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Alan Holbrook[_5_]

"cshenk" > wrote in news:3KadnT-7o5NSFmnInZ2dnUU7-
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> Alan Holbrook wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> You won't find me siding with Sheldon too often, but if you want to
>> keep this real, chief petty officers and officers did NOT make up a
>> major portion of the crew. They may have had plates, but everyone
>> else, from seaman apprentices up to first class POs, ate off trays.
>
> But he indicates no plates at all. Trays were normal for breakfast but
> other meals had plates on a tray.
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>
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Not on board USS Oklahoma City, CLG-5, in 1969-1971. Only ship I ever
served on, so I can't say for others, but on the enlisted mess deck on the
Okie, all 4 meals a day (loved them midrats) were slopped on trays.