'Hungry all the time': USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln crews report food shortages ...
Source: WION
According to a report, US warship crews report food shortages and poor meals as mail delays worsen supplies, raising concerns over morale and troop well-being
Concerns are rising about food shortages aboard US warships deployed in the Middle East, as service members report limited portions and declining meal quality. Dan F, whose daughter is a Marine stationed on the USS Tripoli, said he was alarmed after seeing a photo of her meal. A lunch tray, two-thirds empty, carried one small scoop of shredded meat and a single folded tortilla, he was quoted as saying to USA Today. Another image from the USS Abraham Lincoln showed a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.
Families say troops have started rationing food as supplies tighten. Dans daughter told him that fresh produce is no longer available and provisions are running low. We have the strongest military in the world. You shouldnt be running out of food, he said. The one thing we had over our adversaries [was] we fed our people. A sailor aboard the Tripoli shared similar concerns, explaining that crew members are eating irregularly and dividing portions among themselves. Eat when they can, and Supplies are going to get really low
morale is going to be at an all-time low, he wrote in a message home.
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Communities across the United States have mobilized to support deployed troops, but many care packages have yet to arrive. The food is tasteless, and theres not nearly enough, and theyre hungry all the time, said Karen Erskine-Valentine, a West Virginia pastor assisting sailors families. That kind of breaks your heart. With no clear timeline for restoring mail delivery and deployments continuing at sea, families say uncertainty is deepening over both food supplies and the well-being of their loved ones.
Read more: https://www.wionews.com/world/-hungry-all-the-time-uss-tripoli-and-uss-abraham-lincoln-crews-report-food-shortages-amid-supply-delays-amid-deployment-in-middle-east-1776387104914
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'Hungry all the time': USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln crews report food shortages amid supply delays amid deployment in Middle East
TommyT139
(2,414 posts)Shameful.
The picture of that meal looks very like the $3 meal proposed by, iirc, the Secretary of Agriculture. But her corn tortilla, chicken , strawberry, and "something else" would go a lot further than the pics I've seen online.
https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1snlc1z/pictures_published_by_usa_today_show_meals_served/
generalbetrayus
(1,905 posts)underpants
(196,808 posts)Another image from the USS Abraham Lincoln showed a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.
Randomthought
(1,069 posts)This is beyond the bounds. If you can't feed them bring them home.
BidenRocks
(3,354 posts)They knew what they were signing up for! D Chump
how long b4 that happens? maha?
generalbetrayus
(1,905 posts)Oh, wait, who am I kidding?
On MS Now tonight, the brownish food was called "mystery meat". I haven't heard that term since my time eating at my college cafeteria, and nothing we called mystery meat ever looked quite that bad.
Cha
(319,494 posts)AFFECTING THE CREWS ON THE US WARSHIPS IN THE WAR ZONES?
TY
Botany
(77,528 posts)Dont worry we have a weekend host from Fox News with zero experience in
supply chain issues in charge of that. Besides he has a tattoo of a machine gun
on his chest so things are gonna be fine.
BidenRocks
(3,354 posts)How's that go?
Piss Poor Planning Produces perilous possibilities? (Help)
BaronChocula
(4,623 posts)That's how many are stuck in the Persian Gulf with dwindling supplies. That's according to the UN (or wherever the UN got that figure). They estimate 20,000 crew.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167224
dave99
(66 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,731 posts)The Felon should be so proud. He'll claim it's because he hasn't recieved his defense budget increase. But we all know it's because Kegsbreath and the Felon are logistical morons.
Botany
(77,528 posts)And is Trumps unneeded war also causing supply chain issues too?
Crowman2009
(3,562 posts)There are going to be a lot of fights and work stoppages aboard this vessel soon. Those MAGA dickheads aboard better not get too cocky.
underpants
(196,808 posts)Deminpenn
(17,543 posts)Years ago, a navy food service officer told me that on small ships, that allowance was enough to have more food than the sailors on board could eat, but on larger ships like aircraft carriers, that same formula produced a food budget allotment that didn't go nearly as far.
maxrandb
(17,459 posts)Said the MAGAt dipshits.
Maybe this is just what's left after RFK Jr turned the food pyramid upside down.
"What!? No Raccoon Penis"?!
Bayard
(29,918 posts)$1.5 trillion military budget, but we can't feed our troops. What's wrong with this picture?
City Lights
(25,914 posts)BidenRocks
(3,354 posts)NO FOOD FOR YOU! GET OUT!
(No soup either)
Wait until the yields crash from lack of fertilizer.
Bengus81
(10,229 posts)Investigate the SHIT out of this newest Trump admin CON JOB.............
Danascot
(5,250 posts)they probably fired all the people in charge of food logistics. "We don't need those lazy, useless leeches!"