Unsung Heroes

When workers can’t go to the food, the food goes to the workers. Drivers motor the Bomber Cart and the Corsair Cart to greet hungry workers in approximately 20 buildings across base, keeping the people fed who repair the aircraft and parts that keep warfighters in the fight. Debra Lewis is known by her customers as the “food cart lady” who serves the east side of Tinker before dawn with breakfast, restocks the cart and is back out serving lunch and dinner plates. On a bitterly cold morning, she bundles up, shrugs off the weather and says she’d rather be out working, serving the customers who depend on her. She says they are the best part of her job. Food cart drivers are out every day, rain, snow or hundred-degree weather, according to Lisa Soural, Aramark Food Service director, who will quickly, firmly, but pleasantly correct you if she hears the term “roach coach” used for their carts.(Air Force photo/Margo Wright)