active service, multiple carrier deployments; I can count on ONE hand the number of "bad meals" I had. The Mess Specialist ( Now Culinary Specialist ) are tops in my book. Good food served with a smile and always fresh. I was in awe of these guys and their skills. To all the CS's...thanks for the chow and the hard work. Always made sure I thanked them after a meal!
I was in the Navy 13 years ago. I was a CS3 SW/AW.
@@tiffanesmith7482 thank you and the guys/gals in your rating for all their hard work!
then you must have ordered take out allot - back in the 80s the food was total dogshit - not sure what navy you served in but not the same as the rest of us
I love how these marines and sailors eating good food. It makes me happy.
I served on the USS MIDWAY in the early 70s, Famous Carrier. Our Navy is the WORLD'S BEST!! Food was always good except when it ran low out at sea and we had to have powdered eggs, etc. Nevertheless a Great Experience! The Midway operated in the Seven Fleet and was stationed in Yokosuka Japan, now a Museum in San Diego California. Seeing this brought back memories.
Thanks for all you do! My prayers and that God keep you safe! Hooah!
Served on the USS Independence (CV62) for almost 4 yrs. We ate very well and I got to see a lot of countries. This was from March '70 to Nov. '73.
+escow nagejac Greetings, I served on The Indy too. Was a OS. 76 to 80. Take care mate. Our berthing on O3 Level...not far from CIC where I worked....
bill bartoli : I was a plane captain in VA-42, A6 Intruder squadron from NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, Va. We made a carrier qual. for pilots from April 8, 1973 for 8 days on the Indy !
USS Ranger CV61 81-82 here. Didn't care for it then. Now fond memories!
My Uncle Chief Maldanado was the best in the Pacific,Atlanic,Med Fleet etc..As the best Navy Galley Supervisor back in the 70s and 80s on aircraft carriers and the fleet.Sailors loved his chow.When he was at Coronado Amphibious Base the SEALS and trainees gobbled up his chow like crazy!He loved those guys.At Pearl Harbor Hawaii Sailors and Marines loved him too.Go Navy!As a kid back then I wished the Army had better people like my uncle Chief Maldanado.
In 1954 and 55 I served 19 months on a US Navy vessel, actually two, AGCs USS Estes and USS El Dorado. I was a Marine, not a sailor and guarded an Admiral. There were about 475 men on the ship as I recall. There wasn't any nonsense of choices. The mess men simply shoveled the food on an aluminum tray. You could refuse something, but there wasn't any choice in the main dishes. We were all so hungry most of the time that we ate everything offered and few complained. I thought it was good considering it was a ship in operations and I think most of us thought the food was pretty fair. We respected the mess men and cooks. Frankly, I liked it! but then I enjoyed shipboard life and the many ports of call we made. However, I also ate C rats when back in the first div and unlike the commentator, we accepted it as the best way to feed men in the field and ate whatever was in our box for the day. There were NO overweight Marines and very few sailors were heavy in the 50s. Sailors these days have no idea what the old Navy was all about.
I always had respect for the cooks, it's like everything else you do what and how they tell you. Chow takes a lot of effort and it was a great chance to unwind and relax
Several times we ran head first into storms including one full blown typhoon. No fires in the kitchens. The cooks and mess men made sandwiches and carried these to men on duty all over the ship. On a few occasions we got nothing but sandwiches for maybe two days. Chiefs and officers ate them right along with us. Except for the admiral and chief of staff. They had their own small pantry and cooks and their meals somehow were served normally no matter how the ship was pitching and rolling. The admiral had 6 Marines guarding him and a CPO and 6 Filipinos to cook and look after his comfort. The other services do not get the care and keeping of an admiral with a command at sea. He also had his own barge and crew and even a car in the hold and driver!!
