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JDPON Don is starving the fleet - US Navy sailors are emaciated (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/navy-families-denounce-trump-hegseth

Iranian missiles have already destroyed significant capacity for the US military's paper thin logistics network in the middle east, leading to severe food and sanitation shortages throughout the Navy. Sailors are losing their minds, posting borderline mutinous language on social media, and self harming. Some have lost 20-30 lbs due to their meagre diet.

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[–] 51 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Why can't you just send a big plane to drop a crate of stuff nearby?

Better yet, it's an aircraft carrier, just have a plane land!

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago* (11 children)

    Carriers funny enough aren't really built to land anything larger than a greyhound. Theoretically, they could land KC-130Fs since one time a guy managed to land it without crashing.

    Practically, without risking wrecking the deck, all the navy has to attempt logistic resupply is helicopters - not too sure what kind, probably could fit a few Chinook banana copters or whatever the navy version is, and crashprey ospreys. And I'm fairly certain helicopters don't have the range needed to get to any resupply points that isn't in range of Iranian missiles, and I'm pretty certain it's the same deal for ospreys.

    Simply put, taking out naval resupply points and making the journey to resupply the fleet dangerous lengthens the u.s navy supply lines to what we see today. Any more pressure could possibly snap the lines entirely and force a retreat but Iran may be chosing keep them barely supplied to put political pressure on Trump instead.

    Edit: also them birds aren't built for cargo so they don't have capacity for anything but essentials if they did have somewhere to go to pick up supplies. The fleet most likely has to rely on supply boats to bring them shit.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Unlimited C-5s trying to land on the deck of USS Bounty

    Edit: If they were really serious about the F-35 being multi-role, they'd attach cargo pods to the exterior hard points so the sailors can watch their rations plummet straight to the bottom of the ocean

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Regarding your edit: You ever see A Bridge Too Far? Where the paratrooper's resupply drops outside their lines, and a desperate soldier braves enemy fire to retrieve it. Only to be shot dead, the cargo pod open, and a thousand crimson paratrooper berets scatter on the wind?

    Imagine that, but it's like funko pops or punisher stickers and the sailors are drowning instead of being shot

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    a-world-without-lawyers

    spoilerHow is this not an emoji

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Iirc this and the monkey knife fight meme are too detailed to be legible when shrunk down to emoji size unfortunately

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    it's pretty rough at like 4x size just eyeballing it with browser zoom. i think with the monkeys we could pick a frame and have monkey-knife-1 and monkey-knife-2 but it loses something without the boys cheering it on.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Any more pressure could possibly snap the lines entirely and force a retreat but Iran may be chosing keep them barely supplied to put political pressure on Trump instead.

    Could also be a situation where if they collapse the supply lines, the US will escalate and will regroup and reorganise better supply lines. This war is more focused on attrition, so slowly bleeding the US dry through inefficient supply lines like this probably does more damage than a big loud strike on them would.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I feel like the Navy could get a cargo vessel and move shipping containers between boats with cranes.

    edit: seems we've got fourteen of these guys, and here's a wikipedia image of a carrier getting replenished by two of them at once

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Yeah I think if they wanted to do that they probably don't want to be in range of a missile that could hit them in the middle of doing cargo stuff, so I believe they'd got to pull back far enough they nor the Iranians can strike each other

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