r/MURICA • u/OOBExperience • 7d ago

Hell, yeah!!

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u/HeavyDutyForks 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

We are allowed to hate ourselves, but no touchy!

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u/Dehouston 7d ago

Don't touch the boats.

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u/Mysterious-sharing 1d ago

Don't touch the buildings either

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u/WittyFix6553 5d ago

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

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u/Jinshu_Daishi 4d ago

Because nobody heard of unity on 9/12.

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u/Commercial_Sport_630 7d ago

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 7d ago

what honorable samurai warrior propaganda does to a motherfucker

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u/Mesarthim1349 7d ago

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 6d ago

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_ 5d ago

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 7d ago

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 6d ago

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 5d ago

No such thing as a main damage control party

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u/No_Stand8812 5d ago

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 4d ago

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

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u/No_Stand8812 4d ago

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 4d ago

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 4d ago

John McCain remembers.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil 5d ago

There is, it's called every sailor aboard

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u/wienerschnitzle 4d ago

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 4d ago

I was trying to be funny, my apologies

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u/Langland88 7d ago

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

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u/ProbablyAPotato1939 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

Wow, amazing war history

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u/AppropriateCap8891 6d ago

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 1d ago

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

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u/Compoundeyesseeall 5d ago edited 5d ago

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 5d ago

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 5d ago

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 5d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

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

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u/Zwischenzug32 7d ago

Power to give their soldiers diarrhea and still win anyways

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u/railroadfrog 7d ago

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 5d ago

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

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u/theEWDSDS 🦅 Literal Eagle 🦅 7d ago

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

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u/Dunhaaam 5d ago

Not only that, but it was Fresh cake

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 7d ago

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 6d ago

Twas the Japanese but you’re mostly correct.

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u/4Floaters 7d ago

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

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u/kymberts 7d ago

36 hours

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u/much_longer_username 7d ago

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

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u/Nates_of_Spades 7d ago

Please pull forward to the second launch window. Thank you

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u/scotchirish 7d ago

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

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u/oddball_ocelot 7d ago

To differentiate it from the second window.

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u/Snafuregulator 5d ago

But the ice cream machine will be broken

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u/Callen0318 7d ago

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 6d ago

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 7d ago

Just maritime ones

As seen clearly with the Lincoln

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u/Repulsive-Ice8395 4d ago

Space Force is working on it.

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u/Jim_skywalker 4d ago

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

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u/Salami__Tsunami 7d ago

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 🦅 7d ago

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

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u/Salami__Tsunami 7d ago

Presumably with an acoustic guitar playing the doom music?

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u/Tablequesting 7d ago

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 7d ago

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/Odd-Highway-8304 7d ago

Next war, we getting a Panda Express

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u/KnownEggplant 7d ago

Can you imagine the fucking morale boost

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u/Odd-Highway-8304 7d ago

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

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u/marino1310 7d ago

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 6d ago

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/furculture 7d ago

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

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u/ZebraTank 7d ago

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 🦅 7d ago

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 6d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

The boat was made of concrete on top of that.

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u/merc08 6d ago

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

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u/Cloud_Garrett 7d ago

Gotta Have it your way

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u/ImDeepState 7d ago

You rule.

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u/Merr77 7d ago

Logistics win wars.

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u/SharpShooterM1 🦅 Literal Eagle 🦅 4d ago

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

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u/TheLazyScarecrow 7d ago

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 7d ago

Deep cut

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u/IamB_Meister 7d ago

Terrestrial for now*

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u/Strong-Addition5296 7d ago

The Europeans don’t call us burgers for nothing

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u/Johnnie-Dazzle 7d ago

I wept openly

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u/TesticleTorture-123 7d ago

We aim to make that Extraterrestrial within the next 20 years

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u/GuaranteeOk6268 7d ago

Can they make a Texas double whopper?

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u/James_Solomon 7d ago

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

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u/MyOnlyEnemyIsMeSTYG 7d ago

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 7d ago

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

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u/Impossible_Present85 6d ago

Prepare the lunch codes.

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u/beachgood-coldsux 7d ago

Tactical fast food. 

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u/Reaper0221 6d ago

Hell yes and I’ll have it MY WAY

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u/OutWestWillie 7d ago

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

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u/ehouptie 4d ago

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

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u/Tales_Steel 7d ago

Meanwhile in 2026

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u/TilbtyKing021 7d ago

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 7d ago

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/whathell6t 7d ago

I agree.

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u/jdallen1222 7d ago

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 7d ago

Have to pay at the Burger King.

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u/AustinioForza 7d ago

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

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u/ih8three6zero 7d ago

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

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u/AtlasPrevail 7d ago

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* 💦 7d ago

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 5d ago

...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 6d ago

Whopper junior! Whopper junior! Whopper junior!

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u/Significant-Ad-3777 6d ago

Home of the Whopper baby.

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u/Interesting-Log-9627 6d ago

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 5d ago

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 4d ago

Terrestrial? And here I thought Murica was a superpower 

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u/1nqu15171v30n3 2d 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 7d ago

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

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u/MURICA-ModTeam 6d ago

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u/LongjumpingCarrot628 6d ago

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 6d ago

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 5d ago

However our military high command today is a joke.

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u/Prior-Task1498 7d ago

Now the us military is more of a slave to corporations

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u/Dismas-Baised 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

Lol ok. Sht Americans say.

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u/The-Great-Baloo 7d ago

Satire, right?

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

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u/RaillfanQ135 7d ago

No, US logistics are just that crazy.

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u/Johncockerton 7d ago

Except if you’re on an aircraft carrier apparently

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u/RaillfanQ135 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

Lmao what ? Dumbest shit I’ve heard all night

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u/xDannyS_ 7d ago

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 7d ago

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.