Neil Huff OK NJ
We hit a Typhoon off Guam during our '73 Westpac. I think it was Typhoon "Pamela" if my memory serves correctly. For 24 hours there was no fires in the mess deck, and we all hadda eat Horsecock and Cheese sando's. Half the crew was puking their brains out -- especially the embarked Marines -- and I felt sorry for them. I was fortunate enough to never experience seasickness, but I saw those who did, and those poor bastard were miserable. There's not a thing you can do about it. Seasickness and The Clap were the sailor maladay's back then ..............
I was on the Bonne Home Richard CVA31 in the 60s and we were in a typhoon on the way home from Japan. We also had sandwiches for meals. How the galley crew were able to deliver the sandwiches amazed me, man you couldn't hardly walk. We suffered some damage, all the cat walks around the fight deck were ripped off. A buddy and me managed to get up to the highest part of the conning tower where there was a hatch door. we looked out and saw a wall of water higher then the ship, scared the hell of us, lol. really enjoyed my time abroad the Bonny Dick.
Was VS-22's Hospital Corpsman assigned to the Medical Department for the 1980 Med Cruise.
Been retired for thirty years now, and I still miss my time in
I cannot think of a job more important than proper food storage, preparation, and procurement aboard a US naval vessel. Can you imagine the crew of a destroyer, handicapped by a food borne illness during sensitive missions? Hats off to the food service workers!
I never, ever had a bad meal in the Navy. I was stationed at the NCS on Guam for 15 months after Radio "A" School, and we ALL ate WELL . Civiliam run/operated Mess Hall, primarilly staffed by Chamarran and Filipino cooks. Real good stuff. Nobody ever walked out there hungry. It had the standard Navy warning at the begining of the Mess: "Take all you want but eat all you take." I was fortunate enough -- after Guam -- to be stationed on a new LKA out of San Diego. for 2 years. The food was equally as good aboard that ship. I used to LOVE "Mid Rats." They do wonders with that they had to work with.
This video must have been classified Top Secret. Everything's blurred out.
Joined the Navy in 2002 out of Wall, SD. I couldn't wait to see the world and get out of there.
Wall,S.D.made famous by wall drug store!
I was on a Destroyer Escort U.S.S Mcginty DE 365 ,and U.S.S Hollister DD 788 --1956-1960--I was a Fire Control Technician 2nd Class when I got out .
That is what I expected when I tried to join the Navy, but ended up in the Air Force. Military life is tough at times, but good at others, and overall I enjoyed my time served. I got to see what it is like when serving and working on the aircraft we maintained in each command I was assigned to. Navy food was great at Andrews AFB, and I enjoyed it and would love to go back there to see what it is like now. The worst food I had was the Marine chow, especially the MRE's and C Rations before that. The Air Force spoiled their personnel when it came to their mess halls and the food served in there. The best one was at McChord AFB, Washington, and so many people would stand in line to eat lunch there, and the line ran outside the mess hall and down the sidewalks.
Big "E" 66 & 67 and I must say the chow was great for the times, but not like the Reagan of today!!! Yes mid rats was very good as they put it together as you ordered it. I was with VA-113 The Stingers as a jet mech. and loved what I did and wish I had made a career of it!!!
Maybe one day I will watch this again. !
To the crew of the USS Reagan ; Well done! BZ
One of the hardest jobs I ever had in the Navy (other than painting the waterline) was as a mess deck Master At Arms on USS Forrestal in 78-79....I do miss being haze grey and underway. Also on my second ship (Gompers - rest in pieces) we got beer at sea after being out 45 continuous days. 97 days off the coast of Oman during Desert Shield.
Proud of these sailors. My father served aboard the USS Stormes, a destroyer in WWII surviving a kamikaze attack which nearly blew the ship in half.
Just saw this piece .. thanks for posting. As a career sailor, I served in USS Constellation, CV-64 years ago .... but watching these kids on these next-gen carriers, I gotta think, "man, they're doing stuff I don't think I EVER could have done!" - So proud of these professional men and women. And I'm proud to somehow be a part of the legacy platforms that made their expertise possible! :)
I actually miss the navy. Great experiences and travel.
We don't know how good it was until we are discharged from it.
