The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-11
Soldier
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'The food we get is lousy. They get good stuff but by the time we get it thrown at us no one will eat 1t. We go out to restaurants and pay for our own meals, No one knows how to cook and mo- body gives damn, And they want fellows to enlist in theopeacetime ArnyI"
 OFFICERS AGREE
 If that sounds like a CT. gripe, here are quotes from officers:
 Colonel, Springfield. Mass: "The War Department should not be al- lowed to file the report and for get 1t, The recommendations of the committee will 90 a long way to- ward solving the crime of army's food waste. which, from aW my friends and I can learn, is just as bad today as during the war. Why can't the Army be made to act on recommendations of outstanding food men on how not to waste flour and bread-especially today when Europe is starving for wheat? Only publicity and public pressure can force the brass in Washington to put its kitchen in order
 Lieutenant, Air Forces, Texas: Sure the Army wasted food and liked 1t. But try and stop them. I used to like cheese-but when I was at Randolph Field our com- pany mess of 15O men had 200O pounds of cheese on hand. And the depot kept forcing more and more on us. But could anyone stop the high-ups from shipping more to usP If you think SO you don't know the Army system. Only an investi- gation in Congress can scare them. :"
 Ex-major:: "That NEA story will stir civilians and former CT. Joes to action-we hope. But will the Army do anything about ttY Not if they can help 1t, The Com mittee recommends separate Army food service corps to act in- dependently, the way the Signal and Medical Corps act But that will be blocked by the West Point clique. Hundreds of thousands ot tons of food wasted-does this clique care? Not if changing the system strips them of power. Its time the public woke up,"
 Says a G.I.: Pineapple Juice! We had so much it ran out of oul ears. We begged the mess sergeant to give us something else, He satc to keep on drinking 1t until 1t wal used up. We don't ask for it, w don't want it. but we keep getting it shipped to us. And my mother back home could not buy 8 can" SUGAR SURPLUS
 A corporal at Camp Hood sait his commanding officer laughingl! said if he had much more sugal sent to him he'd have to store l on the drill field, That was whe1 sugar bowls in many homes wer' empty.
 An Air Forces captain said h tried to put policies similar t those recommended by the com mittee into effect on his station but other officers and myself sool found that trying to prevent vast of food was like batting our head against a stone wall"
 Here's something to add t that NEA story on the Army's stu pidity about it's food services writes an ex-sergeant. My siste waited two months for her hus band to get home from the Soul Pacific because there were 15 ship tied up in Seattle for which tn Army couldn't supply cooks. Why Because after the war the Arm had to discharge its civilian-sol dier cooks and hadn't any replace
 ment program. And don't thin they have any replacement pro gram today for the boys recertl drafted. Let's have Congress do
 little Investigating"
 From Arkansas Q former ser
 geant from World War I write
 that he has sent a copy of NEA
 dispatch to Sen. J, William Flu
 bright saying: "This is the kin of information that is must fe
 airing on the floor of Congress"