- Reserve Time for the KOMMANDOS
- When the Kommandos were
off the front line and in reserve, it was
- a time for catching up on mail, checking in with
friends, swapping stories,
- lies and trading artifacts. And the company kitchen
would set up
- and serve hot meals. After weeks on the abbreviated
K rations, the Kommandos found a full regular meal was too much --
until
- their stomachs got back to normal capacity. It was a
great time to receive
- and share "care" packages from home, news
and mail.
- The Kommando radio man once
boasted to me that he had eggs for
- breakfast. It turned out that he farm in which his
squad was temporarily
- bunking had a number of laying hens. He observed when
the "haus frau"
- usually picked the eggs and he subsequently made the
rounds of the
- chicken house at an earlier time and was reaping the
rewards for his ingenuity.
- At one time the company
kitchen received a special shipment of fresh,
- raw eggs. The rumor spread that we would have
"real" eggs for breakfast.
- Everyone talked of it all night. To our amazement at
breakfast, the cooks
- passed out boiled eggs.....for convenience of
serving, the cooks said.
- That was a situation where the cooks came close to
becoming casualties.
- Such a howl about the misuse of
fresh eggs arose that the Captain told
- the cooks to rethink their "convenient
method". The next morning,
- each Kommando got his eggs the way he ordered them,
scrambled, over
- easy, sunny side up, etc., not convenient to serve
but a way to regain
- the good will of the hungry guys.
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