Marines TV

Keeghan Padmore, the food and beverage manager for the Cook-Chill Production Center located on Camp Hansen, discusses how two new packaging machines will change the way U.S. Marines receive meals in Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 15, 2023. Marines stationed or deployed to Okinawa will be provided with contemporary food options that were not previously available. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Vincent Pham)

Kim Allison, director of the Neighborhood Pantry, talks about how the Neighborhood Pantry helps the military community at the Camp Foster Chapel on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 7, 2023. The Neighborhood Pantry is a program that gives service members and their families temporary relief by providing food, cleaning supplies, and other household essentials during difficult times. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Vincent Pham)

Marine Corps Community Services food trucks stage for the Mobile Feeding Pilot Program at the Foster Community Center, Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 4, 2023. To boost the quality of life for service members in the pacific region, U.S. Marines and Navy Sailors may now use their meal entitlements on the Chef Shack and La Cocina MCCS food trucks instead of mess halls by showing their military ID cards. The program is currently only available on Camp Foster, however Food Service Operations plans to expand their outreach to every Marine Corps installation in the Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Alex Fairchild)

Kaori Nohara, a pastry chef with the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni R. G. Robinson Mess Hall, takes part in an interview and performs daily baking tasks at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, July 28, 2023. Kaori Nohara is a master labor contractor who has been fine-tuning her pastry skills for 23 years. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Mitchell Austin)

U.S. Marines with Food Service Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, participate in Exercise Fueled to Fight at Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 3, 2023. The CLR-17 field mess Marines were competing in the Major General William Pendleton Thompson Hill Memorial Awards for Food Service Excellence. They competed against the II Marine Expeditionary Force and the III Marine Expeditionary Force nominees for the title of Best Field Mess in the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Natalie Greenwood)