[ewing]

In reality they are getting 2 MRE's instead of 3 per day.

[Semper Paratus]

This report came from CBS that missunderstood a commander saying we seldom have a enough TIME (not food) to eat.

[Illbay]

How is it even remotely possible for them to be running out?

You just bring in some choppers with the grub and the bullets.

Good grief.

[Liberal Classic]

No plan survives contact with the enemy. Adapt and overcome.

[bolobaby]

As a soldier, I can confirm that most troops won't eat 3 MREs a day. Most only eat two with scraps from the third if they even open it.

[LurkedLongEnough]

BBC will soon be reporting (or wishing they could) that troops are having a barbeque of civilian women & children.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

This is total bull$hit!!! Fox News JUST showed an embedded reporter interviewing the soldier directly in charge of food,supplies, water. And he reported ALL IS WELL. Maybe showers are lacking but give me a break to this piece of crap article-Do they have anything better to do than to report lies?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

US Marines 'Running out of Food' - Women, Children Minorities and Working Poor to be hardest hit

[Pan_Yans Wife]

(Quagmire alert!) I doubt the soldiers are that hungry. Should we delay pushing forward, so that they can get three meals a day, a shower, a cot, a tent, television, mail, liberty, beer, sit like ducks in the desert? Imagine how hungry the civilians of Iraq are?

[Mr. Wright]

"reportedly" who is "reportedly" - give a name who is reporting this stuff!! Otherwise, there is no need to post this kind of stuff!!

[rangerX]

Based on what we did in DS1, this is total BS. I bet I had enough cases of MREs on my vehicle to last us a month when we crossed into Iraq. We had enough water to last at least two weeks. I even had enough smokes to last a month.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: US Marines 'Running out of Food'

No Way! We got all them A-rab children we can eat!

[g'nad]

In reality they are getting 2 MRE's instead of 3 per day.

That's more than enuff... I could never get more'n two MRE's down my neck in a day... that's plenty of calories...

[Quix]

IF our troops really are short of food and ammo,

heads should roll.

No rationalizations accepted.

[biblewonk]

They said this same thing on 60 minutes 2 this week. I laughed. What a joke and an out and out lie.

[Nucluside]

It's so nice that the socialists are concerned about the welfare our Marines. And I'm sure that we will take good care of them.
Semper Fi and Airborne!

[HanneyBean]

The media is really making me want to puke over this. Here we are a little more than a WEEK into it, and the media would like to spin it like Washington's troops at Valley Forge - starving, suffering, barely hanging on.

For goodness sake, these are hardened, well-trained combat troops - missing a few MRE's aren't going to hurt them. I would be embarrassed to think the the mighty US military could be as wimpy as the media tells us - almost makes me think the French military IS there in disguise after all!

If anything, I'd be willing to bet some of the dopey CNN/BBC embeds are getting whiney after 8 days without a bath, shave and "real" food. Ergo, that HAS to mean the troops are equally incapcitated.

Heaven help us.

[bmwcyle]

I hope they have enough candy and nylons to trade.

[strela]

The troopers eating only two MREs a day probably wish to have a bowel movement more than once every two weeks.

[samuel_adams_us]

What a crock, ever heard of air drop? This is complete BS.

[jwalsh07]

No biggie, I just sent two big boxes full of "stuff". If the can hold out for 4 weeks, they'll be OK.