Update 14 July 2014: The same questions keep coming up about this so I will try to answer them. First, some people don't have food because they want to eat breakfast elsewhere with their families. This is graduation day from Navy Officer Candidate School, so our families are there watching; this is really only a demonstration for them of how we ate, three times every single day for about 10 weeks. The last two weeks we have more freedom to eat however we want. Also, Navy OCS uses Marine Corps Drill Instructors it seems there was some confusion about that as well.

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The daily routine of Chow Hall Procedures, presented on graduation morning for the viewing pleasure of our families. However, Class 2509 stole the spotlight for a while getting chewed out "for real" right next to us on the other side of the Shark Tank. But it made a good contrast between Outpost and graduation day.

Here are the 10counts for properly eating at chow:
1) snap head down
2) grab your "war spoon"
3) scoop food onto your "war spoon"
4) put the spoon and its contents into your face
5) return spoon properly grounded to the lower starboard corner of your tray
6) snap head back up
7) masticate (chew)
8) swallow
9) recover and hold your bluedrink or water with "knife hands"
10) drink your drink and return the glass to the top port edge of your tray