I mean, when you literally sign up to be cannon fodder, I don't know what you expect. America has always treated troops and veterans like livestock. You could simply choose a career other than oppressing the third world for oil profits.
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Legitimately, I’d like to say I was just making some principled stand, but when I was 18, “the food is famously terrible” was a bigger part of me not joining the military than I’d like to admit 😂
Let me guess, Aramark?
Ever had a meal with a group of US military guys? They're done in like 3 minutes. It's wild
I keep better company
This is the exact same stuff they fed us when I was in Iraq 20 year ago. They gave the contract to the lowest bidder who bought the cheapest food possible then pocketed the "leftover" cash. This isn't new. The difference between then and now is our families could send us care packages and we didn't have cell phones to post about the mystery meat. I don't want anyone to eat like this but I also don't know why everyone is surprised by wartime food. Food SUCKS when you deploy, it's why they give troops the big send off steak and lobster dinner. Best way to avoid giving our troops trash food is to NOT DEPLOY THEM.
Back in the day they had ice cream ships... SHIPs... For ice cream...
How the mighty have fallen
I also don’t know why everyone is surprised by wartime food.
That's why awareness needs to be constant. It's why coke spends a billion a year on advertising despite "everyone knows what coca cola is".
Prison slop.
Prisoners get better food because the guards know they there would be an incident otherwise
One can never get too much Asterix.
Meanwhile, TACO is gnawing a ruined, expensive tomahawk steak, well done with ketchup.
These are mostly on ship. They're at that stage relying on whatever is left in the large fridges, having to ration their stock. Which can only mean they're not being resupplied at sea, especially at such a prolonged operation -- short of calling it a war -- that the shit leadership bragged they'll finish Iran in a week.
Oh, no, the volunteer soldiers who are willingly taking orders from pedophiles and Nazis aren't feeling COMFY and eating gourmet food???
Fuck'em. This is better than they deserve.
Pretty sure that when they enlisted, they had something else in mind.
And it's not always about the glory of the nation or other crap.
Did they willingly enlist in the US military during the last 50 or so years?
Again, fuck them. It's not as if they had anything noble "in mind"
Yeah fuck those stupid poors who had no financial safety net nor a good enough education to pursue traditional employment, who wanted the option to secure a good mortgage or steady healthcare
Hey, I won't stop you if you want to take the position that poverty turns the decision to carry water for an empire built on coercion, colonization, and violence into a virtuous one. Knock yourself out.
We all participate in unethical business, however far removed our choices may seem from it. I’m not part of the military, don’t endorse it, and am angry about how my taxes are spent on it. It’s our government and military leadership that causes these problems and should be derided though. A lot of these sailors probably joined the military fresh out of high school with nothing better out there for them and aren’t educated enough to realize they’re not doing anything good. They’re kids though, but ride your moral high ground. I’m sure you’ve never worked for a scummy corporation or consumed slave labor goods.
Cool. I guess all those ICE agents are also just fundamentally decent people, deprived of education and economic opportunity. They just don't know any better. I guess because we all purchase goods from retail locations we're just as bad.
People like you are the reason your country is where it is. Get yourself some real values.
The latest Chinese propaganda has been posting pictures of their aircraft carrier meals.
Yum! Then sign me up for the "Chinese propaganda aircraft carrier" mission 😋
Operation Dim Sum vs The Orange Chicken
Looks like prison food lol
The US military industrial complex is a prison. People sign up for it for social service benefits that first world countries get given to them as a human right.
I was gonna say, if your other options are poverty / prison, this isn't actually a bad deal practically speaking. Not gonna get into the ethics of military service other than to say blaming individuals for trying to escape poverty isn't the answer. When I teach about chronic institutionalization in a psychiatric context, the military is one of the susceptible demographics alongside prison and long term hospitalization.
Aw, ambiguous glistening meat slab again? We had that yesterday!
Oh no the people who volunteered to be murderers aren't getting good food :(
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If that don't wanna make you die for your country, nothing will.
Good fuck em. Why would you ever join the military? I don't care if you're stupid and poor, I'm stupid and poor, I'd never join that dumb shithead factory
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Only the best for the supercops! ACAB
Where's the food?? Under that plastic tongue?
What the hell are these vomits...
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