Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks(old.reddit.com)
56 pointsby wslh3 months ago8 comments
  • Jamesbeam3 months ago
    Someone in the Pentagon should quickly get the presidential crayon kit and send the Secretary of War a pretty hand-drawn picture why this is bad on the PC Venezuela Signal Group.

    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.

  • cjs_ac3 months ago
    I hope the Bundeswehr was given advance warning; this is the kind of situation that leads to violence like the Battle of Brisbane[0].

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane

  • mikeweiss3 months ago
    I hope this isn't true. Not only is it wrong it would be so embarrassing.
    • darkstar9993 months ago
      It's true.

      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...

      • cosmicgadget3 months ago
        It's probably even worse that to save face, they're hiding those links to important resources.
    • more_corn3 months ago
      Why wouldn’t it be true? You know they’re not getting paid right? Theres some tiff around tax cuts for the wealthy or healthcare for the poor.
    • Zigurd3 months ago
      We're not abysmally embarrassed yet when it comes to NATO?
      • FridayoLeary3 months ago
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        • onlypassingthru3 months ago
          In the age of drone warfare, does Britain even need a lot of young men? The half-life of a grunt seems pretty short in eastern Ukraine at the moment.
        • Zigurd3 months ago
          America would pay a pretty high price were Russia to dominate Europe. That's a fair point regarding the UK. Poland has always understood the assignment, and this year Germany got on board.

          Ivan isn't 10 feet tall either.

        • IAmBroom3 months ago
          Both can be true.

          Most of NATO underdelivers on their payments.

          And the US treats its active military like cattle... Oops, forget that. Cattle aren't put on cheap diets.

  • footy3 months ago
    richest country in the history of the world, everybody
    • IAmBroom3 months ago
      Where only the middle class and up can afford health care... which itself is not ranked anywhere near "best that money can buy", somehow.
      • atmavatar3 months ago
        We should really replace our country's motto, e pluribus unum, with the far more accurate caveat emptor.
        • jkmcf3 months ago
          We replaced e pluribus unum with in god we trust. How's that working out?
      • notmyjob3 months ago
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  • rasz3 months ago
    Videos of soldiers drinking from puddles when? Now that I think about it was this Putins idea implanted in mister president?

    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-water-shortages-ukrai...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1ebs...

    Its not great for morale.

  • FrustratedMonky3 months ago
    If this is true, would be pretty big news about readiness.

    I've been assuming the military would be last department to be cut.

    • darrenf3 months ago
      > If this is true

      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.

      • FrustratedMonky3 months ago
        This is shocking.

        Surely there is some relevant quote about what happened to past empires that could no longer feed the troops.

        • andrewflnr3 months ago
          If it means they don't support the cheeto in a coup, it might even be a good thing.
          • IAmBroom3 months ago
            Minutes until he blames Joe Biden: 15.

            Minutes until he even believes it: same.

    • more_corn3 months ago
      It’s not being cut. Military employees are not getting paid because congress is fighting about funding healthcare for people who don’t have insurance provided by their job. Like farmers and uber drivers and grocery clerks.
      • FrustratedMonky3 months ago
        Sorry. Not sure of terminology here

        "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"?

    • FrustratedMonky3 months ago
      am i downvoted because it is true, not true, or i'm questioning if it is true?
  • FridayoLeary3 months ago
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    • atmavatar3 months ago
      Reminder: while the Democrats are trying to signal they have some power to resist, the truth is that the Republican party can end the filibuster rule today and pass whatever budget bill they like without requiring a single Democrat vote.

      They had no problem carving out an exception to the filibuster rule when pushing through district court judges and later Supreme Court justices without Democrat support, so they can't even argue that they consider the filibuster sacrosanct: they don't.

      This government shutdown is exclusively a problem of Republican making.

      • votepaunchy3 months ago
        > They had no problem carving out an exception to the filibuster rule when pushing through district court judges and later Supreme Court justices without Democrat support

        Democrats removed the filibuster on district and appellate court judges.

      • FrustratedMonky3 months ago
        It plays well with the base.

        They want to destroy government, and this is helping. They want this. Keeping government open isn't something they want, let alone to fight for.

  • rchaud3 months ago
    Should any enlisted personnel be looking for a new career, I understand there's a fully funded paramilitary group operating right here at home.