The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) announced the winners of its annual awards given to service members and military establishments of the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Air Force, the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserves.

Winners of the 2023 Military Foodservice Awards visited the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago on Saturday, May 20.The following is a summary of the winners:

Army

Recipients of Philip A. Connelly Awards:

• Active Army Garrison: Group Support Battalion, 7th Special Force Group (Airborne), Camp “Bull” Simons, Eglin Air Force Base
• Active Army Field Kitchen: 221st Quartermaster Company, 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, Grafenwoehr, Germany
• Army Reserve Field Kitchen: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 400th Military Police Battalion, 333rd Military Police Brigade, 200th Military Police Command, Fort Meade, Maryland
• Army National Guard Field Kitchen: Bravo Company, 1109th Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group (TASMG), Pearl City, Hawaii

Marine Corps

Recipients of Major General W.P.T. Hill Memorial Awards:

• Best Management and Mess Attendant Mess Hall: Marine Corps Installations Pacific, Mess Hall 2356, 12th Marine Regiment, Okinawa, Japan
• Best Full Foodservice Mess Hall: Marine Corps Installations East, Mess Hall 4013, Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina
• Best Active Field Mess: Marine Forces Pacific, III Marine Expeditionary Force, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, Combat Logistics Regiment 37, Okinawa, Japan
• Best Reserve Field Mess: Marine Forces Reserves, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Combat Logistics Regiment 45, Smyrna, Ga.

Navy

Recipients of Captain Edward F. Ney Memorial Award Winners:

• Aircraft Carrier Platform: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)
• Submarine Platform: USS Maine (SSBN 741)
• Small/Medium Platform: USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) 
• Large Platform: USS Bataan (LHD 5) 
• West Coast: Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Silver Dolphin Bistro – Hickham, Hawaii
• East Coast: Naval Station Newport Rhode Island, Ney Hall Galley – Newport, Rhode Island 
• OCONUS: U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, Ristorante Bella Etna – Sigonella, Italy

United States Coast Guard

Recipients of Forrest O. Rednour Memorial Awards

• Dining Facility of the Year – Base: Base San Juan – San Juan, Puerto Rico 
• Dining Facility of the Year – Medium Afloat: USCGC Walnut – Pensacola, Fla.
• Dining Facility of the Year – Large Afloat: CGC Bertolf – Alameda, Calif. 
• Dining Facility of the Year – Sector and SFO: Sector New York – New York
• Dining Facility of the Year – Training Center and Culinary Support Activity:Tracen Petaluma – Petaluma, Calif. 
• Dining Facility of the Year – Small Afloat: USCGC Shrike 
• Dining Facility of the Year – Station: Station Burlington, Burlington, Vt.

Military Sealift Command 

Recipients of Captain David M. Cook Foodservice Excellence Awards 

• Small Ship Category: USNS Grasp (T-ARS 51) 
   
• Medium Ship Category: USNS Joshua Humphreys (T-AO 188)
   
• Large Ship Category: USNS Richard E Byrd (T-AKE 4) 
   
• Hybrid Ship Category: USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) 

Air Force

Recipients of John L. Hennessy Awards:

• Active Duty Foodservice Operations Region One: Incirlik Air Base, Turkey – United States Air Forces in Europe
• Active Duty Foodservice Operations Region Two: Yokota Air Base, Japan – Pacific Air Forces Command 
• Air Force Reserves Foodservice Operations: 512 Memorial Affairs Squadron, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware – Air Force Reserve Command

Air National Guard

Recipient of the Senior Master Sergeant Kenneth W. Disney Food Service Award

• 127th Wing, Selfridge, Michigan Air National Guard

NRAEF deploys restaurant and foodservice industry professionals to assess military foodservice operations as part of the rigorous assessment process for the awards. Factors include management effectiveness, force readiness support, food quality and more.