• Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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    This is correct in a sense. While the US has a decent amount of stand out technology, comparably good training, comparably well equipped soldiers, etc. The true power of the US military is the world wide infrastructure it has developed to get whatever force needed, to where ever force is needed, within a few hours to 3 days. So, yeah, the US military being able to deploy fast food chain restaurants pretty much anywhere in the world, is a demonstration of it’s reach and resources, if an unconventional one.

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    WWII had ice cream delivered to Allies on beachfronts. It was apparently very demoralizing to the Axis

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      It’s one of my fav wwii stories, can’t remember what rank the Japanese navy dude was but apparently the idea that Americans had an entire ship just for ice cream was a large factor in him calling to stand down

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        There was also a story of a German POW being served apple pie are being captured while not being served it by his own government for a while due to rationing.

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      It’s real. Here’s a Burger King in Kandahar, Afghanistan. There was also a Pizza Hut and a Dairy Queen

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      You should see what the brits bring, they had a whole ass bakery at camp leatherneck in Afghanistan.

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        Morale is extremely important for keeping soldiers in check.

        Many militaries learned this the hard way in WW1, where conditions were so bad some countries had to order officers to shoot soldiers that were ignoring orders or even organizing revolutions.

        Giving a soldier a little slice of home, sometimes literally with slices of cake and pie, keeps them in line way more effectively than pointing guns at their backs.

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          That was mostly cuz they spent 2+ years sending them to die in futile frontal assaults. Even with great food eventually people will catch on to the fact they’re dying for nothing and mutany

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          conditions were so bad some countries had to order officers to shoot soldiers that were ignoring orders or even organizing revolutions.

          They didn’t have to. They chose to. They could have let the soldiers go home and not had a war. They could have just kept playing soccer after Christmas was over.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        They did that in WW2 as well. I’ll find an article about them.

        83rd Mobile Field Bakery, Royal Army Services Corp.

        https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/allied/battalion.php?pid=2081

        Skimmed a bit of the diary at the link: one part he’s talking about setting up the bakery in a factory, next paragraph he’s talking about how much he hates the Jerries (Germans) and nobody in his baking unit would take a prisoner, he’s itching to slit one of their throats. He calls the Jerries “he.”

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    I ate off of one of those trucks while tdy in the middle east. They didn’t serve any pork, so no bacon on any of the burgers. They still had some kind of option to replace it, and to this day I still don’t know what the fuck I ate. Still better than MREs.

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      Log Entry

      Subject #47, post ingestion of Substance-6∆V, exhibits a stable yet enigmatic state. Initial analysis suggests successful integration with the host’s biology however we are witnessing cellular transformations at an highly unexpected rate. Notably, the subject developed █████, which shouldn’t even be possible and frankly I’m concerned ██████████████████. Further monitoring is essential, especially after last week’s █████ incident and ███████████. The potential implications are ██████████████.

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      Worked pizza for a Jordanian dude for a number of years, great dude, great food, but no pork in the store. The peps, bacon, and sausage were beef, the beef was beef (perhaps unsurprisingly), and the ham was actually some kind of turkey they transmogrified into ham but it was surprisingly not bad. Could it just have been beef bacon? They’re pretty similar, tbh the difference bt beef and pork bacon is exactly what you’d think, the beef is just a little more cow-ey.

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    One of the best moments in Modern Warfare 2 (OG) is the defense of Burger Town. So we gave every base a Burger Town to defend!

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      If you were in the desert being shot at, blown up by IEDs, and just generally having a bad time, a Whopper and Coke being available back at base would upset you?

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      MREs are designed to turn into gut plugs so after eating those for a while grabbing some good old burger king colon blow when you get back to base is probably a straight up religious experience.