Military Minute 26 Dec 23

In this episode of Your Military Minute we discuss the Pentagon's plans to fight food insecurity for service members and their families on base. Seems like there is a ready made solution, let 'em eat bag nasties from the chow hall.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/20/pentagon-stepping-base-food-options-help-troops-battle-food-insecurity.html

The California city of Tustin suffered significant contamination from heavy metals and asbestos when a hangar on a former Navy base, which is also happened to be an uncleaned superfund site (aka mega bad contamination with things that will make your fetus grow an extra arm and eye) caught fire. Further complicating the issue, none of the fire hydrants in or adjacent to the hanger were operable.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/19/minute-minute-account-provides-details-how-firefighters-battled-tustin-hangar-fire.html

Which led this reporter to wonder, what about the 100 or so other military owned superfund sites which are in poor states of repair and adjacent to things like residential areas or waterways? Surely these issues are being remediated since we're spending money at the cyclic rate?

Nope. The problem is a time bomb waiting to go off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_Superfund_sites

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/pentagons-contamination-time-bomb-cleanup-backlog-outpaces

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/pentagons-contamination-time-bomb-cleanup-backlog-outpaces

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-much-aid-the-u-s-has-sent-to-ukraine-in-6-charts

I recall an old story about this Roman guy named Nero playing his fiddle..