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Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale

34 points · 13 comments · speckx

xlayn · 1786040761 · focus · HN ↗
Assumming it's true, half a cup of rice and tortillas it's a formula for a lot of nutrients deficiency + lack of proteins make the body start pulling it from muscles in order to repair other tissues.
1. EA-3167 · 1786042856 · focus · HN ↗
  The last time dire news about the state of morale and food on board a US Navy ship was paraded around it turned out to be pure fiction. That famous pic of the gray "insole" and pile of ground something with carrots was from years before this conflict and in a totally different context.
  There's a war on, and right now it's mostly a war of propaganda.
  1. gruez · 1786044678 · focus · HN ↗
    >The last time dire news about the state of morale and food on board a US Navy ship was paraded around it turned out to be pure fiction
    source?
    EA-3167 · 1786051201 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/04/20/us-navy-ships-food/" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/04/20/us-navy-ships-food/
    <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/us-navy-releases-photos-that-refute-sailors-small-poor-mealsuss-lincoln-tripoli-serve-full-3801440" rel="nofollow">https://www.ibtimes.com/us-navy-releases-photos-that-refute-...
    The bit about it being taken earlier came from an episode of What's Going on With Shipping with Dr. Mercagliano, and frankly I'm not up to finding it.
    Setting that specific claim aside nothing ever came of this, and although I despise the current admin I'm disinclined to think that the Navy was lying when they showed what was really being served days later. It comes down to whether or not you buy anonymous pics from a twitter "OSINT" account or not though.

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