This is my MOS and at my duty station we had contractors doing all the cooking. I was either shift leader or in rations the whole 2 years I was there. I only cooked like 2 times total. That blew me away. Trust me when I say rations for one person is hell. I worked probably 100 16 in a half hour shifts mostly because of inventory. I still remember the longest I worked was 17 hours and 10 minutes. I thought about telling the commander but when I thought about doing that I realized I only had a month until I started ACAP so I just sucked it up for one more month. I’m still in the IRR.

I was an active duty 92G for four years and now I'm in training for another MOS. I am so glad to be out of this MOS because it was just so toxic and ghetto. It was completely different from what I expected (you'd expect "culinary specialist" to be something like a chef, right?) I don't mean to sound negative, especially to people who haven't served, but even though being a 92G wasn't all terrible all the time, at the best of times, it was just tolerable and not a single moment did I recall ever actually enjoying my job. More often than not, the experience was completely miserable. I will say that there were moments where I was glad to have been in the DFAC instead of the motorpool dealing with the standard army forscom nonsense that would make you wish you had have joined the air force instead for. those were some of the "tolerable" moments, along with being able to take food out that was left over so I could eat later. Probably the only thing I actually found enjoyable was the cooking labs in AIT. Those were surprisingly fun where we got to eat what we cooked, still ate breakfast lunch and dinner at the DFAC, and still stayed in shape to pass our PT tests (most of us including me. Some people failed).

I don't know how many times I've said "I should have joined the military to learn how to cook." What makes it funny is the fact that my mother has always been an excellent cook, but not a great teacher. I'm more of a by-the-book than a "feel" due to my experience level. At least I can make family and friends laugh.

Lol don't do it! This MOS is the reason my feet are screwed up now!

wowww amazing I love cooking so much.🤗😇😊🥰😍

good stuff! learned a lot thank you!🔥🔥🔥