Michelle Obama attacks the DFAC
More social engineering, this time in the messhall. This Reuters story starts out telling us how fat Americans can’t get in the military and somehow it’s the messhall’s fault;
Obese Americans in the military are a national security hazard and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama wants to see that change.
Obama, who has led a healthy eating and fitness program for children for two years, lent her voice on Thursday to the military’s efforts to overhaul the food it serves.
In an event at Little Rock Air Force Base, Obama announced a new Pentagon obesity and nutritional awareness campaign that will change nutrition standards across the services for the first time in 20 years.
Yeah, if they’re eating in the messhall, they got into the military, so they’re not among those 25% who are too obese to get into the military. See how that works?
Flagwaver sends us a link to The Blaze which reports that Obama, the hairless Wookie, is giving nutritional advice to airmen at the DFAC;
She encouraged healthy habits during a visit with individual airmen at their tables.
“Don’t worry, you’ll be a vegetable guy soon,” she reassured one airman.
She stressed that it’s not just about giving members of the armed services a more svelte profile: There are big national security and budget implications.
Yeah, I weighed 155 pounds when I got out of the military and ate at least once-a-day in the messhall. It wasn’t the food, it was the activity that kept me svelte. I needed the SOS I had every morning to replace the energy I’d burned off during PT.
Now, unless she plans on having Americans line up outside the DFAC for their meals, this is just political posturing. Yeah, good nutrition is important to the military, but they don’t need the first lady telling them to become vegetarians. Maybe she should knock off those cheeseburgers and chilifries and drop a few pounds off of that fanny pack she’s carrying around first.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Military issues
USAF also wants to go tobacco free, heck all of AETC is. We have a smoker in the White House, what’s her stance on that?
I saw a special not to long ago on the Hitler channel, I mean History Channel, about SEALs. The fact that they eat between 5,000 and 10,000 calories a day. I don’t see them ballooning op like Missy Obumma’s butt.
I had a soldier in my squad who gave into his girlfriend and became a vegetarian. Within three months, he lost 100 points off of his PT score and dropped muscle mass. We began having to sneak him fat-bombs from McDs and it helped him. Shortly after that, I began stocking 5 pound containers of protein and made protein shakes for my squad (it’s good to be supply) for our morning round tables during Drill.
If you cut meat out of your diet, you lost the protein necessary for muscle growth and brain health. Sure, you can get protein from vegetables, but you would need to eat them all day long. As in, literally, eighteen servings.
Anyone who has ever been to the Master Fitness Trainer course (or equivalent for other services), knows what I mean.
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I always liked the whole “my ancestors didn’t fight to get to the top of the food chain so I could just eat plants” stance :P.
Sweet Jeebus, I haven’t eaten in a chow hall (sorry, DFAC) 5 times in the last 10 years. Last hospital that I worked at that still had a DFAC was Pensacola and that was in 89. Walter Read/Bethesda has one I think. I can usually smell that institutional food smell a couple of floors away.
“You’ll be a vegetable man soon” WTF, over? She’s gonna tell the troops what they should eat? Have you seen chow hall broccoli? The only way you can gag it down is if it’s in a cheese sauce and with a liberal douching of Red Hot.
FFS, we got the Diversity Officer, the DAPA, the PRT Coordinator, the EEO Officer and now the Food Nazis up our grill 24/7. Ain’t life grand.
39 days and a wake up and my 36+ year career will be over. And not a moment too soon.
Holy hell, has she looked at law enforcement lately? I think they pose a LARGER threat to our national security.
I saw the article off of Drudge. One of the commenters lamented how troops have too much disposable income so they can buy food off base….It’s crazy being so rich to afford food, without food stamps.
Of course–they’ve totally ignored the demographics of who lives on-post anymore now that housing’s all privatized. And the whole family thing. GIs can’t possibly eat at home.
I worry that this will be a mandate and migrate overseas. Then we’ll have to stress our LOCs even more to make sure we get fresh veggies for salads. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, your son died bravely on a convoy bringing arugula to the big box FOB.
I want to see Mrs. Obama get a 300 on the young man’s scale for the APFT.
Until then….STFU.
What a crock of horse $hit! Back in the day I had SOS and fried eggs for breakfast, a grease burger for dinner and some kind of mystery meat with mashed taters floating in gravy for supper and I weighed 180 lbs while wearing 34/30 trousers and a 44R blouse. All of this while being an amtracer, “without us the Pride don’t ride”! Of course we PTed a minimum of three times a week, as ” riflemen first” we did a fair amount of humping and keeping that 7 ton bitch running was a fair amount of work, we didn’t do anything special.
Shouldn’t she be worrying about the kind of garbage people are buying with food stamps?
Un-friggen-real…..I don’t usually eat in the chow hall conus but Mrs O needs to realize that food is sometimes the only comfort down range. She has nothing better to do!
I’m leaving in a few months and I’m soooo looking forward to my 6 fried eggs smothered in cheese on top of a hill of potatoes. Ive have always lost weight deployed…eating twice as much. Yeah some guys pork up..alot of guys pork up with all the bs their wives ship em, but I look at deployment like prison….as Ice Cube once said…”Pumping iron, and eating. Ain’t nothing else to do in the mother effen pen!”
