Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1oozpq5/the_us_army_is_advising_its_soldiers_in_germany/

36•wslh•1h ago

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FrustratedMonky•1h ago

If this is true, would be pretty big news about readiness.

I've been assuming the military would be last department to be cut.

darrenf•1h ago

> If this is true

It's posted on army.mil

https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance

> Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags

> Tafel Deutschland: The umbrella organization distributes food to people in poverty through its more than 970 local food banks. You can find your nearest food bank on their website. https://www.tafel.de/

> [...]

Edited 10 minutes after posting: the section about food banks is currently not in the page linked above, but my quote above was taken from it at the time I first visited.

FrustratedMonky•1h ago

This is shocking.

Surely there is some relevant quote about what happened to past empires that could no longer feed the troops.

andrewflnr•1h ago

If it means they don't support the cheeto in a coup, it might even be a good thing.

IAmBroom•57m ago

Minutes until he blames Joe Biden: 15.

Minutes until he even believes it: same.

more_corn•41m ago

It’s not being cut. Military employees are not getting paid because congress is fighting about funding healthcare for people who don’t have insurance provided by their job. Like farmers and uber drivers and grocery clerks.

footy•1h ago

richest country in the history of the world, everybody

IAmBroom•1h ago

Where only the middle class and up can afford health care... which itself is not ranked anywhere near "best that money can buy", somehow.

notmyjob•18m ago

Unless you’re a protected “vulnerable” group in which case everything, from health care to rent to Taco Bell is free, paid for by the middle class who are too poor to have children or own homes, or get decent healthcare.

mikeweiss•1h ago

I hope this isn't true. Not only is it wrong it would be so embarrassing.

Zigurd•1h ago

We're not abysmally embarrassed yet when it comes to NATO?

FridayoLeary•1h ago

What that you've been paying for most of it while the rest of us freeload? You should be proud. In Britain the army is the smallest it's ever been. It's time Europe takes their military obligations seriously.

IAmBroom•58m ago

Both can be true.

Most of NATO underdelivers on their payments.

And the US treats its active military like cattle... Oops, forget that. Cattle aren't put on cheap diets.

Zigurd•45m ago

America would pay a pretty high price were Russia to dominate Europe. That's a fair point regarding the UK. Poland has always understood the assignment, and this year Germany got on board.

Ivan isn't 10 feet tall either.

onlypassingthru•35m ago

In the age of drone warfare, does Britain even need a lot of young men? The half-life of a grunt seems pretty short in eastern Ukraine at the moment.

darkstar999•1h ago

It's true.

https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance#:~:tex...

edit: they have removed it in the minute since I posted this comment?

Archive.org still has it (see the section at the bottom "Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags"): https://web.archive.org/web/20251105103925/https://home.army...

more_corn•44m ago

Why wouldn’t it be true? You know they’re not getting paid right? Theres some tiff around tax cuts for the wealthy or healthcare for the poor.

cjs_ac•1h ago

I hope the Bundeswehr was given advance warning; this is the kind of situation that leads to violence like the Battle of Brisbane[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane

FridayoLeary•1h ago

It's a failure of congress to do their job. You can paint it as a narrative of Democrats standing up for the American people, but in most legislatures failing to pass a budget leads to new elections. If their job was on the line they would sort it out quickly. Something has to happen eventually. There's no advantage to be gained for voters for the thing to be dragged out one week vs 36 days and counting.

rasz•31m ago

Videos of soldiers drinking from puddles when? Now that I think about it was this Putins idea implanted in mister president?

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-water-shortages-ukrai...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1ebs...

Its not great for morale.

rchaud•25m ago

Should any enlisted personnel be looking for a new career, I understand there's a fully funded paramilitary group operating right here at home.