Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks(old.reddit.com)
52 pointsby wslh20 hours ago8 comments
  • cjs_ac19 hours 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

  • mikeweiss20 hours ago
    I hope this isn't true. Not only is it wrong it would be so embarrassing.
    • darkstar99919 hours 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...

      • cosmicgadget13 hours ago
        It's probably even worse that to save face, they're hiding those links to important resources.
    • Zigurd20 hours ago
      We're not abysmally embarrassed yet when it comes to NATO?
      • FridayoLeary19 hours ago
        What that you've been paying for most of it while the rest of us freeload? You should be proud. In Britain the army is the smallest it's ever been. It's time Europe takes their military obligations seriously.
        • onlypassingthru18 hours 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.
        • Zigurd18 hours 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.

        • IAmBroom19 hours 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.

    • more_corn18 hours 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.
  • footy20 hours ago
    richest country in the history of the world, everybody
    • IAmBroom19 hours 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.
      • atmavatar16 hours ago
        We should really replace our country's motto, e pluribus unum, with the far more accurate caveat emptor.
        • jkmcf9 hours ago
          We replaced e pluribus unum with in god we trust. How's that working out?
      • notmyjob18 hours ago
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  • Jamesbeam16 hours 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.

  • FrustratedMonky20 hours 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.

    • darrenf20 hours 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.

      • FrustratedMonky19 hours ago
        This is shocking.

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

        • andrewflnr19 hours ago
          If it means they don't support the cheeto in a coup, it might even be a good thing.
          • IAmBroom19 hours ago
            Minutes until he blames Joe Biden: 15.

            Minutes until he even believes it: same.

    • more_corn18 hours 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.
      • FrustratedMonky13 hours 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"?

    • FrustratedMonky12 hours ago
      am i downvoted because it is true, not true, or i'm questioning if it is true?
  • rasz18 hours 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.

  • FridayoLeary19 hours ago
    It's a failure of congress to do their job. You can paint it as a narrative of Democrats standing up for the American people, but in most legislatures failing to pass a budget leads to new elections. If their job was on the line they would sort it out quickly. Something has to happen eventually. There's no advantage to be gained for voters for the thing to be dragged out one week vs 36 days and counting.
    • atmavatar15 hours 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.

      • votepaunchy7 hours 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.

      • FrustratedMonky13 hours 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.

  • rchaud18 hours 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.