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380 380 (10) One and two-tenths eggs. (11) One and six-tenths ounces of lard or lard substitutes. (12) Two-fifths of a gill of oils or sauces or vinegar. (13) Five ounces of sugar. (14) Such quantities of baking powder and soda, flavoring extracts, mustard, pepper, pickles, salt, sirup, spices, and yeast as required. (b) Any article of the Navy ration may be issued in excess of the authorized quantity if there is an under issue of the same value in other articles, (c) The Secretary of the Navy may increase the daily allowance of provisions on a vessel or station having an authorized complement of less than 150 men and subsisting on a ration allowance when, in his opinioi), the vessel or station is operating under conditions warranting an increase. § 6083. Fixing cost on certain vessels and stations If the Secretary of the Navy considers that it is undesirable to administer the mess on any ship or at any station under the quantity allowance prescribed in section 6082 of this title, he may fix the cost of each ration for that mess. § 6084.

Enlisted members as.signed to mess: basic allowance for subsistence paid to mess Under such regulationr as the Secretary of the Navy prescribes, the basic allowance for subsistence of enlisted members of the naval service assigned to duty with and subsisting in an officers' or other mess, afloat or ashore, may be paid to the mess to which they are assigned. § 6085. Flight rations An aircraft flight ration chargeable to the proper Navy or Marine Corps appropriation may be furnished to members of the naval service and to civilian employees of the Department of the Navy while engaged in flight operations. The flight ration is supplementary to any ration or subsistence allowance to which the members or employees are otherwise entitled. However, the flight ration may not be furnished without charge to any person in a travel status or to any person to whom a per diem allowance is granted in place of subsistence. § 6086. Subsistence in hospital messes: hospital ration (a) Enlisted members of the naval service on duty in hospitals and enlisted members of the naval service, including retired members and members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, when sick in hospitals, may be subsisted in hospital messes. When subsistence is furnished under this subsection, the appropriation chargeable with the maintenance of the hospital mess shall be credited at the rate prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy as the value of the hospital ration. (b) Under such regulations as the Secretary prescribes, officers in the Nurse Corps may be subsisted in hospital messes. Each officer so subsisted shall pay for her subsistence at the rate fixed by the regulations.

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