Posted on Jan 22, 2014
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 mess hall  chow hall  or dining facility. what do we call it
I was tell'ing someone last week, I was heading over to the Chow Hall. And they said;"You Mean Mess Hall"; So I ask, "What's in a Name...."
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GySgt Bob Hubauer
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My troops before I retired it called it Moms!
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MSgt John Darchangelo
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DFAC is what I call it....
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SGT Team Leader
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Chow Hall or DFAC.
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CPT Senior Instructor
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I guess it depends on what banch of the service you are in. I have always known it to be the D-FAC.
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SFC Sam Shubert
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Whatever comes to me when it's time to eat
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DFAC or Mess Hall.
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LTJG Officer in training for Submarine Warfare qualification
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funny story.   I call it a galley but at nuke school it was called a refueling complex :/
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SFC Admin Nco
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Everywhere I have been we have called it a DFAC
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SFC, I keep getting weird looks from other students at my college for calling the campus dining hall the DFAC. Anyways, in my little experience we've always eaten "chow" at the "DFAC."
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1SG(P) Signal Support Systems Specialist
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PFC Mullins, Eating Chow.. At the Chow Hall....
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Roger SFC, I'm just commenting on the fact that the two were mixed together which adds to the confusion here already
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