routine menu adjustments are simply how we optimise our endurance to keep our warships in the fight
I’d rather eat an mre
didn't most of the military vote trump? therefore they vote to eat that.
“Ignore the evidence before your eyes”
Mmm...unidentified piece of meat.
Makes you wonder where all that money is going...
Potential recruits: If they're not even going to feed you properly, what makes you think they're gonna pay for college?
New image challenge just came in: US Military dinner or US school lunch
Ambiguous glistening meat slab again? We had that last night!
An army marches on its stomach. Doesn't sail on it I guess.
So, it’s safe to say the authenticity of the photo is indeed legitimate.
The US has turned into Russia 2.0.
During WW2 in the pacific theater the navy had a ship that was used to make ice cream.
Who ever heard of a corner store before
Looks like the American Navy is now another victim to corruption in the military complex.
It’s been one for a while now.
Anyone with relevant experience able to tell me what the kinda grey, silvery thing on the tray is? Maybe it could be fish, but I can't see any scales? Looks kinda like a large, used condom.
Someone here said it could be a slice of gyro.
It's almost worse if there's no food shortage and this administration just chooses to feed our service members like we're still suffering through the Great Depression. Wish they'd stop voting for Republicans though, this is what you get...
Your fucking service members are killers for money, nothing else. Nobody attack USA to defenfd, they choose to kill for money, change for them, proffit for Donald/Biden/Obama/Bush/Clinton/"however is in charge". Everything they get, bullet, PTSD, misserable life, everytning is deserved. KARMA IS A BITCH!!! Fuck them all.
You're right, but you vastly underestimate the power of U.S. propaganda. A majority (not all) of the people who enlist have no clue what they're signing up for. They were told it's the right thing to do then suddenly they are stuck. Our schools don't teach critical thinking like they used to so these poor souls are brainwashed into joining or their only other option is death on the streets.
You can say the same for any fascist and warmongering country. Sub in Russia, Nazi Germany, etc. It doesn't change a thing
I think there is a lot of misunderstanding in the world about the scale of the USA's problems, what individuals in the military do, what caused them enlist, how our population is orders of magnitude greater than most nations and how that has such a powerful effect and consequence to our democracy / republic.
I dont go around making these wild claims about other nations but many folks outside US see no issue for to make uninformed, inflammatory statements about us.
Its easy for them say : military bad Its true but not comprehensively true, as if it would be so easy for us to just stop. This shit is an incomprehensible large machine that has inertia.....and it truly truly sucks. But can we please prioritize blaming and holding accountable the mother fuckers making these damn decisions instead of a mother fucking janitor or an accountant or truly does fuck all and definitely isnt killing anyone.
No doubt....unquestionably so, there will be investigations, eventually into the nature of attacks recently thst led to innocent lives being killed-- hopefully it is public enough for us to peer inside those happenings.....
You know how Americans were making fun of Russia's invasion of the Ukraine because it revealed that Russia had a super out-dated and under-maintained military? Yeah, about that... Turns out, we're not so different after all. Not that I think we should be investing in the military, frankly we're not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of anything beyond non-interventionism.
That's because currently America is run by a Russian guy who also thought it will just take 3 days.
It’s shocking that the US actually engaged in war with Iran so readily without the administration considering the known scenario of the Straight of Hormuz being closed by Iran. I’m amazed by the lack of planning and logistics for something that should have been planned and discussed a good while beforehand, but I guess I shouldn’t be with this administration.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
I used to think that illegal actions of the US Executive Branch would just fail like getting a 403 error when trying to access a Web resource without proper authorization, but I guess this was naïve to think.
There really need to be major changes in the US Government to make it so that the mechanisms of government won’t so willing put illegal actions into play. Though the response of the courts has often been good, it is super slow and merely reactive. Instead, impermissible, illegal actions need to be preempted before the mechanisms of government carry them out.
Trump had a plan:
step 1. bomb everything in sight
step 2: rape all the surviving kids
step 3. become god
step 4. blow bubba again.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
These systems and safeguards exist, but they remain inactive due to political capture and entrenchment. You can make all the laws you like, but they mean nothing when oligarch rule prevents enforcement or encourages inconsistent enforcement.
This is what I'm talking about when I say we're not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of our interference in foreign affairs. The people do not rule in the United States. We're not a democratic republic, we're an electoral oligarchy.
Worse, we seem to be choosing this. States choose how their elections work. We could switch to a ranked voting system with a lottery option without the federal government being able to do anything about it. Heck, a lot of individual cities could do it, but people aren't engaged enough to overcome local entrenched powers much less state and federal ones.
I think that in a rewritten Constitution, there would be automatic consequences if a public official fails to receive support. For example: 10 days after attacking another entity, the President requires a vote of approval. If not received, that President is removed from office. The vice president now needs approval within 10 days themselves, else they also get removed. And so on.
Hegseth has begun to refer to the media as Pharisees, after the group of Jewish religious leaders now remembered as instigating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Wow, these people are full on delusional. I hope they rot in hell for their obvious hypocrisy.
America is beyond fucked.
It's interesting cause this is what American Christianity has been my whole life, go to any duck blind or Dairy Queen or high school football game, Hegseths are absolutely thick on the ground. These guys are there because they're a mirror of their constituents.
The writing was on the wall when the navy couldn't even build a deck to off load cargo in Gaza.
The military has been hollowed out and all that is left is a slick looking facade.
That's right, all you need is a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla.
So that plate is plenty
In the past, I've read that the US Navy ships are on skeleton crews already, and not anywhere near as effective as they used to be. For example, they've struck civilian ships due to short staffing and lack of lookouts. Maintenance is a huge problem.
This was some years ago, and it was already a total mess. Is it worse now? Looks like
Also, I think meals like this indicate graft somewhere in the supply chain, or some kind of colossal fuck up. We're a lot closer to 90s Russia than we like to think.
ETA found the article, from 2019
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/
"It’s getting harder and harder I think for us to look the troops in the eye."
Makes one really wonder where this massive budget for the military actually goes if not into the military.
Overpriced contracts with near monopolist defense manufacturers
Indeed. I am told it's the best military in the world. I believe it's just the most expensive.
Not even a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and one other thing
Sorry, but I think this is fucking hilarious.
Those people have gun and are evidently risking their lives for some greedy bullshit. If that's not showing them that their leaders don't give a shit about them, what would?
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