US Troops Given Nearly Empty Trays On Warships Deployed Near Iran: Report
This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
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Comments222This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
The best ways to turn military against you is a) don't pay them, b) don't feed them, and c) don't give a damn about the survival of the soldiers.
I'm not so sure - the Republicans tend to treat veterans like absolute shit and yet, the military seems to have its share of conservatives that cannot stop humping the legs of Republicans.
That's because most people don't realize that only 18% of veterans get the full benefits they're entitled to.
Even the ones that realize that are dense enough to think they will be one of the 18%
Its the same reason conservatives are often class traitors. They think they will get lucky and be a billionaire someday.
oh its not by accident, gop/DNC sources alot of them from more conservative areas where the education is poor and likely ecominic situation is equally bad, they tend to be white. next demographics are middle-low POC areas where they arnt poor but not rich enough to pay tuition for college fully, its probably some collusion going on with 4 year universities and expensive colleges or mid-tier.
You really should have a last "don't" at the beginning of point c.
Thanks, fixed.
C is always selected. b) just feed them barely, so they dont revolt even if its low-grade slop. a)they pay them very low, but enough for not to revolt or try to leave the service.
also provide them clean sanitation, apparently they wernt doing that on one of the warships.
Meanwhile the Pentagon is spending millions a month ordering lobster and steak.
France: Hey, I've seen this one before!
And beauty stations.
actually it was nearly 50-90billion on that.
This is a huge fucking problem, one that's about 100x as severe if you're hearing this happen the first time.
While fighting forces normally have their advantages/disadvantages compared to their opponents, food abundance or scarcity can make a strategic difference. See the psychological effect of the USN ice cream ship in WW2, listen to Ryan McBeth comparing his rations to what his Egyptian comrades called "army meat"...
Hell, in my own personal experience in Basic Training (had an award-winning kitchen) vs NCO school (food supply didn't work out, had to bring your own breakfast before the march), basic supply can be the difference between enthusiastic service and a refusal to train. And this was the same unit.
The magnitude of the US' fuckup in this war (the whole war tbh) has still not become fully perceivable. History books will be talking about this in the tone of "as devastating Vietnam was for US foreign policy, the coffin nails hammered in in 2026 became the harbingers of the US empire's accellerated fall"... or sth like that.
The only safe supply ports would be in Pakistan or (much further away) India. It's likely Pakistan doesn't want to be seen helping US fleet. India has been receiving Iranian oil during conflict, and would like to keep it that way in addition to it being a long resupply route.
Iran also just attacked some indian ships transiting the strait, so there's that fun complicating factor...
I mean, this is horrific, I can really only identify the carrots as actual food, but what do US military personnel think their government thinks of them when they treat their veterans like they do? Their veterans get treated like scum. Their current Secretary of Defense literally ran multiple veteran support scam companies. How can active soldiers not see that thats how they will be treated when they become veterans? The fact that the military isn't marching on Washington to arrest the executive and the complicit portion of the legislative branch tells me they are not enlisting their best and brightest.
The thing in the lower right is a overcooked hamburger patty. But the grey thing... that's what's stumping me.
I thought it was fish at first, but it's the wrong texture for that. Then maybe re-fried beans... but why/how would they be shaped like that? About the only thing I can think of given the shape/texture is some sort of polenta?
From the article, emphasis mine
shudder
I guessed a slice of eggplant 😅
Chicken nuggets are processed meat. Spam is. Lunch meat is. Most ham is.
It's gonna be marginal quality because of how military contracts go, but processed meat is not the problem.
Oh man, you know what those all have in common? They’re not just called processed meat slabs. I eat a lot of tofu, but I don’t want to eat something gray and shiny called a processed fermented bean slab.
If they could call it anything else, they would
Interesting.
You require a cute name for food before you will eat it? Because calling it "mechanically separated chicken" doesn't work for you, but "chicken nuggets" does.
Well, if having to lie to yourself to make food delicious works for you, more power to you.
