The 581st QM Co., 2nd Infantry Division Special Troops Battalion, competed in the Active Army Field Kitchen category at the Division and Eighth Army levels before moving onto the USARPAC competition.

HASTINGS — Army food from a field kitchen has come a long way since canned, dehydrated pork chops.

1 / 13 Show Caption + Soldiers with the 238th Quartermaster (Field Feeding) Company prepare food in a Mobile Kitchen Trailer during the 2024 Philip A. Connelly Competition in the U.S. Army Reserve ...

A handful of American Legion members were stationed behind an Army field kitchen and they spooned generous portions of pork and beans, mashed “spuds” and hard tack onto waiting plates.