The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Yesterday USA Today reported crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were not getting enough to eat.

One photo taken by a Marine showed a mostly empty lunch tray with a single scoop of shredded meat and one tortilla.

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[–] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

In the past, I've read that the US Navy ships are on skeleton crews already, and not anywhere near as effective as they used to be. For example, they've struck civilian ships due to short staffing and lack of lookouts. Maintenance is a huge problem.

This was some years ago, and it was already a total mess. Is it worse now? Looks like

Also, I think meals like this indicate graft somewhere in the supply chain, or some kind of colossal fuck up. We're a lot closer to 90s Russia than we like to think.

ETA found the article, from 2019

https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/

"It’s getting harder and harder I think for us to look the troops in the eye."

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Makes one really wonder where this massive budget for the military actually goes if not into the military.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "Quantity has a quality all of its own,” Mabus liked to say.

    Mabus sounds like a real dumbass

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Like it's true but usually that quantity needs to have a minimum standard. Throw a million men at 500,000 Nazis and you end up with a million corpses, give those men Mosin Nagants that mostly work and you have a million and a quarter corpses but also no Nazis. It's a bit of a shit method but it works, so long as you know what you're doing and can actually do it.

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