Lobster-gate?

Crepitus said:
According to the report by government watchdog Open The Books, in the final month of the 2025 fiscal year, the Department of Defense (DOD) moved to exhaust its remaining budget to avoid future funding cuts—a practice known as "use-it-or-lose-it."
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This is a non-issue. Everything purchased are items that were already programmed for purchase in the subsequent budget for which the purchase paperwork had already been accomplished ... and now they don't need to be purchased in the next budget.
 
Walt said:
I doubt Hegseth and his cronies are going to risk their lives in battle, but I hope I am wrong. We can send over all these Neo-Cons to Iran, along with barron.
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Hegseth is now a civilian. Hegseth is a combat veteran are you? Hedseth earned two Bronze Stars and the Combat Infantryman Badge how about you? Don't get me started on his cronies like 5 star General Dan "Razin" Caine. Shut up Walt.

BTW Barron is too tall for our military. 6'8" is the maximum Baron is 6'9"
 
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Crepitus said:
You said it was for them. You prove it.
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No actually I asked what you would feed our troops, "what would you feed our military before they risk their life's in battle? McDonald's?"



Again who can eat a million rib eyes. I doubt Hegseth has that much freezer space.

BTW:How do your lymph nodes feel. Are they swelling yet?
 
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Crepitus said:
What is Lobstergate?
What we know:
According to the report by government watchdog Open The Books, in the final month of the 2025 fiscal year, the Department of Defense (DOD) moved to exhaust its remaining budget to avoid future funding cuts—a practice known as "use-it-or-lose-it."

Beyond the $6.9 million for lobster, the Pentagon spent:

$15.1 million on ribeye steaks
$2 million on Alaskan king crab
Nearly $140,000 on doughnuts
Over $124,000 on ice cream machines
High-end non-food items were also on the list, including:

$98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for an Air Force residence
$225 million in furniture, featuring individual chairs costing nearly $1,900
$12,540 for fruit basket stands
$5.3 million on Apple devices

This at a time when they are crowing about effiency and preventing waste.

Can you kids say "hypocrisy"?

I knew that you could!!

www.fox9.com

Lobstergate: Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon faces backlash over $7 million lobster spree

From $15 million in ribeyes to $98,000 pianos, discover the most outrageous items in the Pentagon's $93 billion end-of-year spending spree under Pete Hegseth.
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Do you know where the lobsters went?

If you did, you would be embarassed.

Full bore, go fuck yourself.
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Marine veteran Joey Jones rips critics for attacking troops over steak and lobster meals

Fox News co-host Joey Jones defends military steak and lobster spending, saying rare surf and turf nights boost morale during tough deployments overseas.
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IBDaMann said:
This is a non-issue. Everything purchased are items that were already programmed for purchase in the subsequent budget for which the purchase paperwork had already been accomplished ... and now they don't need to be purchased in the next budget.
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Not so. This was a "spend it or lose it" thing.
 
FastLane said:
No actually I asked what you would feed our troops, "what would you feed our military before they risk their life's in battle? McDonald's?"



Again who can eat a million rib eyes. I doubt Hegseth has that much freezer space.

BTW:How do your lymph nodes feel. Are they swelling yet?
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Oh so you weren't (and I suppose still aren't) claiming this went to feed troops?
 
Crepitus said:
Oh so you weren't (and I suppose still aren't) claiming this went to feed troops?
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Likely, depending on whose OPTAR the money was in, it very well could have. That's not uncommon either. Some ship, base, whatever, has money left at the end of the year in their OPTAR for food to feed X number of troops at that command. The supply officer was frugal enough or didn't have to spend enough through the year and had money left over. So, at the end of the FY he orders ribeye steaks and lobster to get the money off the books ASAP. The troops get a great one-time meal for the year and all the money is spent as the CO ordered. Everybody but the Trump and America haters on the Left are happy.

I had $93,000 left in one of my OPTARs one year. The CO ordered me to spend all of it in like two weeks. So, I got a First Class supply petty officer to do the paperwork part of it, and I went on a shopping spree. In my case, the shop tool room got all new Snap On tools. I bought a Scotchman ironworker:

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Bought new tooling for the machinists, etc. Because I could justify that for the shop's work and mission.

