An Afghani Army guy with a gigantic hamburger and fried onion rings ... in Afghanistan.
The first thing I saw when I arrived at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan last year was a drastically out of weight standard U.S. Marine frying himself up some waffles on what looked like a 100-pound steel waffle-frying machine.
Seriously.
I wanted to make him pick it up and run it back and forth from the front to the back of Chow Hall ... aaaand repeat.
Now there's news coming out of NBC that because of the Afghanistan drawdown, certain chow halls have opted to discontinue one or two of their four meal services. (Might I add, many of these forward deployed chow halls are the epitome of excess, featuring all you can eat smorgasbords.)
A Marine from Leatherneck wrote his wife an email (something operating units don't get to do so often, more on that later), which she agreed to share with NBC:
"This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places,” one Leatherneck-based Marine wrote in an email this week to his wife and shared with NBC News. (The Marine declined to speak on the record.)
“Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.”
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