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2013-06-01 Government

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Posted by Skidmark 2013-06-01 02:04|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 You ever looked at a Civilian? The sloppy little slugs all dress funny.

When they want to look tough they wear earrings.

Cold rations in a plastic bag? Apparently the CnC is not your friend. And politicians? Fat sweaty pogues in suits.

Remember them all.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-06-01 06:30|| 2013-06-01 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 But Michelle Antonette, Zero, and spawn still get to have Wagu beef once or twice a week right?

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-06-01 07:53|| 2013-06-01 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta use up all those MREs from Katrina that none of the civilians wanted to eat.

REMFs

Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-06-01 08:07|| 2013-06-01 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Read the article carefully. They've cut back one of four hot-meal shifts, not all of them: The midnight ration service known there as midrats". Things must be slow there for the fobit stringer to file this.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-01 08:28|| 2013-06-01 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Psychologically, midrats is probably the most important of all the meals because thats the big social time where first (shift) crew is coming off and second (shift) crew is coming on, Maxwell said."That's where you get the esprit de corps, the camaraderie. It's not just the food you're taking away, it's their social sustenance.

Social time? Must have been some other Bagram..... some other DFAC on Disney Street. I never saw it. If the guy in the field eats MRE's, the FOB wanna-be can get by on two hots per day. Forphuechssake !

Posted by Besoeker 2013-06-01 08:43|| 2013-06-01 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 He really likes offending people, doesn't he?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-06-01 09:46|| 2013-06-01 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Midrats is the most important meal of the day. The first meal for those going on and the last meal of the day for those getting off. MREs in between is no big deal in the field if there's nothing else.

Considering the sacrifices these men have already made, and and the ones they will be called on to make in the future, refusing to furnish them with a decent meal in a secure area is nothing but a slap in the face and an insult.

Drawdown or not, failure to provide midrats is nothing more than poor planning and inexcusable lack of foresight.
Whoever it is up the chain of command who does not understand how demoralizing this kind of slight is for our troops does not deserve the rank he/she currently holds and should be replaced immediately.

Posted by junkiron 2013-06-01 11:36|| 2013-06-01 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 When I was Navy, we got to eat WW2 "C" rations (Lifeboat supplies), It was good, the only thing I couldn't eat was some "Canned Bread" they apparently seasoned it with lard, and it turned, other than that "C" rations were good eating.

Despite being 40 Plus years old.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-01 13:00|| 2013-06-01 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9
I believe it was called pound bread or pound cake. The scrambled eggs and ham were equally rancid.
We used to go out on patrol to the local villages and groups of hungry children would come out and beg for food. If you threw them pound bread or scramled eggs they would throw them back at you.

C-rations, LURP-rations and MREs are all pretty good for the first few days. But after about 30 days of getting by on them they all get pretty distasteful.

But that really is not the point.

If you ask a man to go out on a mission that may take his life but refuse to provied him with a hot meal before he goes out or neglect him when he comes back, just because it's an inconvient time of night or day, there is no excuse good enough for that.

Less than 1% of our pupulation has ever served in a combat zone and only a small percentage of those have ever actually been outside the secure perimiter.
There are some things in this world that most people will never ever be able to comprehend unless they have actually walked for a while in a combat veterans boots.
People who have never been in a combat situation should never ever be allowed to judge those brave and honorable men and women who currently endure or have survived those type of situations.
Regardless of the year, war or branch of service.

Posted by junkiron 2013-06-01 21:19|| 2013-06-01 21:19|| Front Page Top

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