Sept. 17, 2018----Thanks for the video. Anyone notice a lot of the crew seemed to eat in groups of color? I'm not talking about skin color, but the color of the shirts they wear. As to Navy food, did 10 in the Air Force and only twice during my time did the Air Force food give the Navy a run for the money food quality wise. One was at Goodfellow AFB, Texas for 30 days learning to run a computer, the other was 90 tdy days at Shemya AFS, Alaska. At both places, steak was served EVERY day and as much as you wanted. Got stationed at Sunnyvale AFS, Calif. with Moffett NAS having to provide us support such as food, quarters, etc. Their food was outstanding. The Air Force was good, but there's a difference between good and outstanding.
Carrier food is horrid, I got food poison 4 times while on one. And line are stupid long for Nukes who actually have to work long hours and stand watch also. Most time all can do is to make a PB&J sandwich until run out of little Peanut butter packets 1-2 weeks out to sea. Or grab mid-rats IE hot dog and chili with elbow noodles.
Navy takes care of its own. Its interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes.
I miss chow period back in the day man !!!! Biscuit n Gravy dang it my favorite with white n chocolate milk mix two of those lunch n dinner can’t tell you , but P.T. LOL
Cory you rock dude yes you cook to make morel because nothing more powerful than making a great meal and then seeing someone go OMG
DAAANNNGGG almpst midnight and getting cravings see that savory delicious food
Us Air Force Airmen, circa 1980's at Minot AFB, ND . . . we had the mission, and CHOW. After chow, we treked back to the barracks, grabbed our spot, from the 3rd floor dayroom, turned channel to WTBS, Ted Turners Superstation . . . for our nightly M.A.S.H. . . . at 1900 hours (that's 7 p.m., Lol). We couldn't survive, without our regular comic/rational/motivational input, from M.A.S.H. 🇺🇸
It is pretty well known that men who eat well will/can work well. Ample, nutritious food is the key, of course, but it has to taste well also. If you're hungry enough, you'll eat whatever they have in remote and far-off places and be grateful! (AND, they give the cooks names like chef or "culinary specialist" so they will feel important and care about what they're fixing for the soldiers! Doesn't hurt to feed the mind and spirit as well as the stomach! And you usually do not see obese soldiers, but they also work pretty hard too!
this is really important for the US Navy for keeping the morale of the men and ladies High
We always ate good in the Navy. USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 VET.
Za ch the good old shitty kitty
@2:44 " *STRAIGHT OUT THE POT!!!* " === 🤣😂😅💯🏴☠
have a Good Time of the Carrier Ronald Reagan Good Bless the USA
I'm lovin it . . .'inversely proportional to ones' age' . . . 😎
I had good and bad chow in the Navy. Depends on the ship and crew.
That's alot of groceries. Good food, and it's worth it. I think our service men and women should have the best food and medicine money can buy. It's a small price to pay compared to the great things they do for America everyday.
God Bless, CSs. Food in the Navy was great
At 11:46 Creole Macaroni is the Army Chili Mac. One of my favorites in the field, combat, MREs, and garrison. I make Chili Mac using canned Chili with no beans or with beans and boiled macaroni till this day and it brings back memories..
But is it "straight-out da pot!" ??!
On a Naval Base, a Naval Camp or aboard a Carrier; Navy chow was the best because the Navy's Cooks are the best people and the best trained. I loved mid-rats the best since the flavors had more time to blend.
I was a cook on a carrier and it was fun. thnx for the comment shipmate.
Vigilante Driver mid rats on carrier were horse cock...every night. Officers mid rats were cheese burgers with chips.
True. Mid rats on the ship I was on was essentially whatever didn;t get eaten @ dinner and supper. It was actually pretty good. I was on an LKA, which -- without marines embarked -- was a relatively small crew on a large ship, and we ate real well. No complaints. The cooks did the best they could with what they had.
Yep. Mid rats on both my ships were just sandwiches and bug juice!
