This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
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
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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.
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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
rice is great, tho i do like potatos
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.
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Hahaha America is a fucking pathetic joke.
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.
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It's almost like they didn't plan, like at all.
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.
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.
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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.
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Well the 1% sending them there say they just need to work harder.
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.
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...
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.
serving aboard the USS Tripoli, USA Today reported. The image showed a lunch tray that was largely empty with only a small portion of shredded meat and a folded tortilla.
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.
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.
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