I, on the other hand, am firmly aware of what I'm eating. I don't need anyone to lie to me about it.
And completely unaware of the role that plays in most people's enjoyment of food. Being a weirdo is no excuse to dismiss the experiences of others.
Interesting. I don’t think I mentioned “chicken nuggets” working for me, let alone the rest of that, but I wouldn’t want to suggest that you’re responding to a whole lot of things I didn’t say.
Perhaps I’m just not worthy of responding to such an idol of pragmatism.
Terribly cooked donair meat? The slice shape and texture reminded me of that but the colour yeesh.
Undocumented Immigrant Meat.
They might have thought they were not going to get the speedrun to the treatment you are (rightly) pointing out.
But yes, the jingoist conservative-lovin' goofballs that are in the military, part of military families etc, should take a good look at how Republicans tend to treat them on the backend.
That's crazy
Think of the average age of a military personnel.
Secretary of War.
Yeah I'm not calling him that
Well, it's ironically more accurate.
Maybe, it's still stupid, they haven't even officially renamed the department.
Secretary of Excursion.
Go on about the scam vet companies?
this is one of the first things that pops up when you google it
but also this
and this
“The US has the greatest military logistics in the world!”
US military logistics:
When the military are the ones calling the shots, they can.
When an orange pedophile and a drunk heretic are in charge, they don't.
It really is that simple. It took like 6 months to build up the forces for OIF. It took a total of like a week to move things in place for Epstein Fury.
I think it's best to say they used to be able to, but not anymore.
Trump has also gutted the military command structure and filled it with his goons. The equipment is still there, but those that know how to effectively use it are gone.
Hey think of the upside. If this shit end results in a civil war and violent breakup none of these dipshits will know how to use the equipment properly, let alone once internal US logistics collapses.
No they absolutely still have the capability to drop a Wendys somewhere within 12 hours. But responding to a crisis and planning a full scale war are entirely different metrics to compare to.
One is a MEU, or an airborne unit going and doing a limited mission. The other is literally a theater wide conflict.
Desert Storm took almost 6 months of build-up to get going. Operation Iraqi Freedom took 12+ months to prepare and build up forces for.
trump was lead by the sack by Bibi, and the military professionals behind the scenes had about 2 weeks to get everything moving. It's literally impossible to go to war on such a short notice, as you've seen by this conflict.
Not disagreeing that firing a bunch of competent people and putting in yes-men is not a fucking stupid move.
Their capability to drop off a Wendy's (or a McDonald's in Trump's case) is not (yet) in question.
Their capability to keep it supplied is.
(Specifically their capability to make sure the money intended for that purpose is sufficient and ends up fulfilling that purpose, instead of lining some parasite's pockets.)
Literally what I'm saying. Launching a rapid response is one thing. Conducting an entire theatre of war is another thing entirely.
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.
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.
It didn't fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
Legs that were supplied by Wall Street (at a profit, of course)
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.
https://www.nssf.org/government-relations/impact/
Part of the issue for industry in the US as well is that we also generally lack a lot of important manufacturing resources. We get something like 65% of our aluminum from Canada. When the tariffs were first going into effect and Trump was throwing a tantrum about Canada, the auto industry declared that they would be shutting down factories within a couple of months if the tariffs went into effect because they wouldn't be able to afford the aluminum to continue production in the country.
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.
Fragging intensifies...
Tortilla, broccoli, ‘a piece of chicken’: US agriculture secretary mocked for ‘money-saving’ meal
Art of s/deal/steal.
When the Fyre festival has better food options than your "warriors", you suck ass at planning.
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.
Seems like the kind of meal that starts a 30 hour laundry fire.
"laundry fire", sure.
Yeah I think it was probably a missile strike, but who knows.
On the one hand, I feel sorry for the troops.
On the other hand, we fucking told you so.
They signed up to be mercenaries. I don't feel sorry for them in particular.
Some sign up for tuition, some have nowhere to go because there is no safety net or better options. Some people just succumb to propaganda or have a family history. Many enlisted before his second term.
