{"id":21696,"date":"2019-10-06T05:17:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T10:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2022-05-24T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:43:00","slug":"stennis-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/stennis-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft Carrier, Part 6 (Feeding Time)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jets roared from the deck of the USS John C. Stennis around the clock, the most visible sign of its power.\u00a0 However, the ship needed thousands of people to keep this one vital function going and they all needed to be fed around the clock.\u00a0 The massive effort to procure, load, store, cook and clean shouldn&#8217;t be overlooked for its important supporting role.\u00a0 Several hundred crew members focused their efforts on food services alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Storage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/48588860962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48588860962_b53269a63b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Refrigerated Storage on the USS John C. Stennis. 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Refrigerated areas felt pretty good to me after sweating in parts of the ship that lacked air conditioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appetites and tastes of American sailors mirrored their onshore peers and the Navy did its best to cater to those preferences.&nbsp; Ships followed a common menu to a degree, eating similar foods on the same day no matter where deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supply personnel tried to replenish their stores weekly whenever possible.\u00a0 They tapped into preexisting contracts with major wholesale distributors, with food shuttled to the ship as it passed near ports.\u00a0 However, sometimes the ship might be too far out to sea.\u00a0 At those times the crew could tell pretty easily because the fresh foods began to disappear, replaced by canned or dried.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t have that issue though and we ate well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cooking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/48588861042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48588861042_753693793c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Bakery on the USS John C. 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