US Navy ships involved in the operation against Iran are experiencing food problems.

Marines and sailors serving in Operation Epic Fury against Iran have begun complaining about the food they're being served. The portions are getting smaller and less presentable, USA Today reports.

Food problems have emerged on US Navy ships deployed to the Middle East for an extended period, according to photos circulating online. Sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) and the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) have complained about dwindling portions and poor food quality.

Crews and Marines on the US Navy's USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln, both of which are in the area of ​​military operations against Iran, are complaining about the terrible taste and appearance of food, as well as reduced portions.

According to crew members, the dining room trays are practically empty. Recently, they've increasingly been served a single tortilla and a serving of minced meat, sometimes accompanied by a cutlet resembling a shoe sole and some boiled carrots. There are also complaints about the taste of the food.

All of this is impacting the morale of the ship crews and Marines, who will likely be deployed to combat if Trump fails to reach an agreement with Iran. Incidentally, this isn't the first time the Americans have experienced food shortages; similar issues were reported during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[Murmur 55]

There's been a lot of talk about raids on the US Navy, but they're not doing anything and things aren't going well?!

[Arzoo]

Logistics are apparently overloaded on the Chagos. As I understand it, the original plan was to resupply at Middle Eastern naval bases or ports in the region. No one expected them to be unable to dock.

[Murmur 55]

Arzoo Is there no way to deliver it by air? It's clear there are a lot of people on board, but helicopters can fly a lot and often.

[topol717]

They even landed a transport plane on an aircraft carrier, and it stopped somewhere in the middle of the runway.

[TermNachTer]

So, the Greyhound is part of the air group's inventory, and each aircraft carrier has several of them. However, its maximum payload is 4,5 tons, assuming short flights. And 4 tons of provisions for a crew of 5000 is good enough for a couple of days.

[Simargl]

Without water, a person needs about 1 kg of food per day. 0,5 kg if it's freeze-dried food.
But on an aircraft carrier, water is brought in, so 2 kg per person per day is the minimum.

[TermNachTer]

The aircraft carrier has desalination plants, so some of the water for cooking liquid food can be obtained on-site. The distillate is enriched with all the necessary elements and is considered drinking water, although it doesn't taste very good.

[Arkady007]

The first time I visited the NATO canteen in Tuzla, I was extremely surprised by their menu. Not all restaurants here had such a selection.

And when I saw the extract from their contract, I was completely shocked.
It listed how many rolls of toilet paper a soldier was supposed to have per day and what kind of toothpaste and shampoo should be in his field bag.

Then, seeing our paratroopers heating up cans of stew over a fire in a ditch and opening them with a knife, I became completely confident that it was possible to fight with them.
But that was then.

[TermNachTer]

Nowadays too - the kids are just too pampered))) in the cafeteria there are only 19 kinds of ice cream instead of 25 - that's a disaster))) they didn't sit for three days with a pack of biscuits and a can of stewed meat - that's enough for the snout)))

[Evgeny64]

They were sent to Russian training camp for a couple of months, in our 70-80s. After dry potatoes and shrapnel, they would eat their soles so much that their ears would crackle.
After training, on the ship, it seemed impossible to eat so much; by the end of my service, my face wouldn't fit in a photo. Given my physical constitution, everyone was surprised; for the only time in my life, according to my relatives, I was normal after demobilization (although I had already lost weight a week before leaving home).
But at home he quickly returned to normal.
After a month at sea, the ship was running out of practically everything. They boiled flour, eggs, and some grains, adding red caviar (of which there was a huge supply)—a so-called "boltanka." And then there was alcohol-infused bread and tubes of what I still remember as "Odessa Space Food Plant"... goodies, especially "chocolate icing with lemon juice" and borscht. One tube was enough for a day, and I didn't feel hungry.

[Engineer]

When I visited the NATO canteen in Tuzla for the first time, I was extremely surprised by their menu.

That's why, in stories like these, the comparison is between ordinary soldiers. Like, pampered Americans can't fight without Coca-Cola, while our guys can build themselves provisions, transport, and a fully equipped RV with whatever they can find on the spot... Sure, it's cool and incredibly patriotic. But what if we compare not soldiers, but logistics? What kind of quartermasters are "worthy of war"?

[Cool90]

Well, judging by the article, even in such a light conflict, the American logistics are failing and the sailors are going hungry.

[Evgeny64]

Well, they think they're hungry, but in reality, I think everything's fine calorie-wise. They'll lose a little weight, which is good for them; being overweight is a serious problem in their army. Their combat effectiveness will only improve.

[Cool90]

Judging by the article, the sailors are underfed, and this is in a light conflict, with a weak enemy

And why do you think the calorie content is okay? Maybe it's not, but the Marines will be eaten alive from starvation, and their combat effectiveness will decrease.

