mess tents
Military dining shelters
Mess tents are large temporary shelters where military personnel eat their meals.
The mess is the dining facility itself—from the old sense of mess as a portion of food served to a group—and the tent makes it portable for field operations.
Soldiers lined up outside the mess tent for breakfast.
- cookhouseKitchen for a group
- cookHeat food for eating
- KP dutyMilitary mess hall assignment
- chow lineCafeteria serving queue
- cupSmall drinking container
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formality of dining environment
mess tentsmess halls
Military dining facilities
officers' mess · dining facilities · chow halls · banquet halls
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