Trump's troops served grey meat and a few boiled carrots on near-empty trays

[BigmanPigman]

Check out the photos. On a podcast I saw a tray that had nothing on it except for 5 grey patties of something with some white sauce on top. GROSS!!!!!!

Trump’s troops served grey meat and a few boiled carrots on near-empty trays https://share.google/NwKDmYsJWG7Y4b28v

US marines deployed to the Middle East – poised to strike Iran if a fragile ceasefire collapses – are complaining of dwindling rations and inedible food.

One “meal” – photographed on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier – consists of what appears to be a pre-cooked gyros slice, a pile of an unknown brown substance and some boiled carrots.

Another picture, taken on the USS Tripoli, shows a spoonful of shredded meat and a single tortilla on tray.

Postal deliveries to serving troops in the Middle East were temporarily suspended after the US and Israel attacked Iran on Feb 28. By April, the service was suspended indefinitely because of what the military called “airspace closures” and “logistical impacts” of the war.

Thousands of packages – stuffed with treats and food, and often sent at great cost – sit in warehouses, waiting to be delivered.

It is a far cry from the steak and lobsters served to US forces before the Iran war. Last month, a government watchdog found that the department of defence, led by Pete Hegseth, had spent $9m (£6.65m) on crabs’ legs and lobster for troops in the three months before Operation Epic Fury.

In March, the US government watchdog Open the Books revealed that the defence department had spent $93bn (£68.7bn) in September 2025, exhausting its budget before the fiscal year had ended.

The spending spree included $15.1m (£11.15m) on ribeye steak, $6.9m (£5.1m) on lobster tail and $2m (£1.48m) on Alaskan king crab. Mr Hegseth spent nearly $100,000 (£74,000) on a Steinway grand piano for the home of the air force chief of staff.

[Kaleva]

1. Snooes.com couldn't confirm the authenticity of the photos

As for the money spent on lobster tail, crabmeat and ribeye, feeding service people the occasional surf and turf meals isn’t cheap. I was deployed to the Persian Gulf a couple of times back when I was in the Navy during the 70’s and 80’s and I remember well those meals.

[Aussie105]

2. Logistics is such a headache!

Who knew troops needed to be fed even if they aren't winning a war?

Or that the budget for that wasn't bottomless?

I guess no one searched for a warehouse full of out of date WW2 K rations?

[Cha]

3. How is the Military going

to put up with this blatant deprivation?

That's your so-called CIC, and his Department of War, the fox news propaggndist. :nuie:

[DFW]

4. This is only the lastest chapter in the saga of how Republicans "support our troops."

During the Iraq invasion, Cheney and Rumsfeld picked troop transports through ares known to be hostile, and they made no effort to reinforce the vehicles. Bullets and bomb fragments penetrated their sides as if they were made of cardboard. Nine billion dollars in hard U.S. cash disappeared somewhere in a rural area of Iraq, but the Cheney/Bush administration couldn't pay for protective vehicles for our troops riding through areas known to be highly dangerous. We don't yet have troops on the ground in Iran (which is why most of them are still alive), so I guess this is the current method of waging war "economically."

If Hegtrump does send in a ground invasion, well...................

[cstanleytech]

5. This is what happens when a bone spur is President.

[delisen]

6. Seems positively Russian and suggests levels of incompetence/ corruption.

Hope it was only failure at the Trump/ Hegseth level.

[Ilsa]

9. Kegsbreath must have fired the Black or Hispanic female quartermaster

who had been doing the job with excellence for several years. He probably promoted a young white male who thinks "logistics" is about tree-felling (DEI promotion).

[Jacson6]

7. When I was in field maneuvers in the Army forty years ago.

We got reconstituted eggs & dry toast for breakfast. Then we got two MRE.s for lunch and dinner. But luckily all of us had poggy bait to tide us over.

[MineralMan]

8. Trumpy Badger Don't Care!

Not one bit. He has zero respect for military enlisted personnel. They are there to be counted. Feeding them is a secondary concern, if even that.

Morale on those ships must be close to zero, and that's not a good way to run a military.

But Trump don't care! About anything but his grift.

[Ferryboat]

10. Work briefly supervising the loading of food provisions on naval ships.

Company hires those with disabilities for landscaping, cleaning and loading food provisions. Federal contracts sometimes have a requirement to hire a certain percentage of the disabled. Not clear on the details.
A congo line of boxes passed hand to hand from dock to deck than down too many flights of stairs.
Pallets of canned goods, pallets of ice cream and many pallets of freeze. Steaks, burgers and assorted meats.
Lobster and Alaskan crab were included. According to the Quartermaster these last items went on the menu after 90 days of deployment.

[republianmushroom]

11. trump has told us what he thinks about service people are, sucker and looses.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

12. The Pentagon can only make those grocery store coupons go so far.