They're gonna promote the captain of that ship into a admiral and then send a message to him telling him that no us admiral has ever been captured alive

if only someone could have predicted

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.

Uber eats them a Maccies, Donny!!!

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.

Thats still unhealthy for intentional dieting, the usual max I have heard is about a pound a week, and these people are not trying to lose weight

Team Magma 😎

You're talking to someone who doesn't go anywhere unless you count going to hexbear so idk i feel like they are still huge babies

The only thing to cry about is all the Iranian missiles and they kinda deserve that one

Its also a grueling fucking job, you're often doing a full 16 hour days during combat operations for 6-7 days a week. Doing that without enough food for so fucking long will destroy you. Let alone youre also in the middle of the indian ocean around heavy machinery and salt water spray.