That First Class told me she learned more in two weeks about how the federal / military purchasing system worked from me than she had in the eight years she'd been in the Navy.
 
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Lionfish said:
Do you know where the lobsters went?
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This is entirely an incidental side issue. Nomad is a stupid, uneducated leftist who knows nothing about what he speaks.

The military budget is a product of Congress who determines all the colors of money. Nomad probably doesn't understand what any of that means.

The Department of War is not handed a blank check to be spent any way desired. Congress declares exactly how each dollar is to be spent, and to spend outside of authorization is to get sent to prison. Congress is all politics, and that means, for example, that Massachusetts Senators aren't going to agree to military funding bills that don't ensure lobsters are purchased from Massachusetts fishermen. When Nomad screams that the Department of War (specifically DLA) is BUYING LOBSTERS! ... from "approved" vendors who are required to buy lobsters from Massachusetts fishermen in order to be "approved", just as Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey (both Democrats) insist, lest they vote against the bill, Nomad needs to take it up with the DNC, not with the Department of War.
 
U.S. military "surf and turf" (steak + lobster tails, sometimes with crab) is a real, longstanding morale-boosting tradition across branches—Army, Navy, Marines, and others—not a one-off or political invention.

It’s served occasionally in chow halls, dining facilities (DFACs), or on ships as a special treat, never as everyday fare (troops mostly eat standard rotations, MREs, or field rations). The combo became especially popular in the 1980s–1990s during extended overseas deployments (e.g., Middle East), building on earlier steak dinners that dated back to Civil War/WWII-era celebrations.

When it’s typically served
  • Before deployments, extensions, or high-risk missions — the most famous trigger. Many veterans describe it as a “last good meal” or “calm before the storm.”
  • Holidays and milestones: Thanksgiving, Christmas, unit anniversaries, graduations, or service birthdays (e.g., Marine Corps Birthday on Nov. 10, Navy or Army birthday events).
  • General morale boosts: End of tough rotations, “Best Mess” competitions, or just to show appreciation during long deployments. Veterans recall it happening once a month, a couple times a year, or near the end of a tour—sometimes as far back as the 1980s or even basic training graduations in the 1980s.
Food is a big deal for troop welfare. Commanders and food-service teams use premium meals to combat the grind of deployment life—missing family events, living in austere conditions, and eating repetitive chow.

It’s funded through normal bulk-procurement budgets (frozen lobster tails and ribeyes are bought at scale like any other protein), representing a tiny fraction of the military’s massive feeding operation.

This tradition has existed under multiple administrations for decades and is widely defended by veterans as a small, earned perk that costs far less than headlines sometimes suggest. It’s unrelated to any single political figure.

The military has been doing the full steak + lobster version on its own timeline for morale for a very long time.
 
Crepitus said:
What is Lobstergate?
What we know:
According to the report by government watchdog Open The Books, in the final month of the 2025 fiscal year, the Department of Defense (DOD) moved to exhaust its remaining budget to avoid future funding cuts—a practice known as "use-it-or-lose-it."

Beyond the $6.9 million for lobster, the Pentagon spent:

$15.1 million on ribeye steaks
$2 million on Alaskan king crab
Nearly $140,000 on doughnuts
Over $124,000 on ice cream machines
High-end non-food items were also on the list, including:

$98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for an Air Force residence
$225 million in furniture, featuring individual chairs costing nearly $1,900
$12,540 for fruit basket stands
$5.3 million on Apple devices

This at a time when they are crowing about effiency and preventing waste.

Can you kids say "hypocrisy"?

I knew that you could!!

www.fox9.com

Lobstergate: Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon faces backlash over $7 million lobster spree

From $15 million in ribeyes to $98,000 pianos, discover the most outrageous items in the Pentagon's $93 billion end-of-year spending spree under Pete Hegseth.
www.fox9.com www.fox9.com
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So u Libs agree .....people on SNAP should no be buying Lobster Crab and steaks
 
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