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.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      12 hours ago

      Like it’s true but usually that quantity needs to have a minimum standard. Throw a million men at 500,000 Nazis and you end up with a million corpses, give those men Mosin Nagants that mostly work and you have a million and a quarter corpses but also no Nazis. It’s a bit of a shit method but it works, so long as you know what you’re doing and can actually do it.

      • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Just a side-note: The Soviets didn’t beat the Nazis with Mosin Nagants.
        They beat them after they had learnt to apply combined arms tactics and a sophisticated defense-in-depth strategy that protected them from counter-attacks, had more AND better tanks than the German average, a higher percentage of mechanized troops, and a 10x superiority in artillery pieces.
        The “human wave with commissars shooting anyone who retreats” myth is mostly post-war propaganda.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          3 hours ago

          I’m aware. I wasn’t even thinking about the war as a whole but moreso the desperate defense against operation Barborosa and the Soviet throwing whatever they had at the Germans.

        • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          We know that they used human wave tactics in Finnish war and defense of Stalingrad from the people that were there

          They learned quickly, though, wave attacks weren’t the norm

          Ukrainians say they are using human wave attacks now. Russians call them “meat storms”