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JDPON Don is starving the fleet - US Navy sailors are emaciated
(thelemmy.club)
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.
GO HOME GI
Wondering if salt beef, hardtack and grog would be more nutritious than what Ive seen posted being served
Maybe with modern corned beef but old school salt beef and salt pork are nutritionally really bad. Salt pork is almost raw fat, so a lot of sailors were essentially stuck with the nutritional profile of flour + pork fat containing incidental meat and connective tissue. Grog was also really inconsistent and it was often just "any available alcohol, watered down." Citrus was rarely prioritized.
Essentially, the only nutritional concern at that time was calories.