I dunno, I'm super against any war, but you can't assume they are all blood thirsty mercenaries. People have complicated situations, and even through I knew Trump round 2 would be corrupt, I did underestimate how maliciously terrible he could be.
They should be fed. They should be home. Politicians are to blame. One in particular, but there is plenty to go around.
Because you were born into a society with the carrot and stick mentality of 2000 years ago, that's not on you of course. And I can see that they felt like there is no other option than sign up.
But if it is because you fell for the propaganda that's 100% on you because it's way too easy to see through that these days. Those people are basically brain dead mercenaries and deserve this meal and the any shit that's coming to them.
Some people went in based on their grandfather's tales of stopping the fucking Nazis, fuck damn.
When was the last time the US military did something good? They should have known better. Signing up to kill people isn't suddenly okay, just because you're desperate.
Except for a lot of people it's never put to them that way. "Join the Navy, See the World." "Learn a career in the Army" "Want to go to college? Serve your country for 4 years and have you tuition paid by the GI Bill."
Should people know better? Definitely, but the sad truth is that a very large number of them didn't know better because it was never put to them the way it was put to you.
Buying into American propaganda doesnt absolve you from responsibility and your own actions, sorry buddy.
Its funny too seeing how quickly Americans bash other corrupt governments and countries but somehow its okay for its own populace to buy into American propaganda. Thats pathetic.
Who said it absolved them? It doesn't. It explains them. And fyi, I'm not American.
It was never put to me at all. I'm just not fucking stupid and/or wilfully ignorant. Either way, being brainwashed doesn't absolve people from all responsibility for their actions.
Yes, yes it was. You just don't remember when. Morality is learned, for good or ill. And as I said to someone else, it doesn't absolve them so much as it explains them.
I don't know man. I think it's pretty self evident that travelling the world, killing people who did you no harm for money is bad and I feel anyone with a functioning brain should be able to come to that conclusion on their own, no matter how they were brought up and what they were taught and if they can't, then that's on them.
I grew up in a poor rural area of the cultural south, scored very well on the ASVAB test (armed services vocational aptitude test), which was administered during school hours to all students. The recruitment drive was heavy. Maybe you grew up somewhere young people had more options.
And just as many didn't see any other way to climb out of the poverty they were born into.
How much slack should we give them? The worst a brainwashed MAGA-tard did was vote for it. Whereas they're (most of them voted for it as well) willing to kill and die for it.
Those are all mercenary reasons for signing up to be a goverment killer, so they can eat this shit and then a bullet and I won't shed a tear for these imperialist invaders. Dying there is what they signed up for, so they can do that.
You didn't read what I wrote, did you? Or if you did, you ignored it.
No worries, have a good rest of your day.
I did. None of those are reasons to sign up to be a murderer. Skip the middleman and go kill and rob someone straight on the street if you consider greed a sufficient reason to kill people.
None of those reasons are any better excuses.
I can't wait for the propaganda movie of this food based horror of war!!
The Tray Of Death!
No Potato Gets Left Behind.
Starring Marky Mark Wahlberg, only at cinemas.
Nah, I don't feel bad for the people committing war crimes in a pointless, illegal, and unjustified "special military operation" against a country just as I don't feel bad for any of the non conscripted* soldiers in Russia's attack on Ukraine.
*I do feel for anyone who was basically forced at gunpoint into the meatgrinder
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?
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.
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.
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.
I guess flags and pleading allegiance at schools has its effects.
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.
Don’t look up how many audits it fails.
That's easy. Every, the answer is every audit.
Moneys is for Generals, not Grunts
How can you grift money while supplying great meals to the troops? The leadership in the USA loves the war and hates the troops.
most of it goes back in the pockets of the dnc/gop, and the contractors.
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
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.
Don't worry, they upped the draft age to 42! I'm certain that's not just a coincidence.
If it didn't stop them in the last decades it won't bother them now.
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 wouldn't be surprised if that is caused by Russian levels of corruption in either the US army or the US administration, or both.
