Who washes the dishes in the army?

Question

I came up with this one whilst on the toilet. I'm curious about it.

Royal Dish Washing Corps?

Answer 1

In the US, the old method was to assign soldiers to "K.P." (kitchen patrol) to do kitchen chores. The new method is to hire outside contractors. In the field there's lots of disposables (food comes in heat-and-toss disposable pans) and not much cooking or cleanup needed.

Answer 2

When I was in the army, they had a conveyer type dish washer that would steam clean any crockery. The only items to be hand cleaned were all the cooking pots and trays. This duty was known as "Tin bashing."i am talking about 40 greasy trays and 20 large cooking pots. This duty was usually done as part of cookhouse fatigues and you did it in turn about once a week. When you had done all the pots and trays you thaen had to mop all the floors and clean the cooking ranges, and you had to wait for the Sergeant Cook to give his approval before you were finished.

Answer 3

In basic training the soldiers would have KP duty, so they would do anything from washing dishes to peeling potatoes. Now the new soldiers we have coming into the unit tell me they have never heard of KP duty and they never worked in the kitchen. So now it's contractors for the most part.

Answer 4

Royal Logistics Corps.... LoL. Set a fannies.

Answer 5

in some places, it is lower enlisted soldiers on extra duty as the result of having received an article 15. however, where i currently am at in afghanistan, local nationals, as Afghani citizens are called, and contracted members of the company KBR, do the dishes, as well as the other duties in the dining facilities (DFACs).

Answer 6

When I was in the army years ago the lowest ranking guys took turns being on K.P. duty. You "volunteered" for the privilege.

Answer 7

People do this. There are designated roles for everything. My boyfriend was a rice keeper for the Korean army. True.

Answer 8

depends where you're talking about, when the lads have their dinner the people who serve them are civilian, well they are where my bloke works

if a soldier is being punished and has to do washing up then he'll do it in the sergeants or officers mess

Answer 9

the dishes get washed by the dietary guys/cooks do it...after everyone eats at their dinning facilities, they wash the dishes...unless of course the hire civilians to do it for them...

Answer 10

Mostly get plastic or card board plates nowadays, so we just bin them. Bit harsh on the environment but hey, me get hungry.