> MREs aren't surprising, but the low water rations are astonishing. Has
> anyone else seen reports of similar limits?
> Randy
I have seen similar reports. They outran their supply lines, and have to now depend on private contractors (thanks to GWB) to re-supply them.
Not only do they not get enough water, bad enough, one would think, but they are having a heck of a time getting spare parts and have left quite a few abandoned vehicles on the way to Baghdad.
What grunts and moms and dads and spouses are saying is that our supply machine in Iraq is broken. Which is a shocker since there’s never been a better logistical performer than the U.S. Army.
This is a pretty good site for reading about the non-political problems the Army is having:
http://www.sftt.org/hackstarget.html "Even though Iraq presently costs you and me over three billion bucks a month and Generals are living in palaces, the kids are complaining about the basic stuff so important to grunts: hot chow, decent water, mail and spare parts to keep vehicles, aircraft and weapons going. They’re ragging about eating lots of dust and their Hobo Junction living conditions. Some combat units haven’t gotten mail in over 40 days, while for months many have been chowing down MRE’s -- which after a few weeks are like eating bark from a tree -- with a side of hot drinking water laced with enough chlorine to make even a lifeguard squeamish. And for those in the combat arena, spare parts are harder to obtain than a cold drink."
-joan
> "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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