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So my friend is in Afghanistan. He skypes us yesterday and proceeds to tell us the army is cutting their meals to two a day because of budget issues..... are u fucking having a joke. all the criminals that are locked up get three hots and a cot no questions asked. How fucking wrong is this??? all the criminals get everything for murdering someone but our troops get fuck all and they have given us our freedom of today GGGRRR
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They can't just take money from one budget to pay for the budget for another.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/breakfast.asp
Interesting that you use this word which is more American (when used about adults) than British.
3 reasons why it sounds like a lot of horse-shit.
and yes, it does sound like shit and it's about US troops, okaiiiiiii
and yes, you have just cut n pasted it, okaiiiiiii
what you posted, is not what your 'friend' would of sent, okaiiiiii. it's your interpretation/presentation of that message that you're posting here, and that was copied from snopes, okaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
And yes, that link that another user posted is word for word what the original post says. I think someone has been stung by a chain email, which coincidentally was being spread in the past about US forces.
Just to point out, and I'm not having this as a finger pointing exercise, I'm highlighting this because spreading erroneous information about deployed troops can be very demoralising for people who have loved ones and friends out there.
For reference the link is below again.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/breakfast.asp
Eeer, no I don't :angel:
(I was actually craving chocolate mousse earlier too, now you've made it worse!)
Criminals are locked up and, as such, have fairly limited ability to get their own dinner.
Soldiers are paid the thick end of thirty grand a year and, as such, can buy their own. My boss doesn't give me three square meals a day.
whats funny?
Agreed. I'm not sure what the relevance of criminals is. They're locked up for a bloody good reason.
Well what do the Iraqi/Afghan civilians do for food then? Because I'm pretty sure there are shops and stuff in the deployment areas.
Either way - as has been said by a *serving member* of the UK Armed Forces who has, y'know, been - your "friend" is talking bollocks.
please read g-raffes posts. he's actually in the army NOW so he knows more than most.
and what the heck is the okaiiiii thing about? reminds me of a character from South Park!
Is it possible that your friend told you this, and they were told by a friend who was told by a friend? In Afghanistan soldiers generally don't have the chance to go and source food locally, and if they did the hygiene factor can be quite an issue. Perhaps many would take a risk, but not on active operations where the operational effectiveness of the unit and the safety of personnel would be effected.
As has been stated elsewhere in some of my other posts, the story the OP posted looks like an almost copy and paste job from a website. So it's likely that the OP hasn't cut and paste this from elsewhere, but a friend of a friend of a friend may have at some point down the line. As facilities get less and less in some of the outstations then cooked meals may well infact go down to two a day. It doesn't mean that they don't get fed, they have operational ration packs which are boxes of food which coincidentally are supposed to last for 24 hours. The food within is often sealed foil bags that can be cooked in boiling water or eaten cold. In the main bases soldiers are able to get three hot meals per day, depending on being on guard duties etc.
yeah and my friend is in the army NOW he has been for a few years NOW.
if you dont like the way i type okaii then tough fucking shit
yeah i know what your saying but as i said in the begining im just repeating what my friend told me and i think its pathetic that people are saying im getting from a website when im really not my friend personally told me and i believe him
here:
https://www.facebook.com/Citizens.Action.Network/posts/496042920468625
here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/976/975/356/respect-our-troops/#13717499257842&action=fb_connect&fb_id=0
And many other places, so its likely to be something your friend has seen and then passed on. Unless you somehow magically word for word typed up exactly how it appears on these sites. It is true that in Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan they are cutting some hot breakfasts, not cutting out a meal, just cutting out a cooked breakfast. Yet Leatherneck is like Bastion, plenty of chance to buy food in the newsagents.
Also, unless things have massively changed in the past 6 months, americans may have access to Skype, but the infrastructure that British Forces have in place actually blocks skype and wouldnt cope with a skype call unless you have a connection that is outside of the welfare provisions (ie work related), and wouldnt be used for personal purposes. As for "Skype yesterday" it is now the 20th of June, this has been doing the rounds since the middle of may.