‘Morale is going to be at an all-time low’: Iran war troops living on meager rations
www.independent.co.uk
‘The food is tasteless and there’s not nearly enough and they’re hungry all the time’
  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago

    Just saying, the US Navy used to be able to deliver ice cream to troops fighting in the Pacific, and care packages to jungles in South East Asia. Now sailors go hungry ON the ships, with nothing but uncontested waters between them and the US, and surrounded by allied countries.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      I’m genuinely shocked at how weak and incompetent the US Military has looked throughout this entire operation. Iraq and Afghanistan were shit shows, but the US was always able to handle the essentials of logistics and so on. The machine worked, it was just clumsy and hard to steer.

      Somewhere in the gap between Afghanistan and Iran, that machine has been left without even basic maintenance.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        So from one unjust war that they lost to the other war they lost, they lost another one? Maybe more baby-seeking missiles?

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        Wait til you hear how they can’t even remove mines even if the Iranians would let them.
        Minesweepers got retired before their MCM system works.
        That’s the corrupt politics/MIC system.
        The politicians keep them in eternal war and make sure they can spend an obscene amount of money on it.
        They then spend it on their contractor donors, even if their stuff is useless crap.
        Plenty of examples.