Is this more of the “pain” that the Obama Regime wants to inflict on America due to the sequester?
And it’s being done to our troops in harms way (NBC News, via Gateway Pundit).
Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.
The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats” — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods.
It’s described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.
The base, which is located in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.
The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.
While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.
“This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places,”
one Leatherneck-based Marine wrote in an email this week to his wife and shared with NBC News. (The Marine declined to speak on the record.) “Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.”
This is being done by their Commander in Chief for revenge because, like a petulant child, he doesn’t get the tax increases he wants.
Yet, Lois Lerner, the libtard at the IRS who made a career of targeting conservatives and conservative/Tea Party organizations, is currently on “leave with pay” from that political bureaucracy. We call that a “paid vacation.” Why don’t we fire her, strip her of her bonuses and salary and give it to these Marines.
Better yet, let’s get rid of the IRS all together and there’s enough money for our troops and the White House tours!
http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2013/05/obama-regime-cuts-meals-for-troops-in.html
And while we’re at it, how bout we get the TRILLIONS back the Bankster Gangsters have stolen. The fiat banking system is at the center of ALL of our problems. Then how bout we bring the troops home to guard our own country, and not the poppy fields for the CIA heroin crop? I believe it was George Washington who said “to beware foreign entanglements”. Maybe after we restore our beloved REPUBLIC, we can set all this straight on track, and NOT waver an inch from the original intent this country was founded upon. Then, and only then, will I be proud once more to be an American from the USA, not the Bolshevik USSA.
Napolean was right on when he said, “An Army travels on its stomach.”
Go ahead, OBOBMA, PO some battle tested Marines, we’ll need their services soon.
What do we know about Lois Lerner? Another cog in the sayanim infested federal government?
Paula Walkers’ comments are right on the button! Keep up the Exposing & BOYCOTT EVERYTHING OWNED/CONTROLLED BY THE ELITIST HOARD—Web-up George Soros exposed & stop buying anything connected. Shop only local including groceries, clothes, gas from co-ops; etc.. The only thing, except force, that will defeat these Evil Elitists is in the pocket book & EXPOSURE!!!!! LIBERTY & FREEDOM MUST PREVAIL
Money for banksters, money for Israel, money for new spy centers, money for every damn thing but feeding these troops? why not use a cut of the CIAs drug running profits…I figure since they are guarding your opium fields the least you can do is buy ’em 3 squares a day no?
Now Scott, I am dismayed and shocked by your unpatriotic attitude. Remember Bush just said that the troops volunteered and so he didn’t feel sorry for them. The troops must sacrifice a little, just like the homeless American people, so that we can support our leaders.
It’s not all peaches and cream to be a Rothschild, Rosenwald, Rockefeller, Warburg, Roosevelt, Bush, Pew, Morgan, a Clinton or an Obama. Remember these people got where they are by your patriotic dedication, support and sacrifice. They know they can count on you to continue your duty. So tighten up that belt Americans, austerity is here! Now Scott, go wave that American flag and support our troops! (sarcasm if you didn’t get it)
Good gracious Mike, you are right. How selfish and thoughtless of me. I am ashamed of myself for having taken offense that the people defending the oil and opium deserved better. Now that I have seen the light, as a true blue, red-blooded, patriotic American I now stand ready…nay…enthusiastic to give my all for our poor, selfless, wise, public spirited elites. In fact, to show my appreciation for everything they’ve done for us I am at this very moment, braiding a hand made necktie I hope to personally affix should the oppourtunity ever present itself.
Serve them all a buffet breakfast in one of Clintons 4 or 5 mansions he owns. Including the 5 mill pad he just bought his daughter in Manhattan.
The scum bag didn’t have a pot to piss in before he became president.
The so-called ‘government’ fears the military almost as much as all the well-armed nationals in this country.
Apparently the vaccinations they receive and depleted uranium shells being used overseas aren’t killing them fast enough.
Now they want to see how well they do without decent meals.
If they (the military) ever figures it out, there’ll be far more of them with us than against us.
Exactly right, #1! On the money!
In Sun Tzu’s book “Art of War”, under the chapter called, “Maneuvering”, he says:
“An army without a supply train, supplies or food is a lost army”.
If our army was smart enough and has studied the “Art of War”, they would know which side Obama is on and who the real enemy is by this cutting of food action, alone.
A true president/leader for the people and by the people would NEVER take away or sacrifice items of survival from active troops. It shows you are not a leader, but a coward and a traitor to your country.
Hopefully by this (stupid) move, they’ll be exponentially expanding the amount of retribution due them.
From the military, that is. They’ve already got more than their fair share coming from us.