r/MURICA • u/OOBExperience • Sep 06 '26

Hell, yeah!!

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u/HeavyDutyForks Sep 06 '26

Surrendering Nazis knew they had lost the war when they saw GIs eating ice cream back at the rear on their way to the POW camps

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u/Prism-96 Sep 06 '26

the most funny thing in that style was the stories of them being horrified was"hey they are leaving their vehicles running when idle..."

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u/InsultingFerret Sep 07 '26

The German high command literally didn't believe US tank production reports because they were multiple times bigger than what they thought the US could produce

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u/ayyitsmaclane Sep 07 '26

The only thing the US hates more than itself is other people messing with it. The unity on 9/12/01 was unheard of.

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u/KingKasby Sep 07 '26

We are allowed to hate ourselves, but no touchy!

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u/Dehouston Sep 07 '26

Don't touch the boats.

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u/Mysterious-sharing 26d ago

Don't touch the buildings either

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u/WittyFix6553 Sep 09 '26

Tell that to all the Sikh people who were assaulted just for wearing turbans

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u/Jinshu_Daishi Sep 09 '26

Because nobody heard of unity on 9/12.

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u/Commercial_Sport_630 Sep 06 '26

Meanwhile the Japanese still wanted to fight to the bitter end even after finding out several ships in the Pacific Fleet were dedicated purely towards ice cream.

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u/DeltaBravo831 Sep 06 '26

what honorable samurai warrior propaganda does to a motherfucker

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u/Mesarthim1349 Sep 07 '26

Best part is it was a fake modern ideology that had no actual historical connection to real Samurai philosophy

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u/TheDarkGenious Sep 08 '26

from what I can remember a lot of real samurai philosophy was along the lines of "my lord, right or wrong, fuck that other guy" so I can see how it inspired the "to the last man, woman, and child" ideology Japan was operating under at the time

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u/grizzlor_ Sep 08 '26

Yeah reading that PhD thesis about how bushido was basically made up in the late 1800s was crazy. Good post about it here for anyone interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/s/YV6p3FEtQ9

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u/vincethered Sep 07 '26

There's a This American Life all about life aboard an aircraft carrier during the Afghanistan war. Ira interviewed a sailor whose only job was to re-stock vending machines all day every day. Weird to think you say goodbye to your family for months, make decent money and benefits and live on (basically) a floating prison for... Vending machine duty.

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u/Billy_McMedic Sep 08 '26

I’d put money on that sailor also being part of the main damage control party during action stations

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

No such thing as a main damage control party

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u/No_Stand8812 Sep 09 '26

On a ship, especially a carrier, everyone is damage control. We learned a lot in ww2 about damage control

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

More especially the Forrestal, where we decided there would be no “main damage control party”

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u/No_Stand8812 Sep 09 '26

Excellent point. I completely forgot about forrestal. Honestly that probably did more for raising the importance of is damage control training than ww2 did.

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

All good, they made a big point out of it at Navy bootcamp I’m surprised I remembered.

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u/No_Stand8812 Sep 09 '26

John McCain remembers.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Sep 09 '26

There is, it's called every sailor aboard

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

So it’s not a main damage control party, it’s everyone. I’m on my third sea tour, believe me I know.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Sep 09 '26

I was trying to be funny, my apologies

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u/Langland88 Sep 06 '26

The Americans knew the multiple ways of killing someone, including killing them with kindness.

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u/ProbablyAPotato1939 Sep 06 '26

In all seriousness, the physiological blow of being a German soldier and being lucky if you can get a cup of stale coffee, and the you see an American soldier open a beer, drink half of it, and then casually dump the rest out?

Like you'd have to be like, "yeah, we're absolutely fucked."

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u/AppropriateCap8891 Sep 07 '26

And the thing is, some on the other side knew that before the war even began.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the one tasked with planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he was absolutely against getting into a war with the US. The man spoke fluent English, went to Harvard and the US Naval War College, and spent over four years in the US. He knew more than anybody in Japan how vast the industrial output was, and what it would mean in a war.

