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In reply to the discussion: Posting without comment [View all]usaf-vet
(6,092 posts)I was a military medic. I was taking and break after lunch to get a little sun and fresh air. I watch one of the cooks carrying a LARGE "cookie sheet" pan filled with leftover drummies and chicken wings that were in the chow line at lunch.
He was head to the dumpster to toss them.
Right behind the hospital was an 8 ft chainlink fence. On the other side was a daycare center. Some of the kids were probably kids of military families and neighborhood civilians kids. I yelled at the cook if you are just going to toss them let's give them to the kids that were out playing.
He handed me the tray and said here you do it. So I walked the tray over and slid it under the fence. The kids and the adults with them cleaned the tray in minutes. I took the empty tray back to the kitchen.
The next day I got called to the First Sergeants offices and told never to do that again. That food was government property and it was against regs to dispose of government property without going through proper channels.
This was in the mid-1960s. So we have been doing these things for years.