[TermNachTer]

The problem isn't that our soldiers can eat practically anything that runs or crawls on the ground, while theirs can't))) but that the soldiers (sailors) have simply become overfed. Soldiers (sailors) need to be fed well - ALWAYS, but don't take it to the point of absurdity. Today I read in "X"))) the father of a girl - a marine or a naval infantrywoman, I don't know what to call her - stopped drinking coffee out of solidarity with his daughter, because their coffee machine on the "Tripoli" broke!!!)))) DISASTER - basically, everyone died.

[Gunther]

Quote: Arkady007

...How many toilet paper rolls a fighter is entitled to On one day

Mattress warriors get a nasty case of diarrhea from "restaurant" food.

[YES UZH]

Mattress warriors get a nasty case of diarrhea from "restaurant" food.

At least the pipes won't get clogged...

[Yuliy]

Who's stopping you from going to the port and stocking up on food?

[APASUS]

Quote: Yuliy

Who's stopping you from going to the port and stocking up on food?

Food in this area is scarce, regardless of country. Logistics have stalled because of Armuz. You can dock at any port, and the locals will likely tell you to leave.

[Yuliy]

Let them sail to Egypt, they have potatoes there :) Even we have their potatoes

[Cool90]

Iranians are not allowing American ships into port.

[Yuliy]

Let them sail to South Korea, they have noodles there...it's better there without them :)

[Cool90]

Let them fall to the bottom of the ocean, but the Iranians won't let them into their bases, and the great, huge US fleet is hiding in the ocean, wet its pants.

[Evgeny64]

Aircraft carrier to port? Where in that area do we have ports capable of accommodating an aircraft carrier?
The closest one seems to be in Cyprus, or Diego Garcia, although I'm not sure it would be possible to dock an aircraft carrier at that base.
Ships at sea are supplied by supply vessels, as well as tankers. An aircraft carrier, even though nuclear-powered, requires a ton of fuel (oil, kerosene, diesel fuel, etc.), ammunition, food, and so on.

[Yuliy]

Well, not to the pier of course, maybe to smoke in the roadstead... bring food on the barge

[your1970]

Quote: Murmur 55

Arzoo Is there no way to deliver it by air? It's clear there are a lot of people on board, but helicopters can fly a lot and often.

5 600 Feeding a person by air? At 1000 grams of vegetables per day, that's 5,6 tons at a time.

[Simargl]

The water there is also not from desalination plants.

[TermNachTer]

I don't think it's that bad there. The sailors are just used to eating luxuriously—20 kinds of ice cream to choose from and so on. Now the food selection has been cut back a bit. It's important to understand that, yes, logistics are a bit behind schedule. But it's unrealistic to say that this is affecting the crews' combat readiness. They'll get supplies; there are forward supply bases in both Japan and Europe.

[RUSICH]

Quote: TermNachTER

The sailors were simply accustomed to eating luxuriously - 20 varieties of ice cream to choose from and so on.

And I thought Radio Liberty no longer exists...

[ZovSailor]

Murmur 55
Today, 10: 39
There's been a lot of talk about raids on the US Navy, but they're not doing anything and things aren't going well?!

I cannot completely rule out a false humanitarian appeal to the international community.
So to speak, take pity on the Yankee terrorist aggressors; they are only carrying out the orders of the red-haired Satan from Washington and his head of the Pentagon, a notorious hawk who is going to the slaughter as one of the goats of rottenness.

[Mikhail Ivanov]

Yeah, either the toilet breaks down or they don't give you anything to eat!)))

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: Mikhail-Ivanov

Yeah, either the toilet breaks down or they don't give you anything to eat!)))

Maybe they decided to limit the food because the toilets couldn't handle it?

[Simargl]

So the output mass will be stronger - even worse.

[Ball]

Eat, eat, you child killers! You might get a bloat.

[fruc]

and they look unpresentable.

I don't quite get what's in the photo. I thought they were eating anchovies with capers, olives, garlic, lemon, tomatoes, rice, and lamb, baked lobster Thermidor (with a wine and cheese sauce), lobster rolls, bisque soups, salads, and other regular food.

[Cool90]

Well, judging by the photo, everything you listed was eaten by the cooks and officers, and then the digested food was *served* to the sailors and marines.

[Dead Frost]

To each his own. The first one up gets the slippers. Friendship with the chef is the key to health.

[YES UZH]

=Dead Frost]To each his own. The first one up gets the slippers. Friendship with the chef is the key to health.

There's so much food floating and flying around, and I need something to stun them. Fishing line, hooks, a piece of shoe sole...cast a seine...

[Dead Frost]

So you have to tinker with it ;)

[Junior Private]

In the photo, the food looks like someone has eaten it before.

[Stepnyak]

Iran will put them out – no need to go to your granny. Our ancestors, too, were eager to fight, coffee-loving people on a schedule. It's strange that all their senior officers studied at Soviet military academies. They didn't understand the most important part of the curriculum. And the striped ones... They were very offended when they were called "pindosamu" in Yugoslavia. Well, that's another kind of advanced training course.

