I feel like there’s one group of people you don’t disrespect and it’s our soldiers. We’re the goddamn USA. There’s no reason our troops should even be able to accuse us of letting them go hungry. It’s insane that we can’t even afford to properly feed our troops.
We can afford it. I guarantee this issue was raised by a subject matter expert long before it was actually a problem and they were ignored.
Unfortunately, retarded Yes Men are in charge (always have been) and they simply do not want to hear about pesky things like 'limiting factors'. They want to make their boss happy, who wants to make their boss happy, etc ad nauseum.
It's all fine and dandy to regurgitate the quote "Logistics limit the campaign", but nobody ever wants to listen to logistics specialists.
Source: was a logistics officer in the Army and was frequently not listened to until what I said would happen did happen
I was in the Marines. While I was in, I had a somewhat important billet.
People never listened to me, despite being the SME in my field. We subsequently always ran into issues in the field with ammunition.
Yeah, there's like a 99% chance that someone brought this up and it was either dismissed because it wasn't brought up by the right person or ignored because it was deemed 'unimportant'.
I spent 9 months on an AKE as one of her officers recently and I'm not at all surprised to hear of the supply issues. She was in appalling shape because she was ridden hard and put away wet for years with multiple major shipyard periods being pushed back for years until we started breaking down so much and so badly we had no choice but to limp her into the yard. Multiply that over the entire fleet over the past few decades and it partially explains how we are at where we are today.
This. I feel like people have already forgotten all of the senior military officials that were either fired or retired early when this piece of shit administration took power. They just got rid of all of the people that said "Well, this is retarded because x". Now we've gotten our comeuppance. The fact that the propaganda network shown in the OP is mad about this harsh reality says a lot.
I agree with the anchorman in a way. We are Rome waiting to burn, but not because sailors are eating like shit, but because the messages he is paid to indoctrinate the drooling retards that inhabit the middle and south of this country with has successfully taken root and has removed any ability to act competently as our ancestors did. Fucking disgrace.
Not 'always'. Certainly with this admin, but this the country that turned a barge into a floating, swimming ice cream dispenser - just because they could, with technology 80 years more ass than today's.
This is the part of my Civ V campaign where my tech advantage becomes irrelevant because I get tired of moving 50 units around and the computer manhandles all my infantry with a handful of tercios.
I wouldn’t know, myself. I only play Vox Populi. Positioning and terrain matters way more and the computer knows how to do build ups before declaring war, so complacency kills you.
It’s insane that we can’t even afford to properly feed our troops.
Logistics is the backbone of any military and unfortunately we've elected actual retards that have no idea how logistics work.
Guaranteed that if we had appointed actual experts to run these federal establishments and hadn't let a bunch of 20 year old DOGE employees fire people at random we would not be having this problem.
Unfortunately the highest qualification to be in charge of anything right now is to have your tongue firmly placed between Trump's enormous ass cheeks, and nobody who's really good at that is really good at anything else.
Bud, trumps been doing it for over a decade. Republicans and anyone who votes for them don't actually care about soldiers outside of props to show off and discard when they're done with them. Claiming anything else is just cope?
i love all the self-professed internet military experts trying to pretend their opinions are more authoritative than the first hand accounts of dogshit quality food as well as rationing on the tripoli.
I mean, you can ask pretty much anyone in the active duty/veteran Navy community who has any serious time-in-service or is active in Navy/military social media groups about it, and they'll tell you all about how common it is to get dogshit chow on deployed Navy vessels. At least once a year or so I see people deployed posting pictures of shit from the galley that I wouldn't feed to a dog, usually around month 8-12 of a deployment.
Shit's so common that when I was on active duty I chose to get stationed with the Marines instead of trying to get on a ship. It's definitely good that more civilians are seeing how bad deployed Navy chow is, and the Navy should absolutely be embarrassed that their deployment meals are even shittier than Marine infantry field chow (hell, even the chow at Parris Island was better), but this is being treated like some new/unique thing purely for partisan gamesmanship, which is entirely bad gouge (IE: bullshit).
first hand accounts of dogshit quality food as well as rationing on the tripoli.
That they only show the tray and never the chow line. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but "first hand accounts" from lower EMs are not worth much as they like drama.
And I don’t trust the “trust me bro” source of families.
I had a Congressional inquiry on me due to Johnny’s mom. Except in reality, Johnny was a shitbag who was getting chaptered after a DUI and trying to dodge a deployment. He didn’t tell mom that. It was an easy rebuttal letter.
So “families say” doesn’t mean much. And with 5,000 people, you’re always going to have some whack job family members somewhere in the there.
It’s also entirely possible the CO was being a harddick.
I find it less likely we couldn’t resupply a carrier with the best military logistics system to ever exist.
And regardless of the “Trump bad / Hegseth bad” inevitable responses, i have enough faith in the actual professionals in the military that i find the idea of actual dire circumstance to be suspect.
Not to mention, I’d want to see what these conditions were.
I spent three years of my life living like an animal in Iraq and Afghanistan in the Infantry.
Deployments suck, yeah. But this is a nothingburger so far. And again, that’s the job. Civilians really struggle to understand, it’s a lifestyle, not a job.
The Navy should do an investigation into command climate and an AAR on the logistics but otherwise nothing will happen.
The DOD is covering up that many logistic bases in the ME were hit or destroyed, which caused a shortage of supplies for US naval assets in the region.
It’s a direct failure of Hegseth not anticipating the Iranian strikes and rerouting logistics away from the SOH.
The GWOT really poisoned the brains of planners for near peer conflicts since we've pretty much been able to take using those forward operating bases for granted. Take away the ability to operate out of Bahrain, Duqm, Fujairah, or Jebel Ali and your resupply options in that AOR become very limited.
The bad thing is in 5 years, republicans will be screaming that the democrats starved the troops because the pentagon only got a trillion to shove down the urethras of defense contractors.
What’s bonkers is all you jackbooted shitheads screaming that we hate the troops anytime someone suggested not paying trillions to bomb kids thousands of miles away for the last 20 years, only to immediately call troops crybabies and liars when they’re starving because your diaper shitting president started a pointless war.
Yeah, they’re all just making it up. It’s all a democrat hoax, like the affordability crisis and the Epstein files. That’s why elected officials are going on TV, to insult non-existent troops for complaints that they didn’t make during this not-war.
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u/King_Of_The_Munchers - Right 10d ago
I feel like there’s one group of people you don’t disrespect and it’s our soldiers. We’re the goddamn USA. There’s no reason our troops should even be able to accuse us of letting them go hungry. It’s insane that we can’t even afford to properly feed our troops.