How a Papa Johns pizza surge near the Pentagon tipped off social media before Trump's decisive Iran strike

NY Post ^ | 6/21/25 | Alexandra Koch

[Pilsner]

in the Army we were taught how to carry our own excrement to hinder enemy intelligence

The US Army Special Forces S.O.G. teams in Vietnam, who carried out cross border missions into Laos, and Cambodia, would routinely spend the 72 hours before a mission locked up. Partly for security, and partly so that the Americans, ate the same food as their Montagnard team mates, so that North Vietnamese Army troops hunting them across the border, could not tell from the scat that there were Americans in the area.

[Phil]

Popcorn was popping that night.

[OldHarbor]

Papa Johns for the win !

[GingisK]

Hmmm. The Pentagon boys are the ones telling us grunts to police cigarette butts in order to avoid statistical counting.

[kalee]

According to reports, they weren’t told, because they weren’t trusted to keep their mouths shut.

[kalee]

Entities monitoring could just as easily watch the parking lots and entry gates for increased activity on typically low traffic times.

[gundog]

Sure. Apparently it’s not worth much attention, or isn’t a reliable enough indicator. Someone might have known something was up, but what? Trump’s behavior was brilliant...I’m sure there was phonied up military activity ...the B-2s activities may have been couched as something else. Not telling the Democrats was probably the capper for good opsec.

[9YearLurker]

Is Papa John’s still as bad as it used to be?

[gundog]

Just watch what Trump does. Now, every time he goes to a golf course, tyrants need to wonder if hell will soon rain down upon them.

[Tom Tetroxide]

They need a Waffle House, Subway, and Taco Bell in the Pentagon, too!

[Scrambler Bob]

Better check how many of the Pizzas are Kosher or if any are Halal.

[logi_cal869]

Yup.

That may never happen again.

Pretty stupid on someone’s part IMHO.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

So, maybe order Chinese the next time?

Don’t they get tired of pizza every time?

Or do they want people to know?

[Pol-92064]

Soldiers live on Pizza and hamburgers.

[wardaddy]

Panera is dependable

[wardaddy]

Too bad sneaky Pete left here long ago
He was there

A lot of those spike teams named for states and snakes and tools did back to back next day outings if called upon

Truly incredible stuf