Rotten Food Being Served to Soldiers - 10/10 update

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

Founded in OK in 1919. Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton from 1995 - 2000 and received a $36 million severance package from them. Also received over $300, 000 in compensation from them while he was VP. Halliburton broke with KBR in 2007. Now looking up Boards of Directors.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBR_(company)

KBR is also an American company headquartered in Houston. The largest non-union construction company in the US.

That food is nasty. I'm sorry your son has had to deal with that.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

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I SO agree with this.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

My daughter returned from a 14 month deployment in Iraq (Baghdad) a couple of months ago. She said that it is during the very hot months that they have a hard time getting the fresh fruits and vegetables into Baghdad without some of it perishing. It runs between 100 and 120 degrees in Iraq during the summer and not too much is going to survive that kind of heat.

She was very quick to say that the parts that are bad are always thrown away. She said that the d-fac (dining facility) was awesome and had fantastic food!!!

 

[joebryant]

Seriously, I really admire your son's willingness to expose ANYTHING that needs to be fixed, even if it's just an isolated case. Too many of us wait for someone else to take the heat. He's a brave soldier, in battle or out.

 

[Wifezilla]

Thanks Joe

I will pass that on to him!

 

[EweSheep]

Any updates, Wifezilla?

 

[Wifezilla]

Not yet. Not sure if we will hear back from KBR. We are going to contact Senators, etc.. again.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Wifezilla - good luck you guys. My cousin was in that same camp - and he attests to some of the food was very nasty looking - and he wouldn't eat much of it because he does have a penicillin allergy. - he didn't stay there long - he was transfered to another camp to work on vehicles (his job - mechanic ). He had reported it while he was there to his CO as well - but he did say it just seems to be ' AOK' with most - since it seems it isn't anything new for those who've been on many deployments and are used to it now.

and thats horrible - that our men and women have to 'get used to' eating that SLOP that I would barely feed to a pig - and not care what they are putting in there bodies anymore. UGH thats just horrible.

 

[Wifezilla]

My husband heard from our son Calvin today. He had to go see the Colonel. The Colonel had all of his facebook pages printed out in front of him. It appears the Colonel did get contacted about a congressional action. He said that Calvin should have exhausted the chain of command instead of posting it to the public. He wasn't really mad at Calvin and he still isn't in trouble (we think). The Colonel just seemed really annoyed that the congressional report was the first indication he had that there was a problem. It doesn't appear that things were making it up the chain at all!

The Colonel does have a bit of a sense of humor. One of my facebook comments on my son's wall was about banning cameras in the dining facility. I made a sarcastic comment about me not knowing all this time that cameras caused food to rot and how I would have to find a new place to store my Kodak Easyshare. The Colonel thought that was pretty funny

We'll see what happens from here, but the appropriate people seem to finally know now. The bottleneck has been broken through. I would still like to know what the bottleneck's name is and what he got out of it.

 

[hoppy]

not to get off topic but my computer says the slide show player has a virus attached to it.
be careful everyone.