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| Iraq Base May End Food Contract |
| 2005-08-21 |
| In other news, there is the possibility that we may lose our contracted chow hall, which is excessively disappointing. We eat very well here, with hot meals prepared by contracted foreign laborers (I think they're from India). However, the contract may not get renewed and we are currently in the middle of a battle to either renew or, at the very least, extend it. If we lose our contract, then our cooks will go back to cooking and stop doing whatever else they have been up to. It will also very likely mean MREs for lunch, which means that if I am going to keep up my streak of 0 MREs eaten the entire deployment, I am going to have to either skip lunch or else start making some care package requests for ramen noodles and microwave lunches. :) It will also have a minor impact on troop to task requirements for the companies because they may have to start giving up soldiers for KP. Budget crunch as the end of the fiscal year approaches? |
| Posted by:Angomorong Glineque2899 |
| #3 1) you don't know that is a policy that is being pursued. You have one person who thinks they might lose the service from contracted foreign laborers. 2) there may be security issues here as well as financial ones 3) there may be a need to dump this contractor and recompete the contract |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-08-21 17:38 |
| #2 I've done KP, its doable, but it eats up manpower that is suppose to be manning the line. BTW, the cooks don't do KP, its a detail composed of non-food prep personnel who support the cooks from the Company/Battalion - i.e. Duty Roster. Rummy was all big and hot for shifting jobs from uniforms to civies to maximize combat power. Now here's a good question for the rabble that is suppose to be the MSM at the press conferences. If the objective is to put more guns in the fight why are we pursuing policies that then take those same guns off the line and back into the Mess Hall [...er Dining Facility]?. |
| Posted by: Jerenter Elmang8955 2005-08-21 09:12 |
| #1 Perhaps they're trading hot lunches for that new-and-improved underwear? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-21 07:57 |