Food for soldiers

[Lanya]

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Starving the Americans Out

Someone in the Green Zone leaked the following memo, which shows that US personnel are now actually facing difficulties in getting food by convoy up from Kuwait. They avoid local food in the Baghdad region because of the danger guerrillas will poison it.


    'Due to a theater-wide delay in food delivery, menu selections will be limited for the near future. While every effort will be made to provide balanced meals, it may not be possible to offer the dishes you are used to seeing at each meal. Fresh fruits and salad bar items will also be severely limited or unavailable.

    The informant adds his own comment:

    The bottom line is that our troops depend on a ground supply line that runs from Kuwait to the various bases in Iraq. When I was in Iraq last year at the U.S. base in Balad I had the chance to eat four meals a day--breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight rations (midrats). If you like late nights the midrats were great--steak, eggs, pancakes. Pretty good food. Well, based on this memo, it looks like those were the good old days. We don't have enough convoys to give our troops three hot meals a day. '

http://www.juancole.com/

[BT]

If the problem were one of nutrition for the troops they would airlift the food into the green zone.

And any other base affected.

[Mucho]

If the problem were one of nutrition for the troops they would airlift the food into the green zone.

And any other base affected.

Any evidence of this or just talking out of your arse as usual?

[kimba1]

this is a serious problem
despite publicly soldier say they don`t care about food.(i`m qouting people here)
this will seriously effect them on many levels.
I know everybody thinks if they are hungry enough our soldier will eat anything ,whether it taste good or bad.
but the fact is our soldier are gonna be starving before the food runs out.
due to the quality going down.
combat anorexia is gonna kickin.
I`ve had today`s MRE
if that`s the only thing for me to eat
I`m gonna skip a few meals.

[kimba1]

correction
it`s called battlefield anorexia

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/07/MN255717.DTL

[Xavier_Onassis]

Juniorbush and Cheney give me political bulemia.

Raaaalph!

[BT]

Any evidence of this or just talking out of your arse as usual?

Berlin Airlift worked.