We had access to a BK at one of the FOBs I frequented in Iraq and although I've never been a huge fast food fan, that stuff was so good. It's a huge morale booster. I'm sure that sounds simplistic as fuck, but you really come to appreciate the little things when you're deployed.
Its highly memeable but this is the true answer.
The Psychological benefits of even a very short mental vacation from being deployed are hard to quantify but very real on top of the morale boost.
I knew a guy who served in Afghanistan and he said after a particularly long and brutal time in the field an ice cold can of coke made him cry.
During my conscription (finnish military), there was a kiosk sized civilian-staffed kitchen at the corner of the small recreational building of the base, where you could buy junk food during off-hours.
God, fried chicken tenders with some crappy fries have never tasted so good...
I'm not a big fan of BK, but I imagine going to the BK joint would be a semblance of normalcy.
I lived in Korea at a time when there were scant few western food options outside of Seoul.
So a Burger King came to town, and we were taking expensive taxis across town to get our hands on a damn hamburger that was roughly twice as expensive as it would be in the states. We went daily, sometimes twice for the first couple weeks.
I was not in the military and was living a good life, but sometimes eating soup and rice at every meal can wear on your soul to the point where you'd murder a hooker turned good on the street in broad daylight for so much as a frozen gas station burrito.
Don't even get me started on how excited I was to once find a six pack of Dr. Pepper on the black market.
It doesn't surprise me at all that they'd bring burgers to a war zone.
Makes a lot of sense to me. Full disclosure I like Burger King.
For real though especially if you're somewhere cold - a warm burger that tastes like home could be a huge help.
Same. I've never been a Burger King fan, but dear Lord, that first whopper after months of eating nothing but MRE's tasted better to me in that moment than any steak I've ever eaten, and that feeling of a full belly after actually enjoying a meal did wonders for my morale.
My favourite was always the visits from the ether bunny.
Also a cinnabon. And a coffee shop called green bean. And a pizza shop. And much more. Sometimes DFACs 1 and 4 gets old.
This is serious. If the USAF sets up shop anywhere we plan on having a presence for a while, there will be some amenities. Even if the base is bombed on a regular basis.
Apparently Guantanamo Bay even has its own combination KFC and Taco Bell, as well as a Starbucks.
It makes sense. A military is only as good as its logistics, and the US’ forward bases are the tips of very long spears, dependant on a lot of logistics. So you need to have the means to have a continuous pipeline of supplies to each outpost. In peacetime, you keep that open by supplying the troops with burgers, tacos, XBox games or whatever; if the shit does hit the fan, all that capacity can be diverted from tortillas and patties to ammunition, drones, amphibious landing craft or whatever, at short notice.
Knowing the US military Logistics, that won't be a diversion; it'll be an addition. A friendly reminder that we deployed Fucking ice cream barges, barges with the singular purpose of making ice cream, to the South Pacific during WW2.
Supposedly a Japanese POW saw the barges, and knew at that moment that the war was lost, as the US could afford to supply servicemembers with ice cream, while Japan was facing widespread rationing and food shortages at home. (But I can't find any confirmation of this story)
Ah, yes, us army is cool and awesome, not a weapon of global imperialism at all.
I agree with you but one has to acknowledge the proficiency of the US Army. The sheer amount of equipment they have coupled to the good training and 1st class logistics makes it a force the Russian army would not be able to recon with.
Shit the Afghanistan war cost them $300 million per DAY for 20 years. No one else can do imperialism as good as the US Army.
The US army is very good at logistics, which doesn't make them cool. It does make them awesome in the literal sense, and unfortunately makes them a very effective tool of global imperialism.
Why would a Canadian say that?
There are lots of tankies in the West. I interpreted the use of the Canadian flag in the comic to just indicate that it was one of those over-enthusiastic tankaboos rather than an actual Russian defending their own military strength. It could have just as easily been a US or Euro flag to get the point across. I don't think it's a commentary on Canadians specifically.
Yeah America fucking knows logistics. I worked at a non profit and our warehouse where we would store donations would become quite the mess during garage sale season. We had a squad of US Army Reserve logistical something or another who basically work in warehouses volunteer for the day so I went ahead and gave them the task of organizing and cleaning up the warehouse, a task I thought would take them a few hours. I go on my 30min lunch break and I come back to 5 dudes standing around and a warehouse so clean and organized that you could eat off the floor.
It should be Taco Bell instead.
Weapon of Ass Destruction
In and Out, better food, better promise
I know right?? What the fuck is in their oil that makes their fries kill my guts??
Nothing but plain fries, and a small soda = chanclas spanking my ass.
I’m sure they have those as well.
Libs would have you believe that America isn't a monarchy.
"The line between disorder and order lies in
logisticsBurger King."Unleash the Murder King and the Taco Hell!
Ohh shit, is this the modern day ice cream barge?
That's a weapon of mass addition
No, it's destruction. Just ask my toilet.
This should legitimately scare every other military force, considering conflict with the US. Logistics, possibly better than fueling a convoy to Kiev.
Tactical calorie bomb
Strategic nutritional warfare
Military-Industrial-Junk Food complex
Meal Team 6, weapons free 🍴🍽️
Surely you mean “weapons hot”
Hot and ready!
That lumber ramp looks really sus
You should see the list of ingredients for their food
Wood is a fantastic material in compression. It could handle a few burger kings worth of force simultaneously.
That's quite the imperial measuring system.
(I kid, I'm from the US. But the joke was right there, just waiting.)
The individual in the foreground appears to be quality assurance for new restaurants before opening to the public.
Weapon of mass construction.
Weapon of ass destruction
Hello, The Hague? I'd like to report a war crime.
What do you mean they'll literally invade you if you write this down?
Weapons of mass hunger.
I see they've weaponized saturated fat and brought "have it your way" to the battlefield. What kind of monsters could deploy this weapon of mass consumption and watch the long agonizing deaths that followed?