Assuming that this is an accurate statement:
“Obese Americans in the military are a national security hazard and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama wants to see that change.”
What is it that must change? Allowing obese Americans into the military so that a national security hazard can then exist? Or is she saying that they have decided that obesity will no longer be a national security hazard, just because they say so, and that obese Americans should then become eligible to serve in the military?
Headhunter, she has nothing better to do. Well unless you count Martini and Wagu Beef night at the WH. Has this Heifer looked at her backside in a mirror lately? Looks like two battleships tied up next to each other.
Maybe she ought to walk that friggen dog they got to satisfy the stupid fawning press. Has anybody even seen that thing since they got it. Dude….if they take my cheese eggs away I’m going over to the Taliban.
She apparently hasn’t heard of the height and weight standards.
The only reason I reenlisted was for the SOS. My greatest pleasure after knocking the snow off of my sleeping bag was some Meramited hamburger and gravy over the dehydrated eggs in my canteen cup (after the troops all ate). When I lived in DC, I spent every Saturday morning at the Walter Reed DFAC eating my SOS breakfast with wounded heroes – fond memories.
I joined for the MRE omlete with ham.
Nothing says victory like SOS out of a mermite can!! SOS is not only a tradition in the chow hall (yeah, I know, zoomies, it’s a “dining facility”), but it is a staple of keeping the troops nourished! Damn commies!!
What the fuck is a DFAC? Department Family and Children (services)? Bring back what it is suppose to be called: THE MESS HALL!
Also, I think it’s very hypocritical of Mooshelle to be lecturing the troops on what they eat when it has been documented that she stuffs 1500-2000 calorie lunches in her piehole on a regular basis. Lose that fatass of yours, Mooshelle, and then you will have room to talk.
MRE omelet with ham? What ever happened to good old c rats ‘eggs with ham, chopped’? Ahhh SOS over a couple of fried eggs doused in pepper and Tabasco sauce sure cured many a hang over.
@20: Yep!
C-Rats? Little before my time.
damn you guys are making me hungry.
I might have a stale piece of bread and some rubbery meat, with a bottle of Tabasco to wash it down tonight….ooooo and some under cooked eggs!
I may have to get new pants tomorrow…but hell. It will be worth it!
She was just pissed cause they didn’t bow and scrape deeply enough to her while she ate her lobsters and waygu beef.
Seriously, Moochelle-try being on a boat on Op for 60-70 days and all you have is freeze-dried shit left. I lost 25 lbs. in one underway because the food was so fucking bad. Sometimes the food is decent, sometimes it sucks. So until you’ve tried working an average 18-hour days for a couple of months while subsisting on cat turds, baboon’s ass, pillows of death, and elephant scabs, kindly STFU.
Perhaps the First Lady needs to investigate obese food stamp recipients.
This explains the signs that mysteriously and inexplicably appeared on the soda fountain in the DFAC this week that soda will make you fat etc. I really do not see obesity as an issue in the active duty military, between PT, job, deployments etc, calories are burned off at amazing rates.
STOP: When I joined the military I was a thin as a rail and in great shape. I am still thin after retiring with 32 years of service and would typically beat 75% in the 1.5 mile run. Now lets talk about fat people in the military. They were fat when they joined and they are fat today. It is about choices and personal responsibilty. STOP talking about childhoods and veggies. If you are fat – take off the weight. Mrs. Obama needs to stick to more traditional first lady issues … like keeping nice nice in the White House.
@22 Steadfast&Loyal, yeah c rations. A disgusting meal in a box! Nothing like them! Making a ‘stove’ out of the smaller cans with your P-38, making a ‘coffee cup’ out of the larger cans with 2 pieces of wire and a stick. Being willing to sell your sister for a pound cake or fruit cocktail. Throwing a ‘chocolate nut roll’ at your buddy hoping you didn’t hit him cuz you’d give him a concussion. ‘John Wayne’ crackers and cheese spread that would plug you up for three days. That awful chocolate ‘hockey puck’ that would give the runs for three days. Having to mix the cocoa powder with the instant coffee to make it drinkable. Yeah c rats.
@27 You forgot using the peanut butter as a heat tab and I still miss beans with meatballs, if we could have only found a way to capture the gas.
@27: You forgot the orange choke roll and the wonderful Turkey Loaf!! Of course; who could forget the venerable “Beef with Spiced Sauce” aka Alpo.
@27 Oh the memories!
And who can forget the glorious day that you had pound cake and peaches at the same time?
@31 on those rare times I swear the sky opened and you could hear a choir of angels!
I remember at one Bn field day, one of the events was you got two or three random meals and you had a time limit to make a three course meal, using only the contents of the meals. Appetizer, entré and dessert. Col Harms and SgtMaj Meza were the judges.
@31: You got that right! The only thing that would be better than that combination is if you had fruit cocktail in place of the peaches. However, I don’t think they ever had that combination. It always ended up that you had the orange or chocolate choke roll with the fruit cocktail.
