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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.
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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.
Kind of like that “fish” slab!
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.
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.
Well atleast one good thing happening
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.
If one threw that slop overboard, the fish would swim away from it too.
Something something nine meals between mankind and anarchy…
If only they were near a country with kabab koobidehs and javaher polow.
It’s almost worse if there’s no food shortage and this administration just chooses to feed our service members like we’re still suffering through the Great Depression. Wish they’d stop voting for Republicans though, this is what you get…
Your fucking service members are killers for money, nothing else. Nobody attack USA to defenfd, they choose to kill for money, change for them, proffit for Donald/Biden/Obama/Bush/Clinton/“however is in charge”. Everything they get, bullet, PTSD, misserable life, everytning is deserved. KARMA IS A BITCH!!! Fuck them all.
You’re right, but you vastly underestimate the power of U.S. propaganda. A majority (not all) of the people who enlist have no clue what they’re signing up for. They were told it’s the right thing to do then suddenly they are stuck. Our schools don’t teach critical thinking like they used to so these poor souls are brainwashed into joining or their only other option is death on the streets.
I think there is a lot of misunderstanding in the world about the scale of the USA’s problems, what individuals in the military do, what caused them enlist, how our population is orders of magnitude greater than most nations and how that has such a powerful effect and consequence to our democracy / republic.
I dont go around making these wild claims about other nations but many folks outside US see no issue for to make uninformed, inflammatory statements about us.
Its easy for them say : military bad Its true but not comprehensively true, as if it would be so easy for us to just stop. This shit is an incomprehensible large machine that has inertia…and it truly truly sucks. But can we please prioritize blaming and holding accountable the mother fuckers making these damn decisions instead of a mother fucking janitor or an accountant or truly does fuck all and definitely isnt killing anyone.
No doubt…unquestionably so, there will be investigations, eventually into the nature of attacks recently thst led to innocent lives being killed-- hopefully it is public enough for us to peer inside those happenings…
What food group is that fork suppose to belong to?
Not even a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and one other thing
You know how Americans were making fun of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine because it revealed that Russia had a super out-dated and under-maintained military? Yeah, about that… Turns out, we’re not so different after all. Not that I think we should be investing in the military, frankly we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of anything beyond non-interventionism.
That’s because currently America is run by a Russian guy who also thought it will just take 3 days.
It’s shocking that the US actually engaged in war with Iran so readily without the administration considering the known scenario of the Straight of Hormuz being closed by Iran. I’m amazed by the lack of planning and logistics for something that should have been planned and discussed a good while beforehand, but I guess I shouldn’t be with this administration.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
I used to think that illegal actions of the US Executive Branch would just fail like getting a 403 error when trying to access a Web resource without proper authorization, but I guess this was naïve to think.
There really need to be major changes in the US Government to make it so that the mechanisms of government won’t so willing put illegal actions into play. Though the response of the courts has often been good, it is super slow and merely reactive. Instead, impermissible, illegal actions need to be preempted before the mechanisms of government carry them out.
Trump had a plan:
step 1. bomb everything in sight
step 2: rape all the surviving kids
step 3. become god
step 4. blow bubba again.
I think that in a rewritten Constitution, there would be automatic consequences if a public official fails to receive support. For example: 10 days after attacking another entity, the President requires a vote of approval. If not received, that President is removed from office. The vice president now needs approval within 10 days themselves, else they also get removed. And so on.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
These systems and safeguards exist, but they remain inactive due to political capture and entrenchment. You can make all the laws you like, but they mean nothing when oligarch rule prevents enforcement or encourages inconsistent enforcement.
This is what I’m talking about when I say we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of our interference in foreign affairs. The people do not rule in the United States. We’re not a democratic republic, we’re an electoral oligarchy.
Worse, we seem to be choosing this. States choose how their elections work. We could switch to a ranked voting system with a lottery option without the federal government being able to do anything about it. Heck, a lot of individual cities could do it, but people aren’t engaged enough to overcome local entrenched powers much less state and federal ones.
routine menu adjustments are simply how we optimise our endurance to keep our warships in the fight
omg I thought your quote was parody and then I read the article
No, of course not. Don’t be silly! We have no shortage of strange gray slabs of dubious food. Plenty to go around, in fact!
Oh, that’s a tortilla! I guess it’s just the lighting that makes it look gray? I hope.
You just know these guys will do their best for Epstein after weeks of eating nothing but the finest cuisine.
There’s a proper photo of the tortilla in the article. That grey thing is “unidentified” meat.
There are two photos that have been going around. One is a tray that has just a lump of minced meat and a couple tortillas, the other has a gray slab, minced meat, and boiled carrots.
And both are in the article for the small minority that manages to click the link
One folded tortilla; apparently the grey thing is “gyro meat,” that’s not been shredded and reheated on a flat grill.
I love how to this day, no one can tell what that gray slab on the tray is.
Looks similar to the packaged gyro strips I buy, but you need more than one for a gyro.
Oh OK. In the picture I thought it was some kind of weird fish slice.
It looks like a whetstone. At this rate, the sailors will need to sharpen their implements and start hunting each other for sustenance…
Meat is not flat, gray, and shiny
Caption says it is unidentified meat.
Could it be scrapple? It’s definitely some kind of processed meat that’s been fried on the flat top
Yeah, scrapple was what i was thinking too (there name escaped me when I posted the image though).
That really doesn’t look like meat… Or edible for that matter.
Have you seen milspec “food” before? IIRC, it’s “graded” right above prison quality (which is just above dog food, I believe?).
Looks similar to the packaged gyro strips I buy, but you need more than one for a gyro.
That’s exactly what I thought of when I saw it. It looks a bit undercooked though, those meat strips are a bit like bacon and tend to curl up and bubble when they’re cooked.
Not if you boil them in water.
This is how Putin treats his troops.
Sorry, but I think this is fucking hilarious.
Those people have gun and are evidently risking their lives for some greedy bullshit. If that’s not showing them that their leaders don’t give a shit about them, what would?
That’s right, all you need is a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla.
So that plate is plenty
Hey hey hey, don’t forget about the “one other thing”. That’s the lynchpin that brings it all together! /s
Does the tray/plate count as the other thing?
1: piece of chicken
2: piece of broccoli
3: corn tortilla
4: ???
5: a wholesome meal
What’s always got me about that is how big is a piece of broccoli?
- profit!!
I’d love to see the glittery plastic bitch who proposed this having nothing to eat except this meal for a month. Her and her children.
I bet you they could not do it. They would be pawning their pearls for “another item” I fucking hate these assholes.
didn’t most of the military vote trump? therefore they vote to eat that.
