I live in the balkans, and the military here (during conscription times) had standardized everything... they took a few cooking-inclined conscripts, gave them the recipe and food items per person and they cooked the food. Everything was precalculated. Some people are still so fond of "military food", there are actual military cookbooks for sale, with recipes such as "military beans" (vojnicki pasulj): https://secanja.com/vojnicki-pasulj-po-receptu-jna/ (including the tables of nutritional info)
It's possible that the Coast Guard places high value on "good food" as part of their morale.
It's also possible that the nature of USCG operations prevent them from standardizing food onboard, since it sounds like part of this particular ship's mission brought it to various ports where supplies were not guaranteed.
Few professions discredited themselves as much as teachers over the pandemic. Spent a good 2 years in many places screaming "We aren't essential, shut the schools!" never mind the impact on the kids.
My view on teachers not wanting to hang about or even leaving the job is that I would too if I was them.
Why stay in the plague pit for approximately minimum wage and the abuse they were copping from parents? They aren’t paid enough to care, but for some reason, most do. Parents were calling teachers from early in the morning until late at night, 7 days a week and wanted remote parenting over Skype.
I’ve been trying to talk my wife out of being a teacher, and the reasons pre-date covid.
Like I said, no profession has done as much to discredit their importance during the pandemic as teachers. Where im at the effect students has been catastrophic and still they endlessly bitch.
4-year degrees are almost completely useless filler (think about it — that's 5000+ hours of potential training). Most "degree" requirements could be stripped down maybe 90% and contain the same or more job-specific content.
An intense 8-week course would prepare most people for most jobs better than a college diploma requirement.
But if you were to ask other office workers how much of their degrees they use... It would likely come up as huge waste of time and resources.