Diego Garcia NAS
Rating: 8 ???
May 2006 Update
Considering this place is a little island in the middle of nowhere they put on quite a show with their box lunches. The cookies were fresh, (orange for Halloween), 2 sandwiches (salami & cheese and peanut butter & jelly), fried chicken, hard boiled egg, 2 milk (one chocolate), an apple, carrot sticks, and raisins. BRAVO!
May 2006 update
Uh oh! Just got an update from Jason Barton, who submitted the following photo which is SUPPOSEDLY corned beef. His recommendation is to stick with the PBJ & water. Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Jason!!
He went on to say...
The problem with Diego is that there's not much available in the Ship's
Store either. So my only advice would be to go to the OClub for pizza
or mongolian BBQ night every chance you get because the food is
otherwise lacking on this NAVY base.
We were there for 70 days and took a 3-day trip to Al Udied smack in the
middle and it was like we died and went to heaven....AF food again!
The best way to describe Diego's flight meals is "highly variable." We
got two meals per flight....a ground meal and a person's choice of a
flight meal. Ground meals were a piece of fried chicken, chips,
cookies, soda, candy bar (Milky Way with no caramel...figure that out),
and a hoagie-style sandwich. The flight meals had a pretty good
sandwich of choice (I chose PB&J) and all had celery, carrots (or some
carrot-colored fibrous material), water, and some decent trail mix.
Lots of good apples too.
Some days the fried chicken would be a nice breast piece, then other
days you'd get some emaciated looking wings. Some days the cookies
would be soft and tasty, other days hard tasteless bricks of flour.
Some days the hoagie would have decent lunchmeat, and other days it
would be one see-through slice of some mystery lunchmeat. But never
without the mandatory processed "cheese food." They were always kind to
include a baggie of sweet pickles and olives, but the olives always
tasted like pickles.
