The Air Force serves some 53.4 million meals a year to airmen around the globe. That's enough to feed the fans at Pasadena, Calif.'s Rose Bowl-about 92,500 seats-one meal a day for roughly a year and a half. Great effort goes into ensuring that airmen have access to nutritious, ap- pealing, quality food, no matter where they are, according to officials with USAF and the other organizations involved in feeding service members. There are more than 35,000 airmen on deployments-including combat airmen in Afghanistan, who are fed by the Army-and more than 57,000 airmen stationed overseas, according to Air Force figures released in early May. They all need to eat.
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