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The Drawdown Diet: Marines Steamed By Loss Of Hot Meal At Afghanistan Base
NBCNews.com ^ | May 31,2013 | Bill Briggs

Posted on 05/31/2013 3:23:43 PM PDT by Biggirl

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnews.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanwar; hotmeals; military; militarydiet; militarymeals; mres
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1 posted on 05/31/2013 3:23:43 PM PDT by Biggirl
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2 posted on 05/31/2013 3:25:00 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Biggirl

What’s WORSE is 0bama’s furloughs given to the nurses and staff who care for our wounded at Walter Reed. 0bama’s assault on America continues, unabated.


3 posted on 05/31/2013 3:27:15 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Biggirl
Wonder if that missing money for meals went to HUD in order to house 1,300 AIDS patients at an average cost of $24,874 each.
4 posted on 05/31/2013 3:27:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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The least the military can do, if it’s not feasible to have cooks on duty, is to leave the equipment and keep it supplied so soldiers can still prepare meals.


5 posted on 05/31/2013 3:27:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: musicman

You forgot to put flies on that broccoli.


6 posted on 05/31/2013 3:27:52 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

PETA would have a fit if that were done.


7 posted on 05/31/2013 3:30:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Biggirl

The money to al Qaeda and Mosques worldwide
will continue

Taxpayer money will go to terrorists worldwide
to crucify and enslave;

and where is the Congress?

.... at their banks. you can bank on THAT.


8 posted on 05/31/2013 3:31:30 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Olog-hai

No, it went to offer pottery classes in Morocco.


9 posted on 05/31/2013 3:34:58 PM PDT by married21
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To: Biggirl

10 posted on 05/31/2013 3:35:42 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

You want flies with that?


11 posted on 05/31/2013 3:37:15 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Biggirl
They are preparing to draw down. Luxuries are the last to arrive and first to depart. You don't want large, easy targets with no or lessened security.
12 posted on 05/31/2013 3:37:44 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Diogenesis
al Qaeda and Mosques = alkida and mosks.

Ska-rew their preferences.

13 posted on 05/31/2013 3:39:44 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: Jonty30

“The least the military can do, if it’s not feasible to have cooks on duty, is to leave the equipment and keep it supplied so soldiers can still prepare meals.”

As we used to say, nothing is too good for the troops, and that’s what they’ll get.


14 posted on 05/31/2013 3:46:50 PM PDT by 22202NOVA (DoD civilian, retired Army. Furlough...the new "F" word.)
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To: Biggirl

The food situation used to be much worse in the Army 40 years ago, many times they just wouldn’t feed you at all, over and over and over, and over, they would say that you were the last unit on their delivery route and that they had already run out, “sorry about that, maybe tomorrow, we have some white bread left, do you want that?


15 posted on 05/31/2013 3:47:05 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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NRO tallied what taxpayers are paying for the Ohaha's living in the White House: $1.4 billion per year: Air Force One ($181,757 per hour), executive chef ($100,000 per year), three full-time White House calligraphers ($ 277,050 per year for the trio), chief of staff to the president’s dog ($102,000 per year), Ohaha's royal motorcade ($2.2 million).

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$1.4 BILLION is the current annual cost of the White House — just in household expenses, not including US policy operations for which the WH exists-- administered by some 900 parasites--- policy staff recruited by Ohaha.

Annually, Ohaha vacations cost $20 million (the low estimate for Ohaha's Hawaii vacay was $4 million, but the true cost is probably five times that); the first family’s yearly health-care costs are $7 million; more than $6 million is spent on the White House grounds each year. Transportation costs were a staggering $346 million last year.

The O' kids were flying aroound to the Bahamas and Sun Valley.....while US kids were shut out of the WH supposedly due to sequestration Secret Service cutbacks. The O's galivanting teen daughter was spotted in NY---with girlfriends---dining at the pricey Buddakan, scoffing up rock shrimp, edamame dumplings, short ribs, lobster fried rice........replete w/ five Secret Service guards dining nearby, while students her age were denied access to the people's house.

Buddakan

Mrs O wore her pricey diamond bangles sat a DNC fund-raiser last Sept, attended by "tolerant and compassionate" Dems....raised big bucks to keep Mr O in office so he could work for "the poor." Her diamond Gothic cuff was priced at $15,350 set with 2.17 carats in diamonds and the Quatrefoil bracelet at $11,800 set with 1.73 carats in diamonds. (Excerpt) Read more at houston.culturemap.com

Mrs O wowed all the "tolerant and compassionate" Dems who hate the rich and support endless tax-paid programs "for the poor."Her diamond Gothic cuff was priced at $15,350 set with 2.17 carats in diamonds and the Quatrefoil bracelet at $11,800 set with 1.73 carats in diamonds. (Excerpt) Read more at houston.culturemap.com

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The self-described "busy single mother" with 24 tax-paid WH assistants.


16 posted on 05/31/2013 3:54:13 PM PDT by Liz
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Call your elected DC Elitist at 202-224-3121 all next week and give them your thoughts on this outrage.


17 posted on 05/31/2013 3:56:14 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Diogenesis

Next he will take the heat out of the shower water, then turn off the water, then offer heated water for his homo pals.
Destroy and strain the military.

All this while empowering Islam.

That is our Ghazi in out White House at work!

It is easy to project the outcome.


19 posted on 05/31/2013 4:00:15 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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I’m having a hard time getting worked up over this. As an infantryman, I typically got a hot meal every 3 to 5 days. Life is a bitch in combat. Even in ideal conditions, the ration cycle in a combat zone is frequently C-C-A (2 MRE’s and one hot meal). The guys who never leave the wire have it good, they should not complain so much.


20 posted on 05/31/2013 4:00:33 PM PDT by centurion316
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