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- Our responsibility here in Bahrain

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^is to evaluate and hopefully certify CS personnel

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with American culinary federation

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standards of cuisine performance.

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While the certification is something

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that once they earn that it's theirs.

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They can take that throughout the rest of their lives

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whether they continue their career in the navy,

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or upon leaving the navy,

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it's something, again, that they're gonna have

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with them that they've earned.

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- I was testing for sous chef.

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^For sous chef I had to

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^demonstrate proper fileting little flatfish,

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shallow poaching a flatfish,

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deconstructing an artichoke and poaching an artichoke.

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I had to cook four six-ounce steaks to medium-rare.

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I had to make rice pilaf and a matignon.

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A matignon is an edible mirepoix.

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So, it is bacon, celery, carrots,

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onions, with some wine and butter.

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And then plate everything and make it look pretty.

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- Refinement. That's all it is really.

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^And seeing what these guys do.

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^I mean, him in there running around,

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being in the Middle East,

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cooking for chefs from the America, you know.

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Which is totally out of his comfort zone.

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Little freaked out, little crazy.

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But right now he's been doing just an awesome

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job and that's what I'm here for.

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^- I love cooking. Cooking is part of who I am.

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And I figure find one thing I love,

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serve my country along side,

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and make their days just that little bit better.

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This weekend I was getting certified for chef day cuisine.

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Rough, tiring, exhausting,

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pushing yourself to limits that you never thought you had.

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At the end of the day it's for a purpose:

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to have that official title.

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No one else can take that away from you.

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- The culinary specialist rate

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goes through a lot of evolutions.

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Not only do they have to cook,

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but they have to stand watches

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and perform throughout the ship as part of the crew.

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It's important to them that they

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prepare good food for their charges,

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and for them to take the time out

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to advance their skillsets by working towards

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a commercial level of certification.

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It really says a lot about the integrity of the rate itself.