As far as keeping kosher goes, it’s more of a difficulty in trying to explain to coworkers what “Kosher” really means.  They don’t fully understand the extent to what the laws of kashrut cover.

I don’t think that he realized what he said, when he said it, but one NCO told me “That it would be easier if you converted to a real religion”. And, once during a deployment, one young chaplain told me that they are not obligated to feed us while in a garrison setting (at the time we were on a FOB).

It’s an old discussion i have pretty much everywhere: Why is it that they can get big screen t.v’s, steak and lobster every week, but ask for just one kosher meal per week, not out of a bag, or box, and it’s like the whole world just collapsed and you asked for the impossible?  The question I pose is this one to the commanders or chow hall/DFAC managers & staff: Why is it that at the beginning of OEF we could fly a squadron of obsolete aircraft, the B-52 bomber around the world, complete with in-flight refueling and back, perform bombing missions, just to prove that we could do it, but we can feed the Jewish soldiers?

Yes, Kosher MRE’s (MoM)are available, but honestly, does anyone want to eat MRE’s everyday?