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The canteen system was reformed in 1917 with the foundation of the Army Canteen Committee, this was a not for profit company, rather than a co-operative, but otherwise had the same aims as the Canteen and Mess Co-operative Society, which it absorbed. By April 1917 the committee managed more than 2,000 canteens across the world. [15]
Two Australian Army soldiers enjoy some recreation time at a sandbagged Navy Army Air Force Institute (NAAFI) in Korea, 1952. The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI / ˈ n æ f iː /) is a company created by the British government on 9 December 1920 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.
The Federal German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) differentiates between three different mess areas.1. HBG (Heimbetriebsgesellschaft) - More commonly called Enlisted Mess (Mannschaftsheim): it is common for most bases to have one, where food and drink can be purchased.
It traces its origins to the British colonial period in India, where the Army Canteen Board was created as part of the British Navy and Army Canteen Board. [3] While the British organization was dissolved in 1922 and replaced by the Naval, Army and Air Force Agency, the Indian Army Canteen Board continued until 1927. [3]
A World War II-era field kitchen used by the Czechoslovak Army. A field kitchen (also known as a battlefield kitchen, expeditionary kitchen, flying kitchen, or goulash cannon) is a kitchen used primarily by militaries to provide hot food to troops near the front line or in temporary encampments.
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
A garrison ration is a type of military ration that, depending on its use and context, could refer to rations issued to personnel at a camp, installation, or other garrison; allowance allotted to personnel to purchase goods or rations sold in a garrison (or the rations purchased with allowance); a type of ration; or a combined system with distinctions and differences depending on situational ...
The Canteen Stores Department traces its origins to the British Raj, when the Army Canteen Board was established in India as an offshoot of the British Navy and Army Canteen Board. Although the Navy and Army Canteen Board was abolished in the UK in 1922, and was replaced by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), its counterpart in ...