Navy chow
No, American servicemen in the Gulf are not going hungry.
G.P. Keenan | May 6, 2026
Staged photographs have been posted all over social media recently purporting to show starvation rations being fed to our troops; i.e., a small taco (or something) on a plastic tray with a piece of stale bread and so on. In these photographs there can also be seen a brick wall in the background. I served on a cruiser and six carriers during my career and for the life of me I cannot remember ever seeing a brick wall on any of the mess decks I ate in. That would make it rather difficult to stay afloat, don’t you think?
Our military is well fed and always has been. What is especially curious is the fact that just a few weeks before all these staged photos and baseless lies infested the internet, those same America haters were complaining about our troops and sailors being fed steak and lobster and were complaining that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was “wasting” defense money on these “exorbitant” meals. Having been one of those troops for 25 years. I know how it feels to receive a special meal once in a while. It certainly served as a big morale booster when you are deployed for months at a time.
The cruiser I served on was in 1967/68 when Vietnam was in full swing and that ship was home ported just north of Naples, Italy, in a small fishing village called Gaeta. It was the flagship of the Commander U.S. Sixth Fleet. At the same time one of my younger brothers was serving on the carrier Forrestal (CV-59), one of the six carriers I would serve on 10 years later (1976-79).
My guess is that the vast majority of these America haters have never even seen one day in uniform and, therefore, have absolutely no personal experience upon which to base their lies and staged photos.
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