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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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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.
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.
Maybe consider not fighting for the country known to not give a damn about (combat) veterans
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?
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’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.
What can we do to boost morale in pointless war? Us-Navy:
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
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
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 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?
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
I think this is very correct but slightly off. I think its that clowns have no shame. People with shame are repelled by by power so over time DC has slowly filled with clowns as reasonable people slowly leave in shame.
most of it goes back in the pockets of the dnc/gop, and the contractors.
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.
Moneys is for Generals, not Grunts
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…
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.
