What was the best military food you were FED while on active duty?

It would have been the Ribs and Fried Chicken rations at JRTC in August of 2014! ^-101 gets serious kudos for a great meal.

Monday through Friday at Goodfellow Air Force Base. I was Army Security Agency, prior to going to Vietnam.

DFAC on Macdill Air Force Base while on TDY gave me the best spread in a DFAC. The best food I was fed while on active duty was down in San Antonio in 2009 during the week leading up to the All-American Arena Bowl! Fort Sam Houston hosted a cook-off between their best cooks against the best cooks from Fort Hood, Eilson AFB, and some sailors & Marines from California (I don't know from where).

Submariners seemed to eat well, or a least they did eons ago (LoL).

When I was a young seaman (E-3) stationed on the ship I was helping to decommission in 1976/77, we were at Naval Base Vallejo, North (we'll perhaps more east of the Bay Area). Of course shipboard food can be a drag. Being able to each at the chow hall on base was amazing. At least then it was.

I love Blue Cheese dressing. The Senior Chief in charge of the dining facility made blue chess dressing fresh every day from real Blue Cheese. You can tell the difference in store bought and "real" trust me!!!!!

In any event, I think I ate salad at every meal (lunch and dinner at least). I remember steak, lobster, scallops. Who knows, maybe the 8 weeks I was their before heading off to Hospital Corps "A" school in San Diego was an abortion in naval dinning excellence, but is was nirvana for me. I have not been back since. But, the food from breakfast to dinner was - quality!!!

I also loved omelets and I think the food service specialist, took great pride each morning in creating delightful custom omelets for all who asked. Articulate and funny, the MS2, African-American male from Missouri, James, I think his name was, could have easily been plucked to serve POTUS in the 1970s forward an us sailor would have been the poorer for not being able to know his joy was in serving a quality omelet made to order. Of course those Surf and Turf Thursdays were to die for!!!!

Of course, the Bay Area at the time, off base had, at least then, great eating from China Town to the Warf. But, of my duty station eating military chow - Naval Base Vallejo was my most remembered.

'd like to make a visit as I have friends that live near Travis, AFB so it would not be a stretch to see if the food is still as good. Frankly, I have not seen if the base is still in operation.

Channel Fever--clearing out the reefers prior to pulling in--all the ice cream you can have coming out of your ears, ribeye steak/filet mignon, lobster tails, angel hair pasta, the works!

Yet another reason to be jealous of the Air Force guys... the food.

When I was at Camp Humphreys in Korea we used to take a cab to Osan Air base, eat in their "restaurant" and then hit the clubs, sometimes get a room there, sometimes take a cab back in the wee hours of the morning (if you could find one that would pick up a bunch of semi lit soldiers).

I would have to say the best food I had was from the caterers the U.S. Forestry Service hired when I was up in Oregon fighting forest fires with 2/5. It could have been the mountain air and that level of hunger when you have been physically laboring all day but the prime rib they served one night was delicious awesomeness of a quality you would get at a good steak house (not quite Ruth's Chris but significantly better then somewhere like claim jumper or black angus).

The cooks at our particular missile huts gave us run of the kitchens, especially if we were on the midnight shift. Some of the creations we came up w/ were absolutely remarkable!!

The omelets at the 3d ACR Maintenance Troop chow hall at Fort Bliss.

I will probably catch some flak for this but, the best food to me was at Basic Tng. at Lackland, AFB TX. I had never seen so much food in one place nor in such variety. It was my first French Toast experience and my first Mr. Pibb. I loved them both.