Posted on 03/02/2021 7:40:45 AM PST by Red Badger
National Guard troops surrounding the U.S. Capitol have received meals that have been undercooked and contained metal shavings, sending over a dozen people to the hospital. A whistleblower – a Staff Sergeant with Michigan National Guard – spoke with ABC7 meals he and his team have been receiving.
“Yesterday, for instance, there were 74 different meals found with raw beef in them. Just yesterday, soldiers had found metal shavings in their food,” he outlines.
The quality of the meals has sent more than a dozen soldiers to sick call or the hospital according to the Staff Sergeant, who insists the severity of the problem caused it to go up the chain of command:
“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. At 140, you cook that chicken, undercook it to 140 and now you’re telling, you’re telling us that it’s… 30-minute drive. But these meals are, and 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.”
But the quantity of meals is a problem, too.
“You were getting maybe a danish and some sort of juice and then we had certain days where it was clearly a dinner roll and Sunny D,” the whistleblower reveals.
VIDEO AT LINK...............
“I know I want to piss off 5000 soldiers with automatic weapons.”
Who have no ammunition or magazines?
Gosh. Do you think it really could be on purpose? We know that metal shavings always get in food. Just a common thing isn’t it?
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Most military groups have their own field kitchens.
This sounds like a contract made in the wildest dreams of some black democrap caterer.
Questions that will never be asked and certainly not ever answered.
Remember Acorn?
Nancy Pelosi isn’t taking very good care of her personal guards.
This is an outrageous way to treat our troops—shows the Dimmocommies’ complete contempt for them. Yet they use them to protect their pathetic selves. They make them sleep in outdoor weather on cold concrete floors and feed them unwholesome food. This is a microcosm of what they intend to do to us, even if their methodology is different for us. Satan’s minions. Anyone who voted Dimmocommie is mentally disturbed or a complete anal orifice.
You did not mention the only group that practices food jihad as directed by the ISIS overlords, Mulims, a lot of them in the food service industries,
Imagine the uproar if these meals were fed to prison inmates or the kids in cages.
Governor, bring them home.
It seems like that is a lesson rulers have had to learn and relearn through the ages. Always look out for the palace guard so they will look out for you.
This nation is held together on the unifying ideals of constitutional liberty and democratic representation. When they are standing guard in the capitol because the leaders have demonstrated they don’t adhere to those ideals they are relying on full bellies and reliable pay. What happens when the food is no good and they realize they pay is coming in dollars that are worth less than they were before?
Not that it makes it much better, but I'm going to assume gross negligence and incompetence until deliberate malice is proven.
What the story sounds like is that whoever is in charge of feeding the Guardsmen pushed out a hasty and poorly worded catering contract that got picked up by a company that couldn't actually fulfill it's end of the deal and is just trying to fake it. The company gets X dollars per meal delivered, but they don't have facilities or staff to actually serve X full meals correctly each meal time and supply chains for food service are already screwed up so their normal shortcut meals aren't available.
Once the Guard takes delivery of the meals, it counts as delivered, so they chance it, over and over again. Dump and stir from tin cans without checking to see if the can opener left metal shavings on the food, don't check meat temps because the next batch has to go in to the ovens, menus are probably next to non-existent and rarely followed because of supply problems and the pace of delivery.
It could be sabotage, or sabotage could be a part of the gross negligence and incompetence, but I'd bet if there were still actual investigate reporters out there, it wouldn't be too hard to get to the bottom of what is happening.
Perhaps, but I believe any food product for government use / consumption falls under the USDA and there is a USDA inspector onsite supervising all product during production, so if it wasn’t malfeasance, the USDA inspector is in a lot of trouble. As I said, all product goes through very sensitive metal detectors prior to packaging. Any metallic objects, even the smallest metal shavings
is detected and an alarm sounds. There is the rare occurance of one serving that escapes detection but virtually impossible for more than that unless the metal detectors are not working or malfeasance prior to packaging.
Just going off what I learned from my ex-wife.
Whatever the subject there are always Freepers with inside knowledge !
SJW’s gettin’ some Jawstice?
Perhaps the cooks are graduates of Common Core Math (?)
where 'close enough' gets you a diploma and a trophy !?
At 140 degrees, that is the minimum temperature, whereby any cooler promotes bacterial growth in the food.
The 30 minute road trip promotes additional bacterial growth in the protein rich environment of meat.
Chicken (breast) should be minimally cooked to 160*, with the thighs and legs (dark meat) to 175*, in order to be adequately, and minimally cooked.
2+2=5
140°F = Good enough for them................
I would tend to agree on negligence over malice due to contract award to local lowest bidder (or to politically connected) without any due diligence before award to see if the vendor was capable. During gulf war 1 run up i was sent down to Wilmington port facilty from fort Bragg for various guard and hey you duties one of which involved me standing at the highway exit in full uniform and road vest to make sure convoys from Bragg actually took the right exit (think this was in july or August and sucked standing there for hours sunburned on the parts skin that showed and a line on my head here my beret marked a straight line between burned and light skin ). The army contracted with a local diner to supply our meals and they weren’t really great (mostly too little food was the biggest problem we had but i dont remember any raw chicken though). The BN SGM checked on us one day and all of us told him we were all mostly starving until we could go find extra food (probably fast food stuff) after each shift. A day or so after that i think he went and lit a fire under some rear ends as we started to get meals that were more in line for what we needed.
Is this guy responsible?
WASHINGTON — Early Saturday afternoon on a partially cordoned-off street in Washington, Peter Baca pushed a big stack of boxes containing thousands of cookies toward the doors of Jaleo, a Spanish-inspired tapas restaurant that famed chef and humanitarian José Andrés opened in 1993.
Inside, workers with World Central Kitchen — Andrés’ emergency response nonprofit — were busy assembling meals for thousands of troops guarding the city in anticipation of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday and in reaction to the pro-Trump mob that on Jan. 6 stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Or is the cost of keeping this Kabuki Theater going cutting in on Nancy’s liquor allowance?
The government is estimated to rack up $483 million in costs for keeping the National Guard in Washington, D.C., through March 15, the Pentagon said on Monday.
That figure included $284 million in personnel costs and $199 million for operations, which entails lodging, meals, transportation, sustainment, and airlift costs.
The updated estimate came after a senior defense official told Fox News that it would cost about $438 million to keep troops there from Jan. 6, when the nation saw violent riots at the Capitol, until mid-March.
Between 5,000 to 7,000 troops are staying in D.C. until mid-March, a significant reduction from the 26,000 that were deployed to help secure the inauguration.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/price-tag-483-million-national-guard-dc
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