BAKERSFIELD, CA - Our barbecuing ambassadors from Kern County are back home, after their latest mission of goodwill, this time to serve Navy personnel in the pacific.
Cooks from The Valley, arrived back in Bakersfield Wednesday afternoon, after flying some 12,000 miles to barbecue for some 20,000 members of the U.S. Navy stationed in Hawaii and U.S. bases in Japan. This was Scott Quigley's first trip.
"It's been a long ten days. We've been going non-stop since we left. Really no down time, little sleep, lots of work but it's all for the worthy cause of feeding our troops. Just hundreds of them came up to say how grateful they were to get a home cooked steak."
That's a Harris Ranch steak, by the way. Cooks from the Valley capped off their trip on Veterans Day, barbecuing for some seven thousand naval servicemen and women at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including Ed Vezey, the last known survivor of the USS Oklahoma, which was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941.
Cooks from The Valley, arrived back in Bakersfield Wednesday afternoon, after flying some 12,000 miles to barbecue for some 20,000 members of the U.S. Navy stationed in Hawaii and U.S. bases in Japan. This was Scott Quigley's first trip.
"It's been a long ten days. We've been going non-stop since we left. Really no down time, little sleep, lots of work but it's all for the worthy cause of feeding our troops. Just hundreds of them came up to say how grateful they were to get a home cooked steak."
That's a Harris Ranch steak, by the way. Cooks from the Valley capped off their trip on Veterans Day, barbecuing for some seven thousand naval servicemen and women at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including Ed Vezey, the last known survivor of the USS Oklahoma, which was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941.