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- Should any enlisted personnel be looking for a new career, I understand there's a fully funded paramilitary group operating right here at home.by rchaud
- If this is true, would be pretty big news about readiness.
I've been assuming the military would be last department to be cut.
- am i downvoted because it is true, not true, or i'm questioning if it is true?
- 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.by more_corn
- > 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.
by darrenf - 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.
by rasz - richest country in the history of the world, everybodyby footy
- Where only the middle class and up can afford health care... which itself is not ranked anywhere near "best that money can buy", somehow.by IAmBroom
- I hope this isn't true. Not only is it wrong it would be so embarrassing.by mikeweiss
- We're not abysmally embarrassed yet when it comes to NATO?by Zigurd
- 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.by more_corn
- 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...
by darkstar999 - I hope the Bundeswehr was given advance warning; this is the kind of situation that leads to violence like the Battle of Brisbane[0].by cjs_ac
- Someone in the Pentagon should quickly get the presidential crayon kit and send the Secretary of War a pretty hand-drawn picture why this is bad on the PC Venezuela Signal Group.
I am not sure the Secretary knows the difference between Warrior Spirit and Warrior Spirits, which is, probably to his surprise no hard liquor brand,but the soul that leaves the body after your soldiers starved to death or died from embarrassment, having to fight over scraps with Ukrainian refugees and poor and/or old German people at a local food bank.
For the old KGB Russians like Putin, this must be amazingly joyful to see. American Soldiers are advised to go to Food Banks, while the Commander-in-Chief could easily feed the whole army steak dinner for two months straight, flown in in his newly gifted private 747, with what he made in Crypto only during the first half of 2025.
by Jamesbeam