Posted on 03/01/2021 10:21:42 PM PST by grundle
There's a disturbing problem facing Michigan National Guard troops guarding the U.S. Capitol – their food.
A whistleblower is telling 7 Action News nearly 75 meals were thrown out Sunday after metal shavings were found, other meals showed up undercooked making soldiers sick.
A staff sergeant with the Michigan National Guard, whose identity 7 Action News is protecting, says the problem is not isolated.
“Yesterday, for instance, there were 74 different meals found with raw beef in them,” the sergeant said. "Just yesterday, the lunches were, soldiers had found metal shavings in their food.”
The food concerns going beyond quality – quantity is an issue as well. Breakfast is an example.
“You were getting maybe a Danish and some sort of juice," the sergeant said. "And then we had certain days where it was clearly a dinner role and Sunny D.”
After undercooked food made more than a dozen soldiers sick, while some went to the hospital – the concern the staff sergeant says went up the chain of command, then there was a noticeable change on the boxes being delivered.
“They said alright, we’re going to make sure we spot check them. And we’re also going to start having them add temperatures to it," the whistleblower said. “At 140, you cook that chicken, undercook it to 140, and now you’re telling... you’re telling us that it’s… a 30-minute drive. This is what they say on the little placard that’s (inaudible) good for four hours. No, it’s not. It wasn’t good from the start and now it’s had hours to become even more dangerous.”
7 Action News is told that after the food conditions continued once concerns were sent up the chain of command, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office was informed. She called the acting secretary of the army on this saying the food was "unacceptable."
Rep. Brenda Lawrence's office is also involved. She plans on eating with the Michigan National Guard this week to see the food for herself. Sen. Gary Peters said he'll also be looking into the claims following the 7 Action News story.
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(WXYZ) — There's a disturbing problem facing Michigan National Guard troops guarding the U.S. Capitol – their food.
A whistleblower is telling 7 Action News nearly 75 meals were thrown out Sunday after metal shavings were found, other meals showed up undercooked making soldiers sick.
A staff sergeant with the Michigan National Guard, whose identity 7 Action News is protecting, says the problem is not isolated.
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“Yesterday, for instance, there were 74 different meals found with raw beef in them,” the sergeant said. "Just yesterday, the lunches were, soldiers had found metal shavings in their food.”
The food concerns going beyond quality – quantity is an issue as well. Breakfast is an example.
“You were getting maybe a Danish and some sort of juice," the sergeant said. "And then we had certain days where it was clearly a dinner role and Sunny D.”
After undercooked food made more than a dozen soldiers sick, while some went to the hospital – the concern the staff sergeant says went up the chain of command, then there was a noticeable change on the boxes being delivered.
“They said alright, we’re going to make sure we spot check them. And we’re also going to start having them add temperatures to it," the whistleblower said. “At 140, you cook that chicken, undercook it to 140, and now you’re telling... you’re telling us that it’s… a 30-minute drive. This is what they say on the little placard that’s (inaudible) good for four hours. No, it’s not. It wasn’t good from the start and now it’s had hours to become even more dangerous.”
7 Action News is told that after the food conditions continued once concerns were sent up the chain of command, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office was informed. She called the acting secretary of the army on this saying the food was "unacceptable."
Rep. Brenda Lawrence's office is also involved. She plans on eating with the Michigan National Guard this week to see the food for herself. Sen. Gary Peters said he'll also be looking into the claims following the 7 Action News story.
On Monday, the anonymous sergeant provided another update saying, "Now after the raw meat yesterday for dinner they have told us not to eat the meals for the next two days and are giving us MRE’s instead. Soldiers are now paying for all their meals for the next two days in order to get real food."
The National Guard released the below statement in response to the allegations.
The Michigan National Guard finds the reports of undercooked and poorly prepared food provided to our service members in Washington, D.C. very concerning. The firsthand accounts and pictures of undercooked food being served clearly shows that what is being given to Michigan’s service members is unacceptable. As soon as the first reports were received, Governor Gretchen Whitmer called Acting Secretary of the Army John E. Whitley to communicate Michigan’s concerns. Other Michigan senior leaders also engaged at the highest levels of the federal government to inform those in charge and to ensure that they knew of our displeasure with the conditions. Every assurance was given that the issue would be addressed and corrected.
