Navy Culinary Specialists Serve Tasty Excellence

By Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Charles Gaddis IV, Navy Public Affairs Support Element Detachment Northwest

Silverdale, Wash. - “Reveille! Reveille! All hands heave out!”

The announcement wakes shipboard sailors and Marines. After the routine wake-up motions and a clean shave, service members head toward the galley to partake in the “most important” meal of the day. While sailors are sleeping in their racks or at the barracks, culinary specialists had already been at work for hours.

The culinary specialist rate was established January 15, 2004. Prior to 1975 they were known as mess management specialists, commissary men and stewards.

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