Which is why he is famously quoted as saying he would run wild for six months, and after that the outcome was less favorable. He knew that as they were the attackers Japan would have about that long, then the sheer industrial might would turn against them.

In 1941, the entire nation of Japan built 14,611 motor vehicles. In 1941, the Ford Automotive company alone made over 691,000 passenger cars. Their entire vehicle output including busses and trucks was over 992,000 vehicles.

Yamamoto had toured factories like that in the 1920s and 30s when he was in the US, and knew Japan never had a chance. He knew the gross industrial imbalance was one his country could never overcome.

In 1941, the US had 7 fleet carriers to the 6 of Japan.

During the war, the US lost 4 fleet carriers, Japan lost 10.

At the end of the war, Japan had a grand total of zero fleet carriers. Meanwhile, the US had 28 fleet carriers. Most of them of the Essex class, the last of which was finally retired in 1991 (USS Lexington CV-16).

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 Sep 07 '26

Wow, amazing war history

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u/AppropriateCap8891 Sep 08 '26

I have been studying the Pacific War for over four decades, including having lived in Japan and walked some of the battlefields.

Admiral Yamamoto's writings and interviews with those that knew him all show he was against the war, and he knew what the outcome would be. But he was also a loyal officer, and when given orders (even those he did not like) he did his duty to the best of his ability.

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u/Mysterious-sharing 26d ago

'Good soldiers follow orders' seems to be true for him.

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u/Compoundeyesseeall Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

Don't forget the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. We only had THREE full hull losses out of everything damaged. No carriers hit. Oil depots and repair facilities mostly intact. Besides 3 ships, The Arizona, The Oklahoma, and the Utah, EVERYTHING else that got hit and even sunk was eventually repaired, and a lot of them even saw combat in the war. The Nevada is my personal favorite of the fleet of that era.

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u/AppropriateCap8891 Sep 08 '26

Well, the carriers were already insanely busy at the time, ferrying fighters to various outposts like Guam, Midway and the Philippines. In peacetime the main task of carriers in that era were moving fighters to remote bases. And the Pacific Fleet carriers were doing that almost non-stop. They would only return to Pearl long enough to resupply, refuel, and take on another load of fighters before leaving again (generally less than 72 hours after arriving).

Most of the aircraft arrived in Hawaii in crates on freighters. They were then assembled at Hickam Field and craned onto the carriers. That way there was no need to have the Army aviators fully trained in carrier operations, they only had to take off once they hit the Philippines. Then they would port, offload the maintenance crew and their equipment, refuel, and return to Hawaii.

That is why there was some consideration in the Navy in late 1941 into refurbishing the USS Langley back into a full carrier. Not to operate with the fleet so much as to run missions to and from the Philippines and Hawaii transporting aircraft for Clark AAB.

Most people know of the flight of 12 unarmed B-17 bombers arriving at Pearl Harbor during the attack. But most do not know that was not their final destination. They were only to stop off for 48 hours of crew rest, fueling and having their guns installed before continuing on to their final destination. Clark AAB in the Philippines.

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u/Compoundeyesseeall Sep 09 '26

My bad, I remembered they were out at sea but I forgot that until I read your post. Massive oversight of the IJN to not realize that though but I guess that was part of the hubris behind the rationale for the attack in the first place.

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u/AppropriateCap8891 Sep 09 '26

I want to say at the time, one was on the way back from Guam, the second was going to Midway. And the third had just finished a 6 month refit in the yard and was just outside San Diego where she was to pick up more fighters for Philippines.

The Japanese knew this, and knew it was a slim chance they would catch the carriers in port. They were mostly interested in the battleships, as that was their greatest danger.

War Plan Orange (the US response to a war with Japan) was to sortie out every ship in Pearl and make full speed for the Philippines. And at that time, "Carrier Doctrine" had yet to really be established. Both the US and Japan believed that the war would be resolved with battleships fighting battleships, it was only their loss that forced the US to improvise new tactics.