DEFINITELY both.
The Pentagon was failing every single audit even BEFORE Kegseth was appointed Bootlicker in Chief, and you can't spell "Trump Kakistocracy" without "porky scam" or "miscarry stock"
*US levels of corruption.
This is the same picture.
That is not really relevant. The point is that USA's sins are their on, and Americans have built the USA of today themselves. It is the failure of that system, no one else's.
You are completely failing to understand my point. I am not talking about whose fault it is. I am talking about the style of corruption and that is becoming remarkably similar as in Russia, with a similar oligarchic autocracy too. You can think the US has done that all by itself, or not. It doesn't really matter, the outcome remains the same.
suckers
/s
Anyone who fights for Trump in particular and US imperialism in general is a sucker who deserves anything bad coming their way. No /s.
Imagine fighting for this bottomfeeding troglodyte
and at the behest of a DRUNK neo-nazi.
It's almost like they didn't plan, like at all.
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.
Looks like charred spam.
This is a serious fuckup. We win wars on the strength of logistics.
As has been said, an army marches on its stomach. Imagine being fed this on deployment while knowing that your commander-in-chief was a draft dodger who now lives in luxury and has every delicacy known to man available at his slightest whim.
He has them, but orders Big Macs instead for some reason.
Heh, when Trump sees this, some UberEats driver in DC is gonna get a 2:00 AM order to bring 10,000 Big Macs to the Strait of Hormuz.
Adming being too greedy and incompetent is the only good thing here. They are
Logistics? That costs money. Money that could be spent instead on lobster and steak at home!
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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"
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.
American chinese food is, and thats not real chinese food lmao. And its unhealthy af
But it has rice, which you said many Americans don't eat. What are you even arguing at this point?
American chinese food is fast food, thats the point.
rice is great, tho i do like potatos
Lol its so ez and cheap.
Maybe they were frying it up.😅
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.
Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.
😂
We all know Trump failed at The Art of the Deal, now he fails at The Art of War; specifically speaking how Commanders must ensure their forces are well fed and satiated as layed out by Sun Tzu
If a good meal means they're going into battle, surely this means they're pulling out for good.
Or at least until Israel stirs up some new racist murder and needs our backing. They will finish Lebanon and then its on to Jordan.
It's said that Germans in WWII knew they were in trouble when the US shipped cake from the US to the front lines. And we had an ice cream ship in the Pacific.
This news truly does not bode well for our superiority.
What superiority? America has been a paper tiger for decades.
What is that grey thing? Looks like fish skin, but weirder... eeek.
a "processed meat slab" according to the article, which is clearly off and beginning to rot. Never eat meat that looks like an oil slick, it's a telltale sign... god I'd hate to be on bathroom duty there.
THAT THING IS MEAT?!
it smells like meat, probably spam like food.
Beef and probably other red meats can get an oil-slick appearance pretty quickly from certain packaging. My very first job was grocery, part of which in the meat dept. This was always something that struck as odd: we'd get fresh (like bright red, truly fresh beef) that I'd personally cut and load it into those foam trays and plastic-wrap them. Come back the next day, and the trays I assembled would have this weird chromatic glisten like an oil slick, like they were starting to rot despite being on the shelf (refrigerated) for a single night. Dude in charge of the meat dept said it was something to do with it being sealed off from oxygen - it'd go away when cooked, and is totally fine to eat. (this could be total bullshit - but taking his word at face value. Grain of salt)
Actual rot has a similar chromatic glisten, but kinda permeates deeper into the tissue. When in doubt, the smell test will tell you everything you need to know.
Edit - getting downvotes, so just to clarify: I'm talking about mostly normal looking meat, but with that kind of multi-colored oily looking sheen. In NO WAY am I defending that strip of fucking road tar on the tray in OP's photo.
looks like spam meat, but its discolored.
I think that might be the tortilla but that is a truly dark thought.
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.
