This is correct in a sense. While the US has a decent amount of stand out technology, comparably good training, comparably well equipped soldiers, etc. The true power of the US military is the world wide infrastructure it has developed to get whatever force needed, to where ever force is needed, within a few hours to 3 days. So, yeah, the US military being able to deploy fast food chain restaurants pretty much anywhere in the world, is a demonstration of it's reach and resources, if an unconventional one.
It's one of my fav wwii stories, can't remember what rank the Japanese navy dude was but apparently the idea that Americans had an entire ship just for ice cream was a large factor in him calling to stand down
There was also a story of a German POW being served apple pie are being captured while not being served it by his own government for a while due to rationing.
Morale is extremely important for keeping soldiers in check.
Many militaries learned this the hard way in WW1, where conditions were so bad some countries had to order officers to shoot soldiers that were ignoring orders or even organizing revolutions.
Giving a soldier a little slice of home, sometimes literally with slices of cake and pie, keeps them in line way more effectively than pointing guns at their backs.
Skimmed a bit of the diary at the link: one part he's talking about setting up the bakery in a factory, next paragraph he's talking about how much he hates the Jerries (Germans) and nobody in his baking unit would take a prisoner, he's itching to slit one of their throats. He calls the Jerries "he."
I ate off of one of those trucks while tdy in the middle east. They didn't serve any pork, so no bacon on any of the burgers. They still had some kind of option to replace it, and to this day I still don't know what the fuck I ate. Still better than MREs.
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Worked pizza for a Jordanian dude for a number of years, great dude, great food, but no pork in the store. The peps, bacon, and sausage were beef, the beef was beef (perhaps unsurprisingly), and the ham was actually some kind of turkey they transmogrified into ham but it was surprisingly not bad. Could it just have been beef bacon? They're pretty similar, tbh the difference bt beef and pork bacon is exactly what you'd think, the beef is just a little more cow-ey.
If you were in the desert being shot at, blown up by IEDs, and just generally having a bad time, a Whopper and Coke being available back at base would upset you?
yes burger king is disgusting the idea of it even being near me would make me consider shooting myself I genuinely do not understand how burger king is still in business atleast mcdonald's is cheap compared to most fast food though that's getting less true but burger king is both expensive for fast food and also the worst fast food I've had in my entire life their beef burgers are genuinely foul and completely inedible the chicken is slightly better in that it doesn't make me curse the fact I was born for having tasted it but that's hardly a compliment the best would be a kfc with a zinger stacker cause I think that's only a thing here in the uk and australia dunno why the rest of the world and the us doesn't have it it's genuinely the best burger ever created a verifiable gift from god and a taste of heaven
MREs are designed to turn into gut plugs so after eating those for a while grabbing some good old burger king colon blow when you get back to base is probably a straight up religious experience.