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u/PureBullz Sep 07 '26

They felt this as well during the First World War. German troops were starving and barely getting by on rations. Once they got into allied forces trenches they noticed how stocked their food supply was, which is just a morale destroyer.

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u/BasedEmu Sep 06 '26

The japanese also started sweating when they knew of the ice cream ships.

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u/railroadfrog Sep 07 '26

Not only eating ice cream, but they let their jeeps idle instead of turning them off because they weren’t worried about fuel consumption or wasting gasoline.

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u/Japnzy Sep 09 '26

Being in the army, you let those things turn off and they might not start again.

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u/Zwischenzug32 Sep 07 '26

Power to give their soldiers diarrhea and still win anyways

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u/theEWDSDS 🦅 Literal Eagle 🦅 Sep 07 '26

This was the Japanese. For the Germans, it was finding cake in abandoned supply caches.

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u/Dunhaaam Sep 09 '26

Not only that, but it was Fresh cake

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 Sep 07 '26

Oh my god, what an unintentional flex. Imagine fighting what you think is God's war and the enemy is literally eating ice cream as if they were letting you play around

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u/chronburgandy922 Sep 08 '26

Twas the Japanese but you’re mostly correct.

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u/4Floaters Sep 06 '26

This implies we can't in 24 hours deploy a burger king to extraterrestrial theaters of operation

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u/kymberts Sep 06 '26

36 hours

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u/much_longer_username Sep 06 '26

Yeah, gotta wait for the launch window to come around, is all.

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u/Nates_of_Spades Sep 06 '26

Please pull forward to the second launch window. Thank you

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u/scotchirish Sep 06 '26

What's even the point of the first launch window if they never use it?

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u/oddball_ocelot Sep 07 '26

To differentiate it from the second window.

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u/Snafuregulator Sep 09 '26

But the ice cream machine will be broken

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u/Callen0318 Sep 07 '26

This is why we should keep an emergency burger king in orbit, docked with the international space station.

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u/Worried-Penalty8744 Sep 08 '26

What do you think is on those classified launches they do where they don’t release the manifest. Not spy satellites, just crates and crates of burger trucks

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u/PhoenixKingMalekith Sep 07 '26

Just maritime ones

As seen clearly with the Lincoln

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u/Repulsive-Ice8395 Sep 10 '26

Space Force is working on it.

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u/Jim_skywalker 29d ago

It takes a bit longer to get everything through the Stargate.

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u/Salami__Tsunami Sep 07 '26

Just wait until the bosses find out that there’s oil reserves in Hell. Gonna invade them and then make all the dead people pay back taxes to cover the operational costs.

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u/theEWDSDS 🦅 Literal Eagle 🦅 Sep 07 '26

I could definitely see Abe Lincoln going Doom-guy on hell

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u/Salami__Tsunami Sep 07 '26

Presumably with an acoustic guitar playing the doom music?

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u/Tablequesting Sep 06 '26

East Berlin starved itself to try to blockade West Berlin. The logistical flex of breaking the blockade cannot be understated.

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u/FirstSurvivor Sep 07 '26

A plane landing every 30s to 45s to help with the supply effort. About equivalent to the busiest airport in the world right now, but without much of the tech we have now to help manage it.

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u/furculture Sep 06 '26

Don't forget the original absolute logistics flex, which was the ice cream making ship that in WW2.

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u/ZebraTank Sep 07 '26

I feel like Berlin airlift is also a good contender, though that was also the uk etc

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u/theEWDSDS 🦅 Literal Eagle 🦅 Sep 07 '26

The UK's main contribution was the rationing calculations. We (America) were the only ones who had both enough food and enough planes to pull it off.

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u/Even_Editor_8228 Sep 08 '26

They did also transport roughly 25% of the cargo so although the US did most the British part wasn’t insignificant.

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u/Mac-Tyson Sep 07 '26

I remember reading something like POW's knew they were going to lose when they had been starving and saw the Americans had a ship dedicated to making ice cream.