Time for a mutiny
USS Tripoli was one of the last ships to leave for theater. While OP image is not the meal described, I was very worried about which side could the tortilla.
Please do not the tortilla.
A missing bee could have polinated, what can only be the tortilla on the right side, if shredded meat exists on this plate. Surely, a bee could... nvm that rotten lump could not have been saved.
There's a species of bee that makes honey out of meat (carrion).
I'm quite certain they wouldn't touch that thing, whatever it is.
If confirmed, neglect is how to set up for a mutiny.
And we've been reading some news much of the budget is directed towards DOD while gutting out anything else in the name of, uh, reducing taxes, but exactly where? Bombs and guns, sure... but for all I know Shitget could be having a secret account for which he's probably stealing.
I recognize carrots, an old lead slab and some dried feces
looks like one slice of gyro to me.
I am somewhat liberal and so I personally do not support state sponsored death penalties; however, I do wish the nation I am a citizen of would be more progressive, less war prone, and yes stop bombing other countries.
Especially death penalties for people with little to no agency.
What is that thing?
Braised condom
Where do you think the evidence from Epstein Island went?
Hahaha
So. Much. Winning!
I'm sure Kegsbreath will spend some amount of time trying to find out who leaked this.
This makes me very happy.
Something something marches on their stomach something something.
Oh I'm sure it can't be that big of a deal that it was even mentioned once or twice in history from possibly known leaders or incidents. Sure it'll be fine, just fine.
Let a bunch of people 18-22 be hungry on boat, what could go wrong?
I'm not pro American but I do think that people serving regardless of country should be fed an amount that they don't want to have fight clubs for the last jello pudding. To be fair I think countries should be able to feed everyone to that level regardless what is thought of them, they are people and eating is way up there in our need category as humans.
Interesting strategy from the alcoholic and dementia dude who belongs in either the asylum or nursing home....sure there's overlap there but think it gets the point across.
They never think one step ahead, logistics was the backbone of US action but even troops aren't served enough food? Damn. Good luck even with a bunker if that keeps up.
Logistics has ALWAYS been the US backbone since WWII. We've always prided our army's ability to put damn near anything damn near anywhere within 48 hours. This is FAR more alarming than a lot of people seem to get.
US logistics is the only way we've won any wars ever. American exceptionalism especially in WWII only worked because we had the most factories to throw the most steel at enemy lines across the Atlantic faster than they could replace their own, and our armies were never poorly supplied in food fuel and rations.
The breakdown of our modern military supply lines to even feed soldiers effectively means the US' ability to project power has immediately evaporated.
Indeed except the citizens (which I understand those issues for sure no need to mention healthcare and rent etc) keep them in power. Plus the amount that still think it's actually alright to behave that way with global relations. Really sucks when a world power decided to nose dive into being meh, when they were half decent before.
Maybe a good change, I can't see the future but sure effs things up for now so some rich people can make more money.
Also the US president paying himself in billions for some irs crap? Unbelievable from a functioning democracy.
Good lesson for us all in the end.
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.
Hahaha America is a fucking pathetic joke.
Used to have the ability to make ice cream.... Like ships built and purposed with making ice cream and that alone for the troops. How far has the fall been? where did the logistical might go?
It's been pillaged by the parasite class.
Into the pockets of military industrial complex contractors. Rich people got richer. The troops got... whatever that is on that tray.
There is so little nutrition in this its not even funny. 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_rations
There's several factors for the rise of obesity levels in the USA.
One factor being unhealthy food, another ignorance of healthy food.
Deliberate misinformation, misleading packaging, purposely made conflicting studies, cost of cheap ultra-processed foods over lower processed foods, historical trends and cultural heredity, difference of how food is viewed among age groups. Our capitalism and money no matter what society really fucks everything up.
Aren’t we all so glad America is invested in real manly food like purple beef patties instead of weak effeminate shit like vegetables, or flavor
America is so ignorant when it comes to food, its scary. Someone really thinks they get nutrition from slop like this, or it wouldnt exist.