No Officers eat in the Wardroom.... The Chiefs(E7 and above) eat in the Chiefs "mess"
I loved the Navy and loved being at sea. I am truly sorry I did not reenlist and its too late now. At sea during night and not on watch I loved to sit on fantail
Very well put together story and video
We ate good on the carrier USS Saratoga. :)
I ate good on the Enterprise. Did you call the Saratoga the carrier USS Saratoga. Just wondering my veteran friend.
The food on the Sara was pretty good, I especially enjoyed when they started having to bake all the bread.
Navy chow was always the best, fresh cooked!
Navy and Air Force
Navy and Air Force serve the best food... in opinion!!
I wanted to watch this but i realized it was filmed with a potato so i gave up :(
Corry Basler very funny mate
...and not just any potato, an authentic Idaho Russet.
So you are telling me that these people get to eat like this while people who are low income get about $200 a month to feed themselves?? Ouch...
Depends on WHY, does it not? Dont work get no pension. just saying. Real welfare concerns ARE met.
Goddam Right. Thank You Out of Focus Sailors - Lumpy
Navy: we want them to be healthy. So we feed them nothing but greasy foods
Sailors:WE ARE HAVING HEART ATTACKS
I'm glad I watched this while drunk. It would of been blurry no matter what.
The DOD Pravda is getting really good.
I saw on a steel beach picnic they ha d Budweiser, Heineken, Miller light, Stella Artois...giant blocks of ice ... steaks.., hamburgers,hot dogs... The works...our armed forces deserve the best..!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
At 7:07, the speed line is serving up hambugers (yes, that's how they spelled it) on Mondays! I wonder how many noses they had to clear to feed a crew of 6,000?
I would like to know what year men and women started serving together onboard ships? I was in from 1987-1991 and that was unheard of back then! The only place I remember Men and Women serving together in the Navy was on shore duty because I was in an aviation squadron so we had the best of both worlds...land and sea duty
my mother has been in the navy for almost 20 years, joined around 97', and they never had a problem with her being on the ship. except when when she was kinda pregnant and didn't say anything, they weren't too happy about that. men and woman not together on ships? thats seems even weirder. what? did women get their own ship? because that seems super inconvenient.
And while we/re at it: I used to LOVE the S.O.S. abroard the ship. Not the red sauce, but the white sauce. To this day I prepare it at home at least once a week! I don;t know why S.O.S. ever got a bad rap. It's REALLY good and hearty.
I liked it too.
"What do you like about cooking?" What do you like about anything you like to do?
lol i thought the same thing basically when he asked that
He should have said cooking thats what i like about cooking.. The question was a bit lame in its context
Culinary specialist, when did this happen? Anyone in a squadron knows that almost all of the CS and older MS rates just hooked themselves up with the best food while the crew, enlisted galley, got the food that was only ok at best. For the record, mid-rats was barely cooked at all.
What happened to the days of SOS and scrambled eggs with water running out? Most of our little crew put catsup on their scrambled eggs.
i cant believe that this video survived... lol
USS Intrepid 1971-1974 Fresh milk only lasted about 4 days, then it was powder milk the rest of the voyage
USS Pollux 1966-68, when our fresh milk ran out we got canned milk from back in the 1940's and it usually didn't taste good plus it was a light tan instead of white. Most drank bug juice then.
What a work 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
193 dislikes from envious Russian and mainland Chinese navy sailors lol
You are a racist. Porque tu piensas cada esta gente sean enemigos?? Yo soy insultada.
多くの人員が乗船していますね。一つの街に等しいですね。
the US Navy want's me to come back to this? alright.
That food looks mighty tasty.
Very interesting. Thanks !
I served just two weeks on board the Reagan
2 weeks? LOL not everyone can make the cut.
There is one freezer unit on every carrier it is for the skipper you only know it by seeing the armorer locks on the hatch leading to it
They deserve it. God Bless...
