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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,342 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 01:37 PM Saturday

Meals that are shitty and almost nonexistent. No packages from home. How the Trump admin treats our troops.

Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo

Dan F. was alarmed when his daughter, a Marine aboard the USS Tripoli, a warship deployed to fight the Iran war, sent him a photo of a meal served on the ship. A lunch tray, two-thirds empty, carried one small scoop of shredded meat and a single folded tortilla.

A picture of a mid-April dinner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, shared by a service member with his family, was similarly unappetizing – a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.

Dan and other military family members worried that their loved ones deployed to the Middle East are going hungry are filling boxes with items they hope could help service members ride out prolonged deployments in the Middle East – homemade fudge, Jolly Ranchers, crossword puzzle books, playing cards, toothpaste, Girl Scout cookies and fresh socks.

But mail delivery to military ZIP codes across the Middle East has been indefinitely suspended as of April, and packages in transit now hang in limbo.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cookies-deodorant-socks-iran-war-090837607.html

Thank you for your service but our priority is billionaire tax cuts - the GOP
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Meals that are shitty and almost nonexistent. No packages from home. How the Trump admin treats our troops. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP
Meanwhile how much did Kegsbreath spend on lobster and steak? Blue Owl Saturday #1
I guess this tells us exactly how the ruling class feels about their underleans. Biophilic Saturday #2
I wouldn't expect anything different. MineralMan Saturday #3

Biophilic

(6,601 posts)
2. I guess this tells us exactly how the ruling class feels about their underleans.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:15 PM
Saturday

Servants to be used, abused and than let go. With the draft we'll just get a new crop every so often to replace the ones no longer useful. Yes, I know there is no draft this year, but if they want to have all the wars they seem to want they are going to need new blood periodically.

MineralMan

(151,413 posts)
3. I wouldn't expect anything different.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:29 PM
Saturday

Trump Don't Care! Those troops are not even on his mind at all.

Like the honey badger, Trump don't care...

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