Comment on Food served to US service men & women.

Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• warbond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think maybe a little misleading, but probably not fake. For the boxed meal, that shit happened all the time. It’s just like going through the drive through.

  For meals served on ships, most of the time you ask for what you want, they don’t just give you what they have. If you have a piece of bread on your tray, that’s because you only grabbed a piece of bread. Most of the time.

  Sometimes there’s just not a lot of options because you haven’t been replenished in a while and the cooks have already done what they can to keep people from bitching at them constantly. Fresh fruits and vegetables are always the first to spoil, so eventually everything is canned, frozen, rehydrated, or reconstituted. Or baked from scratch, poorly.

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• mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve seen these pictures attributed to USS Abraham Lincoln on some other sites.

  That ship recently suffered a major supply crisis while it was on station in the middle east. The reason is that Iran was able to deny the use of all of the nearby bases with their drones and medium range missiles. Thus the US Navy resorted to resupplying Abraham Lincoln from Diego Garcia, which is thousands of miles away.

  So it’s plausible to me that these are real images, and they represent a very serious problem for the navy: both in terms of total calories and in the loss of morale from low quality.

  In any case, Abraham Lincoln has since been relieved, and will make a liberty port call in Thailand after 245 days at sea.

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  • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But they were without supply for half a year, sending a ship from the US takes a couple of weeks. This is just bad leadership.

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably fake or misleading

  fwiw the first and last images in this post both were first published in this USA today article back in April, attributed to anonymous crew members of the USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln.

  There aren’t enough calories pictured in these images

  The Simpsons character Rainier Wolfcastle on stage with a microphone, on TV, with the caption “THAT’S THE JOKE”

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My biggest complaint about the pics is the trays are different. The military probably has a standard tray that they buy, and likely wouldn’t use a compostable lidded container as shown in pic one.

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  • stupe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can’t speak for the modern military, but when I was in almost 30 years ago there were not standard trays. The chow halls were different from base to base.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can you give any sources? Personal experience from an anonymous account on a niche website isn’t to be taken as truth :(

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      • stupe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sorry, I didn’t take pictures of the trays 30 years ago. I really don’t care if you believe it or not. Just making a comment.

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  • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, 2 of the 3 pictures that show trays show the same trays. The rest are all takeout containers, which are the kind of consumable that makes sense to be just whatever Supply can requisition. And I’m more likely to believe different tray styles per class, I.e. submarines might have a more efficient (and therefore costlier) design for more cramped quarters that a carrier doesn’t necessarily need.

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• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Idk… I feel like that kind of incompetence is almost unimaginable with an unprecedentedly well-funded organization known the world over for its logistical capabilities… But the people saying it’s fake happen to be the biggest liary lying liars there ever were, so im a bit divided.

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• DillDough@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Caloric intake is one of the complaints of people on the ship…the tortilla one is for sure real, that’s from when the stories first started coming out.

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• im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Accepting such posts does mean becoming even more vulnerable to misinformation and propaganda hence I don’t.

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• bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They have been getting shafted because Iran destroyed the resupply hubs (months ago,) and the US admin and their hack armed services leaders neglected to send resupply ships from elsewhere.

  Because we have all the wrong people in charge, even before this president.

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