The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Yesterday USA Today reported crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were not getting enough to eat.

One photo taken by a Marine showed a mostly empty lunch tray with a single scoop of shredded meat and one tortilla.

  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The writing was on the wall when the navy couldn’t even build a deck to off load cargo in Gaza.

    The military has been hollowed out and tall that is left is a slick looking facade.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      They managed to do it. However they had to keep repairing it because of bad weather. In the end it wasn’t as efficient as simply driving trucks in through the border.

      The pier was only really useful for a while where internal distribution inside the Gaza Strip was a big issue. At times the aid was stacking up inside the border, but local truck drivers didn’t want to or couldn’t deliver to some areas because of truck robberies, ongoing fighting and rubble blocking streets.

      • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        You mean the private maritime company that the navy contracted managed to do it. Might as well privatize the whole navy. Half the damn crews on ships are corporate civilians who have to be there to service their new enshitified systems because they won’t let the navy teach their proprietary trade secrets to sailors,

        The pier was only really useful for a while where internal distribution inside the Gaza Strip was a big issue. At times the aid was stacking up inside the border, but local truck drivers didn’t want to or couldn’t deliver to some areas because of truck robberies, ongoing fighting and rubble blocking streets.

        What do you mean by robbed? There was no fighting at those crossings. The aid trucks were 100% being attacked by hooting subhuman Israeli psychopaths. Not that it did them any good because the food trucks that did make it in were used as bait to lure starving people in before blowing them away. Absolute demonic shit.

      • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        It is nice seeing the US getting it’s ass kicked. Unfortunately I think a good chunk of the ripped out copper wire, missiles and equipment has been sent to Israel.