> (Hanidea or some such name, but this was back in 1952.)

Haneda, still there.  One of the 2 commercial ones that service the general
Tokyo area.

 >  CS> Things change.  When we had closed messes, CPO food was definately
 >  CS> 'best' and even now, it's got extras we buy with our CPO Mess money to
 >  CS> augment things. Most common problem then was the Marines wouldnt kick
 >  CS> in the same share of money but eat up all the goodies.  Not all of them
 >  CS> mind you and some groups were really good about it, but now and then
 >  CS> you'd have to lock the goodies up til they left.
 > 
 > The concept of a paid mess is kinda beyond me?  Was this true back in my
 > days as well?  (51-54.)  I know the CPO had their own mess, but did they
 > pay for it or was it in a general budget?

CPO's are enlisted so get the same money E1-6 get.  This is turned over to
the mess and then, in a closed mess, they buy food with it and cook it.  In
an open mess, it all goes to the same buy as the E1-6 mess and we just pull
out our share of the foods.  We also have an ancillary bit that we
voluntarily kick in from 10-15$ a month for (varies by ship) which is used to
get 'extra stuff' we want.
             xxcarol

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