Please tell me this is real
100% real. We had a BK in iraq in 2003.
But that is not what we see in the picture, seems more like a regular BK place?
Here is the OPs photo description from Getty:
You should see what the brits bring, they had a whole ass bakery at camp leatherneck in Afghanistan.
They did that in WW2 as well. I’ll find an article about them.
83rd Mobile Field Bakery, Royal Army Services Corp.
https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/allied/battalion.php?pid=2081
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.”
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.
conditions were so bad some countries had to order officers to shoot soldiers that were ignoring orders or even organizing revolutions.
They didn’t have to. They chose to. They could have let the soldiers go home and not had a war. They could have just kept playing soccer after Christmas was over.
WWII had ice cream delivered to Allies on beachfronts. It was apparently very demoralizing to the Axis
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
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.
Yup. I took a class on military history and my professor said that what wins wars is not weapons but logistics.
a gun doesn’t kill people, that shipment container of guns over there does
Based logistics
Does it have a deep fryer that can flash fry a buffalo in 40 seconds?