Mildly Infuriating

I mean, when you literally sign up to be cannon fodder, I don't know what you expect. America has always treated troops and veterans like livestock. You could simply choose a career other than oppressing the third world for oil profits.

The latest Chinese propaganda has been posting pictures of their aircraft carrier meals.

An army recruiter came to my extremely poor elementary school, and could basically say anything to us kids. Told us that if we joined the army you can get whatever food you want, at all, from the mess hall and a chef will cook it for you. And yes, being able to get food was a motivating factor for some of us.

I asked if you could get eggs Benedict every day if you asked for it. He looked a little nonplused, then said "oh yeah sure! Every day!"

I knew at that point he was full of it and told him so.

Now do modern prison and public school food for comparison.

This is the exact same stuff they fed us when I was in Iraq 20 year ago. They gave the contract to the lowest bidder who bought the cheapest food possible then pocketed the "leftover" cash. This isn't new. The difference between then and now is our families could send us care packages and we didn't have cell phones to post about the mystery meat. I don't want anyone to eat like this but I also don't know why everyone is surprised by wartime food. Food SUCKS when you deploy, it's why they give troops the big send off steak and lobster dinner. Best way to avoid giving our troops trash food is to NOT DEPLOY THEM.

pro tip: stop fucking joining this shitshow.

Looks like prison food lol

If the US ever tried to invade Canada, we could probably convince the soldiers to change sides with something as shitty as Tim Horton's.

Good fuck em. Why would you ever join the military? I don't care if you're stupid and poor, I'm stupid and poor, I'd never join that dumb shithead factory

If that don't wanna make you die for your country, nothing will.

Oh no the people who volunteered to be murderers aren't getting good food :(

Ok chat, what the fuck is this?

As a former enlisted who thankfully got medical'd out of the service very early, the ONLY thing I find mildly infuriating 8s that it looks like my old school lunches.

Why do they deserve to get better food than our children?

Anyone still in can kiss my ass. Most enlisted joined within the last 10 years where it's been a ShitShow since Trump1.0. I joined when I thought Obama was going to be different, but am glad I got out not long after it became clear how much he loves drone strikes. I would have just gone awol when trump showed up.

Modern military deserves the food we give to homeless people. Once we improve the lives of those who have it worst, we can think about getting them better food.

Devastation caused by US service men and women:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/8/satellite-images-show-destruction-of-the-us-israel-war-on-iran

Meanwhile, TACO is gnawing a ruined, expensive tomahawk steak, well done with ketchup.

Ever had a meal with a group of US military guys? They're done in like 3 minutes. It's wild

Ohh if you’re pissed at this just wait until you hear that the administration is funding the war out of the payroll for the armed services.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-iran-war-navy-budget

When sailors stop getting paychecks on time it’s gonna be lit.

Oh, no, the volunteer soldiers who are willingly taking orders from pedophiles and Nazis aren't feeling COMFY and eating gourmet food???

Fuck'em. This is better than they deserve.

Sucks to suck, don't join the fascist army.

In the royal Australian Navy, we got fed ridiculous amounts of potatoes au gratin, sans the gratin. It was like big trays of thin -ish sliced potatoes, drowned in white sauce, and walked past a tepid oven. The potato was still mostly raw. Thankfully nobody seemed to like the broccoli but me (because it was unsalted), so I'd get a mountain of broccoli and jazz it up with salt, pepper, and butter pads.

I think we got some kind of meat but for the life of me I can't remember any specific meat dish except an inedible beef stroganoff with a thin gravy made from what tasted like all the burnt bits scraped off all the other pans, blended in some dishwater. That thing would ruin your day.

The hardest part was only having about 30 minutes to eat, and that included standing in line, which meant you were calorie constrained by how much you could stuff in your mouth in the 10 minutes of sitting time.

Only the best for the supercops! ACAB

These are mostly on ship. They're at that stage relying on whatever is left in the large fridges, having to ration their stock. Which can only mean they're not being resupplied at sea, especially at such a prolonged operation -- short of calling it a war -- that the shit leadership bragged they'll finish Iran in a week.

My dad was on an aircraft carrier when he served. One of his favorite stories to tell was when his ship was riding out a hurricane and fishing trawlers couldn't get into port to unload their catch. The trawlers sold the ship for next to nothing tons of the biggest shrimp they had ever seen. It took 3-4 bites to eat each shrimp. The sailors stuffed themselves on shrimp for the next week.

hesgeth and the top brass, and his department had luxury dinners, lobsters, king krab, wine,,,,etc. and free expensive PIANOS.

Wait untill you see what they eat in the field its even more luxorius!