Gov Shutdown: Us Army Is Advising Its Soldiers in Germany to Go to Food Banks
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The US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to use food banks due to the government shutdown, sparking concerns about military readiness and the impact on soldiers' welfare. The discussion highlights the controversy and embarrassment surrounding the situation.
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I've been assuming the military would be last department to be cut.
It's posted on army.mil
https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance
> Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags
> Tafel Deutschland: The umbrella organization distributes food to people in poverty through its more than 970 local food banks. You can find your nearest food bank on their website. https://www.tafel.de/
> [...]
Edited 10 minutes after posting: the section about food banks is currently not in the page linked above, but my quote above was taken from it at the time I first visited.
Surely there is some relevant quote about what happened to past empires that could no longer feed the troops.
Minutes until he even believes it: same.
"not being cut" doesn't equal " not getting paid"
I was taking more high level view of the term, 'i'm not getting paid', being a 'cut'.
Not sure of good word "delayed payment"?
https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance#:~:tex...
edit: they have removed it in the minute since I posted this comment?
Archive.org still has it (see the section at the bottom "Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags"): https://web.archive.org/web/20251105103925/https://home.army...
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-water-shortages-ukrai...
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1ebs...
Its not great for morale.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane
I am not sure the Secretary knows the difference between Warrior Spirit and Warrior Spirits, which is, probably to his surprise no hard liquor brand,but the soul that leaves the body after your soldiers starved to death or died from embarrassment, having to fight over scraps with Ukrainian refugees and poor and/or old German people at a local food bank.
For the old KGB Russians like Putin, this must be amazingly joyful to see. American Soldiers are advised to go to Food Banks, while the Commander-in-Chief could easily feed the whole army steak dinner for two months straight, flown in in his newly gifted private 747, with what he made in Crypto only during the first half of 2025.
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