Recently, an officer of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) was suspended for taking extra bread and natto in the canteen, which is undoubtedly a very strange military anecdote, reflecting some entanglements between Japan and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
According to information released by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Naha Base in Okinawa, an aviation junior officer (third class Kusa) was suspended for 10 days for repeatedly taking more than a ration of bread and natto in the base canteen. Although this punishment is not severe, it does not hurt the bones at all, but it is somewhat faceless, and this young man is easy to be regarded as a foodie in his future work and life.
Photo note: Curry rice at Naha Air Base in Okinawa
Foodies have no social status in Japan, which is completely different from the domestic food and sowing trend. The author of this article has written "What is the Food of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces?" Clear soup is scarce, with curry rice, officers and soldiers are difficult to eat" of the picture manuscript, many netizens replied to the comment that the Japanese eating habit is to eat less, a curry rice plus a few small dishes a clear soup to solve the problem, do not have to be big fish and meat to serve. I basically believe this reply, because I have never been to Japan after all.
Japan's Naha Air Base said that the base canteen is a self-service mode, and from May 23 to June 4, 2019, the young man repeatedly took more than the ration of bread and natto during meals, and he took 10 more days and suspended him for 10 days. This is strange, it is a buffet and a ration, which may be the strange point of Japan. If you are afraid that the officers and men will eat more, then adopt the mode of distributing meals, one for each person, and there are more, but the canteen of Naha Air Base is a self-help mode. If the self-service mode is set, it should be allowed to eat casually until they are full, but the canteen of naha air base has set a quantitative ration. You say tangled is not tangled, right?
The young man also explained the matter 10 days after he was suspended, saying that he "felt that the amount given was a little less, so he took more." This sentence at least shows a problem, the ration set up in the canteen of the Naha Air Force Base cannot guarantee that the officers and men will be full, and if they eat according to the ration of the canteen, some people will go hungry. So is Japan short of money? Japan's Ministry of Defense applied for 5.4 trillion yen (about $49 billion) for fiscal year 2022, setting a record for Japan's military expenditure, so much money can not be used to buy the United States Loma F-35 joint attack aircraft, should also take out some to let the officers and soldiers eat, after all, this is more humane.
When it comes to food, since this is a matter for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, we don't have to worry about whether they can eat enough. From a technical point of view alone, if all the officers and men are as small and thin as Shunji Izutsu, the supreme commander of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the chief of staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and can be satisfied by eating a few pieces of fried chicken and a few mouthfuls of green vegetables, then it is nothing to set the ration of food a little lower. However, whether a person with such a large amount of food as Shaosa should give them special care and let them eat enough may really be a question that the top level of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces should consider.
Looking around the armies of the world, the US military in my impression is casually eaten, the energy standards of the main and sideline foods are very high, to ensure the energy intake needs of each officer and soldier, of course, vitamins are enough. When I was in the army, although there was also a standard for food, this standard was the standard for all officers and men to eat well, and if there was not enough food to eat at a large table, the cooking class should be under the article (because the meal was not fragrant and did not want to eat it was not counted); if it was a buffet mode, then each officer and soldier could eat as much as he wanted, and if he wanted to fight a few meals, he would fight several times, and he really did not hear that there was a ration in the buffet.
To sum up, it is still that sentence, there are many strange things in Japan, of course, it is not bad to be suspended for 10 days for eating more natto.
Attached: The rank of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, since Japan does not have an army, it cannot be called a rank, it can only be called a rank.