Posted on 01/08/2025 8:43:30 AM PST by george76
Wokeness is clearly causing much of the military’s recruiting problems..
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A venerable aphorism is “an army marches on its stomach.” An equally valuable observation is that amateurs talk tactics, but professionals talk logistics. A military that can’t get its troops where it they need to be on time, and that can’t provide them with the food, water, munitions and other gear they need to fight is going to lose.
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the former Ft Hood (now Ft Cavasos) in Texas soldiers weren't being fed.
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The base had only two of its 10 major dining options open every day
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This is a serious problem in that most junior enlisted soldiers are utterly dependent on those chow halls for food. Many, if not most, aren’t allowed cars. Fort Cavazos, the third largest military base in the world, covers 214,968 acres, which is 335.89 square miles. More than 200,000 personnel live there.
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Fort Cavazos isn’t the only place the Army is marching on empty stomachs:
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soldiers were served a single piece of toast and a handful of lima beans for dinner, according to one soldier stationed there who shared imagery of the meal.
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It has not always been thus.
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With everything else damaging our military readiness, if we can’t even feed our best and brightest, kids who upon taking the oath sign a blank check for any amount up to and including their lives, it’s no wonder recruiting is suffering.
Pete Hegseth can’t be confirmed soon enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Seriously? A military base located inside the United States can’t get food supplies?
Under the U.S. Constitution this country was never designed to have a large standing army. Fort Hood should be a Texas state militia facility, named Fort Stephen Austin or Fort Sam Houston, or something like that.
Perfect illustration of a failure by the Chain of Command. The CG of Fort Cavazos should be fired.
under the US constitution this country was designed by people who rode horses when they wanted to get somewhere fast. times change.
The same firm that's contracting the work at Fort Courage should be serving the same meals at the Pentagon and Congress.
I wonder what the founders of this country would think about having 200,000 military personnel living on a base in Texas, where they are being trained and prepared to do everything EXCEPT protect the U.S. border against an invasion from Mexico.
Don’t forget boats! We didn’t have no roads back then.
Even worse, the military uses nutrition information from the FDA to plan their meals, which has to be close to torture.
Sad - General Cavazos (father of my sister’s college roommate) was a good man and a fine officer, and received posthumously the Medal of Honor last week for actions in the Korean War.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
Chow halls and hot field meals were an issue in the army during the very early years of the 70s.
Missing sugar in drinks and desserts along with other meal parts at Fort Polk and Fort Sill, and at
Fort Lewis, being last on the truck route when hot field rations would be delivered meant only receiving some canned peas and a slice of white bread.
I never understood the tolerance for theft and incompetence back then.
Oh stop it I’m no Democrat. Don’t enter a debate with a insult. And Democrats are warming up to the idea that they need guns to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. Just like we have been saying for 200 years. They just need to be slapped around. I don’t.
I am extraordinarily skeptical that a piece of toast and lima beans were all that was served in a chow hall, regardless of claims appearing on the Internet.
“ times change.”
Human nature doesn’t.
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Military chow halls options on bases have been way down for years. They give you money to eat elsewhere...like the restaurants on bases or out in town.
Even deployed chow halls are down and they bring locals in to feed the troops.
The only logistics that Liz Warren understands is padding her secret offshore bank accounts...
They give you money to eat elsewhere...
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Only if you receive “separate rations.” When I was in the army single soldiers couldn’t get separate rations at all. I was fortunate enough to have my last duty station close to home. I lived off base for the most part. They wouldn’t give them to me period.
That was the point..separate when I was in back in the early 80s we got BAS.. Basic Allowance for Subsistence but I was married but there were chow halls. Starting on 01 Jan 2002 all service members get BAS.. married or not. 2025 rate is $475.77 a month. Chow halls became scarce on most bases except boot camps, fwd deployment (not all) and shipboard for Navy/Marines.
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