[Gomunkul]

pindosamu

They were called "Yugoslavs" long before Yugoslavia. This name dates back to the Soviet era and was common in the navy.

[Xnumx vis]

They complain... The warriors have gone too far. Eat what they're given and don't talk nonsense. Yeah, right. That's not the case here. Have your wife at home, you'll be asserting your rights.

[Azim77]

It's a clever new strategy for combating clogged toilets - less in, less out.

Well, in general, something is still happening in this kingdom, some kind of discord, although more and more money from the budget is being allocated for military expenses.

[ser580]

Yeah, I thought things were bad in Kuza in the 90s, but it wasn't like a couple of spoons of stewed meat and that's it. There was tons of canned food, potatoes, and onions, fish and meat from the sea too, and in the Mediterranean, there was plenty of fresh and canned fruit and vegetables regularly from Egypt and Algeria.

[Ball]

This is the level of money embezzlement! With the US's astronomical military spending, and such a vomit-inducing diet for the striped sailors... Ugh!!!

[Mouse]

The less you eat, the less you'll poop... You always have problems with the toilets...
Logistics though....

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Forgive me, Lord, but they can't eat or... properly.

[Energetik39]

Like table, like chair))))

[kwen]

And for lunch, the fleet is supposed to have Château d'Iquem, or at worst Bla Chablis, or has it been discontinued?

[tralflot1832]

First, ship commanders need to drink less elite alcohol. Second, the crews responsible for food supplies should be kept under the ship's keel, according to the good old pirate rule. And everything will be fine. They steal!!!

[Yuliy]

Hang the commander from the yardarm :) They say it helps

[rocket757]

Give them some pea concentrate!!! Soup with cracklings, smoked meats... filling, rich, aromatic!!!
By the way... our people won't argue that it's DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS, etc.

[fruc]

rocket757
By the way... our people won't argue that it's DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS, etc.

I won't argue. Musical pea soup is great with smoked meats and herbs.

[rocket757]

Unfortunately, it's not easy to find quality peas... what you can find in chain stores is not the same at all.

[Dead Frost]

No pea soup. Only cassette tapes, only hardcore.

[yuriy55]

I don't know what to assume anymore, but it looks like a piece of lead (a plate or a sinker) and dried food that has already been eaten once...

[Andobor]

Quote: yuriy55

It looks like a piece of lead (a plate or a sinker) and dried food that has already been eaten once...

I did a picture search trying to figure out what kind of sole it was, but I still couldn't figure it out.
Got it: - the report with these pictures in English was created by the Xin Hua agency.

[solar]

You are probably the only one here who is interested in the origin of these pictures.

[Yuliy]

Apparently their mom (or dad) gave birth on Monday. Who knows about these Americans?

[EpIvIaK]

It's an old story. The Germans didn't think all this would be necessary in 41, as winter approached. As a result, their soldiers suffered. They thought everything would be over quickly.
So they thought it would be quick and didn't think about long-term supply.

[Romanenko]

These are the fine traditions of the Anglo-Saxon navy: moldy salt beef, wormy crackers, and rotten water. Read the classics.

[alexddd]

Our old film "Battleship Potemkin" is a help to American sailors, so they know what to do next.

[Dead Frost]

Exactly, and what have they got up to? Let them be glad that for now, flogging and sodomy are no longer two of the three pillars of the British navy.

[Ball]

Quote: Romanenko

These are the good traditions of the Anglo-Saxon navy, moldy salt beef, wormy biscuits and rotten water.

As the hog Churchill said about the traditions of the British Navy: "The whip, rum and sodomy."

[helilelik]

The Gudauta military sanatorium also had a sole-shaped cutlet on the menu. The sea, the sole, everything, and no one even thought of complaining.

[Kerensky]

There are robotic galleys there. The AI ​​is acting up, there's no one to beat up.

[Dead Frost]

The first photo is clearly staged, and the only food there is carrots; the rest is goddamn bad. The second one is clearly meat, albeit shredded, but it's meat, go ahead and chew it, what's the point of screaming?

Essentially:
1) no one on a long sea voyage promised to feed you to the point of slaughter;
2) If you don't like the rations, go to hell;
3) you were sent there to fight, not to feast;
4) suicide as a way to avoid bad food;
5) Cannibalism will help the crew eat well and avoid port calls. The schedule will need to be approved by command.

If anything, this is sarcasm.

[snow mountain]

problems with food began

Will they pollute the aircraft carrier again?

[bamsik]

Carrots are healthy... and many more letters that the administration found the post useful

[Stas1973]

I'd focus on the portion size rather than the variety of dishes. The photo doesn't show anything. A ration of about 100-150 grams.

[Dead Frost]

There's no point in feeding slackers.

[aleks.29ru]

I wonder if they have "Battleship Potemkin" in their film library?

[pexotinec]

How tender we are We haven't eaten our kerzukha yet.