{"id":28636,"date":"2021-12-03T19:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/12\/03\/marine-style-barbecue-marines-add-foraging-class-to-the-basic-school\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:05:43","slug":"marine-style-barbecue-marines-add-foraging-class-to-the-basic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/12\/03\/marine-style-barbecue-marines-add-foraging-class-to-the-basic-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine-style barbecue? Marines add foraging class to The Basic School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has been a long time since the U.S. military truly has had to worry about logistics.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the nearly 20 years of war in the Middle East, Marines could be fairly certain they would be stocked on food. Whether that meant Burger King or the vegetable omelet meal, ready-to-eat, going hungry <\/a>was not a main concern for the average grunt, even in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Marine Corps is now preparing for a different fight, one that would see small teams of Marines spread out across the South Pacific, facing a so-called near peer enemy capable of annihilating the Marine Corps\u2019 logistics train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help prepare Marines for that new fight, the Corps has added a foraging class to The Basic School\u2019s curriculum, where young Marine officers will learn how to catch and prepare their own food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not something new, it\u2019s something that we\u2019ve always done historically to win and fight wars, but it\u2019s one thing we stopped doing when we went to packaged operational rations,\u201d Chief Warrant Officer Lisa Figueroa, the deputy food service officer at Marine Detachment Fort Lee, Virginia, said in a video about the foraging class.<\/p>\n\n\n\t