AI6YR Ben1d ago

"...NPR has learned that hundreds of sailors were evacuated back to the United States from their base in Bahrain after the base was attacked by Iranian missiles and drones. In addition to the base in Bahrain, NPR has learned that there have been evacuations at other U.S. military bases in the region, though the exact details are unknown at this point..... Around 8,000 people were stationed at the base in Bahrain before the U.S. attacked Iran on Feb. 28....Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.

"The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing,""

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops

#Iran #War #Bahrain #military

Show threadLog 🪵1d ago
@ai6yr Doesn't the US military have a fucking commissary system? Don't they have a huge, goddamned unauditable budget? Does the base contribute into those community groups when they have surplus?
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp
@log @ai6yr Maybe it is *because* the budget is not audited? Audits tend to find bad practices.
Apr 5 at 8:25amWeb
Show threadLog 🪵23h ago
@ahltorp @ai6yr The bad practice is right out there in the open. The budget goes to the contractor companies and privileged Beltway Barons of the military-industrial-congressional complex. None of that cash will ever do any good for the people of this planet, and is used almost exclusively to provide lives of ease and comfort to amoral assholes who make machines to be pointed at the brown people of distant lands. Fueled by oil. An audit would reveal how little of it goes to *actual defense*.
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp23h ago
@log @ai6yr Yes, I agree, and I should have been clearer. What I meant by "bad practices" was from an internal logic sense.
Show threadLog 🪵23h ago
@ahltorp @ai6yr Like how they pay the enlisted soldiers so little that their families have to shop at the subsidized commissary system in order to not go hungry? The folks that have to actually service and operate all those millions of dollars worth of materiel?