Middle East Troops Report Food Rationing, Low Morale As USPS Halts Delivery
We can chalk up food scarcity and depleted hygiene supplies as yet another fiasco to come out of Donald Trump’s disastrous war with Iran.
Reporting from USA Today cites several family members of troops who were told of food and other shortages by their relatives serving in the Middle East. They have spent serious money trying to send care packages to their relatives. For example: The mother of a Navy sailor on a warship deployed to fight the Iran war spent at least $2,000 on care packages after being told her son was hungry. But none have arrived.
“In message exchanges with him that she shared with USA TODAY, the sailor said service members on the ship eat when they can, and they divvy up food evenly when one person gets more than the others,” the paper reported. “Supplies ‘are going to get really low,’ and the crew doesn't anticipate any port visits until the ship returns from its mission, he wrote … ‘Morale is going to be at an all-time low.’”
Similarly, Dan F. told USA Today that his daughter, on that same ship, told him troops were rationing their food supplies, that there is no fresh produce, that the coffee machine had broken and that hygiene products were running low.