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This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
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Maybe consider not fighting for the country known to not give a damn about (combat) veterans
So, they sent their navy to the middle East with no plans on establishing or maintaining a supply line?
This is hilarious levels of incompetence.
The things that the usa military can do borderline miricles, which is to be expected given how much of the national budget is poured into it. Deployable burger kings are a real thing, stupid as they are. However, that relies on a foundation of logistics, which requires planning and preparation. Guess what our current leadership is really bad at?
What can we do to boost morale in pointless war? Us-Navy:
Ironic that the debate is about Iran while the real story is in the tray. US defense budget is bumped up to 1.5 Trillion and yet that’s the return on investment for the people actually doing the deployments.
Separately worth noting, between institutional investors and billionaire land grabs, the US has lost over 40 million acres of farmland to non-farming ownership in the last decade. These two things are connected: when capital extraction is the priority, everything else, soldiers, food supply, communities, gets the leftovers.
Capital extraction is just one aspect. However, one can get a lot of money from transit oriented development just as well. The problem is, that it is in many places plain illegal to develop in such a way and car oriented development is heavily encoraged by regulatiry means and heavy subsidies. There is also a lack in expertise on all levels, in comoanies but also among authorities, in doin stuff any other way than car-only suburbia.
Still looks better than the shit they feed the kids in public schools. GOP grifters have turned this country into a shithole just like russia.
I have a few questions: Why does that tray look absolutely new? like no scratch marks? I’ve been military, and NEVER saw anything that new.
Am I to believe a ship the size of a floating city doesn’t have non-perishables to last 5 years at least?
The ships can’t be resupplied by bog standard container ships from a nearby neutral/friendly country?
The armed forces that can essentially airlift an entire army within a week can’t airdrop a few hundred pallets on a carrier’s deck? (Nevermind that in the Vietnam war landing a fucking C130 was trialled, on carriers smaller than supercarriers.
Also, the newer super Hercules y way more powerful, has shorter take off and landing, etc…), never mind that heavy helos can lift 4-5 tons, so 10 Sea Stallions or equivalent can put 40 tons of food on a carrier’s deck within hours.
The surface under the tray looks suspiciously like a kitchen countertop, but I haven’t seen a carrier mess hall.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing it.
The postal stuff I can understand, as it’s really non essential.
I’m 110% against the Epstein wars, but this looks iffy.
https://youtu.be/P0hfSjJksoo At 1:15, I think that’s the mess hall on the USS Tripoli. Maybe they only use table clothes when not at war, or on holidays, or something. I didn’t find what the bare tables look like. Anyways, the trays look similarly new, based on the few shots of them that are clear.
I’m also very dubious that the problems in the US military are an inability to get things to a place. Could this be a vegan that is not being offered suitable meals, or a joke of some kind?
Am i supposed to be sorry for killers just because they’re government employees?
No, you’re supposed to make fun of the US for not being able to maintain a supply line to a war they started themselves.
The really sad thing- a ground soldier forward deployed on a battlefield eating MRE kits in a trench would get a significantly better meal than this.
Even the dreaded “Cheese and Vegetable Omelet” would be better then what was shown. There are not enough calories in that “meal” shown above to do much, let alone operate a war ship.
I’m reminded of people making fun of ‘The Art of War’ for having advice like “feed your troops”.
This is why ‘The Art of War’ was written, for complete morons with no understanding of reality but put in charge of an army.
One major failure of our species is that complete morons end up in charge of armies unacceptably often.
If it weren’t for the morons we wouldn’t even need them.
somewhat embarrassing
no this is 100% mortification levels of embarrassment. you couldn’t make propaganda that effective if you tried.
Well they will just call it a liberal conspiracy, and 50% of Americans will believe them
How is this news? We should be sorry for the fucking killers for money??? FUCK THEM. KARMA IS A BITCH!!!
Out of curiosity, do you feel the same about the men and women who fought the Nazis in WW2?
Of course no.Today’s nazi are IDF and US are on their side. Pardon, US are their puppets. US service man and women are nothing but members of occuping and repressing force. They are the enemy. It is an illusion that US are fighting for freedom, no even freedom for Americans.
It’s news because it shows who’s winning this war. It’s only part of the story of course but it’s an important part.
That, right there, is how much America has been made great again.
Fires all the logistics officers for being DEI Woke
Your logistics goes to shit
Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.
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There is so little nutrition in this its not even funny. America is so ignorant when it comes to food its scary.
Americans are just as horrified as you are, this isn’t normal, lol.
America is so ignorant when it comes to food its scary.
This isn’t the historical standard. The US military has historically specialized in stockpiling, transporting, storing, and distributing highly nutritious meal kits to troops on deployment. YMMV from division to division, but I know a few veterans who generally heaped praise on the kind of food they were served on deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq, at least relative to what their peers in the local US-aligned guards were eating.
This is a stark deterioration to the kind of food troops on deployment are used to receiving. And I can’t help notice how it corresponds with Pete Hegseth’s crusade against all the “DEI” and “Woke” officers who inevitably get stuffed into the less-sexy logistics offices.
Case in point, the first woman four-star general came up through the logistics track.
Yeah, this is exactly why this is so surprising to me. The US Military is, by the standards of NATO forces, not generally considered especially competent. Sorry, just the way it is. The general opinion of American training and professionalism is very low. But the one thing everyone agrees they absolutely rock is logistics. As a machine for delivering materiel to warzones the US Military has always been terrifyingly competent. That’s kind of the secret sauce that solves all the other problems; you don’t need to be well trained when you can afford to be inefficient.
When the US Military can’t do logistics right, a lot of things have gone very, very wrong.
Morale, in the shitter
Logistics, fucked then tossed in the shitter
Procurement, never got out of the shitter
Shitter, clogged again.
There’s several factors for the rise of obesity levels in the USA.
One factor being unhealthy food, another ignorance of healthy food.
