https://www.dodea.edu/education/student-services/wellness/school-meal-program I will be the first to say that I had no idea that the DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE funded school lunches. My question is why?! I was aware that state funding went to school lunches, and USDA federal dollars went to school lunches, but WHY does the DoD fund school lunches?
Settle down Beavis. The DoD funds school lunches for DoDEA schools. The DoD has schools to serve the children of Service Members stationed overseas. Like when I was stationed in Japan. My son went to school run by DoD that was on the Air Base. It makes sense that DoD would have all the programs that civilian School Districts in the US have to serve the students. The small island where we were had farms on it. There were no cows, so no fresh milk. No grains (including rice) grown on island, so no baked goods. There was an underground pig farm. I met the owner. He attended K State to study underground pig farming. The tropical fruits were locally sourced. The DoD also issued the contract for the school busses, imported teachers from the US, and ran the school libraries. When we moved to Alaska there were schools on the Air Base. They were run by the civilian Anchorage School District. I doubt the lunches were much different (except for the quality of the fruit) than the ones in Japan.
The DoD has nothing to do with the school lunch program at your neighborhood elementary school. Unless you are stationed at a base overseas. People are lazy. I would bet that while the DoD has its very own regulations for all that pertains to school lunches, they did not write them. They most likely copied the existing regulations and just replaced whichever Federal acronym appeared there with DoD.
This is not some sinister plot to have the DoD in your school's business. It is to nourish the children of Service Members overseas. As far as contractors go, it is probably a good thing that there are strict standards for quality and verified supply chain for foreign food contractors supplying meals for the children of our military overseas. To act otherwise would be irresponsible and negligent.
I looked up the bananas episode. This involved a civilian school district and had NOTHING to do with DoD.
I can verify what you are saying. My husband went to Heidelberg High School and he had many friends in the other German DoD schools.
We go to yearly get-togethers with 100+ of those DoD kids, from around the country. Many of them attended DoD schools all over the world during the time their parents were in the Military.
You are correct about the DoD running the schools.
San, I was trying to be factual about what the linked article referred to. The DoD is NOT involved with your local school district school lunch program. No matter how ridiculously paranoid and anti-military you happen to be. I have been all over the world, and not to the garden spots. I've seen what folks are willing to eat in order to survive. It goes beyond mere food aversion. I've seen too many places where Quality Control means that the proper bribe has been paid. So according to you the DoD should have NO standards for the food purchased to feed school children in their care. Are you saying that the children of military members stationed overseas should eat the "local cuisine"? Maybe you think the military dependents deserve to starve. Hyperbole right back at ya' Buddy. Try being nice sometime. You are right about one thing. The DoD is not perfect. But then again, neither are you.
You obviously know nothing about DoD schools abroad. There were about 34 schools in Germany, 2 in Italy and one or two in Spain until recently. There are 3 left in German. Most were closed in the last 15 years as the US closed bases in Europe.
I'm not sure about other countries as my husband went to one of the German schools.
I got a bunch of those non-ripening bananas from Walmart once. I kept waiting and waiting for them to turn yellow. They never did. It finally turned into an experiment, to me. I think I finally threw them out after 2, 2 1/2 months.
I knew the Dept of Ed could be scrapped w/out hurting the edumacation of the kiddos, but this sounds like you're punking us!! Until I read the links. OMG.
Good thing DoD has an ever-expanding budget, and 'mutually beneficial goals.'
Jennifer I'm sorry to say that this type of thing is causing me to believe what you write is unreliable and I'm afraid I will need to stop spending my time here.
Settle down Beavis. The DoD funds school lunches for DoDEA schools. The DoD has schools to serve the children of Service Members stationed overseas. Like when I was stationed in Japan. My son went to school run by DoD that was on the Air Base. It makes sense that DoD would have all the programs that civilian School Districts in the US have to serve the students. The small island where we were had farms on it. There were no cows, so no fresh milk. No grains (including rice) grown on island, so no baked goods. There was an underground pig farm. I met the owner. He attended K State to study underground pig farming. The tropical fruits were locally sourced. The DoD also issued the contract for the school busses, imported teachers from the US, and ran the school libraries. When we moved to Alaska there were schools on the Air Base. They were run by the civilian Anchorage School District. I doubt the lunches were much different (except for the quality of the fruit) than the ones in Japan.
The DoD has nothing to do with the school lunch program at your neighborhood elementary school. Unless you are stationed at a base overseas. People are lazy. I would bet that while the DoD has its very own regulations for all that pertains to school lunches, they did not write them. They most likely copied the existing regulations and just replaced whichever Federal acronym appeared there with DoD.
This is not some sinister plot to have the DoD in your school's business. It is to nourish the children of Service Members overseas. As far as contractors go, it is probably a good thing that there are strict standards for quality and verified supply chain for foreign food contractors supplying meals for the children of our military overseas. To act otherwise would be irresponsible and negligent.
I looked up the bananas episode. This involved a civilian school district and had NOTHING to do with DoD.
Are you a paid shill for the communist left or do you just play one on substack?
I can verify what you are saying. My husband went to Heidelberg High School and he had many friends in the other German DoD schools.
We go to yearly get-togethers with 100+ of those DoD kids, from around the country. Many of them attended DoD schools all over the world during the time their parents were in the Military.
You are correct about the DoD running the schools.
Duct Tape ….“nourish” … not interested in promoting anything the DoD does to “nourish” anyone.
No thanks. But, you can keep you embracement of how wonderful you believe the DoD to be. Your choice, your kiddoes. ;)
San, I was trying to be factual about what the linked article referred to. The DoD is NOT involved with your local school district school lunch program. No matter how ridiculously paranoid and anti-military you happen to be. I have been all over the world, and not to the garden spots. I've seen what folks are willing to eat in order to survive. It goes beyond mere food aversion. I've seen too many places where Quality Control means that the proper bribe has been paid. So according to you the DoD should have NO standards for the food purchased to feed school children in their care. Are you saying that the children of military members stationed overseas should eat the "local cuisine"? Maybe you think the military dependents deserve to starve. Hyperbole right back at ya' Buddy. Try being nice sometime. You are right about one thing. The DoD is not perfect. But then again, neither are you.
Try using your duck tape on yourself - your comments
You obviously know nothing about DoD schools abroad. There were about 34 schools in Germany, 2 in Italy and one or two in Spain until recently. There are 3 left in German. Most were closed in the last 15 years as the US closed bases in Europe.
I'm not sure about other countries as my husband went to one of the German schools.
I got a bunch of those non-ripening bananas from Walmart once. I kept waiting and waiting for them to turn yellow. They never did. It finally turned into an experiment, to me. I think I finally threw them out after 2, 2 1/2 months.
Gee whiz!
I knew the Dept of Ed could be scrapped w/out hurting the edumacation of the kiddos, but this sounds like you're punking us!! Until I read the links. OMG.
Good thing DoD has an ever-expanding budget, and 'mutually beneficial goals.'
>> Is the food full of a bunch of chemical GMO garbage crap?<<
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Is china joe a treasonous POS?
The globalist scum want to poison every one of us as early as possible to create life long customers for HMOs & Big Pharma.
They are obviously defending our nation against a bunch of young insurrectionists!
I'm no expert on bananas, but when I was little, my dad ran a produce line and would buy bananas.
They would be gassed to ripen at various days.
I'm guessing that school received ungassed bananas.
Yes we have no bananas, we have no bananas today! 🎶
Jennifer I'm sorry to say that this type of thing is causing me to believe what you write is unreliable and I'm afraid I will need to stop spending my time here.