Posted on 02/10/2012 9:31:06 AM PST by Kaslin
First Lady Michelle Obama is still on her food crusade and this time, she's going after the military, saying poor nutrition in our armed forces is a "national security" issue.
First lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that poor nutrition in the military was a "national security issue," and praised the armed forces for taking steps to bring healthier options onto bases."Our military leaders know that this is not just a diet issue; it's not just a health issue. This is truly a national security issue," Obama said. "According to a recent Army study, more than a quarter of our nation's 17- to 24-year-olds are too overweight to serve in our armed forces today. And even those who make the cut often struggle in basic training."
Obama was in Little Rock, Ark. to announce a new healthy food initiative within the Department of Defense that will bring more whole grains, fruits, vegetables and low-fat options to 1,000 military dining facilities, affecting nearly 1.5 million troops.
"That means more DoD installations will offer the kind of fresh, healthy food that the Air Force's Food Transformation Initiative helped bring here to Little Rock," Obama said, referring to a pilot program launched at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
First of all, I'm all for feeding the troops healthier food, but I doubt what Michelle Obama has to offer is appealing to them. Surely our troops really want a fluffy whole grain muffin after long day at boot camp. Second, why is she concerned about not enough people joining the Army, when her husband just gutted our military in favor of the nanny state and entitlement programs. And third, this is going to be expensive:
"The DoD is also going to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of every single military base in America to make sure they're serving healthy food not just to those in uniform, but to their families," the first lady said. "They'll be looking to improve the food served in dining facilities, school cafeterias, vending machines, snack bars, and any other places where military families purchase food."
In closing, President Obama has cut the armed forces, citing budgetary issues, so his wife is willing to spend millions of defense dollars on some fancy study to evaluate "how bad the food is," while her husband claims there isn't enough money to keep troops the payroll.
Ping to #37 [waste not want not]
Purim is mentioned in the Bible
Easter 9:26-32
The verses leading up to 26 explain what the feast was commemorating...
Make that Esther 9:26-32
They tried this on the Army during WWII.
They wanted a cheap source of protein, so the Army bought huge amounts of very poor quality bologna, and it was nasty. It was mottled with chunks of lard, and served for breakfast fried.
Now at that time, the only food a large number of soldiers would eat was grits. So that was breakfast, bologna and grits.
One soldier reminisced that the bologna made he, and several of his peers, vomit daily. So they made it a point after breakfast to stand outside the mess hall and have a group regurgitation on its steps.
Eventually they, and hundreds like them, persuaded the Army to get a different source of protein, so instead they sent trainloads of poor quality, post spawning (read ‘rotting’) Salmon packed in ice.
This close to caused a mutiny. In those times, outside the Pacific northwest, almost nobody had ever eaten salmon, and it was regarded as a ‘junk fish’.
To this day, one of the most important dates on the calendar of enlisted personnel is that of the annual mess hall survey of food they like and food they dislike. It is treated with the seriousness of a public execution, and at it you will hear no laughing, joking, or any other levity.
This is because what they eat is seen by many as their one and only perquisite for their hard labor and sacrifice. They do not get paid a lot, live in small rooms, spend a lot of time cleaning and maintaining equipment. Oh, and yes, getting shot at.
So Michelle Obama is now going to tell them what they have to eat, “for their own good”. Not children, adults.
If the Army is smart, they will smile and nod, and tell her what a genius she is, and so fashionable, and even rig up a fake mess hall to serve the tofu and bean sprouts she demands.
But for every other soldier in the military, not to change a dang thing.
“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”
The military ‘travels on it’s stomach’, this was well know by the Roman’s and they sure as hell weren’t winning battles by eating grass.
So Mooch, close your pie, hamburger, ice cream, and french fries hole.
That fare mught be acceptable to desk weannies who live in cantonement and are on WCP already. But if I drove into my perimeter full of combat troops looking forward to their first hot A ration in week and pulled out a mermite can of that shiite, the ole Top here would have had a problem.
The Amercian military has been feeding troops for two hundred thirty six years. The Wookie comes in and thinks she knows better.
Come to think of it, that’s perfectly emblematic of the whole damned regime. We know better than you. About everything.
nuff said, correct?
Just look at what she’s done to her scrawny husband.
yup
Eleven years in Afghanistan and we can’t win because?????.....the Troops aren’t eating enough asparagus? What the ???? The only food problem in the military is that our admirals and generals are all weanies.
Kind of like Executive Wive’s or Colonel’s wives. Use their husband’s authority throw their weight around. I had my share of run-in’s with executive wives !
> How do we ALWAYS wind up with the POTUS’s wives trying to Regulate and Legislate, without being elected or having Authority to do so, getting in the faces of others to tell them what they have to do? (Hillarycare was the last one I recall).
This is what happens when ignorant amateurs try to run people.
FUMO !
Hey Moochelle! Load up on wheat bran and fruit, grab your Alice pack and take a ten mile run. Betcha don’t get past 5 before you gotta take a potty break.
Ladybird Johnson, beautified the country side by having all those annoying advertising signs removed, i guess she hated Burma Shave adds.
Ladybird also required all the car salvage yards to build fences and hide those ugly smashed up cars. Strange how democrats always assume the power of kings.
Ever wonder why no one ever removes those little crosses that seem to have popped up along highways, no fuss or complaints by anyone, curious huh?
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