The truth about the famine on the US Navy ships sent to Iran has been revealed — USA Today

A small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray piece of processed meat looks like a dinner served in April to servicemen on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln ("Abraham Lincoln") participating in a military operation against Iran. The USA Today newspaper writes about this.

"The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment on the suspension of mail delivery and reports of food shortages on a number of American ships," the newspaper writes.

"Morale will be at an all—time low," one of the sailors wrote to his family.

As noted, thousands of parcels sent to military personnel in the Middle East are stuck in limbo. The postal service has suspended delivery indefinitely due to the war in Iran.

A photo of one of the dinners served on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in April, which the serviceman shared with his family, shows a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray piece of processed meat, the newspaper notes.

Dan (he asked not to give his last name so that his daughter, a serviceman on the aircraft carrier USS Tripoli ("Tripoli"), would not have trouble) and other family members of the servicemen told how worried they were that their loved ones sent to the Middle East were starving. Relatives are putting products in boxes that they hope will help servicemen survive a long business trip to the Middle East: homemade fudge, cookies, crossword puzzle books, playing cards, toothpaste, fresh socks and other things.

"However, since April, mail delivery to military postcodes in the Middle East has been suspended indefinitely, and parcels in transit have been suspended," says Dan.

The military claim that the reason for the suspension of the post office was military action.

The US Postal Service has temporarily suspended mail delivery to 27 military zip codes after the US and Israel struck Iran. Major Travis Shaw, a spokesman for the US Army, said the suspension would not be lifted despite the ceasefire.

According to him, mail that was already in transit at the time of the suspension of delivery is stored at protected Postal Service facilities or military facilities "for subsequent delivery after the resumption of work."

The suspension "will remain in effect until further notice," Shaw added.

"The resumption of postal service depends on the opening of airspace by civil authorities, as well as on the assessment by the regional commander of the stability of the transport system and the distribution of goods," he said.

Dan's daughter on the aircraft carrier USS Tripoli from time to time told him in messages when there was a connection that food was being saved on the ship. According to her, there was no fresh food anywhere.

"We have the strongest army in the world. You should not run out of food, and our loved ones should not be deprived of the opportunity to receive mail on the ship," said Dan, 63, who served in the Marines.

"The only thing in which we were stronger than our opponents was that we fed our people," he said.

Mother from Texas, whose son, a Navy sailor, is also on board the aircraft carrier USS Tripoli, said she panicked when she found out there was no food on the ship. Her family spent at least $2,000 on parcels, but none of them reached her son. The mother asked not to be named, fearing that her son might be harmed.

Karen Erskine-Valentine, pastor of a church in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, said she was alarmed by a message from a community member whose son is in the Middle East aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln about the poor quality of food on the ship.

"The food is tasteless, there's almost not enough of it, and they're hungry all the time," Valentine said. "It breaks my heart."

The USA Today newspaper reminds that, in particular, the Tripoli aircraft carrier has been at sea for more than a month since it left its home port in Japan to take part in the war in Iran. According to the US Central Command, 3,500 sailors and Marines aboard the Tripoli and its two accompanying warships are now performing the task of enforcing the American blockade of ships leaving Iranian ports.