<p>For those who don’t click on links, the above quote about grumbling midshipmen was preceeded by the following:</p>
<p>"Reports of food shortages soon surfaced.</p>
<p>“When they have all the side dishes, but run out of main meals half-way through, you get upset,” said Midshipman 1st Class Scott Wallace of Annapolis, who will be attending medical school in the fall.</p>
<p>“It happened for several weeks,” he said of the shortages. “Then, they started putting out three times what they needed.”</p>
<p>Academy leaders said at the time that there was one occasion, on a Saturday, when the mess hall ran short. Adm. Fowler told the academy’s civilian oversight board recently that he would look at asking the Pentagon to increase the budget for food."</p>