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[inspirational music] (Navy Seaman Nathanael Dyjak) 
I started with cooking a couple years before the Navy.

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I just kind of picked it up off the ground
and been rolling ever since.

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Well, I knew I wanted to join the Navy
and I knew I wanted to serve, uh, so when I

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went into the recruiter's office they
said you could either be a culinary

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specialist on a submarine or you can be
a mechanic on a submarine and well, the

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rest is history. So I'm on USS Jimmy
Carter out of Bangor, Washington.

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It makes for good stories. I like 
to say that I cook on a

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one-of-a-kind restaurant 
that travels the globe.

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So, from my command, we've got uh, we
were made aware that there was an

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opportunity to come out here to Virginia
and train and then compete. So the

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nutrition category is designed to be, for
lack of better words, nutritious.

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Nutrition for me is very, very personal.
Something that I enjoy and I think to

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some degree, like everybody's in charge
of their own nutrition, you know, they, at

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the end of the day it's you and how
you how you work it.

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(Chef Roland Schaeffer) They send in the menu or the 
recipe to our aides, then they come here and cook four portions,

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four course meal, four portions.

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(Nathanael Dyjak) It really ties in to your goals, you know, where 
you want to go. Nutrition is a tool. It's how you employ it on a

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person-by-person basis. So, being able to
be in this category and work with

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nutritious foods and to be able to bring
that back to the command, it gives me an

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opportunity to present them with an
opportunity to take care of themselves.

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I want to be able to bring this back. I
want to be able to take this information,

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what I've learned, the techniques ...

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(Sailors chanting) Let's go Navy, let's go!

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(Nathanael Dyjak) ... and put it to use. Do these

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things because, especially in
submarines, the crew needs it.

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They need morale. We really are the
center of that as a culinary

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specialist. So to be able to give back
to them by learning more, it's fulfilling.

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(cooks cheering)