https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/navy-families-denounce-trump-hegseth

Iranian missiles have already destroyed significant capacity for the US military’s paper thin logistics network in the middle east, leading to severe food and sanitation shortages throughout the Navy. Sailors are losing their minds, posting borderline mutinous language on social media, and self harming. Some have lost 20-30 lbs due to their meagre diet.

peekaboo GO HOME GI

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Unlimited C-5s trying to land on the deck of USS Bounty

    Edit: If they were really serious about the F-35 being multi-role, they’d attach cargo pods to the exterior hard points so the sailors can watch their rations plummet straight to the bottom of the ocean

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      Regarding your edit: You ever see A Bridge Too Far? Where the paratrooper’s resupply drops outside their lines, and a desperate soldier braves enemy fire to retrieve it. Only to be shot dead, the cargo pod open, and a thousand crimson paratrooper berets scatter on the wind?

      Imagine that, but it’s like funko pops or punisher stickers and the sailors are drowning instead of being shot