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| US Military Running Short Of Food And Water | ||
| 2010-04-11 | ||
| The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages. Initially it was expected that resources for surging troops would be low, as many bases were unprepared for the push ordered by the Obama administration. The surge, it is argued, was far too swift and did not give the military time to lay the proper infrastructure and provide housing and other amenities for the troops.
Camp Mike Spann is not the only place dealing with a shortage of food and water. An article in Stars and Stripes brought to attention the hardships of one Marine Encampment.
They doubt they will see permanent living crates or even cots. They sleep with flees and chiggers and have very little food available to them. They say living like pioneers in the 1800s has given them a new appreciation for things like a bath or a shower and clean clothes. I doubt things are going to improve much with the Kyrgyzstan air base shutting down. This is a time for logistics Generals to get cracking, or get boot prints on their posterior. | ||
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #30 ION FREEREPUBLIC > US MILITARY WARNS DIP IN OIL OUTPUT MAY CAUSE MASSIVE OIL SHORATGES BY 2015. * SAME > SUPER-FALKLANDS BASE IN THE GULF? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-11 23:37 |
| #29 i would eat the chickens |
| Posted by: chris 2010-04-11 21:32 |
| #28 tw, it wont cost a thing, and they will only have to walk down the hall. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2010-04-11 19:34 |
| #27 TW delivers a zinger for all times. Bravo! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-04-11 19:10 |
| #26 Poor Mr. Justice has toned down considerably. He used to come out from Friday services at the mosque, find Rantburg, and go on about raping your wives in front of you while you cleaned his toilet after the world conquest of Islam. He was, for some reason, obsessed by the idea of my armpit hair, which along with the above says a great deal about his nature and nurture. He seems to have given up on proclaiming both ideas after getting liberally bashed about the head for it, and is reduced to verbal spitballs... and even that got him bashed. One wonders how much it will cost his father to buy him even an imbecilic wife with a harelip, given what an unprepossessing specimen of future manhood he is. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-11 18:43 |
| #25 Now begone before I order a black chopper load of flying monkeys to break into your trailer and reprogram your toaster to take control of you pet guinea pig and brainwash it to devour your secret stash of Eva Braun nudes. Damn, Ima remember why I don't fuck with shiplords. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-04-11 14:17 |
| #24 Maybe he should've had his Indonesian houseboy do the trolling instead of just taking dictation. At least the quality would've been better. What? No compliance with ISO 66613 Troll Quality Standards?? |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-04-11 13:56 |
| #23 It was our resident Saudi troll (at least the IP sed it was), so that's likely the reason. Maybe he should've had his Indonesian houseboy do the trolling instead of just taking dictation. At least the quality would've been better. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-04-11 13:29 |
| #22 /sigh ... Another confirmation that the world is going down hill: the quality of trolls here on the Burg is definitely declining. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-04-11 13:07 |
| #21 Don't feed the trolls, Atomic Conspiracy. Angry responses are what they thrive on. Trolls that get no responses to their outrageous posts get bored and go away. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-04-11 12:34 |
| #20 Jeez, AC, don't hold back - tell him (it?) how ROFL. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-11 12:32 |
| #19 NO, no, Justice. You have it wrong. Frank does not have a Jewish master, he IS a Jewish master. All the regulars here are. Now get back to that mullah you sold your girlfriend to and report that we challenge him to a dogfight, F-15s at 10 km. What? He doesn't have an F-15? He can use one of the Chinese MiG-17 knockoffs from my personal junkyard. We don't mind. Now begone before I order a black chopper load of flying monkeys to break into your trailer and reprogram your toaster to take control of you pet guinea pig and brainwash it to devour your secret stash of Eva Braun nudes. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-11 12:09 |