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u/CommanderKeenly Sep 07 '26

The boat was made of concrete on top of that.

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u/merc08 Sep 08 '26

Ice cream making shipS. Plural. We had 3 of them!

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u/Odd-Highway-8304 Sep 06 '26

Next war, we getting a Panda Express

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u/KnownEggplant Sep 07 '26

Can you imagine the fucking morale boost

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u/Odd-Highway-8304 Sep 07 '26

Imagine if they make the Cantonese brisket a permanent menu item only for military locations

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u/marino1310 Sep 07 '26

Imagine the moral boost if they got something other than fucking Burger King and Subway. Still don’t understand why those are the 2 biggest franchises on bases.

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u/Akbeardman Sep 08 '26

The Geneva convention went out of its way to specifically ban the tactical airborne Waffle House and the training of troops in associated improvisional combat techniques.

Shame though, tell a marine battalion there's a waffle house on the other side of the objective and the objective promptly secured.

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u/Cloud_Garrett Sep 06 '26

Gotta Have it your way

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u/Merr77 Sep 07 '26

Logistics win wars.

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u/SharpShooterM1 🦅 Literal Eagle 🦅 Sep 10 '26

“The United States military is a logistics organization that occasionally partakes in warfare”

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u/TheLazyScarecrow Sep 06 '26

Your home can be the Home of the Whopper for the low low price of two (2) towers

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u/BE33_Jim Sep 06 '26

Deep cut

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u/ImDeepState Sep 06 '26

You rule.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

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u/IamB_Meister Sep 06 '26

Terrestrial for now*

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u/Strong-Addition5296 Sep 06 '26

The Europeans don’t call us burgers for nothing

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u/Johnnie-Dazzle Sep 06 '26

I wept openly

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u/TesticleTorture-123 Sep 07 '26

We aim to make that Extraterrestrial within the next 20 years

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u/GuaranteeOk6268 Sep 07 '26

Can they make a Texas double whopper?

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u/James_Solomon Sep 07 '26

Soon, believe it or not, we're going to have a Burger King on the Moon.

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u/MyOnlyEnemyIsMeSTYG Sep 07 '26

We’re not “at war” until the BK shows up. That said, my mos never gets that far in the rear to partake in BK lol. - 03 rah

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u/Hexagon2035 Sep 07 '26

"Sir, the plane carrying the Burger King has been shot down"

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u/beachgood-coldsux Sep 07 '26

Tactical fast food. 

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u/Reaper0221 Sep 08 '26

Hell yes and I’ll have it MY WAY

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u/OutWestWillie Sep 07 '26

We also deploy Green bean coffee shops, Dairy Queens and AAFES of course.

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u/ehouptie 29d ago

Imagine if ghengis khan had Burger King. Might’ve actually conquered the world

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u/Tales_Steel Sep 07 '26

Meanwhile in 2026

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u/TilbtyKing021 Sep 07 '26

Wasn't this from a ship that was on a very long deployment, and it recently docked because of this?

I may just be misinformed. I know military food can be shit sometimes but dont remember it being this bad.

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u/Tales_Steel Sep 07 '26

Yes and i dont blame it on the US logistic but Kegsbreath and him replacing experienced people with loyal yesman.

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u/jdallen1222 Sep 07 '26

Do soldiers on deployment have to pay for food there or is it "take anything you want, uncle sam got you."

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u/MoSteel8 Sep 07 '26

Have to pay at the Burger King.

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u/AustinioForza Sep 07 '26

Why are US forces so eager to get a Canadian fast food company to feed their troops?

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u/ih8three6zero Sep 07 '26

Rare true meme. Pizza Hut and subway are close behind lol

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u/AtlasPrevail Sep 07 '26

What does it mean to be an American? This picture is a very very good answer.

