Originally Posted by
Rebsix
I got stuck on mess duty in the ward room on the USS Cayuga on West Pac 87. The Navy cook was an E-4 who thought he was the Galloping Gourmet, and I was just a Lance Corporal. He tells me "In MY Navy we do 90 days of mess duty". I said that I wasn't in his friggin Navy and Marines do 30 days. Then he told me I had to put on this white jacket and serve the officers meals like a waiter. I told him his jacket isn't part of the Marine uniform and I won't wait tables. (The First Sargent backed me on this)
This went on an on and he gave me every sh#t job he could find. About a week in he told me to crush up some corn flakes for chicken breading. I looked in the cabinet for them and got that evil grin on my face when I seen FROSTED flakes next to the corn flakes. The officers didn't seem to mind but needless to say I didn't get to finish my 30 days in the ward room, let alone his 90 days.