Yah it wasn't distributed equally to all service members but this food was certainly served to Servicemembers in DFACs, not to Hegseth personally.
This is not a scandal.
Quick question how many people are in the military and how many pounds per person would this then equate to?
Almost certainly used in Dining Facilities. Steak and lobster tail was a common meal in the DFACs for special occasions, especially while deployed. Would have gone to junior soldiers in the States or all ranks while deployed. Officers and NCOs typically pay for their own meals
They didn't kill SNAP to pay for food for the military. They killed SNAP because they wanted to kill SNAP
9 million dollars is like $7 per service member so not sure this is really a scandal unless you think the military should not eat anything but boxed Mac and Cheese
There's 1.3 million service members so this is like...$7 a person? So an alternative headline could be "Servicemembers served seafood once in September"
I wrote this. Then I read this. Then I thought about this.
Then I stared into the middle distance for a while.
Now I'm trying to decide if it's too early to break out the whiskey.
Convert a bunch of 1114s into boats and then just have infantry platoons drive them down the Straight in front of the merchant ships.
It's not any dumber than what we did in Iraq for a decade plus
An underestimated element of this is that he is AGR which means statistically speaking both his rater and senior rater fail to meet one or more of these standards so that should be a fun next OER counseling
"aesthetic discipline" whoo boy I dunno
Like did he think for even 90 seconds about the what this would incentivize and probable second and third order effects?
I work across the street from AUSA and I'm thinking of walking over there and flipping desks
Wut
"we'll figure out how to solve problems as they come to us"
Guess no one told him what the "S" in JCS stands for.
Honestly a tragic figure, unable to apply his clear eyed analysis of history to his own behavior
"unforgivable that these general officers were unable to overcome their institutional role and speak truth to power"
"Oh, uh um yes not like that"
McMaster is incredible for writing a great book, but then almost directly reenacting it's mistakes himself
Need to get some that match our hand guns that fire when dropped
SNAP benefits weren't cut cause we fed the troops, SNAP benefits were cut cause they wanted to cut SNAP benefits
Ha! I scanned this exact photo at NARA in 2020 just a day or two before they shutdown for COVID
You could write a book on this with just American examples
Or the ability to read?
Ugh
1) sign Kirk Cousins for 4yrs/180 mil
2) IMMEDIATELY draft a QB in the first round.
3) bench Cousins, start Penix
4) Penix hurt, start Cousins
5) miss playoffs in worst way possible
6) sign Tua (!)
7) (probably, who knows) release Cousins
8)??
9) profit
Lol that's immediately what sprang to mind for me as well
"Turned down more money elsewhere to sign with the Bucs" has me thinking hard about where "elsewhere" refers to here
Had a memo kicked back for being in the wrong format.
It's the same format I've used for the last 6 years with no issue.
Found out the boss told his assistant to "check to format on these" so she googled "government memo format," found the GSA manual from 1992 and changed them to that.
