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by Joe Gould
A few dog faces are training to become chow hounds. Army cooks put in long hours in hot kitchens to make sure their fellow soldiers are fueled up. Now they’re going to get credit for those hours through a new partnership with the American Culinary Federation, according to Sgt. 1st Class Gabriel Delagarza, who works with
“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]We work long hours, we work holidays and weekends, and we want to find a way to reward everything they’re doing,” Delagarza said.[/FONT]
Food service specialists (92Gs) who tally 4,000 hours in ten prescribed areas – about two years of kitchen work — will get a culinarian certificate from the ACF, something that may well help make them more employable when they leave the military. It’s a comforting thought, especially as veteran unemployment reaches alarming proportions.
Delagarza, who dropped us an email about the program, writes:
read more @ http://militarytimes.com/blogs/outside-the-wire/2011/08/18/3101/
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