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MAY 31 2013

Who cares if the Marines get a hot breakfast as long as the fat entitlement whores and illegal aliens at home get enough food stamps?

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

From now on, Cheerios for the Marines in Afghanistan

FOX News The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats” — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It’s described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.

The base, which is located in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.

The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive draw down of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.

While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.

“This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places,” one Leatherneck-based Marine wrote in an email this week to his wife and shared with NBC News. (The Marine declined to speak on the record.) “Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.”


Until Saturday, Leatherneck’s dining facility will offer its customary four meals per day. After June 1, the menu drops to three daily meals and, eventually, there will be only two hot meals served, Gilmore revealed in an email to the impacted Marines, adding: “Any time a dining hall meal is eliminated it will be replaced from a plentiful stock of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat — or any one of several creative acronyms our Marines have come up with.)”

The Blaze In addition to some at the camp being upset over the change, others are taking to the cause as well. A Facebook page — Breakfast for Bagram — was established in February to begin collecting food for the Marines.


"We will be collecting non perishable breakfast type food for the troops in Afghanistan,” the page stated. As of February 1st 2013, 17 bases in Afghanistan will not be serving breakfast ‘hot chow’ as well as ‘Midnight chow’ they will be required to grab M.R.E.s at dinner time….well what happens if they are not there for dinner? They don’t have breakfast the next day and have to wait for lunch time…. a lot of the troops are out on mission so they have to eat M.R.E.’s if available. Some are going 24-48 hrs without eating due to the fact that missions and work schedules dont allow them to make it the “mess hall” on time to grab these M.R.E.’s.”

“Psychologically, midrats is probably the most important of all the meals because that’s the big social time — where first (shift) crew is coming off and second (shift) crew is coming on,” the founder and executive director of Military Spouse Magazine, Babette Maxwell, told NBC .”That’s where you get the esprit de corps, the camaraderie. It’s not just the food you’re taking away, it’s their social sustenance.”




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Obama Cuts Hot Food For Soldiers in Afghanistan

AUTHOR Bookworm
MAY 31, 2013 11:33AM PST

Napoleon famously and correctly said “An army marches on its stomach.” An army that is not fed cannot fight. With this in mind, what is one to make of the fact that the Obama administration has cut a significant meal service to Marines serving in Afghanistan? The Obama administration is cutting food supplies as part of the troop draw-down in Afghanistan.

(Read More: Obama Doesn’t Salute Marine While Boarding Marine One.)

The Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan are losing their “midnight ration” (or “midrats”) meal, a solid hot meal that feeds those who have just ended their noon-to-midnight shift and those who are beginning their midnight-to-noon shift. Not only does this meal fuel men who are burning up enormous amounts of energy conducting business in a combat zone that’s either too hot or too cold, and that’s always too dangerous, it’s an opportunity for Marines to get together once a day in a relaxed setting. The Pentagon has also ordered that the 24-hour sandwich service at Camp Leatherneck must also get cut. Marines will have to make do with MREs (“Meals Ready to Eat”).

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The Pentagon justifies its decision by pointing to the massive draw down of troops, which will see all American forces out by 2014. No one can explain why withdrawing troops, which automatically decreases costs, requires the Pentagon to put remaining troops on short rations.

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The Marines are keeping to discipline and have refused to speak on record about the change, which goes into effect on June 1. One Marine, however, wrote to his wife about the decision, and allowed her to share his email, anonymously, with NBC News:

This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places. Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.

Nor is the vanishing midrat the only Obama administration casualty. The ultimate plan is to give those Marines still remaining at Camp Leatherneck only two decent hot meals a day, with the rest of their calories coming from the ubiquitous and distasteful MREs.

A humorous look at life in Camp Leatherneck:

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One can’t help but get the feeling that the Obama administration, which has always found distasteful the notion of an American military victory anywhere in the world, is doing its part to ensure that the Marines aren’t sufficiently fueled to risk America’s current non-victory status in Afghanistan before the pullout is completed.

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Obama Administration Cuts Hot Meal for Marines Serving in Afghanistan



IN JMM NEWS / BY JMMEDIA / ON MAY 31, 2013 AT 3:23 PM

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats” — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It’s described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.

The base, which is located in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.

The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive draw down of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.

While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.

Read more at Fox News


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Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base

Bill Briggs
NBC News
Fri, 31 May 2013 16:29 CDT

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A U.S. Marine MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) ration package is seen in a transport vehicle in March 2010 near Khan Neshin, southern Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

The midnight ration service - known there as "midrats" - supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It's described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.

The base, which is located in Afghanistan's southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.

The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.

While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.

"This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places," one Leatherneck-based Marine wrote in an email this week to his wife and shared with NBC News. (The Marine declined to speak on the record.) "Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours."

Until Saturday, Leatherneck's dining facility will offer its customary four meals per day. After June 1, the menu drops to three daily meals and, eventually, there will be only two hot meals served, Gilmore revealed in an email to the impacted Marines, adding: "Any time a dining hall meal is eliminated it will be replaced from a plentiful stock of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat - or any one of several creative acronyms our Marines have come up with.)"

"The fact is our force in Afghanistan is shrinking fast and all the creature comforts and services deployed military-members have grown accustomed to over the past decade are going to be reduced," Gilmore wrote in an email to NBC News. "When serving we are challenged to endure different things - to face different challenges - over time. But we're an odd bunch, we Marines - probably no surprise that we'll complain more about losing the sandwich bar on the way out than we did about getting shot at on the way in."

The tactical reason for the cooking scale-down is that the people who are assigned to "support services" - such as food workers - "need to go home before the people who provide the security which enables those services," Gilmore wrote. "This is a natural outcome of the drawdown process unrelated to sequestration or the ongoing budget issues back in the States."

Back home, spouses and friends of the troops in Afghanistan are criticizing the loss of hot meals as a poor logistical choice that will impact the service members' overall nutrition, energy and spirits.

"MREs are an alternative for when you can't get to healthy food. They're supposed to be for desperation," said Babette Maxwell, founder and executive director of Military Spouse Magazine, the wife of a Navy pilot and an advocate for service members and their families. "These guys have six to nine months left on their deployment. These are highly athletic and highly physical people, toting guns, not working any less now than before - and not working out any less either. Now, they're short a meal and they don't have any healthy alternatives."

According to the Marine Corps, a typical MRE may contain chili with beans, cornbread, cheese spread, crackers, a toaster pastry, a "dairyshake," red pepper, a spoon, a flameless heater and a "hot beverage bag."

To fill the hot food gap in Afghanistan, a group of U.S.-based military advocates and military-family members recently launched a Facebook page - called "Breakfast for Bagram" - to spur food donations that will be mailed to troops all around Afghanistan. The page states: "We are here to help collect and send non-perishable breakfast type foods to the deployed troops on the 17 bases in Afghanistan that are not currently serving breakfast 'hot chow' and Midnight chow due to the budget cuts."

Gilmore described cooked-meal reduction as part of a larger effort to "become increasingly austere" as the force shrinks, but he said the base members will not face an unhealthy calorie shortage.

"The Marines here at Leatherneck may have to endure the monotony of a limited menu and sometimes an MRE - but they will not suffer from malnutrition unless they choose not to eat," Gilmore said.

At home, some military family members nonetheless called the change a mistake.

"Psychologically, midrats is probably the most important of all the meals because that's the big social time - where first (shift) crew is coming off and second (shift) crew is coming on," Maxwell said."That's where you get the esprit de corps, the camaraderie. It's not just the food you're taking away, it's their social sustenance."

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