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Food served to US service men & women. (lemmy.nz)

submitted 5 days ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/pics@lemmy.world

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[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago

Guys, most people in the US military are there because they didn't really have a choice. It might have been their only chance at an education or they were dirt poor and this was the only career available that didn't involve dealing drugs.

It's why the government likes to keep people destitute and keep higher education expensive. Fodder for the military.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Actually, it seems that for most service members joining the military is one of several potential choices, and they simply weighed it as the best one for a handful of top reasons: Opportunity for career advancement, financial stability, having a family member already in the military, student financial support incentives, and moral / patriotic reasons. It's a popular myth that a large portion service members are there for lack of any practical alternative, in fact very few are. The DoD recruitment budget (Marketing campaign) is over $4 Billion annually last I checked, for the good reason that most recruits have to be convinced.

https://worldmetrics.org/reasons-for-joining-the-military-statistics/#b-7-data-sources
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X251399177
https://docs.opa.mil/opa.mil-production1/reports/futures_surveys/YP60Fall2024PUBLICRELEASEPropensityUpdate_20250623_Briefing.pdf

[-] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Unless I'm mistaken, didn't a significant percentage of military personnel vote for Trump?

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It might have been their only chance at an education or they were dirt poor and this was the only career available that didn’t involve dealing drugs.

That's really a myth. Most of the military come from middle and upper middle classes, and those growing up in lower income households are underrepresented compared to the general population.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

The facts don’t support your feelings.

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[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 49 points 5 days ago

Ironic

[-] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago

Iconic

[-] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 33 points 5 days ago

61% of the military voted for Trump. So this is my idgaf face.

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[-] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

There are so many naive people in this thread. You think if those people didn't join they wouldn't just institute the draft again out of nessesity? Y'all sitting on your high horses looking down on regular ass people who join in an effort to improve their lives. The same people doing so your ass can sit there on lemmy and judge them. Be mad at how the Epstein class uses them not at the rank and file members themselves.

[-] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Be a draft dodger then and offer to help your neighbor leave, and if you can't then go to jail over the military. These people aren't cardboard boxes who have to do what they're told, they have agency to quit. Improving your life isn't an excuse to be complicit, unless you will literally be killed or starve otherwise, neither of which is the case here.

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[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

Thank you for risking life and limb, now eat Single Large Bean™️

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 5 days ago

They volunteered for this. If they don't want it, they could demand a discharge or strike until the food is better.

No sympathy for killers.

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[-] moondoggie@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

At least they’re giving peas a chance

[-] the_q@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago

They enlisted.

[-] exupulosion@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

Ngl they kinda deserve it

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Sucks to suck

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Those $3M PAC missiles aren't going to pay for themselves you know.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 9 points 5 days ago

You knew the deal in 2003. You signed up for this.

Prime leopards eating faces material.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 8 points 5 days ago

so, uhh, when does the military turn against dumpy and coup him?

[-] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 days ago

I fear whenever someone who's somehow worse successfully whips them into a frenzy. Then we spiral into our "Barracks Emperors" era

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

What would it take to be worse than Trump?

[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Competence.

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

And our kids school lunches...and prisons...

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 days ago

Good luck trying to get them to provide something better on USS Shitshow.

Also you are just a diversion from the Epstein files, have fun eating that.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My god.

A Banquet brand TV dinner would be more appetizing and filling. And those are the cheapest, absolute worst garbage microwaved food there is.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Wow looks like someone forgot that an army runs on its stomach. Now who would be clueless enough to do such a thing, I wonder

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[-] redditmodssucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Hasn’t changed much since I’ve been in.

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Are they rationing the cook time too? Those bacons and tortillas could have used a minute or two to make it a tiny bit more edible...

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Going to have to pump them up with speed or something similar come fighting time as it sure does not look like there is any nutrition in any of those meals.