Couldn't they have sent Battlefield Kitchens to DC too?

[jmowreader]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/07/tanks-arrive-army-trump-birthday-parade/84093080007/

In this wonderful story we find this:

Soldiers and their equipment will be housed in a Department of Agriculture building and a warehouse owned by the General Service Administration. Chow will consist of two MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) and one hot meal per day.

MREs are intended for use when supply lines haven't been established or troops are located too far from normal supply lines (like, say, when they're fighting) to feed them A rations. The National Capitol Region doesn't have that problem; they could either put these troops on military bases that have enough barracks space to accommodate them and feed them in fixed mess halls, or bring Battlefield Kitchens in and have Army food service specialists cook meals for them. The 6600 troops they're forcing to be in this are a brigade equivalent, and the Army can definitely deal with feeding one stinking brigade.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. "Armies travel on their stomach". Doesn't sound like tRumponomics will make any Army friends this month. . . .nt

[Klarkashton]

2. Ever worked a event as part of a non union crew?

You are treated like shit.

This is standard practice, probably even worse in the military.

[jmowreader]

3. The military has its own crews

Trained food service specialists will do the cooking, and privates will be detailed as KPs to do the cleaning and serving.

[Wifes husband]

4. Not the same thing at all

The military does an exceptional job of feeding troops.

[SheltieLover]

5. I cannot fathom how those troops might be feeling, left to sleep on floors

It is not a battleground in some remote region of the world, for Cripes sakes.

[maspaha]

6. They're doing what they're trained to do...follow orders

they’ll sleep on the floor…they’ve probably already slept in wet, muddy holes in the walls ground or on scorching hot sand as part of their training. I’m not military, not related to or even close to anyone in/from the military, but I’ve worked in aviation my entire career and we train for what we’re expected to execute in an actual event. I can’t believe military training is much different. They’ll do what they’re trained to do which is why they should not be there in the first place