https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/navy-families-denounce-trump-hegseth
Iranian missiles have already destroyed significant capacity for the US military’s paper thin logistics network in the middle east, leading to severe food and sanitation shortages throughout the Navy. Sailors are losing their minds, posting borderline mutinous language on social media, and self harming. Some have lost 20-30 lbs due to their meagre diet.
GO HOME GI
oUr SoLDiErS wOuLd Be BeTtEr FeD tHaN aN aNcIeNt RoMaN oO-rAh.
“Defect, G.I. It is a very good idea to leave a sinking ship. They lie to you, GI. You know you cannot win this war”
Tbh I don’t buy the “emaciated” thing. That’s just what Americans think when they see someone who is a normal weight. People were telling me if I got any thinner I’d be emaciated when I was fucking obese
it’s possible they said this about a previously fat troop but they do have a lot of low body fat individuals and he could easily be emaciated
I don’t like human suffering but I can’t say that I’m sympathetic to their plight either, just due to the karmic retribution of it all. Maybe they should pitch ending the war to their superiors? And maybe consider other uses for their weaponry
Best start believin’ in skeleton navies, Ensign. Yer in one!
Can’t even boil your boots and belts for leather soup because the woke deep state decided to make everything our poor large sons wear out of synthetic materials.
Oh well, might as well rename the boat the yacht Mignonette
If Revolution’s Great Dumbass of History Theory is right, we should be having a coup by the end of the year.
The war is gonna be over in 2 weeks anyway, no reason to make such a fuss about being stuck on a boat for just 2 weeks.
Greatest country in the world btw
i think im gonna go eat some iranian food later just to dab on the troops
Like these kind of conditions you don’t hear about in war unless it’s winter and the army is cutoff from supply lines and being sieged. And this is supposed to be a one-sided easy war!
That’s basically the situation, as all the logistics hubs the Navy has in the region have been destroyed. The supply chain is soooooo stretched right now.
They’re gonna promote the captain of that ship into a admiral and then send a message to him telling him that no us admiral has ever been captured alive
if only someone could have predicted
You have a trillion dollars!! Why can’t you just send a big plane to drop a crate of stuff nearby?
Why can’t you just send a big plane to drop a crate of stuff nearby?
Better yet, it’s an aircraft carrier, just have a plane land!
Carriers funny enough aren’t really built to land anything larger than a greyhound. Theoretically, they could land KC-130Fs since one time a guy managed to land it without crashing.
Practically, without risking wrecking the deck, all the navy has to attempt logistic resupply is helicopters - not too sure what kind, probably could fit a few Chinook banana copters or whatever the navy version is, and crashprey ospreys. And I’m fairly certain helicopters don’t have the range needed to get to any resupply points that isn’t in range of Iranian missiles, and I’m pretty certain it’s the same deal for ospreys.
Simply put, taking out naval resupply points and making the journey to resupply the fleet dangerous lengthens the u.s navy supply lines to what we see today. Any more pressure could possibly snap the lines entirely and force a retreat but Iran may be chosing keep them barely supplied to put political pressure on Trump instead.
Edit: also them birds aren’t built for cargo so they don’t have capacity for anything but essentials if they did have somewhere to go to pick up supplies. The fleet most likely has to rely on supply boats to bring them shit.
Any more pressure could possibly snap the lines entirely and force a retreat but Iran may be chosing keep them barely supplied to put political pressure on Trump instead.
Could also be a situation where if they collapse the supply lines, the US will escalate and will regroup and reorganise better supply lines. This war is more focused on attrition, so slowly bleeding the US dry through inefficient supply lines like this probably does more damage than a big loud strike on them would.
til they have no helicopter carriers
Unlimited C-5s trying to land on the deck of USS Bounty
Edit: If they were really serious about the F-35 being multi-role, they’d attach cargo pods to the exterior hard points so the sailors can watch their rations plummet straight to the bottom of the ocean
Regarding your edit: You ever see A Bridge Too Far? Where the paratrooper’s resupply drops outside their lines, and a desperate soldier braves enemy fire to retrieve it. Only to be shot dead, the cargo pod open, and a thousand crimson paratrooper berets scatter on the wind?
Imagine that, but it’s like funko pops or punisher stickers and the sailors are drowning instead of being shot
spoiler
How is this not an emoji
Iirc this and the monkey knife fight meme are too detailed to be legible when shrunk down to emoji size unfortunately
it’s pretty rough at like 4x size just eyeballing it with browser zoom. i think with the monkeys we could pick a frame and have monkey-knife-1 and monkey-knife-2 but it loses something without the boys cheering it on.
I feel like the Navy could get a cargo vessel and move shipping containers between boats with cranes.
edit: seems we’ve got fourteen of these guys, and here’s a wikipedia image of a carrier getting replenished by two of them at once
Yeah I think if they wanted to do that they probably don’t want to be in range of a missile that could hit them in the middle of doing cargo stuff, so I believe they’d got to pull back far enough they nor the Iranians can strike each other
Yeah I know lol i was just joking
Uber eats them a Maccies, Donny!!!
Maybe stop being just borderline mutinous huh?
Love that we’re seeing levels of service-related malnutrition unheard of since the salt beef and hardtack days
Wondering if salt beef, hardtack and grog would be more nutritious than what Ive seen posted being served
Maybe with modern corned beef but old school salt beef and salt pork are nutritionally really bad. Salt pork is almost raw fat, so a lot of sailors were essentially stuck with the nutritional profile of flour + pork fat containing incidental meat and connective tissue. Grog was also really inconsistent and it was often just “any available alcohol, watered down.” Citrus was rarely prioritized.
Essentially, the only nutritional concern at that time was calories.
Isn’t the recommended maximum rate of weight loss like 8 pounds a month?
30 lbs over 5 months is still only 6 lbs per
Thats still unhealthy for intentional dieting, the usual max I have heard is about a pound a week, and these people are not trying to lose weight
I know what Trump sings at karaoke.
Fuck them, they will do what I tell them [16x]
Motherfucker, ugh