The Post Inaugural Security Mission is a multi-state taskforce, including Michigan’s 1000 personnel, under the command and control of the Washington D.C. National Guard. A decision was made by the leadership in Washington, D.C., to provide contracted meal service for the troops there. This contract was awarded and is monitored by the National Guard Bureau. Michigan’s Adjutant General has communicated all concerns directly to the Chief of the National Guard, General Daniel R. Hokanson, who has engaged to address the reported shortcomings of the current food service contract.
The health and wellbeing of our Michigan National Guard service members is paramount to their success as they continue to serve in missions in the United States and around the globe. Senior leaders of the Michigan National Guard will remain personally engaged with this issue and will continue to push for accountability and a solution to the ill-prepared meals being served.
The troops are scheduled to return back to Michigan shortly after March 12, the agreed upon end date for this deployment.
Democrats are just providing joke/tainted meals to soldiers because they can’t stand the military.
How does any state elect liberals?
It’s likely INTENTIONAL!
Pelozi’s Coup takes another dark turn.
Impeach Sleepy46 for mishandling the National Guard food crisis.
Despite CDC claims, properly handled raw beef isnt likely to be dangerous especially to otherwise healthy young adults. Mishandled and/or contaminated factory ground and unseared/half warm beef is an altogether different discussion and someone should swing from a lamppost.
Beef?! This is an emergency. Those animals have flatulated, causing global warming! Congress must investigate. Oh, and feed the soldiers some vegan vittles. Metal shavings sounds good, lots of iron./s
Once again, Pelosi insures that nothing is too good for the Army National Guard troops guarding the Capitol Building.
Once again contractor provided meals appears to be the problem. I’m guessing that in the initial rush, only the troops were deployed to DC, without any of their support equipment such as their mess sections and its equipment so Army cooks could have done the cooking and provided proper chow to the troops.
And I’m guessing that NO ONE has had the idea to mobilize the DC, VA, & MD ARNG unit mess sections to provide the troops “Hot A” rations. But then, Nancy probably considers cooking food for the troops on Army Stoves outside the capitol building would cause air pollution.
Who is preparing these meals and where is the food originating from?
“Rep. Brenda Lawrence’s office is also involved. She plans on eating with the Michigan National Guard this week to see the food for herself. Sen. Gary Peters said he’ll also be looking into the claims following the 7 Action News story. “
If they were serious, they’d pay a surprise visit to the commissary. This is giving them time to clean it up for the visit, and then letting the food go to hell again after they’re gone.
My guess too
2. They are probably the guards that turned their back on Uncle Joe.
2. They are probably the guards that turned their back on Uncle Joe.
Makes you wonder what they’re serving in Biden’s VA hospitals.
[[Who is preparing these meals and where is the food originating from?]]
Exactly- start an investigation immediately- This is assault very likely
You don’t have these problems with MRE’s.. Well I haven’t anyway.
There are plenty of military bases right outside of DC that can provide sleep quarters and meals for our deployed military. If need be they can provide the very large tents that can house a lot of soldiers. Surely Andrews AFB, along with the other military bases have at bare minimum large expanses of lawns. The military can fly them in on helicopter if they have do, since there cannot too many people coming into Reagan airport due to COVID.
In this unique deployment situation....they wanted only ‘guards’ and not the support structure that would normally come with them (chow hall, medical staff, tent-city, etc).
So they ended up in hotel rooms (special gov’t rates), and meals contracted out via local catering. So you could get a plain juice, a coffee and a large breakfast roll for $8.50 (that’s standard pricing in the DC/Arlington region).
I’d readily admit this is a marginally-planned deployment and reminds me of a number of 1980s NG deployments where they trucked guys in and pretended that they were accomplishing something important (for the cameras).
If Gretchen was smart, she would have pulled the troops out of DC after they made them sleep in a parking garage.
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