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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.

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.

somewhat embarrassing

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

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.

Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.

Meanwhile the Pentagon is spending millions a month ordering lobster and steak.

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?

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.

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.

Holy shit that doesn't even look like food.

And I'm in the UK lol

Seems like the kind of meal that starts a 30 hour laundry fire.

On the one hand, I feel sorry for the troops.

On the other hand, we fucking told you so.

“The US has the greatest military logistics in the world!”

US military logistics:

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"

It's almost like they didn't plan, like at all.

What can we do to boost morale in pointless war? Us-Navy:

When the Fyre festival has better food options than your "warriors", you suck ass at planning.

Tortilla, broccoli, ‘a piece of chicken’: US agriculture secretary mocked for ‘money-saving’ meal