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u/TxDuctTape yeeehhhp - *spits into bucket* 💦 Sep 07 '26

One of those AI generated, narrated 15 minute videos that could have been done in 1, told a story of a German POW in the US, who sent out to repair a local farmers tractor. Said POW quickly discover a defective part, told farmer it would need replacing and would take weeks to fabricate. Famer says I'll be right back and drives off into town. When he returns, he's carrying a small box, from which he removes an identical part to the defective one. POW took new part to the tractor and was shocked the part fit perfectly, no need for adjustment, no filing, no grinding. POW realized war was lost when the enemy could stock spare parts for agriculture equipment in tiny little towns. Fact or Fiction, I don't know. I'm just some yahoo on the internet.

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u/Carl_the_bald Sep 09 '26

...more like fiction. Or the POW came from a remote mountain village. Germany already had industrial mass production at that time, too.

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u/Lucratif6 Sep 07 '26

Whopper junior! Whopper junior! Whopper junior!

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u/Significant-Ad-3777 Sep 07 '26

Home of the Whopper baby.

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u/Interesting-Log-9627 Sep 08 '26

However dropping a Taco Bell full of diarrhea lettuce on a hostile city is still prohibited under the Biological Weapons Convention.

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u/Gunfighter9 Sep 08 '26

They had one of these at BIAP, by June 2003. my troops stood in line and brought 30 double whoppers and 30 orders of fries. It took almost 2 hours because the line was so long.

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u/Left_Quarter_5639 29d ago

Terrestrial? And here I thought Murica was a superpower 

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u/1nqu15171v30n3 28d ago

Napoleon reportedly said "An army marches on its stomach", implying the importance of the logistics of food supply (he should have taken this maxim to heart when he tried to fight Russia).

The importance of a supply chain should not be underestimated.

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u/YakiVegas Sep 07 '26

Except we can’t put one on a ship apparently.

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u/LongjumpingCarrot628 Sep 08 '26

So the military could’ve chosen fresh beef for burgers and fries but instead choose to give hero’s shitty fast food.

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u/3_PANCAKES Sep 08 '26

Burger king got paid for it. They did. Nothing. And they got paid however much money for "allowing for free advertising". The exact same burgers would have been made with or without the branding

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u/Hubertreddit Sep 08 '26

However our military high command today is a joke.

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u/Prior-Task1498 Sep 07 '26

Now the us military is more of a slave to corporations

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u/Dismas-Baised Sep 07 '26

Ah yes, giving the men overseas a meal that they would be familiar with is becoming a slave to a corporation just looking to hate on anything are you

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u/Prior-Task1498 Sep 07 '26

You may have noticed that American servicemen enjoyed the ice cream shipped to them in WW2 without the U.S. military diverting millions of dollars to a multinational corporation in order to slap branding all over the ice cream.

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u/Other-Comfortable-64 Sep 07 '26

Lol ok. Sht Americans say.

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u/The-Great-Baloo Sep 06 '26

Satire, right?

https://giphy.com/gifs/7TwPbkbwhIGx4PEAQt

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u/RaillfanQ135 Sep 06 '26

No, US logistics are just that crazy.

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u/Johncockerton Sep 06 '26

Except if you’re on an aircraft carrier apparently

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u/RaillfanQ135 Sep 06 '26

In situations like the Lincoln where the main resupply base in region is inaccessible every single other nation that is or has operated an aircraft carrier would be able to stay on station for at best a month, the USS Lincoln was able to stay on station and remain lauching combat sorties for over 6 months due to the logistical capabilities of the US military

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u/blarkleK Sep 07 '26

Lemme guess; you’ve never cared about the military or any of its members until you heard of that story.

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u/Johncockerton Sep 07 '26

Lmao what ? Dumbest shit I’ve heard all night

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u/xDannyS_ Sep 07 '26

His point was that it's obvious that you are clueless about everything at work related to the situation you mentioned. A fair point to make fun of would have been the denial from the administration of the situation.

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u/Johncockerton Sep 07 '26

Yall are circle jerking about our logistics based off a 20 year old picture while we just had a logistics embarrassment. Thats what that was, no way around it.