Back in the days of the
"old Corps" of the 1960's, SOP was the E-1's and E-2's were allowed
to report to the Mess hall for a maximum of 30 days mess duty once in a year.
As a Boot buck private, I did
not escaped mess duty at Camp Matthews the first week of rifle training and
spent a week scrubbing out pots and pans and garbage cans. I thought my mess duty time was over,
wrong.
