If they are good cooks, they become very popular in the Navy. Bad cooks ... not so much. One of my room mates was a cook, and his nick name was "The World's Nicest Guy!"
When I was in, we got our bread dough in those big square cans, and at night one of the cooks would be assigned "night baker" duties. We all looked forward to one guy's rotation because, even though the dough came out of cans, his bread and sticky buns were far superior to the other guys!