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Supply shortfalls and halted mail compound controversy over substandard meals
Photos purporting to show substandard meals aboard U.S. aircraft carriers and amphibious ships deployed to the Middle East have sparked growing criticism over supply shortfalls and falling troop morale.
Yonhap News Agency reported that on the 17th (local time) a photo of a meal served aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was posted on X. The U.K. Telegraph described the image as a horrific sight.
The tray in the photo contained a single slice of pre-cooked gray processed meat, some boiled carrots and a dry patty. Three of the tray’s five compartments were empty.
Meals aboard the amphibious assault ship Tripoli, which redeployed from Japan to the Middle East, were similarly sparse.
A Marine aboard the Tripoli sent his family a photo showing only a handful of shredded meat and a single tortilla.
One Marine told his family the ship’s coffee machine was broken and that fresh vegetables and fruit had been exhausted long ago.
The Telegraph noted the sharp contrast with the period before hostilities with Iran, when troops were served steaks and lobster.
Earlier, a U.S. government watchdog said the Defense Department had spent $93 billion by last September, exhausting its budget before the fiscal year ended; the watchdog reported $15.1 million was spent on steaks and $6.9 million on lobster tails.
Worried families have sent care packages out of fear their deployed relatives might go hungry, but many of those packages have not reached service members.
Postal delivery to troops stationed in the Middle East was suspended after the outbreak of war, leaving thousands of food parcels stacked in warehouses.
A sailor aboard the Tripoli warned in March that supplies would soon run out and that, with no scheduled port calls before the mission ends, morale would suffer significantly.
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