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RSK
05-25-2004, 03:35 AM
Camping with quartermaster units
FRESH BREAD FROM LUKOVICA

Those who think for a moment, based on the title of this article, that quartermaster soldiers in training centre in Svilajnac are trained to learn how to make miracles, such as making bread out of bulbs are actually wrong. Lukovica (onion bulb) is just a name of the proving ground situated in the village near Svilajnac, where camping is organised for each generation of quartermaster soldiers when their training approaches the end. However, although the cooks and bakers who wear the uniforms of the Serbian and Montenegrin Armed Forces do not make any miracles, what they are able to do is not very far from that.
On this warm May day, the whole tent colony sprung in no time. And as soon as the tents were raised, you could see the smoke coming out of one of them. In a mobile mechanised bakery, bread was baked in natural conditions. Sometime around noon, when the soldiers were dismissed from the proving ground and headed to get some food, the first loaves were done. The smell of bread spreading all around has "brought back the life" into weary faces of soldiers.
Isn't it a true miracle when a man discovers pleasure in simple and seemingly common things? And this actually happens when a soldier finds himself in line waiting for lunch after repeating the exercise hundreds of times. It is hard to imagine that a soldier would indulge in anything more at that moment than in the smell of freshly baked loaf of bread.
Soldiers who held loaves of freshly baked bread that day on the proving ground will surely remember how they witnessed a "miracle".

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A full spatula of bread is taken out of the stove after bread has been baked for half an hour at 260 degrees.

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If you must improvise, you can put bread to be baked in a barrel covered with dirt.

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The stew is on the menu - while the bread is baked, lunch is almost done.

shrek
05-25-2004, 07:32 AM
Improvise, adapt, overcome!

Three words used by any Good Army!

Marmot1
05-25-2004, 07:34 AM
cool at least something military and not connected with killing

Ichhabe
05-25-2004, 09:02 AM
Cool pictures. Nothing make a soldier more happy than a good meal. The world can go to hell for all he care, as long as he get a nice hot meal.

Must say I'm quite impressed that the Serbs maintain field bakeries in this time of modern logistic. But anyway, good for Serb soldiers.

RSK
05-25-2004, 05:11 PM
Cool pictures. Nothing make a soldier more happy than a good meal. The world can go to hell for all he care, as long as he get a nice hot meal.

Must say I'm quite impressed that the Serbs maintain field bakeries in this time of modern logistic. But anyway, good for Serb soldiers.

I actually think its easier to have a kitchen like that logistically. I remember as a kid that was the way my grandmother used to make bread, so I guess its a tradition that hasn't died and is readily available.

Seraphim
05-25-2004, 05:14 PM
3. Don't post threads with TITLES IN ALL CAPS.

5jumpchump
05-25-2004, 06:02 PM
Improvise, adapt, overcome!

Three words used by any Good Army!

As well as **** , shower , and shave !

LordHalbert
05-25-2004, 06:16 PM
****, shower, shave, good hot food, pussy - not in any order.

One happy soldier :)

Loco
05-25-2004, 06:33 PM
Sometimes in the army are very great cooks, but traditionally, at leas in Spain, the best food you can eat is in the Armada. My father served in the armada when he was a conscript, and he sailed in a little ship, a dragaminas ship( mine sweeper???) and 50 years after that he still says the best bread he ate in his life was that baked in the ship by the cook.

ZeroPositive
05-25-2004, 09:59 PM
good to see the field kitchen in action :D

Otsoa
05-25-2004, 10:49 PM
Pity my father never had any pictures of when he was a cook in the Spanish army. He did his duty on the Canary Islands in the late 50's. Would be interesting to see how they cooked their meals back then and what conditions they had to deal with.