Posted on 05/31/2022 8:50:24 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The US Military is rationing food on at least one huge aircraft carrier. Why is this happening? Doesn’t the military receive hundreds of billions of dollars each year? Where is the money going?
This Memorial week we received information that the men and women on US aircraft carrier, the USS Harry Truman, are receiving food rations. This makes no sense.
The USS Harry Truman is not at war. It is not in harm’s way. It is in the Mediterranean Sea near the conflict in Ukraine but not in the Black Sea.
Around 5,000 personnel are on board this huge carrier. Reports are coming out that the ship is rationing food. Why is our military doing this? It makes no sense. They are only receiving two meals a day.
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Out at sea, if you were going on the midnight watch, we served mid-rats. That would be 4 meals that day
I’ll tell you what is going on. They cannot humiliate our military fast enough, destroying morale and overall force readiness.
Military “rations” have a limited shelf life.
“mid-rats”
My favorite! I even loved SOS.
The military planners planned low food supplies in expectation of more seamen taking the clot shot.
Cigarettes, gasoline and liquor in Sicily, the mid-70s.
Didn’t smoke, but cartons of cigarettes turned wheels in the village we lived in. Liquor as presents for the landlord...pretty surely a member of the organization that can not be named. Gas chits, I kept...half the price of buying on the economy.
Fat swabbies = rationing.
IF true, it’s probably an experiment to see how well the sailors do under reduced caloric intake.
Shoot, plenty of people, even some on FR; have told me that when you sign up, they can do anything they want with you.
All good questions, Mark.
Biden plans to raid the Strategic MRE reserve supply soon
Gotta feed those illegal aliens and cut down the carbon foot print of the military.
One of the great joys of being on a carrier was the availability of food 24/7 at one venue or another.
Why just the one ship? Or are they just not mentioning that others are being rationed?
From a former AF and DOD fuels officer your statement that JP5 is equivalent to Avgas is incorrect.
Per https://www.shell.com/business-customers/aviation/aviation-fuel/military-jet-fuel-grades.html
JP-5 is a high flash point kerosine meeting the requirements of the U.S. Military Specification MIL-PRF-5624S Grade JP-5. The UK Military specification for this grade is DEF STAN 91-86 AVCAT/FSII.... This is primarily jet fuel for use in aircraft carriers. [Turbine Aircraft]
Avgas is the type of aviation fuel used in small PISTON engine powered aircraft within the general aviation community. These aircraft are predominantly used by private pilots and flying clubs and for tasks such as flight training and crop dusting. Piston engines operate using the same basic principles as the spark ignition engines found in cars, but they have a much higher performance requirement.
In the Navy, Rationing happens when they run out of strawberry ice cream in the enlisted freezers and the stale ice cream comes out from the back of the officers freezers.
In the Army, Rationing happens when the forces are encircled shutting down the enlisted mess and requiring an immediate offensive to restablish the lines of supply for the officers mess.
In the USAF, Rationing never has happened, anyways the McDonalds and DQ is right outside the gate. A ton of pizza, 5 tons of ice and 20 kegs are 1 phone call away. It might be a problem when the NCO break into the supplies going to the Armys Officer Mess unless they kick up to the scrambled egg in charge.
In the Marines, Ratioing happens when the Grunt breaks open the MRE and tosses the less interesting stuff to the skinny kids on the street corner in some god forsaken cat box.
"....but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with - geometric logic - that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist! "
One thing I do remember is almost starving on an LPD. The Navy officers' mess pocketed most of the money they collected while Marines were in board, serving us poor quantities of crappy food while using the extra cash to eat well when we weren't on board. Troops didn't have that issue because they could eat all they wanted, so our platoon sergeants would sneak us some PBJ's from the troop mess.
Maybe someone did not meet their weight goal.
Agree! As an 18-20 y/o, I was V-2 Cats (green shirt), so had front-of-the-line privileges on the mess deck.
As a growing young man, I needed lots of food. There were times I’d hit the chow line 5 times a day.
Sunday holiday routine was great. Some of us would stay up Saturday night playing cards until breakfast was served. The steak and eggs, beans and hashbrowns were fantastic and we’d go through the line twice. Then, it was time to hit the rack and sleep most of the day. ...Good memories.
Ours was discovering we could eat at the Air Force base chow halls on our Army meal card. The food was better. Not necessarily a huge difference, though noticeably better. Omelets to order. And open 24 hours - the one near the airfield runway anyway.
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