Obama Cuts Hot Food For Soldiers in Afghanistan
May 31, 2013 14:06:19 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 31, 2013 14:06:19 GMT -5
Why don't the &#$ and the First Witch cut their vacations and lavish parties? 
Obama Cuts Hot Food For Soldiers in Afghanistan
AUTHOR Bookworm
May 31, 2013 11:33am PST
Napoleon famously and correctly said “An army marches on its stomach.” An army that is not fed cannot fight. With this in mind, what is one to make of the fact that the Obama administration has cut a significant meal service to Marines serving in Afghanistan? The Obama administration is cutting food supplies as part of the troop draw-down in Afghanistan.
The Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan are losing their “midnight ration” (or “midrats”) meal, a solid hot meal that feeds those who have just ended their noon-to-midnight shift and those who are beginning their midnight-to-noon shift. Not only does this meal fuel men who are burning up enormous amounts of energy conducting business in a combat zone that’s either too hot or too cold, and that’s always too dangerous, it’s an opportunity for Marines to get together once a day in a relaxed setting. The Pentagon has also ordered that the 24-hour sandwich service at Camp Leatherneck must also get cut. Marines will have to make do with MREs (“Meals Ready to Eat”).
The Pentagon justifies its decision by pointing to the massive draw down of troops, which will see all American forces out by 2014. No one can explain why withdrawing troops, which automatically decreases costs, requires the Pentagon to put remaining troops on short rations.
The Marines are keeping to discipline and have refused to speak on record about the change, which goes into effect on June 1. One Marine, however, wrote to his wife about the decision, and allowed her to share his email, anonymously, with NBC News:
This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places. Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.
Nor is the vanishing midrat the only Obama administration casualty. The ultimate plan is to give those Marines still remaining at Camp Leatherneck only two decent hot meals a day, with the rest of their calories coming from the ubiquitous and distasteful MREs.
One can’t help but get the feeling that the Obama administration, which has always found distasteful the notion of an American military victory anywhere in the world, is doing its part to ensure that the Marines aren’t sufficiently fueled to risk America’s current non-victory status in Afghanistan before the pullout is completed.
www.mrconservative.com/2013/05/18173-obama-cuts-hot-food-for-soldiers-in-afghanistan/
Obama Cuts Hot Food For Soldiers in Afghanistan
AUTHOR Bookworm
May 31, 2013 11:33am PST
Napoleon famously and correctly said “An army marches on its stomach.” An army that is not fed cannot fight. With this in mind, what is one to make of the fact that the Obama administration has cut a significant meal service to Marines serving in Afghanistan? The Obama administration is cutting food supplies as part of the troop draw-down in Afghanistan.
The Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan are losing their “midnight ration” (or “midrats”) meal, a solid hot meal that feeds those who have just ended their noon-to-midnight shift and those who are beginning their midnight-to-noon shift. Not only does this meal fuel men who are burning up enormous amounts of energy conducting business in a combat zone that’s either too hot or too cold, and that’s always too dangerous, it’s an opportunity for Marines to get together once a day in a relaxed setting. The Pentagon has also ordered that the 24-hour sandwich service at Camp Leatherneck must also get cut. Marines will have to make do with MREs (“Meals Ready to Eat”).
The Pentagon justifies its decision by pointing to the massive draw down of troops, which will see all American forces out by 2014. No one can explain why withdrawing troops, which automatically decreases costs, requires the Pentagon to put remaining troops on short rations.
The Marines are keeping to discipline and have refused to speak on record about the change, which goes into effect on June 1. One Marine, however, wrote to his wife about the decision, and allowed her to share his email, anonymously, with NBC News:
This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places. Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.
Nor is the vanishing midrat the only Obama administration casualty. The ultimate plan is to give those Marines still remaining at Camp Leatherneck only two decent hot meals a day, with the rest of their calories coming from the ubiquitous and distasteful MREs.
One can’t help but get the feeling that the Obama administration, which has always found distasteful the notion of an American military victory anywhere in the world, is doing its part to ensure that the Marines aren’t sufficiently fueled to risk America’s current non-victory status in Afghanistan before the pullout is completed.
www.mrconservative.com/2013/05/18173-obama-cuts-hot-food-for-soldiers-in-afghanistan/
