In keeping with the “New Action Army” image, the mess hall cooks at breakfast were required to ask you how you wanted your eggs.  And, they had a regular grill in the serving line with about a dozen eggs cooking at any given time.  And while you told the cook how you wanted your eggs, you got the next eggs in line on the grill.

It seems that while the cooks had to ask you how you wanted your eggs, they did not have to cook them that way.  So, you got the next eggs in line on the grill regardless of how you wanted them cooked.