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Military Meat
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At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for cooking. Prior to 1951 each mess had to cut up the carcasses. Posters along the walls describe beef cuts, and pork cuts.
August 1951
United States. Army
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