<p>anybody want to post an example of a chow call??</p>
<p>if you really want to know specific rates like that you should just buy a reef points.</p>
<p>There are videos of chow call on Youtube. I think there's one called "Upperclass Chow Call" that shows the general idea.</p>
<p>Posting the contents will never capture the thrill of screaming as fast and as loud as you can while someone stands inches from your face screaming at you. You can't prepare. Trust me.</p>
<p>I took a few videos at my CVW (and got laughed at) to show my mom. I also took an audio recording of everyone running down the stairs, having to sound off twice at every flight. </p>
<p>I came home to watch the videos and was pretty dumbfounded by how weak it looked/sounded. 1985 is right...it doesn't capture the thrill at all. I was feeling the chaos while I was there and I was only observing!</p>
<p>just remember-</p>
<p>even if you screw up the menu, as long as you yell it out at the top of your lungs with MOTIVATION and ENTHEUSIASM, it just might be forgiven! ;)</p>
<p>hah. no one says the full menu anyways. i can't remember the last time that i did. they're happy if you say the dessert in the chow call. but if they ask you you better now it. don't sound off then. after plebe summer was over people would still sound off when asked rates and they would be like, "I'm right here! Tone it down!!"</p>
<p>I remember at my CVW, the plebes all gathered together in my Mid's room. They were strategizing their chow calls.</p>
<p>"What's the dessert?"
"Sweet and tasty granola chips."
"What? Ok, I think I got it."
"Dude, no. Just say granola. We don't need the rest of that stuff."
"But it's sweet and tasty."
"As long as we're together it's fine. Just granola, ok?"
"Ok, just granola."</p>
<p>I couldn't help but smile inside. That's good teamwork, though!</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>A "certain plebe" forgot the menu for the day.
So he made one up.
Think he shouted out all his "favorites" from home.
shouted it out "entheustastically", or so he said.
a bit homesick perhaps?</p>
<p>Anyway-
The cadre, of course, knowing it was not the "menu of the day" had but one response:</p>
<p>"And where do you think YOU are eating?"</p>
<p>:o</p>
<p>moral of the story:
don't worry about it...
do it with motivation and entheusiasm...
the rest you will laugh about later!</p>
<p>When I was doing chow calls, I couldn't imagine how this would EVER come in handy in my future Navy career. Trust me, it does.</p>
<p>What chow calls teach you is how to: memorize a lot of information in a short time; spew it out under intense pressure; and then immediately forget that information and learn new data with which you'll do the same thing (deliver it under pressure). </p>
<p>Many times in my Navy and post-Navy career this ability has come in very handy. It also gives you a new perspective on managers/supervisors who like to yell, throw tantrums, etc. After a year of chow calls, that stuff does not faze you. At all. </p>
<p>Once you get accustomed to doing them, it's really no big deal. Hard at first like many things, but not insurmountable. Also, you never forget them (i.e., the words, the cadence). Never.</p>
<p>i couldnt ever remember meals over plebe summer but now i can like that. what a silly (but apparantly useful) trait.</p>
<p>My secret to chow calls was to know about 70% of the material, but to be more loud and more annoying than anyone else. Go to a deck plate near an influencial firstie and do be loud as hell and make your voice sound worse than a train wreck. You'll be guarunteed to be "shoved off" where you can chill in your room for about 10 minutes.</p>