| #18 I would take this all with a grain of salt. The stars and Stripes is not a DOD paper. They are owned by some NY news group and have always been a little leftie. Times are tough at all firebases, always have been always will be. Do they think it shoud be like an FOB, have a burger king, PX, and massages? On another note, a month ago when the command closed the pizzahut and burger kings because it was a strain on the logistics to support the troops, well, the same papers cried foul. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-04-11 12:09 |
| #17 US Military Running Short Of Food And Water Time to leave Atlanta and march to the sea! |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-11 11:33 |
| #16 This puts the recent decision to shut down Burger King et. al. in a different and much more understandable light. Priorities. |
| Posted by: rwv 2010-04-11 10:31 |
| #15 What's scary about this is, civilian control of the military in USA was always predicated on the assumption that while the civilian controllers might be incompetent or corrupt, they would not be actively hostile to the military. We're way far away from Clinton's half desguised assertion that he "loathed the military..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-04-11 10:22 |
| #14 fleas, flies, feces, dung, urine, defecation, spitum AKA "wash day" at the Justice Manor |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-11 09:55 |
| #13 This is a test. This is only a test. |
| Posted by: Mother Teresa 2010-04-11 09:37 |
| #12 The real question is how the ammo stocks are faring. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-04-11 09:22 |
| #11 They sleep with flees and chiggers and have very little food available to them. They say living like pioneers in the 1800s... ..at some godforsaken outpost, surrounded by hostiles, with duplicitous government agents from other agencies. Now where have we seen this before? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-04-11 09:03 |
| #10 This is the most sorry assed thing I have read. People need to get fired. FIRED. Logheads should be on it with bells on all the time. Now, I expect the executive office shares responsibility and I have no respect for him, but if you cannot do basics, you have no business deploying or keeping anyone overseas. This needs to be watched very closely. I am pissed.; I am for hire if they need help. Fix it now Mr "President". |
| Posted by: newc 2010-04-11 08:57 |
| #9 No SR-71, Barry has no plan. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-11 08:33 |
| #8 This will end like Elphinstone with Barry in charge. I think this was the plan from the beginning. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2010-04-11 08:31 |
| #7 No complaints about ammo? Things can't be too bad. It really is time to get out. This will end like Elphinstone with Barry in charge. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-04-11 08:17 |
| #6 "there are no beds, no showers, no toilets and no electricity. Chickens and ducks roam the bare dirt yard amid scraps of trash and rotting animal dung. Fleas, flies and filth are the grunts' constant companions." Sounds like my firebase in Nam. The Marines will improvise, adapt and overcome. We did. This does not address the core problem, which is the arrogance and incompetence of the Commander in Chief. Obambi screwed up. I like OS's bootprint suggestion best. This turkey makes Carter look good. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2010-04-11 06:16 |
| #5 US Marines on the FEBA angry, hungry and dirty. Shocking news indeed. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-04-11 04:09 |
| #4 Well, the only credible threat to Baraq's transformation plans are USA millitary---getting them defeated & demoralized is therefore a must. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-04-11 03:27 |
| #3 In other news: Fort Hood terrorist and murderer Nidal Malik Hasan gets private prison suite and US Navy conducts costly retrofit of submarines to accomodate new, female submariners. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-11 03:22 |
| #2 Assumption 1: Troops need food and water. Assumption 2: POTUS hasn't a frigging clue, but he and wife never miss HOTS. Pass the Lobster Thermidor please. Ok Pentagon generals and planners and er huh White House security advisor General (Ret) USMC Pete pace...Afghan Log Plan-B, where the phuech is it? A bit too late to argue the merits of a logistics-lite, Afghanistan surge, or the wisdom of a forward support base on a the soil of a FSU satellite. Let us hope and pray the closure of the Manas air base is not permanent. Early reportes indicated there were at least 1300 troops stranded there. The winter of 2010 may be very ugly. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-11 02:59 |
| #1 No -- its time to put a bootprint on the ass of the rookie politician that screwed this up by insisting what he wanted without any reference to reality or deference to the military professionals. Park this one on Obama's desk. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-04-11 00:47 |