{"id":35908,"date":"2013-05-31T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35908"},"modified":"2013-05-31T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:53:13","slug":"marines-mad-about-mres-in-leatherneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35908","title":{"rendered":"Marines mad about MREs in Leatherneck"},"content":{"rendered":"

I farted around too long at the regular job to put this story from NBC<\/a> up, because they took the link down it looks like. But, it seems that the troops aren’t too happy about having a hot meal cut out of their daily diet. So unhappy about it, they hardly sound like Marines;<\/p>\n

“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,\u201d 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.) \u201cInstead, 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s why they make MREs, guys. I preferred MREs to hot chow because it was like getting a meal delivered and I didn’t have to stand in line and then eat with a room full of noisy people. And the folks back home get into it, too;<\/p>\n

\u201cMREs are an alternative for when you can\u2019t get to healthy food. They’re supposed to be for desperation,\u201d said Babette Maxwell, founder and executive director of Military Spouse Magazine, the wife of a Navy pilot and an advocate for service members and their families. \u201cThese guys have six to nine months left on their deployment. These are highly athletic and highly physical people, toting guns, not working any less now than before \u2014 and not working out any less either. Now, they\u2019re short a meal and they don\u2019t have any healthy alternatives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The MRE is a healthy alternative, Babette. That’s why they make them. It’s not steak or lobster, but it’s food.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not saying that the troops don’t deserve three hot meals everyday, what I’m saying is that they shouldn’t whine about it to the media. I suspect that’s why NBC took the story down.<\/p>\n

\u201cPsychologically, midrats is probably the most important of all the meals because that\u2019s the big social time \u2014 where first (shift) crew is coming off and second (shift) crew is coming on,\u201d Maxwell said.”That’s where you get the esprit de corps, the camaraderie. It’s not just the food you’re taking away, it’s their social sustenance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They can just be happy that it’s MREs and not C-Rats. I’m pretty sure they guys who are out there kickin’ doors and patrolling, if there are any of those left, are eating MREs at least once a day. But ultimately it’s like RM3(SS) wrote went he sent us the link; no one in DC is missing a hot meal. Well, except Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’ staffers who can’t afford a meal in the Congressional dining room these days, she says.<\/p>\n

If you want to read the whole article, you can paste the link above into Google or Yahoo and get the cached copy of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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