 Some say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Some eat breakfast foods all day, even at night, or for midnight meals. Regardless of when they savor breakfast staples like eggs, bacon, and buttered toast, countless sailors sip coffee all day long. So it's important for deployed ships to keep these mainstay items on board at all times, and plenty of them. But in the Navy, how do these regular grocery list foods go from farm to table? In one word, logistics and planning. Which starts months before a ship ever deploys. To make sure it's all stocked and ready for the culinary specialist to whip up every morning, the supply team spends at least six months prior to deployment, mapping out what grocery items will be needed, when, and where. The ship's supply department submits its grocery list, and you can imagine how long that list is. To military sea lift command, combat logistics officers who coordinate and deliver food to deployed ships, making sure the breakfast foods and so much more are in place and stocked wherever the ship operates. At the beginning of deployment, food is loaded onto the ship before it departs. While underway, like any kitchen pantry, it's soon time to restock, and when it is, it's military sea lift command who delivers. When close to U.S.-owned warehouses all over the globe, MSC ships fill the refrigerated and dry cargo decks with thousands and thousands of pounds of sailors' favorite foods, and not just what they want for breakfast. Military sea lift command, combat logistics force ships, then make sure it's all delivered on time. While having groceries delivered curbside or straight to your door is a relatively new concept in some places, MSC has been providing on-site grocery delivery for decades, and all while underway, steaming alongside their customers. To ensure crews get fresh fruit to go along with their standard breakfast fare, MSC and its customership schedules replenishments at sea approximately every seven days. The Indo-Pacific region is rather large, so sometimes to get the freshest fruits and consumables like eggs and milk, logistics officers work with international partners. As MSC's combat logistics force serves as a floating grocery store delivering pallets of food, the whole crew comes together, forming a logistics train that moves the items sailor to sailor until they reach any one of the galleys on board. It truly takes a global team to keep sailors well fed, and the military sea lift command is at the center of it all, keeping the fleet fed and afloat.