Posted on Jan 22, 2014
Mess Hall, Chow Hall, or Dining Facility. What do we call it??
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“Dining Facility” must be an Air Force term, the civilian branch of the Armed Forces.
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Raf it's simply called the Mess, Jr's then SNCO's and WO's then finally Officers, the standard of food increases from one to the other inversely to the price of the beer.
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Hmmm, onboard ships I recall calling it the mess deck. On shore it was the chow hall. My Marine buddies always said chow hall.
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How about Slop-Shoot? Some call it the DFAC, and that makes me cring every time I here some one say it. It took a long time but I got slit of the guts I worked with to drop DFAC in favor of calling it the Mess Hall or Chow Hall.
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It will always be a mess hall to me, that's what I learned and never had a reason to change it. Army '62 - '83.
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PO1 John Johnson
...and that's what I call it at home to this day; drives the wife up the wall! I even had Mess Cooks, until they moved out and started their own lives. Anyone have any 12-13yr olds that they are tired of and they now need 3 hots and a cot? I need new Mess Cooks.
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In the sea services there term commonly used is Galley. On land I usually found my self telling my supervisor "I'm was going to crab some chow" or if I was with company "Do you want to grab some chow" I write in a Space-A travel blog and the term or acronym seen more often is DFAC when they talk about dining facilities, mess hall. galley etc.
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