Food rations being cut to US soldiers overseas

[Jerchap2]

This administration hates the military, and this is just the latest way of showing it. I find it disgusting.

Obama Cuts Hot Food For Soldiers in Afghanistan // Mr. Conservative

 

[steveh_131]

They're not losing rations. They are getting MRE's in the place of one of the 4 daily meals that are provided.

The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base - World News

The tactical reason for the cooking scale-down is that the people who are assigned to “support services” — such as food workers — “need to go home before the people who provide the security which enables those services,” Gilmore wrote. “This is a natural outcome of the drawdown process unrelated to sequestration or the ongoing budget issues back in the States.”

 

[hornadylnl]

They're not losing rations. They are getting MRE's in the place of one of the 4 daily meals that are provided.

The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base - World News

Why does Taco Bell hate the military?

 

[gunowner930]

They're not losing rations. They are getting MRE's in the place of one of the 4 daily meals that are provided.

The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base - World News

MREs suck. I can understand why they're upset.

 

[hornadylnl]

MREs suck. I can understand why they're upset.

I've ate my fair share of MRE's and Trats and I don't ever remember getting served 4 hot meals a day. The best Army chow I ever had was in Bosnia. Maybe the Marines are getting soft.

 

[Expat]

So this Administration has decided to take away one of their meals each day. They make them stand in line a very long period of time for VA benefits when they get out if they are injured. It looks like BHO is doing everything he can to kill morale and probably, as a result, the ability to properly staff the military long term.

 

[FortWayneGunfighter]

Some marines don't get the hot meals, some only get mres pogs get the hot meals

 

[hornadylnl]

Some marines don't get the hot meals, some only get mres pogs get the hot meals

That's always been the case.

 

[Sainte]

3000 calories per bag at about $10 a meal.......and it still tastes like a cat left a present there.

 

[You'll shoot your eye out]

everybody who thinks that MRE's suck must be wet behind the ears. As a kid in the 60's a neighbor used to give us K-rations and C-rations from his fallout bunker...... THOSE SUCKED! (they must of been pretty old, even way back then)

MRE's are gourmet meals compared to what came before, and they heat up too! Just like going to McDonalds! (well ok, McDonalds does suck pretty bad too)

 

[Sainte]

Haha I remember c rats, ya they sucked! But, MREs are teh new suck

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. So they shut down the pogue's 24 hour a day sandwich line and now some Marines working a specific shift have to eat an MRE at midnight?

The stuff some people decide to get worked up over. The first time I went to the VA hospital in Louisville to get my knee fixed and saw how short staffed and short of space they were, that was upsetting (and that was under Bush). I was lucky, I could walk with a cane. A lot of the guys there weren't so lucky, and there weren't even enough seats in the waiting room for everyone to sit. That was upsetting. Pogues not getting a sandwich at midnight, that's not that concerning.

 

[Jerchap2]

It may not be the biggest deal around, but little by little BHO is destroying the morale of our armed forces, along with the silly engagement rules that make their jobs even more dangerous. The VA has gotten even worse as well, which shows just what Obamacare will operate like, but on a much larger scale.

 

[Sainte]

Ya, they just reintroduced High Year Tenure as well. lot of little things adding up bit by bit that The Kenyan is doing to us.

 

[Jerchap2]

Ya, they just reintroduced High Year Tenure as well. lot of little things adding up bit by bit that The Kenyan is doing to us.

Had to look HYT up. I was not familiar with it. But now that I understand it, I can see how it will decrease the morale, overall level of experience, and the number of people choosing to enlist, especially viewing it as a career. As you said, just one more nail in the coffin.

 

[Jerchap2]

Here is another swipe at our military:

Walter Reed hospital workers receive furlough notices | WJLA.com

Just wait until Obamacare kicks in. Then all of us will enjoy the delayed treatment, substandard care, long lines and poor service that our veterans already face.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Aside from all the whining about MREs - and I'd been in the Service almost 20 years before I got my first "official" MRE. I've never been one of the majority of the troops who hate the things; I've had some that I liked better than others, but every single one of them beat C-rations, and I never had the worst of the C-rats.

The article made a reasonable excuse for the canceling of "mid-rats", but I suspect that the guidance which caused this particular measure came from the National Command Authority rather than originating inside DoD. This Administration is determined to make the people HURT over "sequestration". In the brief time I served in Iraq (at a Marine Airbase) I worked nights and "mid-rats" were a welcome break during the work day (actually the work night). So I can see why the marines are ticked off about losing mid-rats, in the midst of a war they aren't being allowed to win. Just more tinkle down their necks. . .

 

[BehindBlueI's]

It may not be the biggest deal around, but little by little BHO is destroying the morale of our armed forces

There hasn't been a president since the first Bush who gave two poos about the military. Obama isn't a patch on Clinton in that regard. Units at 60% strength, asbestos laced barracks, Brady Bill ruining careers, the joke half-measure that was "don't ask, don't tell", failing to respond adequately to attacks like on the USS Cole, aggressive use of RIF, and he didn't even have a war to bother with.

 

[24Carat]

Anything is better than pound cake in a tin !

 

[Survivalcookie]

Obama is killing everything that is American...get used to it.