Mash potatoes , powder egg , pancake , bread and fruit jelly , bacon , dried vegetable , ice cream , shimo , chicken
No! There are MREs stored in those carriers for big time emergencies on board especially if there are Marine infantrymen put on those ships if they have to deployed from there for embassy rescue or deployed for any combat mission. Daily food is freshly cooked and served. Thank god for the CS's, they are one of the Navy's best. If you Sailors think they are bad. Think about us in an Army Infantry battalion in the field. You guys eat better along with the Air Force. I know. I grew up Navy for 5 years as a Navy Brat living with my Uncle Pat CPO as a CS in the US Navy.
Damn those aviation ordinance guys are stacked.
Since this video was recorded, the F-18 was discontinued.
Not to mention the always enjoyable sliders and fries.
The chow lines on my ship were at least a half hour long and in V-1 division we were giving a half hour for chow so we often ate from the salad bar pbj or salad , poor planning and organizing were to blame. And when we did get time to eat it was some of the worst food ever i wouldn't feed it to my dog.
I bet your ship didn't get any mess hall awards.
Creole mac sounds a lot like chili mac of the 70's on Forrestal. They do have a much better variety in their breakout reefers. I remember spending my mess cooking days hauling cases of meat and milk up from the 7th deck. Good times...good times.
I'm glad our sailors are eating good. They give up a lot as is!
oldmal60 oh we ate real good. The food was excellent
I'm not in any military branch but I would love to spend a week on that ship may be fatten me up a little bit
When you were in, it probably was all in cans. With that being said, the majority of the vegetables, sauces, etc are in cans. It's easier to store, lasts longer and easier to control the trash; smashing the cans for recycling.
Their mess hall is the size of our sub hahahaha.
i lived on C RATS......in Nam.........12 hr or more day in the sticks. one C Rat you had to make the most of it, it was food you could get out of a garbage truck
Praise to the US Military they saved us many times and continue to keep us safe. They deserve all the nations support
The Marine command gallies have excellent food also!
when I was in the navy 80-84 uss constellation cv-64 Philippineos ran the mess decks.
ArtScience
Hey! that's not very nice.
+tom lynn why is the comment about Filipinos not nice?
Mick Funny
He spelled Filipinos, FILTH-ipinos
+tom lynn sorry, missed that
Thank You for Your Service Fellow Veteran .
Ever think of using the focus adjust?
The hangar deck was empty, Were they in port?
I am an Electronic Eng. Of course Ilike this
Unlimited deep fried food and drink ,that’s heaven for me
On an air craft carrier how long are people on duty!
Is there a golf coarse on board?? One cook was wearing a golfer's hat!!
Keep well feed .keep moral up .
One of the advantages of being a Nuke, we avoided KP duty ;)
J Watkins You didnt do it in school before your pushbutton?
If I owned a restaurant, I would hire a Navy Mess Management Specialist ( I guess they are called Culinary Specialists now) in a heart beat. They can take bulk supplies and make some truly extraordinary meals. Think what they could do with first class meats, vegetables, etc.
I served as 94bravo in the army frm 80-84 in Europe and Ft Hood,tx.although the equipment is far better today we still took pride in serving our fellow soldiers the best meal.c-rations were so-so but had few complaints.always smart to get in good with the "Spoons"(what we were called back then)😊.GO ARMY!!!
94 bravo is what I am. Cooking chow for Uncle Sam.
+Rick W. cooks rule.lol
Very interesting!
That creole macaroni must smell and taste amazing.
It's usually bland, and under or over cooked, and at home, i call it goulash!
Am I wrong that if you want to stay safe in the military, you should join the Navy? I am not talking about Navy Seals, just working on a sub, ship or aircraft carrier.
Navy chow, 2 words...CHILI MAC!
Sunday Brunch, all the cheeseburgers and fries you could eat. I looked forward to that meal.
Great subject matter but why is the video quality so degraded ?
3 months KP for new crewmembers!! That has got to mean people right out of boot camp. On USCGC new crewmembers right out of boot camp did a month of KP.
It used to be called mess cranking.
My first choice was the Navy but I didn't know how to swim. If I knew how to swim I would have went into the Navy. I worked in Munitions in the Air Force and it is the basically what these sailors do.
Bet you can't Fly ether, air force.