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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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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] emmmy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 hours ago

somewhat embarrassing

no this is 100% mortification levels of embarrassment. you couldn’t make propaganda that effective if you tried.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That, right there, is how much America has been made great again.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Fires all the logistics officers for being DEI Woke

Your logistics goes to shit

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

How is this news? We should be sorry for the fucking killers for money???? FUCK THEM. KARMA IS A BITCH!!!!!!!!!

[–] mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

There is so little nutrition in this its not even funny. America is so ignorant when it comes to food its scary.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Americans are just as horrified as you are, this isn't normal, lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_rations

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

There's several factors for the rise of obesity levels in the USA.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 29 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

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?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Wtf is this clown shit ass corruption?

That's exactly what it is.

You elect clowns, you get a circus.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 3 points 3 hours ago

How can you grift money while supplying great meals to the troops? The leadership in the USA loves the war and hates the troops.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 6 minutes ago

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.

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