Hot Breakfast for welfare rat brats, but none for soldiers in combat zones???

[SSGT PRIDE]

Been there and done that....Have spent up to 2 weeks without a hot meal! Have sometimes had only 1 meal a day as well but not very often!

No big deal....We be tough!

SSGT

[Gypsymoonfarm]

C'mon. "Welfare rat brats"? Really? I was a "Welfare rat brat". I am now a business owner (15 years), a year away from my bachelor's, mother of two, and hard worker.

I am hard on the welfare lifers, it makes me mad to see what they do with their Snap cards. That doesn't mean that the children deserve to be treated worse than dogs. They didn't raise their hand and say "ooh, send me down to that hood rat with 10 kids God. That's the life for me!"

I haven't eaten a hot breakfast in years and I don't care. If a soldier is out in a tough situation I would like for him/her to have a hot breakfast but if that's not possible it won't be the end of the world.

The "Welfare rat brat" may not get much to eat at home no matter how much money is on that Snap card. I'm O.K. with giving over some of my money to hungry children in America, just as I am O.K. with it going for soldiers.

[dontbuypotteryfromme]

Kids should be cooking their own food. kills two birds with one stone. Gets them fed teaches them how to cook.

here is some Townsville cooks doing their bit.
http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/News...d-their-nation

[Herd Sniper]

I was a soldier and more importantly, I was a green tabber, a leader in combat arms and some of my soldiers appreciated a good, hot meal so I did my best to make sure of them...funny, either you never achieved rank or you didn't think of your men first.

Wow! A green tabber. A little piece of green felt on his field jacket epaulet is supposed to impress me. In which combat arms did you serve? Infantry? I doubt it. Armor? Maybe. More than likely I suspect you were artillery, right? I would be more impressed if you had a CIB and jump wings. So, the green tab to me and my kind doesn't mean squat.

My final rank ended up being SFC E-7 and I held down a 1st Sergeant's position in a National Guard unit until my wife gave birth to my second son. She had to deliver him by C-section and then we had to keep a sleep apnea monitor on him every time we laid him down. And that is about as high as you can go unless you become a CSM or Command Sergeant Major of some kind.

Now to fill in your lack of misinformation. When a group goes out on a recon mission, most of the time you're expecting to stay out in the field for a short time. Normally, in my paratrooper unit in Viet Nam our recon missions were done in 4 day stretches. So you tried to take enough food for 4 days if possible. Trouble is that with the rucksacks, a 4 day supply of food loaded into a rucksack along with all the other combat items you may need fills up the bag real fast.
So there you are, out on a 4 day mission when you stumble across a large enemy force. Trouble is you're on your 3rd day of the mission. Then you get the coded message of, "Charlie. Tango. Mike." For you non-infantry types that translates into, "Continue the mission." So your mission has been extended by higher headquarters and you aren't getting a re-supply any time soon. What you have on you is all you have to eat. So the mission goes another 4 days until the enemy force decides to move out and you can tell battalion which way the enemy is moving. You ran out of food on your 5th day and had to tough it out for 3 more days. Infantry guys do that every now and again. And you know what's funny? I was NOT in charge of that operation but I did learn from it.