WFM August 9, 2023
Biden’s DoD and the JCS are more concerned with woke issues, ie, transgenders, LGBT whatevers, offensive language, designated use of pronouns, and in my opinion then the health of our troops and their families. REMF General Miley and REMF Sec Def Austin, the general no one ever heard of before appointed, as well as many of the current service heads, are incrementally starving our military members. Apparently ‘shame’ is considered a misnomer in Biden’ radical left leadership in our new ‘woke’ inspired military.
Military.com – Reports November, 2021…
About 14% of enlisted active-duty families reported “low” or “very low” food security in an annual 2020 survey, according to Denise Hollywood, the chief community and programs officer for Blue Star Families.
Enlisted troops appear to be suffering the most. A total of 29% of the most junior enlisted ranks of E1-E4, a segment that includes more than 570,000 people and more than half of all enlisted in the military, reported facing hunger over the past year, according to the advocacy group Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the U.S.
In all, 160,000 service members struggled to provide food for themselves or their families, the group recently reported. A pair of Army studies found the problem was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those studies found that on one Army base, one in three reported being food insecure in 2019. The second study, done at a different Army base, saw that out of a sample of nearly 5,000 soldiers, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the percentage of food-insecure troops to almost double from 16% to 31%.
The term food-insecure means a person or family finds themselves unable to reliably get enough affordable and nutritious food.
Of the 199 food banks Feeding America has across the U.S., 74 have a specific food assistance program for active-duty military families, and 34 are near a base and regularly help service members.