The Navy Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center (NAVSUP FLC) Norfolk Navy Food Management Team held a pit master class for shipboard and shore based culinary specialists June 20 through 22.

According to Chief Culinary Specialist Steven Collier, an instructor with NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Navy Food Management Team, the course is designed to teach the basics of grilling and how to prepare food for a shipboard steel beach picnic.

"Grilling is not a common cooking type aboard a ship but it is a necessary skill," he added. "A steel beach picnic is vital to crew morale while underway."

He added that for deployed Sailors, events like steel beach picnics are, "a little piece of home."

The charcoal grilling section is the highlight of the course, but Collier says they teach other important skills such as recipe conversion, using knives, advanced culinary techniques and food preparation worksheet training.

"This class is great, it gives me the ability to educate Sailors and pass on the knowledge that others gave to me throughout my career," he said.

Collier added that his favorite part of teaching classes like this is watching the students learn and grow during the course of a class.

"If each Sailor takes at least one thing they have learned here and applies it to their shipboard life, I consider it an overall success," he explained.

The NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Navy Food Management Team provides a variety of classes throughout the year for ship and shore-based Sailors. Classes include sanitation, food service equipment, baking, cake decorating, and a host of other topics.

NAVSUP FLC Norfolk, one of eight fleet logistics centers under NAVSUP GLS, provides operational logistics, business and support services to fleet, shore and industrial commands with 37 separate locations in three Navy regions.

NAVSUP GLS provides global logistics for a global Navy. The organization is made up of more than 6,500 military and civilian logistics professionals operating from 105 locations worldwide providing an extensive array of integrated global logistics and contracting services to Navy, Marine Corps, joint operational units, and allied forces across all warfare enterprises.

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A component of the Naval Supply Systems Command headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, NAVSUP GLS is part of a worldwide logistics network of more than 22,500 military and civilian personnel providing combat capability through logistics.

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