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Boy I love being a sailor on the USS Tripoli. It's dinner time now, I hope the chef is serving carrots and flipper again

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wait pls tell me flipper is a nickname because my marine bio brain is already spiraling into trophic level trauma, also carrots for dinner is kinda iconic tho like carotenoids for night vision is real so maybe the chef is secretly optimizing the crew 😭

Nah, it's just some meat product that looks a bit like a flipper

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NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"We rushed you over here to possibly do land operations against a country we have yet to defeat that has significant drone forces. Until then here's something gray and slimy."

I heard a rumor that it’s gonna be slightly grayer mush. They’re calling it “Epic Freedom”; they renamed it because shingles wouldn’t let us use their bases to launch air strikes.