And you are right, so much of American food has zero flavour, zero spices, zero veggies or fruits. Many things just have salt, sugar, butter and oils - thats American "food."
Hey we're not all in the midwest... hahah - but no. America being a true melting pot means that we have access to every cuisine the world has to offer. The best part of that is the lack of conquest - we didn't go steal the worlds' best food, for a long time (not now unfortunatley) we opened our arms to people fleeing your country, and let them come here and succeed, opening restaraunts, food carts, shops, etc - and my tastebuds are eternally grateful!
No, just oil and stuff.
"a true melting pot" yet one of the most xenophobic countries in the world these days. So much for open arms 😢
America has some of the best food in the world, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Yeah, thats why half of it cant be imported to Europe due to chemical polution levels.
The US is larger than your entire continent. Would you say Italy has shit food because you saw a photo of a shitty English breakfast? Of course not.
Actually, it's worse than that since you're basing this on food exports. Not even close to the same thing as eating food at an restaurant in the US
Restaurants in the US are the worst and most of them source their food from 2 different corporations including Sysco.
Literally the best restaurants on the planet are in the US, but sure, go off.
Like you understand that I'm not talking about fucking Applebee's right?
Not really sure where you're getting that assertion from.
By total number of Michelin stars the US isn't even top five. By Michelin stars per capita it doesn't even break top twenty.
And even if you don't buy into Michelin's hype, the William Reed world best for 2025 is in Peru. In fact, not one American restaurant made their top ten last year.
There's obviously no objective measure of best when it comes to food, but those are two of the most widely accepted gold standards.
The US has plenty of great restaurants, and plenty of great food, but saying they're the best in the world seems like a bit of a stretch.
US is larger, but also has a population smaller then just the European Union, so what? EU standards on food quality are pretty basic. Like we don't like chlorine in stuff we plan to eat. And yeah, they ritchest people get better food, and you got the most oligarchs? Whoa, great argument. Still prefer to go to the local bazar with shady food stalls and know anything I get there is most likely times better quality and less polluted than most of what you could possibly get in US. Smacznego.
What is American food? Most food here is literally from another country. All we have is burgers and hot dogs lmao
Where are the MRE rations when you need them?
Wow, I ain't never had food that bad while I was deployed.
So i see NDTV attributing that twitter account, which attributes this to USA Today, but anyone see where USA Today actually published this?
Got it: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran-war-mail-packages-middle-east/89609308007/
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.
Well the 1% sending them there say they just need to work harder.
Pathetic
Anybody ever see Battleship Potemkin?
Am i supposed to be sorry for killers just because they're government employees?
No, you're supposed to make fun of the US for not being able to maintain a supply line to a war they started themselves.
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.
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?
What can we do to boost morale in pointless war? Us-Navy:
How is this news? We should be sorry for the fucking killers for money???? FUCK THEM. KARMA IS A BITCH!!!!!!!!!
It's news because it shows who's winning this war. It's only part of the story of course but it's an important part.
Out of curiosity, do you feel the same about the men and women who fought the Nazis in WW2?
Of course no.Today's nazi are IDF and US are on their side. Pardon, US are their puppets. US service man and women are nothing but members of occuping and repressing force. They are the enemy. It is an illusion that US are fighting for freedom, no even freedom for Americans.
Hmmm... OK, so where was the line for you? The IDF I get. No arguments. But what is the specific moment where anyone in the US Military with a conscience should have quit? Not saying there isn't one, just trying to understand how you're specifically approaching this.
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.
https://youtu.be/P0hfSjJksoo At 1:15, I think that's the mess hall on the USS Tripoli. Maybe they only use table clothes when not at war, or on holidays, or something. I didn't find what the bare tables look like. Anyways, the trays look similarly new, based on the few shots of them that are clear.
I'm also very dubious that the problems in the US military are an inability to get things to a place. Could this be a vegan that is not being offered suitable meals, or a joke of some kind?
Is anyone supposed to care about this? Fuck our entire military. I hope we don't need to pull out because they all die first.