As was said before; you mixed the hot chocolate with the coffee and added a sugar pack in order to drink that stuff. If you weren’t a coffee drinker (me), you could use it for cleaning engine parts, if you didn’t mix it with the hot chocolate and sugar.
27, the runs? I wish I could have had the runs from MRE’s. Once in the field, I’d crap about every 72 hrs and it was like passing a cinder block, about the same weight too.
I remember during some down time on the range, a guy bet he could eat both MRE crackers (the old dry ones) in less than a minute (or 30 seconds, something like that) with no water. About half way into it, he started to gag and white powder shot out of his mouth. My buddy and I fell on the ground from laughing so hard. I was actually worried he was choking but I couldn’t stop laughing enough to check. I was afraid he’d choke to death and the medics would find us laughing hysterically at him.
Also how about the fun of MRE bombs? Good times…
We had, what we called fat kid sunday. No dessert or bullshit until Sunday. Some of our guys would buy peanutbutter cups and other crap to mix with the icecream. These guys were running 80 miles a week so no big deal. The sugar coma was worth it. But alot of people get fat on deployment. The door kickers don’t but if your on a big FOB….way to many ways to go wrong. That said, its a choice….that Chewy needs to leave alone.
A heat tab with a CRat and always had a hot meal. My famous line to piss off everyone-“Who wants fruit cocktail? Not that I’m going to give/trade it, just want to know who wants it!”
Its funny how 95% of the fat joes in my company werent the ones eating in the chow hall. And this just in damn near every base Ive been to has fast food right there at or near the PX so now all those joes who wont eat the new and “improved” chow hall food are just going to go eat at BK or Popeye’s.
Down range we got a lot of fatties but those dudes were the lazy asses that wouldnt go near any of the like 10 gyms there were on Diamondback/Marez.
@32–Making a meal out of the ingredients in a C-rat or MRE pouch…brilliant!
That’s one episode of “Chopped” I’d look forward to watching, with the judges’ faces all contorted and going, “What the holy flying fuck is THIS SHIT???”
@23 If you lost 25 pounds in 2 months that means you were overweight to begin with sparky I am sure you could stand to miss a few meals now
So for the Navy… 0% tolerance for BCA failure?
Dave, actually, started at 175, ended at 150. I’m 5’10”. Not exactly bloated, eh? I fit in 29X32 dungarees when I was done.
Please feel free to shut the fuck up and go start a shotgun now.
BTW–when’s the last time YOU ran a marathon? I do 15-20 miles a week normally, and 35-40 working up to one. PR of just a shade over 4 hours (Los Angeles), best half-marathon time of 1:46:30 (Pacific Shoreline 2005). Also have a few pics on my “I love me” wall doing the Pendleton Mud Run. Next?
I’m sure you could take a few cocks out of your mouth as well.
SOS…Jonn, you have brought back some great memories. Steaming, right out of the mermite into a real mess kit (remember those?), on top of toast and big hot canteen cup of STFU…no, make that mess hall coffee.
Yeah…I said MESS HALL not that gay ass DFAC shit.
Toss some salt, pepper, a liberal dose of Tabasco on top of that SOS, and you were in heaven.
Sad to say, I was out at NTC a couple of years ago…ran into the field mess that first cold morning…and to my surprise…no SOS. Asked the Mess SGT WTF was going on and was told that it’s not on the Army Master Menu anymore…too fattening.
Bunch of slack jawed faggots…
And C-Rats…good stuff…like them a whole lot more than LRRPs or MREs.
@41 I run my 2 mile run for the APFT in the 11:40s time range so thanks for playing
Spare me your mud runs I have done Nasty Nick more times than I care to count so I am not really impressed with you doing a mud run with some house wives
Bravo, Dave. That’s got to be a Special Olympics record for you or some shit like that. Did you get to stand on the podium too?
And now you’re claiming to be SF? Hey guys, we got a live one over here!
So following your logic there DUIDave when I went from 125 down to 105 overseas that was because I was a fat ass? Im 5’3 and the last official weigh in I was at 110 and the Army made sure to mention I was technically underweight. Actually the way it was phrased was that because I was enrolled in an NCOES and was found to be underweight they could send me back to my unit.
Wow NH, 25 lbs in 2 months? Sounds like getting dicked down your throat and in the ass by your boatmates is a good way to burn calories. Still, I think I’ll pass…
God, you’re so cute when you try to act all badass. How long did you have to scour the bowels of the Interwebz for that snappy retort, or did one of your blunt-blowing-butt-buddies help you with that between bites of the “Twinkie”?
Yeah, I know it’s not really a Twinkie, but you still love that cream filling, dontcha?
And for the record, I went from 162 to 145 in boot camp. Two months. Whoops. Wasn’t exactly a fatass then either.
But, being I’m pushing the high side of my fifth decade on this swirling turd ball, the fact my toes hit the floor every morning is a good thing.
And the fact that I don’t have to hide behind a proxy, don’t bake my fucking brain, and don’t pretend to be something I’m not, makes the fact my life is that much better than your sorry stoner ass all the more satisfying.
Have fun drooling in your oatmeal and calling everyone “momma” by the time you’re 50, Spliff. Really. Enjoy.