Food served to US service men & women.

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably fake or misleading. There aren’t enough calories pictured in these images.

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  • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • 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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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Apart from being rather sparse helpings, are you sure there are actually cooks on the galley? Because any halfway decent cook can still produce decent meals even from substandard produce.

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  • gagcar@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No. There are culinary specialists that think instead of going down to storerooms to get another thing of tomato sauce for spaghetti, they can just cut what is left with ketchup as it needs replenishing. They are buddy fuckers and some of the laziest, most corrupt(?)(eg, you had to know someone, or be a woman, to get good food that wasn’t on the serving line) people I met in the service.

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• laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  MRE food gives me diarrhea

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  • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the opposite of what they are known to do?

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d rather eat a gas station burrito.

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  • iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I actually like gas station burritos. 😅

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• MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They won’t be hungry at least, they are soldiers right, that food looks fine.

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At least it is served attractively.

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• kadotux@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s that silver slab thing in the second picture? :D And that blob that looks like a giant kidneybean in the 4th pic?

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  • scibra122@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Silver slab reminds me of the meat slices that Aldi sells in their frozen gyro kits, probably the same thing, a slice of homogenized mystery meat. Not sure about the blob

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• TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I got better food in county jail…

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When the prison band ate, they began to wail

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• exupulosion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Army stroooong

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• tio_bira@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And i thought brazillian prision food was bad…

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prison food in Austria wasn’t great but it was MILES ahead of whatever this is supposed to me.

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• arotrios@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prison food.

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pic 5 looks like modern art stuffed into a washing machine, holy hell

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    the grey meat looks worst than spam, which is probably fine dining to them.

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• red_devel@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  fafo lmao 🤣

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• anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Until morale improves.

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah when you don’t get an onrep it gets rough. Any sailor who’s done a deployment knows to squirrel away some food for these occasions.

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fork and knife in that last picture are so insulting

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• BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  UGR-A baby!

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• shirasho@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Weren’t these images posted ages ago claiming they were school lunches?

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