The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Yesterday USA Today reported crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were not getting enough to eat.
One photo taken by a Marine showed a mostly empty lunch tray with a single scoop of shredded meat and one tortilla.
Hegseth has begun to refer to the media as Pharisees, after the group of Jewish religious leaders now remembered as instigating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Wow, these people are full on delusional. I hope they rot in hell for their obvious hypocrisy.
America is beyond fucked.
It’s interesting cause this is what American Christianity has been my whole life, go to any duck blind or Dairy Queen or high school football game, Hegseths are absolutely thick on the ground. These guys are there because they’re a mirror of their constituents.
You just call people who criticize you Pharisees in the US?
I’m so glad I grew up with the united church, where the lesson was mostly help your neighbour and strangers.
Nope, but I did grow up around people who would hear that in a meeting and then absolutely want to use their new linguistic toy every chance they got, despite not at all analyzing even the half-layer deep that would be required to understand what using it implies about who you think you are (or your boss is).
Yes, it’s just lingo
That’s too big a word and too specific a bible reference. They’ll just ask if you’re some kind of queer and then vaguely threaten to shoot you.
I don’t, I’m an atheist because of people like that. But yeah Americans love to think they’re a Bible protagonist.
Almost makes me wish Hell and eternal damnation were real things.
Time and time again, every accusation is a confession.
That’s right, all you need is a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla.
So that plate is plenty
Hey hey hey, don’t forget about the “one other thing”. That’s the lynchpin that brings it all together! /s
1: piece of chicken
2: piece of broccoli
3: corn tortilla
4: ???
5: a wholesome meal
Does the tray/plate count as the other thing?
I’d love to see the glittery plastic bitch who proposed this having nothing to eat except this meal for a month. Her and her children.
I bet you they could not do it. They would be pawning their pearls for “another item” I fucking hate these assholes.
Sorry, but I think this is fucking hilarious.
Those people have gun and are evidently risking their lives for some greedy bullshit. If that’s not showing them that their leaders don’t give a shit about them, what would?
In the past, I’ve read that the US Navy ships are on skeleton crews already, and not anywhere near as effective as they used to be. For example, they’ve struck civilian ships due to short staffing and lack of lookouts. Maintenance is a huge problem.
This was some years ago, and it was already a total mess. Is it worse now? Looks like
Also, I think meals like this indicate graft somewhere in the supply chain, or some kind of colossal fuck up. We’re a lot closer to 90s Russia than we like to think.
ETA found the article, from 2019
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/
“It’s getting harder and harder I think for us to look the troops in the eye.”
Makes one really wonder where this massive budget for the military actually goes if not into the military.
It’s called skunk works because something always stinks about the whole affair
"Quantity has a quality all of its own,” Mabus liked to say.
Mabus sounds like a real dumbass
Like it’s true but usually that quantity needs to have a minimum standard. Throw a million men at 500,000 Nazis and you end up with a million corpses, give those men Mosin Nagants that mostly work and you have a million and a quarter corpses but also no Nazis. It’s a bit of a shit method but it works, so long as you know what you’re doing and can actually do it.
Mmm…unidentified piece of meat.
During WW2 in the pacific theater the navy had a ship that was used to make ice cream.
Who ever heard of a corner store before
We’re number 1! We’re number 1!
We’re clearly number 2.
Oh, that’s a tortilla! I guess it’s just the lighting that makes it look gray? I hope.
You just know these guys will do their best for Epstein after weeks of eating nothing but the finest cuisine.
Potential recruits: If they’re not even going to feed you properly, what makes you think they’re gonna pay for college?
“Ignore the evidence before your eyes”
The writing was on the wall when the navy couldn’t even build a deck to off load cargo in Gaza.
The military has been hollowed out and all that is left is a slick looking facade.
They managed to do it. However they had to keep repairing it because of bad weather. In the end it wasn’t as efficient as simply driving trucks in through the border.
The pier was only really useful for a while where internal distribution inside the Gaza Strip was a big issue. At times the aid was stacking up inside the border, but local truck drivers didn’t want to or couldn’t deliver to some areas because of truck robberies, ongoing fighting and rubble blocking streets.
You mean the private maritime company that the navy contracted managed to do it. Might as well privatize the whole navy. Half the damn crews on ships are corporate civilians who have to be there to service their new enshitified systems because they won’t let the navy teach their proprietary trade secrets to sailors,
The pier was only really useful for a while where internal distribution inside the Gaza Strip was a big issue. At times the aid was stacking up inside the border, but local truck drivers didn’t want to or couldn’t deliver to some areas because of truck robberies, ongoing fighting and rubble blocking streets.
What do you mean by robbed? There was no fighting at those crossings. The aid trucks were 100% being attacked by hooting subhuman Israeli psychopaths. Not that it did them any good because the food trucks that did make it in were used as bait to lure starving people in before blowing them away. Absolute demonic shit.
Yes, the US Navy is understaffed.
What do you mean by robbed? There was no fighting at those crossings.
The aid trucks were robbed inside of Gaza when trying to deliver aid. Here is an example report by the United Nations. It was a regular occurrence as is to be expected in any war zone flush with weapons.
Not even a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and one other thing
Anyone with relevant experience able to tell me what the kinda grey, silvery thing on the tray is? Maybe it could be fish, but I can’t see any scales? Looks kinda like a large, used condom.
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Ambiguous glistening meat slab again? We had that last night!
routine menu adjustments are simply how we optimise our endurance to keep our warships in the fight
omg I thought your quote was parody and then I read the article
