On Turkey Day, ship’s officers, senior enlisted do the serving
11/27/2009
By
Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn
,
11th MEU
PERSIAN GULF
Thanksgiving dinner aboard USS Cleveland took two days to prepare, included 16 whole turkeys and fed more than 700 service members here Nov. 26.
Eighty-nine Navy and Marine cooks, messmen and food-service attendants made the fare and a presentation that included baked-bread cornucopias and alligator-shaped loaves.
Officers and senior enlisted on board took shifts serving the junior enlisted on the mess deck.
“We know who the hard workers are,” said Senior Chief Petty Officer Rodrick Frierson, leading culinary specialist. “This day is for them.”
“It’s one way to give thanks to (the junior enlisted) and the work they do every day,” said Gunnery Sgt. Rudy Galima, a Hilo, Hawaii, native, who served turkey.
Galima is the logistics chief for the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s combat logistics element.
The 11th MEU, a rapid-response air-ground task force, is serving a regularly scheduled deployment in the Middle East as part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group, a Navy and Marine Corps team.
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PERSIAN GULF-Gunnery Sgt. Rudy Galima, left, and Sgt. Maj. Adrian Gamboa, right, man food stations behind a fruit-filled cornucopia as other Marine staff noncommissioned officers take their shifts to serve Thanksgiving dinner aboard USS Cleveland here Nov. 26. Galima is a Hilo, Hawaii, native and Gamboa is from Chicago. They are serving with Combat Logistics Battalion 11, the logistics-combat element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. , Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn, 11/26/2009 2:47 AM
PERSIAN GULF-Gunnery Sgts. Brad Colbert, left, and Joe Gilliland, man food stations to serve Thanksgiving dinner aboard USS Cleveland here Nov. 26. Colbert is from San Diego and Gilliland is from Grand Bay, Ala. They are serving with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, the ground-combat element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. , Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn, 11/26/2009 2:46 AM
PERSIAN GULF-From left, Gunnery Sgts. Joe Gilliland and Brad Colbert and Navy Lt. Allison Katter, man food stations to serve Thanksgiving dinner aboard USS Cleveland here Nov. 26. Colbert is from San Diego and Gilliland is from Grand Bay, Ala. They are serving with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, the ground-combat element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Katter, from Linwood, N.Y., is a critical-care nurse serving with Combat Logistics Battalion 11’s shock-trauma platoon. CLB-11 is the logistics-combat element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. , Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn, 11/26/2009 2:45 AM
PERSIAN GULF-First Sgt. Felix Acosta, acting sergeant major for Battalion Landing Team 2/4, slices turkey for Thanksgiving dinner aboard USS Cleveland here Nov. 26. Officers and senior enlisted on board worked in shifts preparing and serving food for the junior enlisted on ship. BLT 2/4 is the ground-combat element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. , Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn, 11/26/2009 2:43 AM
PERSIAN GULF-One of 16 whole turkeys lay prepared for Thanksgiving dinner aboard USS Cleveland here Nov. 26. The meal took two days to prepare and fed more than 700 service members. Eighty-nine Navy and Marine cooks, messmen and food-service attendants prepared the fare and a presentation that included baked-bread cornucopias and alligator-shaped loaves. , Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dunn, 11/26/2009 1:05 AM
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