This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
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.
Maybe consider not fighting for the country known to not give a damn about (combat) veterans
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.
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.
What can we do to boost morale in pointless war? Us-Navy:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years.
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.
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.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
Legs that were supplied by Wall Street (at a profit, of course)
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.
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?
most of it goes back in the pockets of the dnc/gop, and the contractors.
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
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.
How can you grift money while supplying great meals to the troops? The leadership in the USA loves the war and hates the troops.
Moneys is for Generals, not Grunts
Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.
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