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This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
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.