116th Services Flight serves up a culinary delight at night

Photo By Roger Parsons | The 116th Services Flight, Georgia Air National Guard serves a hot breakfast to E-8C Joint STARS aircraft maintainers during drill weekend at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., Feb. 8, 2015. The food service professionals from the 116th Air Control Wing took advantage of the opportunity to perform additional training on the use of their disaster relief mobile kitchen trailer (DRMKT), while providing nightshift aircraft maintenance workers the chance to enjoy a hot meal just off the flightline. The free-standing mobile kitchen, acquired by the unit just over a year ago, is designed for fast setup and teardown and can be transported aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft. Airmen train on the DRMKT regularly to maintain readiness required to respond to a contingency situation across the southeast United States. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Roger Parsons/Released)  

WARNER ROBINS, UNITED STATES

02.08.2015

Story by Tech. Sgt. Regina Young 

116th Air Control Wing

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — Food service professionals from the Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing, put their state-of-the-art mobile kitchen to good use Saturday and Sunday providing hot meals to aircraft maintainers working the nightshift.

Providing a meal over the unit training assembly provided an opportunity for the services flight not only to interact with the maintainers, but also gain valuable training and team building experience using their disaster relief mobile kitchen, according to the superintendent of the 116th Services Flight.

As the maintainers were on the flightline recovering an E-8C Joint STARS aircraft, the 116th Force Support Squadron’s Services Flight was busy preparing barbecue chicken, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, coleslaw and rolls.

They followed up dinner Saturday evening with a hot breakfast Sunday morning.

“It was nice to come straight from the flightline and get a good hot meal,” said an Airman from the 116th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.

The superintendent went on to share how the disaster relief mobile kitchen trailer, or DRMKT, provides the Georgia Guard a valuable resource to help out in a state emergency management situation.

“This opportunity has been weeks in the making and we have been excited about coming out here and showing the great work our team has been doing and support our maintenance group,” said Lt. Col. Rebecca Gray, 116th Force Support Squadron commander.

The free-standing mobile kitchen is designed for fast setup and shutdown and can be deployed quickly to feed first responders during a natural or man-made disaster.

“Having the force support squadron come out tonight with their mobile kitchen and providing outstanding food for our maintainers, is a great example of what a team does,” said Col. Lynn Morris, 116th Maintenance Group commander.

• Date Taken: 02.08.2015
• Date Posted: 02.11.2015 12:41
• Story ID: 154206
• Location: WARNER ROBINS, US