[lbo-talk] 600 US Military Families Launch Campaign to Bring Troops Home Now

RE earnest at tallynet.com
Wed Aug 13 08:44:43 PDT 2003


MREs aren't surprising, but the low water rations are astonishing. Has anyone else seen reports of similar limits? Randy

"Susan Schuman, whose son Justin is in the Massachusetts National Guard deployed to Samarra, Iraq, said he shares a small room in a former Iraqi police barracks with five other men. "They are rationed to 2 liters of water a day and it's 125 degrees (52 degrees C), they haven't had anything but MREs (Meals Ready to Eat)," she told Reuters, adding that uncertainty about when the troops would come home was "most disheartening."


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