Members of the 413th
Officers
Mess
Clobbering the Vitamins in the Officer's Mess.
The officers usually have better food and better
eating conditions, but in WW2, everyone had it rough.
More Mess Hall Stories
When I was in the Navy I did my share of mess duty. Potato peeling and scrubbing
floors. I don't know what these guys problem was, but they liked clean
floors and didn't give a hoot about the food quality. This was at NAS
Memphis, Millington, Tennessee, in 1972. After cooking potatoes for a
couple of weeks I was put onto day shift cleaning the floors. After every
meal, we would move all the tables and chairs to one half of the room, then put
scrubbing pads on the buffer and kitchen cleanser on the floor and go scrubbing
away. After we scrubbed the floor we had to mop up all of the kitchen
cleanser, which took about three complete moppings. The next step was to
dry the floor then put wax on it, let it dry again then buff it. When we
got that half of the floor done, it was time to do the whole job again on the
other half. We did this between every meal. I was always wondering
how many years the tiles would last with that much scrubbing. C. Jeff
Dyrek, Webmaster.
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