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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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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.
Am i supposed to be sorry for killers just because they’re government employees?
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.
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
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.
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
I can only imagine how a soldier must feel like when they get to eat stuff like that, and then they are fighting a war that is so dramatically unpopular at home, and all it seems to do it make everything more expensive.
I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.
I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.
If it didn’t stop them in the last decades it won’t bother them now.
Don’t worry, they upped the draft age to 42! I’m certain that’s not just a coincidence.
Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.
😂
Is this for real? The pentagon has like a trillion dollar budget and yet somehow can’t feed soldiers? Wtf is this clown shit ass corruption?
most of it goes back in the pockets of the dnc/gop, and the contractors.
Don’t look up how many audits it fails.
That’s easy. Every, the answer is every audit.
Wtf is this clown shit ass corruption?
That’s exactly what it is.
You elect clowns, you get a circus.
You’ve put the cart before the house.
Washington DC is a circus that attracts clowns
p.s. oops i meant horse
Yeah, how can the richest country in the world with the biggest military budget do this shit to the people they really depend on?
Just look at the private sector in contrast. This country mints more billionaires than anywhere else while treating workers AND customers like shit and-- oh wait.
Have you not seen how often Trump has disrespected the millitary?
It’s mind-boggling that he gets away with it, even while everyday Americans reflexively say “thank you for your service” any time they encounter a soldier or veteran.
while everyday Americans reflexively say “thank you for your service”
I guess flags and pleading allegiance at schools has its effects.
Yeah I have. It’s bonkers, but it is also indicative of our culture. sadly. That’s why I made a joke comparing the government’s exploitation and mistreatment of military members with the rest of the economy’s exploitation and mistreatment of all the other normal people. In both cases, the people in power are choosing “number goes up a little bit faster than before” over “human life and well being” repeatedly.
They blew through their budget like crazy the first few weeks of the war.
They’re asking car dealerships if they can help manufacturer missiles.
it went to bougie food for HESGETH.
How can you grift money while supplying great meals to the troops? The leadership in the USA loves the war and hates the troops.
Moneys is for Generals, not Grunts
Classic military diet at the end of an empire’s reign. The corruption is so deep that the logistics to feeding their invading army while out on deployment are all but collapsed due to communications failures, inefficient funding, being belligerent to the countries who supply you food while abroad, etc.
Also, try to get something made here anymore, we don’t have the infrastructure to develop a lot of those skills anymore.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years. We sort of assumed the miracle was cheap labor (money in America is still upset about whole emancipation thing).
Super high dollar mossles were the only thing we had left and I think we just realized how the balance of Military power is also shifting.
So unless we WW3 everyone else, or stir up the continent and get them to do it again, we would have to do serious work and we don’t have those akillsets either. Think about our bave new Iraq.
Half a century of bad leadership has had an effect.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years.
You forgot about guns and ammunition, USA produces more than rest of world combined! EVERY state is involved in their manufacturing, even Hawaii.
Last time I checked, firearm sales have tripled since 2000.
And industry certainly didn’t have to. Whilst Trump is wrong about the effects of trade deficit, he wasn’t wrong about it posing problems for US. Trade deficit isn’t a bad thing, because if done wisely import is essentially foreign investment in domestic production.
The fact that US manufacturers struggle is another way Trump represents the US: the US personified is a horrible short-sighted businessman that can’t get ahead with decades of a head start and endless investment pouring in.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
Legs that were supplied by Wall Street (at a profit, of course)
There is so little nutrition in this its not even funny. America is so ignorant when it comes to food its scary.
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.
Americans are just as horrified as you are, this isn’t normal, lol.
There’s several factors for the rise of obesity levels in the USA.
Holy shit that doesn’t even look like food.
And I’m in the UK lol
And we eat mushy peas and yeast extract.
Apart from the carrots I can’t even tell you what’s on that plate.
I think one of them is just a bare hamburger patty or possibly cube steak. I can’t even begin to tell you what that processed meat slice is. I’m from America and have never seen something like that before.
Looks like charred spam.
How do they not stock dried beans and rice? It’s cheap, it keeps, a little goes a long ways, easy to make at scale. I wonder how much the Pentagon paid for that “hamburger patty”
Likely they did, but that was a long time ago when they where expected to be back in port in a few weeks. This is what was left after being forced marched across the world from one insane incident to the next. And then they thought they would have access to resupply from local bases, but those have been evacuated due to risk of attack.
Westerners and 'Muricans especially are afraid of using rice as a staple. More than half the kids I knew back in college had never even attempted to cook it.
As for those that tried… imagine a ragebait Jamie Oliver video, but worse lol
Stirrin that pot so much I thought they were making soup
I ate a lot of rice growing up, I don’t think this is the issue so much as that food quality is bad in the US and most the industrial scale farming is targeted at beans and corn. Why those two staples aren’t present on a deployed boat speaks to some kind of corruption or mismanagement.
Just because you did, doesnt mean thats the norm. Growing up and living in this country, Americans dont know much about food and there is so much ignorance.
He is right, many dont even know how to make rice. Many dont even eat rice, and dont get me started on the paleo diet bullshit in this country where they even think rice is bad for you.
America is one of the most ignorant countries on Earth when it comes to food and I wish I was joking. Most unhealthy food and unhealthy populace.
As much as I’d like to agree, I just don’t see a lot of truth to the idea the US is anti rice; there’s historical/environmental reasons why corn is the dominant grain.
Chinese food is one of the most popular cuisines in US, and rice is its staple. Lot of Americans don’t cook meals from scratch, period, but for those there is microwavable rice.
Lol its so ez and cheap.
Maybe they were frying it up.😅
rice is great, tho i do like potatos
This shits funny. They blew through millions of dollars to buy lobster and luxuries for the Pentagon staff. Soldiers get shit. Hopefully they get the idea that they aren’t cared for either.
Hopefully they get the idea that they aren’t cared for either.
Fragging intensifies…
